What are the responsibilities and job description for the Construction Site Superintendent (Temporary) position at COST of Wisconsin, Inc.?
Summary
A site superintendent oversees construction project phases to include leading and supervising team members and subcontractors, tracking and recording changes, and maintaining project requirements, schedules, and work quality. This role enforces policies and schedules while managing daily operations. All work is performed efficiently, safely, and according to specifications, regulations, and guidelines at the sites. This hands-on nonexempt role requires travel.
COST is a theme construction company that fabricates and manufactures custom creative projects for museums, theme and water parks, aquariums, zoological exhibits, and other unique clients. Check out our work on our website!
Location: Nationwide project locations, requiring travel within the continental U.S.
Shift/Work Hours: M-F 7:00am – 3:30pm, M-Th 7:00am – 5:30pm, or T-F 7:00am – 5:30pm
Employment Type: Direct hire; temporary position to last through July, with other work availability potential elsewhere as needed
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead and assists small- to mid-sized crews of team members and subcontractors (up to ~20 people), ensuring work quality meets company and customer standards both aesthetically and functionally.
- Enforce safety rules in compliance with federal, state, customer, and company regulations and policies.
- Orientate, select, and discipline team members as needed. Act as the company liaison for site team members.
- Identify and address risks; act as a first responder for near misses, incidents, and injuries; and proactively implement preventive safety actions.
- Promote professionalism, lead by example; train and develop team members.
- Adhere to project schedule/plan; coordinate and assign work of tradespeople, professionals, and laborers, while communicating with the project manager, director, contractors, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Regularly inspect and monitor work for quality, safety, and timeliness; prepare and provide various reports.
- Monitor the budget throughout the project, effectively manage resources, and communicate variances in a timely manner. Manage timecards and absences.
Knowledge, Education
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Preferred: Associate’s degree in construction management, architecture, or civil engineering
- OSHA-30 certification (training provided if needed); OSHA-10 required upon hire
- Valid driver’s license, current DOT medical card (DOT physical to obtain card provided as needed), must maintain satisfactory driving record
- Demonstrated knowledge of blueprint reading, layout, site excavation and grading, welding, structural steel, and rockwork operations
- Preferred: working knowledge of concrete pumping and shotcrete, waterproofing, and scaffold erection
Experience
- 3 or more years of practical construction experience
- Experience supervising others, preferably on a field construction site
- Experience efficiently managing projects
- Combined education and experience will be considered
Skills, Abilities
- Must demonstrate COST’s Core and Leadership Competencies
- Customer focus, to include understanding and meeting customer expectations
- Motivational, with the ability to share the company’s vision, recognize strong performers, and promote and implement policies and procedures
- Analytical thinker who logically breaks down problems to create solutions
- Strong time management and influencing skills
- Technology skills to include Microsoft Office -- Word, Excel, and Outlook; preferred: PROCORE software skills
- Flexible, open to change, able to multitask, able to pivot based on customer and company needs and deadlines
- Leadership skills, ability to monitor and measure work, and the ability to get results despite ambiguity
- Effective communication skills, including verbal, written, presentation, and listening
- Ability to read, understand, and execute blueprints, drawings, directions, and plans
- Solid understanding of quality building practices
- Preferred: artistic skills
Benefits
- Company credit card for company purchases and travel
- Company cell phone
- Company truck (issued within 1 year of start date and completion of applicable pre-employment screens)
- Travel time pay
- Up to $110/day lodging reimbursement
- Fuel reimbursement
- 1 roundtrip flight home per month during 1st year
- 2 roundtrip flights home per month after completion of 1 year
- Airport parking allowance
- Paid time off
- 8 paid holidays
- Company paid basic life insurance
- Medical insurance
- Voluntary insurance: dental, short term disability, term life, critical illness, and accident insurance
- 401k
- Quarterly variable pay bonus
Physical Demands
- Strength and stamina, including regularly using hands to handle, or feel; regularly walk, stand, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
- Must have close, distance, color, and peripheral vision; depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
- Must lift 70 lbs. from floor to waist, 90 lbs. from waist to chest, and 25 lbs. chest to above head. Must carry 50 lbs. for 50 ft., push a 100 lb. wheeled cart for 100 ft., and drag 50 lbs. for 100 ft.
Work Environment
- Site location is based on the assignment (within the continental U.S.); travel, lodging, and fuel expenses are paid according to company policy
- Standard construction and field environment includes exposure to odors, fumes, varying weather conditions, airborne particles, and machinery noise (moderate to loud)
- Overtime may be required, depending on project deadline and travel needs
The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the principle functions of the occupation and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work that may be inherent in the occupation. COST of Wisconsin, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity workplace.
