Milestone Contractors is a fully integrated highway, heavy construction, asphalt paving, concrete paving, and site-development general contractor providing construction services throughout the state of Indiana and beyond. We are currently hiring for an Assistant General Superintendent to join our team.

Position Summary

Manages multiple small construction project or one large construction project, in general construction, asphalt, concrete, or bridge disciplines; maintaining the highest levels of safety and meeting or exceeding company and customer quality standards.

Essential Functions:

• Manages total construction project to meet design, budget and scheduling specifications
  • Coordinates work with other contractors
  • Interfaces with client representatives
  • Authorizes and approves project personnel transactions, purchase requisitions, field design change requests
  • Facilitates collaboration between Estimating, Project Control, scheduling and other internal departments to keep project on track
  • Analyzes project plan, cost performance, weather conditions and equipment availability
  • Ensures resource availability
  • Provides weekly schedule updates
• Plans, coordinates and supervises onsite
  • Provides day to day direction to field staff
  • Manages project labor, including hiring, disciplining and firing
  • Provides technical assistance as needed
  • Assists project management with project procedures, working documents and standards
  • Ensures all onsite personnel comply with required project, safety, OSHA procedures and work rules
  • Resolves conflicts and labor relations issues; understands contract agreements with regard to scheduling and assigning work
  • Manages performance of employees; ensures that work meets customer and company expectations for quality and technical specifications
• Communicates effectively
  • Advises project manager or senior managers of problems, potential problems, schedule difficulties
  • Shares information about work plan with subordinates, peers, subcontractors
  • Collaborates with project control, estimating, schedule and equipment to keep project on schedule
  • Facilitates collaboration among work crews
• Promotes and maintains safe work environment.
  • Exhibits safe work behaviors; evaluates work area for hazards; eliminates or controls hazards
  • Wears all prescribed PPE
  • Leads daily safety huddles and safety training; follows safe work plans
  • Ensures subordinate employees are following safe work plan and exhibiting safe behaviors

Reporting Relationships:

Supervision Received: Works under general direction of General Superintendent

Supervision Given: Supervises craft employees; provides direction to other field personnel

Competencies

• Accountability
• Communication
• Decision Making/Decision Quality
• Ethics/Integrity
• Instills Trust
• Developing Others
• Drives Results
• Resourcefulness

Work Environment The work environment described here is representative of those that experienced by an employee performing the essential functions of this job.

• Continuous exposure to a variety of extreme conditions at construction job sites, including heights, moving vehicles, stopped traffic
• Continuous exposure to equipment cabs, including computer controls, dials, handles, knobs, switches
• Outdoor conditions that include inclement weather, precipitation, heat, humidity, dust, asphalt and/or concrete, dirt
• Regular exposure to noise, including horns, mechanical equipment, heavy equipment, jackhammers
• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts, vibration, fumes and airborne particles
• Regular exposure to indoor work environments including job trailers, field offices or asphalt plants/labs

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Climbs in and out of equipment, job trucks or trailers
• Uses abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue;
• Uses good manual dexterity (hand, hand with arm, two hands) and multi-limb coordination, with the ability to quickly move arms and legs, to operate equipment, hand tools, laptop, tablet
• Possess excellent stamina to work between 8-12 hours per day
Uses sight and sound to visualize work area

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work This is a full-time position, normally 40 hours per week. Days and hours of work can vary, but shifts are normally 8 or more hours. Overtime, weekend and shift work are frequently required.


Travel Travel is primarily local during business day; some out-of-area and overnight travel may be required.


Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management or related field
• 8 years' experience supervising a field construction crew

Preferred Education and Experience

• Prior experience in heavy highway construction

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Must pass a pre-employment drug screen
• Must adhere to drug free workplace and union substance abuse testing requirements
• If required to drive a company vehicle, must have or be able to obtain valid, state driver's license and meet company driver requirements

Work Authorization/Security Clearance (if applicable) Must be authorized to work in the United States, as verified through E-Verify. Some job sites may require additional criminal background testing.


Other Duties This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

EOE/M/W/Vet/Disabled/PDA

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