Project Superintendent

Recruitment Team•New York, NY

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Project Superintendent assumes overall responsibility for all field operations, including the supervision, organization, and direction of all construction activities. This role ensures that field operations comply with contract documents, schedule, quality standards, safety standards, and budget. The Project Superintendent must manage multiple staff members, organize and effectively utilize manpower, and develop logistics plans in coordination with the project manager for safe and efficient subcontractor work. This position involves implementing construction methods, schedules, manning charts, and managing material and equipment requirements. A key aspect is administering the site safety and emergency plans, confirming daily and incident reports, and managing onsite activities and contractual obligations of subcontractors and vendors. The role requires ensuring continuous adherence to contract documents, schedule, quality, and budget through implemented procedures. Effective communication, strong interpersonal and influencing skills, and a deep understanding of all construction phases, including engineering disciplines, means and methods, and field management, are essential. The Project Superintendent must analyze contract documents, develop details, and create new methods for work execution, including out-of-sequence or simultaneous work. Preparing look-ahead schedules, ensuring safety compliance with all federal, state, and local codes, recognizing and resolving problems efficiently, and maintaining a positive attitude with sound judgment in field decisions are critical. The ability to determine assignment priorities based on critical deadlines and work independently, as well as develop and train subordinates, is also required.

Requirements

Ability to manage multiple staff members
MS Word and Excel are required.
15+ years of experience
Equivalent work experience with high school or vocational degree

Nice To Haves

AutoCAD is recommended.

Responsibilities

Assumes overall responsibility for all field operations including the supervision, organization, and direction of all construction activities to ensure field operations are in compliance with the contract documents, schedule, quality standards, safety standards, and budget.
Ensures manpower in the field is organized, effectively utilized and is composed of qualified and knowledgeable personnel, including subcontractor manpower.
Develop a logistics plan with the project manager so that the subcontractors complete their work safe and efficiently, in a coordinated way.
Implements and coordinates construction methods, schedules, manning charts, as well as material and equipment requirements.
Administers the site safety plan and emergency plan, coordinating with subcontractors.
Confirm daily construction reports and incident reports are completed on a timely basis.
Manages onsite activities and administers contractual activities of subcontractors and vendors.
Implements procedures to ensure construction operations are continuously adhering to the contract documents, schedule, quality standards, and budget.
Must communicate effectively to all project participants including strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
Understanding of all phases of construction operations including engineering disciplines, means and methods, and field management.
Analyze and develop details per the contract documents and where required, produce new methods to implement the work, including work performed out of sequence and/or work performed simultaneously.
Prepare look-ahead schedules.
Ensures safety standards and requirements are implemented and adhered to and that tools and equipment are in safe condition and operated safely.
Deep knowledge of safety compliance including federal, state, and local safety codes.
Recognizes when problems exist and evaluates the facts in order to resolve issues efficiently. Seeks assistance from supervisor when necessary.
Maintain positive attitude towards field work and demonstrates sound judgment in making field decisions.
Determines the priority of assignments based on critical deadlines that must be met.
Ability to work independently.
Develops and trains subordinates.