Temporary Work Crew Supervisor

centerforemploymentopportunities; New York (NY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) seeks a Temporary Work Crew Site Supervisor in New York, NY. You will supervise a 5-10 person crew, provide on-the-job coaching, ensure safety, and foster a motivating environment to help participants gain skills and build confidence.

Typical shifts run 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM, Monday through Friday, with overtime built into the schedule. The role emphasizes outdoor work, resilience, and a commitment to social impact in reentry employment.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and ability to delegate, prioritize, and manage team time to meet deadlines.
• Effective communication and conflict resolution across diverse backgrounds.
• Proven track record of leading teams to success.
• Comfort with coaching, mentoring, and motivating groups.

Responsibilities

• Lead a work crew in public beautification projects (litter abatement, landscaping, etc.).
• Manage attendance and timekeeping, ensuring accurate records and compliance with rest breaks.
• Ensure daily completion of work orders to high standards.
• Maintain morale through modeling leadership and teamwork.
• Assign duties and set achievable goals for crew members.
• Monitor performance and provide feedback or training as needed.
• Maintain visibility of all participants and ensure a safe work environment.

Skills

Leadership

Organizational skills

Communication

Mentoring/training

Outdoor/physical work

Job description

Temporary Work Crew Site Supervisor

In Person at our New York, New York office

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Site Supervisor to help us live our mission to prepare people with recent criminal convictions for securing employment each year.

Site Supervisors support, supervise, and train work crews of 5-10 individuals, creating an uplifting work environment that ensures team member safety, providing on-the-job coaching, encouraging and empowering team members to seize each opportunity for building knowledge and skills, and balancing engagement and accountability across the crew.

This role is perfect for you if you enjoy a non-traditional workspace, like being on your feet, and love being outdoors. Ideally, you have experience teaching, coaching, mentoring or motivating youth or groups of adults as we know you'll be able to make a real impact in our participants' lives. You'll help create greater stability for our participants as they get back on their feet.

Please note: Site Supervisor work hours are typically 7:00AM-3:30PM (M-F) with the work conducted outside in all weather conditions. Weekly overtime is built into the role.

Who We Are

The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) provides employment services to people recently released from incarceration. Across the United States, 8,000-9,000 people participate in CEO each year, transitioning to employment that supports themselves, their families, and their communities.

What began as a demonstration project of the Vera Institute of Justice in the 1970s to address employment barriers facing the formerly incarcerated following release in New York City has grown into the leading reentry employment organization in the country, where over 30,000 formerly incarcerated individuals have secured full-time employment since 1996.

Who You Are

• You have strong organizational skills and can delegate, prioritize, and manage your team's time effectively to meet project deadlines; you operate under pressure with ease


• You pride yourself in your ability to communicate and resolve conflicts effectively with individuals of varying backgrounds and experiences. You recognize the value of continuous communication, looping others into project status and any arising challenges


• You have a proven track record of leading teams to achieve success


• You enjoy supporting others to solve routine challenges; personally you're mechanically inclined, able to diagnose issues with equipment and propose solutions to solve/address


• You're deeply passionate about and committed to social justice


• You're respectful, fair, and patient


• You believe in hard work, efficient and friendly customer service, and teamwork and collaboration to drive results


• You exercise compassion toward the team you're leading and balance this with a straightforward approach that ensures you meet the needs of your customers


• You foster strong team spirit and enjoy providing 1:1 support to team members who may need a little extra encouragement

The Nitty Gritty Qualifications

• Valid driver's license with good driving record


• Must be able to: Consistently lift and move objects up to 75 pounds; stand, kneel, bend, and climb in order to complete projects; work outdoors; walk or stand for long periods of time; drive a 12 passenger van with an attached trailer; operate a smartphone


• Previous safety training preferable, though training will be provided to hired candidate

Additional Responsibilities

• Leading a work crew in public beautification projects: litter abatement, landscaping, and sometimes other projects.


• Comply with company time and attendance (T&A) processes, which includes ensuring that participants accurately record their work time, ensuring that participants receive any required rest breaks and meal periods, and timely reviewing and approving participant time records on a daily basis.


• Ensuring customers' work orders are completed to a high standard on a daily basis


• Establishing and maintaining positive staff morale through modeling sound leadership and teamwork


• Assigning job duties to crew members and setting reasonable goals for completion


• Monitoring crew members on job performance and productivity, providing appropriate feedback and/or additional training as needed


• Maintaining line of sight of all participants


• Maintaining a safe, secure, and healthy work environment by following and enforcing standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations and by reporting any matters that threaten the smooth operation of the training crew to your supervisor


• Completing any necessary daily reporting tasks


• Special projects and related duties as assigned

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $20.3297/hr .