General Foreman (Construction)

General Foreman (Construction) required in Port Elizabeth.

Requirements:

Qualifications / certifications required:

• Minimum of Grade 12
• Minimum of 15 years technical experience
• Minimum of 10 years managerial experience
• Able to thrive under pressurised and stressful situations

IT skills:

• Diary management – One note – intermediate
• Excel – intermediate
• Navigating on virtual meeting platforms
• Outlook – intermediate
• PowerPoint – intermediate
• Word – intermediate

System and software skills:

• BuildSmart – intermediate
• OneDrive and Bos – intermediate
• SharePoint – intermediate
• SHEQ compliance system – advanced

Management skills:

• Change management
• Delegation
• Managing performance
• Mentoring skills
• Situational management of people
• SMME management
• Strategic objectives management
• Subcontractor management
• Team morale and effectiveness

Personal effectiveness skills:

• Accurate recordkeeping
• Communication skills – verbal and written
• Conflict management
• Consequence management
• Coordination skills
• Deadlines achievement
• Ethics and confidentiality
• Ownership and accountability
• Planning and organising
• Presentation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Telephone etiquette
• Train the Trainer – intermediate

Technical skills:

• Bill of Quantities interpretation – advanced
• Community participation – advanced
• Construction industry standards – advanced
• Construction material and supplier knowledge – advanced
• Construction programming – advanced
• Contract knowledge – advanced
• Cost reporting – advanced
• Drawings understanding – advanced
• Measurement – advanced
• Negotiation skills
• Project costing
• Project management
• Project sequencing
• Report writing
• Wet trades understanding
• Structural understanding
• Services installation knowledge
• Setting out

Key Performance Areas:

Implement, manage and maintain on-site drawings:

• Receive drawings and compare with issue slips
• Sort drawings and stamp all copies with relevant stamps
• Distribute drawings as per SA/SE and transfer slips to be kept
• Update drawing registers, soft folders and drawing clips
• Superseded drawing to be removed, stamped and boxed
• Obtain shop drawings for distribution and obtain approval within relevant timeframe

Provide administrative support to ensure efficient site operation:

• Obtain project documentation from relevant sources on site for review and capturing
• Maintain all electronic (SharePoint) and hard copy files for the duration of the project
• Quality integrity of completed documentation to be reviewed and compared with actual work onsite
• Collate and compile data packs and hand over at Project completion

Site staff coordination:

• Obtain and communicate relevant pre-employment documentation
• Gather relevant employee information and send through to Payroll Administrator at HQ
• Once employed, completed forms to be obtained and sent through to HQ
• Install clock on site and enrol employees, once employees are captured on BuildSmart
• Pull daily/update/amend hours from the biometric time and attendance (comparison with HSE and QS stats)
• Assist with monitoring the duration of contracts to ensure temporary workers’ contracts are renewed as required
• Daily attendance registers to be implemented and maintained for all wage employees
• Capturing of accurate time sheets as per attendance including overtime if applicable
• Monitor and follow up on terminations and/or extensions which are due
• Provide HR portal support where required

Material and plant management:

• Draft requisitions to be sent to relevant authorities for approval
• Ensure the correct plant delivered to site is in good working order and relevant certificates are provided
• Immediate reporting of any defective plant to be reported to the Plant and Yard for action
• Operator time sheets and inspections to be obtained daily and sent through to Headquarters
• GRN to be compiled with supporting delivery notes and submitted to Headquarters on a weekly basis
• Monthly stock take and stock control to be implemented
• Ensure monthly stock take is done timeously and accurately

Customer service:

• Maintain professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders and customers
• Ensure personal conduct in accordance with brand and company standard
• Know and understand customer needs and provide a quality service in accordance with company values

Teamwork:

• Support and participate in project team’s purpose, vision and goals
• Participate and contribute in solutions thinking and creativity
• Participate in continuous improvement team discussions and activities
• Promote information sharing, guidance and inter-departmental collaboration
• Create an environment of trust, high morale and a cohesive winning team culture