Project Superintendent - Water/Wastewater

Wharton-Smith, Inc.; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wharton-Smith, Inc. seeks an experienced Project Superintendent with a Water/Wastewater background for the Baton Rouge, LA area. You will direct daily field supervision on water and wastewater projects, ensuring safety, quality and schedule adherence.

Responsibilities include coordinating permits, managing crews, tracking daily reports, and interfacing with project management to maintain budget and timeline. Strong leadership and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Must have experience supervising projects in water or wastewater.
• Strong communication and people management abilities are required.
• Proficiency in MS Outlook, Word and Excel is expected.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the project to maintain a safe workplace and enforce safety policy.
• Ensure quality standards are met or exceeded on site.
• Perform short-term scheduling including manpower and equipment resources.

Skills

Communication skills

People skills

Safety awareness

Tools

MS Outlook

MS Word

MS Excel

Job description

Wharton-Smith, Inc. is currently seeking an experienced Project Superintendent with Water/Wastewater background for the Baton Rouge, LA area. In this role, the successful candidate will be responsible for the direction and daily supervision of all jobsite field personnel on assigned water and wastewater treatment plant and line work construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the project so that a safe workplace is being maintained and safety policy is administered
• Ensure quality standards are met or exceeded
• Short-term scheduling including manpower and equipment resources
• Coordination of permit and regulatory inspections
• Field document control including daily reports
• Progress photographs
• Material handling (receiving, and inventory, storage, spare parts)
• Subcontract coordination
• Jobsite hiring as required
• As-Built drawings
• Participate in post construction review
• Small tool management
• Knowledge of contract documents
• Jobsite security
• Completion of every project within time and budget
• Accurate and timely quantity reporting and time keeping
• Identify and communicate all changes in scope to Project Manager
• Maintain a clean and orderly jobsite

Qualifications

• Must have experience supervising projects in the water or wastewater industry.
• Managing craft and self-performing work is preferred
• Must have experience with self-performing cast-in-place concrete, piping, and mechanical equipment experience.
• Appropriate supervisory experience.
• Good communication and people skills.
• Computer proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, Excel.
• Current training as Competent Person in Trenching, Scaffolds, Rigging, Confined Space, and Fall Protection.
• Current in OSHA 10-hour, First Aid & CPR, SWPPP Inspector, silica, Risk Management, and Accident training.
• History of successful completion of multi-million-dollar projects.

Travel

Must be willing to travel 25% or more of the time

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability

Wharton-Smith provides equal opportunity to qualified disabled veterans, Pre-JVA special disabled veterans and individuals with disabilities to online application systems by making reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access for submitting to job openings. (i.e., wheelchair accessibility, website accessibility, etc)

Our recruiting process is centralized and is handled by our HR Department. If we are sent unsolicited resumes from recruiters, we will not pay any recruiting fees. Unsolicited resumes are any resumes sent to us by a recruiter who has not been pre-approved by HR, has not signed our contract, and has not been requested by our HR Department to search for a specific position.