Sheet Metal Superintendent
About The Position
The Sheet Metal Superintendent provides overall direction for field installation on an assigned project and is directly responsible for field labor, labor coordination, quality control, and safety. The superintendent represents the company at the project site and ensures the installation functions as designed and fulfills the contracted scope. The role involves coordinating with project teams and other trades, managing materials and equipment, monitoring schedules and costs, completing administrative documentation, and ensuring compliance with safety programs and building codes. Travel to job sites or office locations is expected 0–5% of the time. The position includes physical activity in outdoor, noisy, and potentially hot or cold environments, including work in tight or confined spaces. The role requires light physical work involving objects up to 20 pounds.
Requirements
- Experience managing five or more crews of two to three workers each.
- Verifiable experience working on projects valued at $500,000 or more.
- At least three years of craft supervision experience in similar facility construction.
- Advanced knowledge of how jobs are assembled in the field.
- Ability to manage to budget, plan to schedule, prepare for unexpected circumstances, meet or exceed project deadlines, and prioritize safety.
- Ability to influence workers to follow company methods and ensure installations reflect the company brand.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Detail-oriented, with willingness to handle multiple ongoing projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Knowledge of the industry and the company’s competitors.
- Ability to multitask and perform duties outside the scope of work when necessary.
- Ability to climb stairs, repeat motions involving the wrists, hands, or fingers, and move into various positions, including in tight and confined spaces.
- Ability to perform light work involving adjusting or moving objects up to 20 pounds.
Responsibilities
- Attend and contribute to project meetings.
- Read plans and perform coordination, layout, sketching, and material take-offs.
- Handle materials, tools, and equipment, including ordering, receiving, placing, and returning them.
- Delineate contract scope and confirm construction drawings and specifications agree with the contracted scope.
- Respond to general contractors’ requests concerning scope limits.
- Coordinate trade stacking and phasing and influence project scheduling.
- Load manpower and maintain the two-week look-ahead schedule.
- Perform timekeeping and administrative duties, including daily reports, submittal logs, and RFI status tracking.
- Ensure safety and other company programs are implemented and effective.
- Ensure building code compliance.
- Forecast labor and material costs with the project team.
- Perform quality control.
- Provide overall direction for field installation and take direct responsibility for field labor, labor coordination, and safety on the assigned project.
- Represent the company at the project site and ensure installation functions as designed and satisfies the contracted scope.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
