SMS Field Superintendent

SMS Field 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.

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.

Constructability Acumen

• Strong overall knowledge of Power Generation industry, industrial maintenance & construction.

Onsite Management

• Directly responsible for supervising all on-site project and sub-contractors.
• Implement plans in response to delays, bad weather, or industrial maintenance site emergencies.
• Must act as a quality control representative to monitor and ensure the correction of any deficient workmanship and/or below quality work.
• Interpret and explain plans and contract terms to representatives of the owner or developer, including administrative staff, workers, or clients.
• Perform assessments, such as conceptual cost estimating, rough order of magnitude estimating, feasibility, or energy efficiency, environmental, and sustainability assessments.
• Apply for and obtain all necessary permits.
• Act as mediator for subcontractor/supplier and staff related issues.
• Approve material & equipment requests and delivery.
• Assists Project Manager by overseeing the field construction-service processes.
• Walk with 3rd party inspections (contractor & Sub-contractors when required) for activities directly supervised.
• Report deficiencies, problems, and delays to project manager.
• Responsible for the walk-through inspection ensuring passage from local municipal inspectors.
• Inspect or review projects to monitor compliance with building and safety codes, MSHA, OSHA, or other regulations.

Safety

The Superintendent oversees and leads the effort to ensure a safe and clean jobsite to mitigate injuries and/or incidents by implementing Mid-State safety policies, procedures, and processes.

The Superintendent shall make continuous walk-throughs to ensure, always enforce and invoke proper site and personnel safety.

Superintendent shall be required to conduct all safety meetings with the staff and subcontractors, complete all compliance reporting and maintain logs.

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 Change Order

The Superintendent shall maintain documentation to supporting such extra work orders and distribute accordingly. Proper communication with the PM is essential to correctly manage and execute these changes orders.

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, requisitions, JSAs, Time Sheets, ASIs. RFIs, etc.

Maintain QC 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 or delay to the schedule.

Project Close-Out

The Superintendent shall manage the project close-out process including obtaining all inspections required by Mid-State and the customer (Federal Agencies when required).

The Superintendent is responsible for the completion, signoff, and acceptance of the project punch list by the Owner and PM.

The Superintendent shall support and assist the PM with any closeout requirements on the project.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred in Engineering, Construction Management, or similar field
• 5-15 years of relevant construction experience required, preferably on Power Generation industry, industrial maintenance & construction.
• Team leader with excellent diplomatic and communication skills, able to handle and resolve conflicts effectively in a firm but fair manner
• Proven experience managing projects successfully from start to finish.
• Skilled at negotiating and developing relationships with owners and subcontractors.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a team
• Strong work ethic and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Passion for the work and the construction industry is a must.
• Excellent business judgment required
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to constantly multi-task and handle competing priorities between Mid-State business needs, organizational issues, and sound customer relations.
• Employee must be capable of working long hours.
• Must be knowledgeable and capable of working in confined spaces, at elevated surfaces and on scaffolding, climbing ladders.

Integrity - Must be dependable and operate with a high-level of integrity; Job requires being honest and ethical.

Leadership - Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.

Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.

Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.

Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.

Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.

Persistence - Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.

Self-Control - Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.

Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.

Adaptability/Flexibility - Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.

Analytical Thinking - Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.

Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.

Concern for Others - Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.

Independence - Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.

Social Orientation - Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.

Innovation - Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems

Other Information

This is a non-exempt position.

This position reports to the SMS Division Manager - Op. Manager.

Mid-State is proud to offer benefits to all of its full-time employees. Benefits available include: Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, Life and AD&D Insurance, Disability Insurance, 401(k), Vacation, Holiday pay, and an Employee Assistance Program.

Physical Requirements / Working Environment

Main location is at 2730 Mine and Mill Road, Lakeland, FL.

This is a variable hourly position. Days and hours of work vary (Monday - Sunday with some overnight work) and overtime is frequently required.

Working environment is often in harsh elements (hot / humid and/or cold temperatures, rain, etc.). Industrial environments often have exposure to hazardous chemicals, moving heavy equipment / machinery, and other safety-sensitive hazards / risks. Must always be alert and able to safely perform the essential duties of the job without risking harm to oneself or others.

While performing the duties of this job, you will:

Frequently perform physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.

Frequently use hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, moving materials, and manipulating things.

Other physical requirements include:

Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

Manual Dexterity - The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

Finger Dexterity - The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

Multi-limb Coordination - The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.

Reaction Time - The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.

Hearing Sensitivity - The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.

Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

Depth Perception - The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.

Extent Flexibility - The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.

Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Static Strength - The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects up to 50 pounds.

Visual Color Discrimination - The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Auditory Attention - The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.

Category Flexibility - The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Far Vision - The ability to see details at a distance.

Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

Rate Control - The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.

Selective Attention - The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Trunk Strength - The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.

Visualization - The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

Mid-State maintains a firm commitment in providing a safe and healthy work environment for its employees and quality services to its clients. Mid-State is a drug-free workplace. Must be able to pass a post-offer / pre-placement drug screen and job-related employment physicals. Must also submit to a post-offer / pre-employment background check that verifies criminal history.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United