Superintendent

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Sr. Project Manager or VP of Construction, the Superintendent is expected to:

• Display a proactive resourcefulness to solving, anticipating, and preventing problems while working with a sense of urgency.
• Read and understand plans and specifications.
• Build high quality homes through the management of trade contractors, holding trades accountable to their contracts for service.
• Motivate trade contractors and suppliers to achieve the level of quality and performance required to meet Homes by Dickerson’s standards.
• Demonstrate the ability to manipulate a construction schedule to effectively complete the job safely, on time and on budget.
• Communicate with management to cut building costs and resolve current and future complications
• Demonstrate the ability to work with clients in a professional manner.
• Set proper expectations and display an awareness of construction to ensure client confidence.
• Promote and have knowledge of other Homes By Dickerson communities, initiatives and standards.
• Attend seminars, training sessions, and company meetings on production related subjects.

Key Accountabilities:

• Manage individual job sites
  • Maintain a clean job site
    • Hold trade contractors accountable for a clean and orderly job site.
    • Police lot and interior of home as required maintaining orderly and clean site.
  • Silt Fence Maintenance
    • Inspect silt fence daily and repair minor damage immediately.
    • Schedule repairs as required to maintain silt fence integrity.
    • Document trade damage and create a framework of accountability for trade contractors and vendors.
  • Maintain accessibility to homes for agents, customers and inspectors
    • Walk boards
    • Adequate and maintained signage
    • Adequate steps providing safe access through at least one entrance.
  • Maintain finished homes
    • Keep landscape fresh (mowed lawn, beds weeded, fresh pine straw/mulch, etc.)
    • Interior cleanliness, appearance (clean floors and countertops, bulb replacement etc.)
    • Exterior polish (power washing, clean porches, sweep walks, clean windows, etc.)
  • Maintain job site safety
    • Complete regular log reports to be submitted weekly.
    • Enforce OSHA rules.
    • Personally follow OSHA and company safety standards.
• General Neighborhood Upkeep
  • Keep neighborhoods presentable to homeowners, agents and potential customers.
  • Schedule street cleaning when required.
  • Maintain Homes by Dickerson lots that are not yet under construction.
  • Manage common areas.
• Material management
  • Check in major deliveries, including material counting.
  • Manage fill in order requests from trade contractors, including expediting delivery and validating orders.
  • Schedule material returns in a timely manner:
    • On a weekly basis select a random return to audit for accuracy.
• PO System/Budget/Invoices
  • Issue purchase orders for all material and labor upon initial ordering or scheduling.
  • Issue variance purchase orders for all material and labor outside of the budget line items. All variance purchase orders must have a dollar value included.
  • Assign VPO’s to each return.
  • Monitor individual project budget line items, notifying the project manager of anticipated overruns and/or problems.
  • Review, vet and approve invoices as required by accounting in the allotted time frame.
• Inspect all phases of construction for quality, per plans and specifications. Adjust and provide feedback on design and details that do not meet Homes by Dickerson’s standards.
• Compile, schedule and complete pre and post orientation punch lists (starting at front elevation continuing through attic). Pre-orientation punch list is required to be complete prior at time of trim outs. Post-orientation punch list is required to be complete prior to closing.
• Demonstrate the ability to manipulate a construction schedule while managing the day-to-day activities to effectively complete the job on time.
  • Provide appropriate lead times for individual trade contractors and vendors.
  • Regularly and consistently follow up with trade contractors and vendors, communicating schedule changes and appropriate job information, including red line plans, specification sheets and change orders.
  • Always know the status of specific jobs.
  • Manage all municipality inspections; including knowledge of what inspections are required and when.
    • Understand scheduling requirements for these inspections.
    • Make sure the job site is ready for inspections; including having inspection set of plans on site.
  • Demonstrate the ability to distinguish and prioritize critical and urgent job planning and for specific jobs.
• Demonstrate knowledge and the implementation of the various components included in our construction of building high performance homes.
• Consult with engineers, architects, and designers on design problems.
• Price and expedite appropriate level of customer change orders.

Education and Experience Requirements:

2 to 5 Years of Construction Management Experience

High School Diploma or Equivalent Required

Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management or Relevant Field Preferred

Desired Skills & Expertise:

Ability to maintain a composed problem-solving approach when pressed for time

Ability to maintain composure and handle frequent job changes or unexpected disruptions

Demonstrate sound business ethics

Anticipate problems and develop contingency plans

Have a strong sense of urgency about getting results

Have the desire to be influential for individual projects, with your team, the company and ambition beyond basic job management