Testing/Turnover Superintendent

Black & Veatch Family of Companies•Harriman, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Testing/Turnover Superintendent supports construction execution for a project in Harriman, Tennessee, and must mobilize to the site for the project duration. The role interfaces with and monitors direct-hire and subcontractor supervision and field engineering to help ensure craft and supervisory performance meet project expectations for safety, quality, schedule, and productivity. It provides technical direction and schedule information to craft supervisors, coordinates interpretation of technical requirements, and helps ensure compliance with applicable standards, procedures, contractual commitments, and company policies. For union projects, the superintendent ensures daily execution aligns with Black & Veatch national labor agreements and applicable local union agreements, maintains working relationships with local union representatives and stewards, and helps ensure uninterrupted workflow at union interface points. The position may stand in for the Construction Manager when requested, may take responsibility for site safety and quality requirements, and may mentor and train other discipline superintendents. It supervises direct-hire general foremen and foremen and, on construction-management projects, subcontractors, superintendents, and field engineers. The role is a supervisor and provides work direction but does not have management responsibility for the people receiving that direction. The position is safety-sensitive and involves a typical construction-site environment as well as a typical office environment. Site work may involve cramped or awkward spaces, extreme hot or cold temperatures, inclement weather, variable lighting, distracting noise, and hazardous equipment. Physical requirements include lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds; standing, kneeling, bending, stooping, moving, and walking long distances over uneven or cluttered areas; repetitive hand movements; working above five feet; and climbing and balancing on steel framework, stairs, ladders, and scaffolds. Work may involve shifts of up to 12 hours performing hard physical labor in varying temperatures and outdoor conditions.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience as a supervisor or Construction Manager on equivalent projects.
Valid driver's license.
Ability to mobilize to the Harriman, Tennessee project site for the project duration.
Ability to complete applicable pre-employment onboarding requirements, which may include criminal/civil background checks, drug screening, and motor vehicle records searches.
Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, climbing, walking long distances, and potentially working shifts up to 12 hours in outdoor conditions.
Ability to work in a safety-sensitive construction-site environment and around hazardous equipment.

Nice To Haves

Union or union-management experience is strongly preferred.
Testing/turnover experience on conventional power construction projects is strongly preferred.
Construction Management or Engineering degree.
OSHA 10 certification is preferred.
Budget and cost-control skills.
Industrial-relations knowledge to recognize and resolve potential labor issues.
Knowledge of union agreements and jurisdictional issues.
Knowledge of company construction guides and manuals.
Construction safety awareness and comprehension.
Cultural and social awareness skills.
Conflict-management skills.
Ability to multitask, 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 construction knowledge across other disciplines.
Conceptual planning ability.
Understanding of legal contracts, including EPC and subcontracts.
Leadership and human-relations skills.
Risk assessment and management skills.
Knowledge of time-reporting systems, cost-code labor-productivity systems, time-reporting policies and procedures, expense-reporting policies and procedures, construction guides and standards, and administrative policies and procedures.
Computer skills.

Responsibilities

Help ensure site supervision and craft comply with Black & Veatch safety, quality, ethical standards, lessons learned, performance-management programs, and applicable division policies, standards, and guides.
Report inappropriate conduct by site personnel to the Construction Manager and project Safety Manager.
Monitor, verify, and report construction activities against the CPM schedule, including schedule activity completion and commodity installation.
Help resolve issues involving drawings and information, schedule, quality, quantity tracking, cost reporting, and safety; report issues as appropriate.
Monitor discipline construction productivity, progress, and cost, report to the Construction Manager and Field Project Controls Manager, and take action to maintain targets.
Promote adherence to company standards and lessons learned and communicate new project lessons learned for possible future implementation.
Conduct foreman and subcontractor meetings to support daily, weekly, and monthly planning.
Develop and monitor a three-week look-ahead schedule for assigned work and develop corrective plans to meet progress and productivity targets.
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 site log.
Review craft and subcontractor timesheets, installed-quantity reports, and progress-payment requests; monitor supplier technical service representative daily logs and review or approve their timesheets.
Coordinate assigned craft and subcontractor daily and weekly work plans with other discipline superintendents or facilitators and the Construction Manager.
Monitor assigned subcontractors for compliance with scope and schedule requirements and maintain stable working relationships with them.
Assist the Field Subcontract Administrator with extra-work authorization requests (RFMPs/WAs).
Assist the Construction Engineer with 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 back charges and out-of-scope issues, report them to the Construction Manager, and support commercial recovery.
Provide supervision, training, development, and performance management to direct reports.
Adhere to applicable safety and quality standards and support continuous-improvement efforts and associated change management.
Supervise direct-hire project general foremen and foremen and, on construction-management projects, subcontractors, superintendents, and field engineers.
For union projects, ensure daily execution aligns with applicable national and local union agreements, establish working relationships with the local union business agent and site job steward, and help maintain uninterrupted workflow at union interfaces.
Provide technical direction and project schedule expectations to craft supervisors and subcontractors, coordinate interpretation of technical requirements, and help ensure compliance with standards, procedures, and contractual commitments.
Stand in for the Construction Manager during an absence from site if requested; take responsibility for site safety or quality requirements if required; mentor and train other discipline superintendents and recommend trainee development needs.