What are the responsibilities and job description for the Earthwork Superintendent position at Vaughn Construction?
About Us
Vaughn is a regional commercial construction company operating throughout Texas. We are focused on building higher education, healthcare, and research buildings for commercial clients. As a sophisticated construction manager, we utilize the latest technology (including drones, laser scanners, 3D modeling, and 3D printing) to plan and build high-quality, enduring facilities. Further, we treat all employees like family in a family-like environment where our people are proud to work.
Our family is committed to safety, integrity, teamwork, excellence, and work ethic. Vaughn’s leaders link our strategic priorities and resulting work activities to our core values, and we believe this drives excellence. Vaughn aims to retain and develop individuals aligned with our core values by providing life-changing opportunities.
OUR BIG WHY: We WOW our clients and provide life-changing opportunities for our people, while delivering our projects in a family atmosphere, where our people are proud to work.
Position Overview
Earthwork Superintendent leads the process of building the earthwork component of a project including site grading, road construction, road improvements, drainage improvements, road maintenance, dewatering, soil correction, foundation excavation and backfill, utilities and any other necessary civil improvements required for a project.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Manage a wide variety of earthwork and civil utilities applications
- Provide direct in field supervision of all phases of earthwork, site construction and underground utility construction
- Ensure timely project completion through project scheduling, coordination of subcontractor trades, expediting material deliveries to the management of material, equipment and personnel
- Submit field reports, track time on task, track onsite material inventory and deliveries
- Ensures that records, time and quantities are completed daily
Education and Training
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant heavy equipment operating experience
- Thourough knowledge of soils
- Thorough knowledge of site utilities
- Excellent understanding of contract documents
- Excellent experience with procuring, scheduling and maintaining large excavation equipment including dozers, track hoes, tractors, scrapers etc.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Self-motivated with the ability to working productively without constant supervision
- Ability to manage multiple operations onging at the same time whether in the same project site or multiple sites
- Ability to lead large self-perform crews
- Thorough understanding and working knowledge of the Vaughn safety plan
- Extensive knowledge of Vaughn procedures
- Able to contribute and conduct daily and weekly safety meetings and audits
- Knowledge of means and methods to all earthwork and civil utilities construction scopes
- Ability to interpret the project estimate and maintain the project budget
- Able to contribute to Pre-Install Meetings, Site Safety Meeting, Pull Plan Meetings, and Subcontractor Meetings
- Ability to manage and execute project activities as required to meet day-to-day and overall schedule
- Ability to project manpower for duration of project
- Ability to understand and execute the requirements in project documents with regard to quality control procedures, testing, shop drawings, material approvals, samples, mock-ups and etc.
- Provide input on scheduling and placement of production crews. Ability to plan, create, and maintain a schedule for the overall project
- Ability to procure and schedule material to the project site
Additional Abilities
- Lift 50 pounds
- Move 100 pounds
- Work under exposure to inclement weather conditions
- Climb scaffolds
- Climb ladders
- Walk projects to supervise work being installed
- Drive vehicles for company business
- Ability to walk several flights of stairs on high rise buildings
