Superintendent

About Shiel Sexton

Shiel Sexton offers specialized expertise across the commercial building process including Construction Management, Field Supervision, Green Building Expertise, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Safety Management, Quality Assurance, and more. Our employee owners share the same mission to deliver for our clients and to be recognized as the contractor of choice in each operational area.

As a 100% employee-owned company, Shiel Sexton offers a highly collaborative and fulfilling workplace that attracts the most innovative and creative minds who can thrive while working to reach their full potential. Exceptional people, exciting projects, and unlimited opportunity make Shiel Sexton a great place to work hard, expand your talents, and be rewarded for your efforts.

Our guiding principles of Integrity, Satisfaction, Enjoyment, Safety, and Relationships reinforce our mantra: We Build For People Who Expect More. These core principles have guided us since we began in 1962. Through many years, transitions in leadership and thousands of construction projects, we believe this foundation has been our competitive advantage and the reason people continue to value the Shiel Sexton experience.

Superintendent at Shiel Sexton

The Superintendent manages field operations in a professional manner and is responsible for the successful completion of the project with zero accidents/injuries, on-time, while assuring quality standards are achieved. Primary responsibilities include developing the work plan and sequence, coordinating all scopes of work and effectively communicating with all stakeholders. The Superintendent reports directly to the general superintendent and in collaboration with the Project Manager.

Role Expectations and Competencies

• Lead and promote the “Expect More” culture that defines Shiel Sexton
• Fundamental ability to supervise field operations to ensure project meets the Owner’s expectations.
• Effectively communicate with the Owner, designer, contractors, subcontractors, authorities having jurisdiction, and trades to collaboratively complete the project on-time.
• Develop a work plan and sequence to maximize schedule efficiencies.
• Promote a safety culture to eliminate accidents and injuries.
• Collaborative planning and leadership is required to supervise and communicate with Shiel Sexton craft employees and subcontractors, understand subcontractor’s work, and provide technical assistance with all aspects of construction.
• Strong foundation of safety management practices and ability to build a safety mindset and safety culture on the jobsite.
• Ability to effectively read, understand and visualize all aspects of the Project Documents: Drawings, Specifications and written narratives. Very quickly understands a project’s entire scope of work and how the various must trades interact throughout construction
• Creation and management of Comprehensive logistics and trade execution plans by using excellent written and oral communication with owners, contractors, and engineers, while exemplifying fundamental financial awareness when making decisions that have financial impact.
• Proficient leadership skills to achieve results through people by planning, coordinating, and supervising on-site functions (scheduling, engineering, material control and may provide day-to-day direction of on-site administrative craft personnel).
• Proving proficient customer focus by assessing customer’s (internal and external) business needs such as assisting project management in developing and implementing project procedures, working documents, standards, etc.
• Ensure all on-site personnel comply with project procedures, safety program requirements, and work rules.
• Fundamental ability to accept accountability for productivity of crafts, efficient use of materials and equipment, and contractual performance of the project, while upholding a proficient level of quality orientation in the working environment, shown through daily monitoring, and exemplifying a results-orientated mindset to achieve tangible results.
• Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills by identifying complex problems and drawing realistic conclusions.
• High Level of organization to manage and follow up on multiple issues simultaneously. High degree of ownership for prompt and accurate resolution of issues.
• Scheduling proficiency using a variety of platforms from daily and weekly look-ahead’s on custom forms and excel tables to Master Schedule updates in ASTA. Key member of Schedule Update team using Shiel Sexton Schedule department as a resource to update Master Schedule within the ASTA software
• Has completed all assigned, required HR and Legal compliance courses on-time and by due date of assigned.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Ten (10)plus years’ experience in commercial construction.
• Trade specific background or post-secondary education in construction related degree is preferred.
• OSHA 40 hour certified
• Ability to comprehend design documents and develop a work plan incorporating all aspects of the project.
• Proficient leadership skills to achieve results by planning, coordinating, and supervising on-site functions (scheduling, engineering, material control and may provide day-to-day direction of on-site craft personnel).
• Understanding of building systems including earthwork, utilities, foundations and structural systems, building envelope, fire protection, plumbing, mechanical and electrical systems.
• Experience with computer-based management software programs such as Procore.
• Computer based knowledge Word, Excel and Outlook.
• BIM 360 and other 3-D coordination software a plus.
  
  
  

Working Conditions

Personnel Management |40 Hours/week |Dynamic work schedule dependent on project status |Working construction environment |Outdoor/Construction Site Work/Office setting |Moderate Safety Risk |Deadline Requirements |Delivery of accurate and completed project