Piping Superintendent - Simple Cycle - Oklahoma

Black & Veatch Family of Companies•Overland Park, KS

About The Position

The Piping Superintendent is a field-assignment role responsible for directing and monitoring construction supervision, craft employees, assigned subcontractor supervision, and field engineering on a simple cycle project. The role oversees direct-hire craft productivity and performance and subcontractor performance, ensuring work meets safety, quality, schedule, and performance expectations. It provides craft supervisors with the technical direction and information needed to complete work safely, on time, and to required quality standards, and ensures project and schedule expectations are clearly communicated across craft disciplines and subcontractors. The position requires travel. The superintendent coordinates interpretation of technical requirements and provides technical information to the workforce, subcontractor supervision, and construction engineers. The role ensures compliance with applicable standards, procedures, contractual commitments, and policies. It acts in a supervisory capacity, providing work direction but not management responsibility for those receiving that direction. It supervises direct-hire project general foremen and foremen, as well as project subcontractors, superintendents, and construction engineers. This is a safety-sensitive position involving a typical construction-site environment as well as a typical office environment. Physical duties include lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds; standing, kneeling, bending, stooping, moving, and walking long distances; handling tools and controls; repetitive movement; working above five feet; and climbing and balancing on steel framework, stairs, ladders, and scaffolds. Work may involve shifts of up to 12 hours of hard physical labor, confined or awkward workspaces, temperature extremes, inclement weather, variable lighting, distracting noise, and hazardous equipment.

Requirements

At least 5 years of construction field leadership experience on equivalent projects.
Valid driver's license.
OSHA 10 certification.
Ability to complete applicable pre-employment onboarding requirements, which may include criminal/civil background checks, a drug screen, and a motor vehicle records search.
Ability to perform the stated physical demands, including lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds and working in construction-site conditions.

Nice To Haves

Construction Management or Engineering degree.
Completion of cost control, backcharges, and schedule training.
Completion of construction management and contract administration training.
Budget and cost-control skills.
Piping construction experience.
Simple cycle and/or combined cycle construction experience.
Industrial-relations knowledge for recognizing and resolving potential labor issues.
Knowledge of company construction guides and manuals.
Construction safety awareness and comprehension.
Conflict-management skills.
Ability to multitask and prioritize, organize, and schedule work.
Problem-solving skills, including identifying, analyzing, researching, evaluating, and resolving issues.
Project-management skills.
Communication skills.
Constructability knowledge within the discipline and other disciplines.
Conceptual-planning ability.
Understanding of legal contracts, including EPC and subcontracts.
Leadership ability.
Human-relations skills.
Risk assessment and management skills.
Knowledge of cost-code labor-productivity systems.
Knowledge of time-reporting policies and procedures.
Knowledge of construction guides and standards.
Computer skills.

Responsibilities

Monitor, verify, and report construction activities for compliance with the critical path method (CPM) schedule, including completion of simple cycle schedule activities and commodity installation.
Assist craft and subcontractors with problems and report issues involving drawings and information, schedule, quality, quantity tracking, cost reporting, and safety.
Monitor discipline construction productivity, progress, and cost, and report to the Construction Manager and Field Project Controls Manager.
Take necessary actions to maintain targets and develop corrective plans to meet progress and productivity targets.
Conduct foreman and subcontractor meetings to review and assist with daily, weekly, and monthly planning.
Develop and monitor a three-week look-ahead schedule for assigned work scope.
Verify that material, manpower, and other resources needed for the three-week look-ahead schedule are available and on site.
Develop, monitor, and report completion of craft and subcontractor punch-list activities.
Maintain a daily log for site records.
Review craft and subcontractor timesheets, installed-quantity reports, and progress-payment requests.
Monitor supplier Technical Service Representative daily logs and review and approve their timesheets.
Coordinate assigned craft and subcontractor daily and weekly work plans with other discipline superintendents and the Construction Manager.
Monitor assigned subcontractors for compliance with subcontract scope and schedule requirements and develop stable working relationships with them.
Assist the Field Subcontract Administrator in preparing extra-work authorization requests (RFMPs/WAs).
Assist the Construction Engineer in compiling or answering Contractor Information Requests (CIRs), and compile and answer CIRs when required.
Administer execution of work packages and equipment installation.
Develop and distribute Job Hazard Analyses for major erection packages within scope.
Identify potential backcharges and out-of-scope issues and report them to the Construction Manager; support the commercial recovery process.
Provide supervision, training, development, and performance management to direct reports.
Adhere to applicable safety and quality standards.
Support continuous-improvement efforts and change management associated with implementing improvements.