Superintendent

THE ROLE The role of Superintendent is to oversee, coordinate and manage all onsite construction activities, including safety, logistics, schedule, day to day trade activities, document management, meetings, compliance, completion and turnover. As well the Superintendent shall assist the Project Manager in the construction activities. Superintendent is to have a commanding knowledge of the site and its progress in all areas and with all Subs/Suppliers which are assigned to the project. THIS POSITION CAN BE BASED IN EITHER HOUSTON, DALLAS, OR AUSTIN AREA. MUST BE WILLING AND ABLE TO BUILD PROJECTS IN HOUSTON, DALLAS, OR AUSTIN AREA. RESPONSIBILITIES Scheduling The Superintendent shall work in partnership with the Project Manager for creating, updating, maintaining and managing all the schedules for the project. Ability to create a Master Project Schedule with comprehension of required construction activities and logic sequencing. Perform daily inspection of units and prepare, maintain and distribute the three-week schedule for Owner/subcontractors and suppliers. Constructability Acumen Strong overall knowledge of construction including the level of understanding in earthwork, foundation systems, building structure, envelope, MEP systems, finish detailing, logic and trade sequencing as well as plan and document reading. Onsite Management Directly responsible for supervising all on-site project sub-contractors. Must act as a quality control representative to monitor and ensure the correction of any deficient workmanship and/or below quality work. Act as mediator for subcontractor/supplier and staff related issues. Administer first aid when necessary. Approve material requests and delivery. Assists Project Manager by overseeing the field construction processes. Walk with 3rd party inspections (i.e. geo-tech, structural engineer, fire proofing consultant) for activities directly supervised. Report deficiencies, problems and delays to project manager. Responsible for the walk-through inspection ensuring passage from local municipal inspectors. Safety The Superintendent is in charge of and leads the effort to ensure a safe and clean jobsite to mitigate injuries and/or incidents by implementing NEIs safety policies, procedures and processes. The Superintendent shall make continuous walk-throughs to ensure, enforce and invoke proper site and personnel safety at all times. Superintendent shall be required to conduct all safety meetings with the staff and subcontractors, complete all compliance reporting and maintain logs. Superintendent shall interact with CRM for inspections and follow-up signoffs. Contracts/Scopes The Superintendent and PM shall work collaboratively to review the Owner contract as well as all Subcontractor exhibits to understand and have a strong working knowledge of the scopes of work to avoid duplicate work or having work performed unnecessarily and to ensure that all work is being installed in compliance with the contract documents. Managing Work Tickets / Slips & Changes The Superintendent shall proactively communicate with the PM, review subcontractor exhibits and negotiate with other foreman to mitigate field tickets and slips from being generating and exposing NEI to potential unnecessary costs. Superintendent shall review, and ensure that no work is being performed without authorization or at a cost that has not been approved by the PM/PX. The Superintendent shall maintain documentation to supporting such extra work and distribute accordingly. Project Documentation The Superintendent shall have a working knowledge of all project documentation and will coordinate and maintain documentation and their processes timely for such reports as daily reports, record drawings, SKs, Bulletins, Submittals, SCOs, ASIs. RFIs & CORs. It is expected that the record drawings capture all SKs, RFIs ASIs and Bulletins in order that the most current information is real time and readily available. The Superintendent will ensure that a log and/or files are kept onsite for SKs, ASIs, RFIs, Bulletins and submittals. Maintain QC book for activities directly supervised. Maintain FHA/ADA book for activities directly supervised. Subcontractor Meetings The Superintendent shall prepare for and conduct all subcontractor, safety, pre-construction and coordination meetings as required and scheduled in order to maintain the project schedule, project progress, a safe job site and ensure to minimize conflicts between trades without an impact or delay to the schedule Project Close-Out The Superintendent shall manage the project close-out process including obtaining all inspections required by all agencies (MEPS, Building, Fire Department, Health, Public Assembly). The Superintendent is responsible for the completion, signoff and acceptance of the project punchlist by the Owner and Architect. The Superintendent shall support and assist the PM with any closeout requirements on the project.