General Superintendent (Heavy Civil)

Position Overview

The General Superintendent directs all phases of a construction project from pre-construction activities through final punch list. He/she has ultimate responsibility to manage all field activities required to execute the project safely, within budget, and on schedule. The General Superintendent interfaces with the client, maintaining communications while ensuring satisfaction and promoting future opportunities.

Is recognized as an expert with specialist/authority level understand and application in:

• Labor Relations: Application of labor standards and rules to the Work on projects to improve job site harmony and labor productivity.

Has advanced knowledge and ability to coach/guide others in:

• Risk and Opportunity Management: Identifies potential risks related to operations, contracts, or project execution. Develops mitigation plans and strategies to control the impact of negative situations or to maximize opportunities throughout the life cycle of a project.

• Building and Construction Knowledge - Planning: Applies building and construction knowledge, utilizing experience and current developments in the industry to prepare detailed construction sequence plans including all necessary material, equipment and labor.

• Building Tools and Technology: Identifies and uses the correct technology, equipment and tools necessary to complete the job.

• Change Order Management : Follows financial implications of contracts and agreements to protect the company’s interests and rights. Identifies compensable changes and follows the contract provisions to timely resolution.

• Logistics: Develops, approves, and communicates construction logistics plans, verifying they are in place and clearly understood. Ensures that projects are proceeding according to these plans.

• Project Cost Management: Monitors, tracks, and forecasts self-perform and subcontractor project costs and quantities, including labor, equipment, and materials to ensure projects are successful and profitable.

• Safety: Ensures the safe execution of all work activities and ensures adherence to our safety regulations to protect all individuals. Verifies and coordinates work activities to comply with Skanska EHS program and corrects unsafe activities, actions and conditions.

• Subcontractor Oversight: Monitors, inspects and ensures subcontractors are performing the work safely, are adhering to schedule, and are producing quality work in line with subcontractor agreements and our client contract obligations.

• Schedule Development: Develops, communicates and follows schedules and timelines. Tracks information important to maintaining schedule adherence.

• Schedule Management - Civil: Manages and prioritizes project-wide activities. Mediates and reconciles conflicting or competing project activities. Leverages the schedule as a tool in external party negotiations.

Has demonstrated proficiency in:

• Contract Management: Reviews, executes and manages the client's prime contract as well as subcontracts and vendor agreements. This includes facilitating, administering and participating in contract discussions, reviews and negotiations with all relevant contracting parties.

• Business Development - Field Management: Develops relationships with clients that facilitates likelihood of further work or expansion of scope. Works with project manager to develop strategies and action plans to target and pursue business development opportunities.

• Plans and Specifications: Reads and interprets construction plans and the technical specifications to aid in constructability review. Ensures submittals are approved prior to proceeding with work.

• Design Management: Manages design development process and interfaces between design and construction to ensure and issue determinations on the constructability of deliverables

• Insurance and Bond Management: Identifies opportunities for recovery by means of insurance and bonds by recognizing applicable insurance coverages and the liabilities within.

• Quality Management: Establishes processes to meet quality standards. Monitors work practices to identify concerns or issues that do not meet these quality standards. Follows contract provisions for necessary corrective action.

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities

Organizational Impact: • Owns and develops operational plans and strategies that will directly impact the achievement of overall functional results. Directs the execution of strategies established by functional leadership. Establishes operational plans for job area with short- to mid-term impact on results (eg, 1-3 years).• Work requires a high degree of responsibility for resources, and frequently influences business decisions made by functional leadership.• Typically has budget or P&L accountability for the department.Innovation and Complexity:• Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements driving innovation or operational excellence for processes, systems or products to enhance performance of job area.• Problems and issues faced are numerous and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem. Problems are difficult and moderately complex. Problems typically impact multiple departments or specialties. Problems are typically solved through drawing from prior experience and analysis of issues.Communication and Influence:• Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function, and typically has responsibilities for communicating with parties external to the organization, which may include customers or vendors.• Works to influence others to accept job function’s view/ practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches. • Communicates with executive leadership  regarding matters of significant importance to the organization.• May  conduct briefings with senior leaders within the job function.• May at times  be required to negotiate  regarding operational  issues.Leadership and Talent Management:• Manages a department, unit or projects with national scale that includes multiple teams led by managers and/or team leaders. • Responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for the department / unit to ensure availability of human capital necessary to accomplish departmental business results.• Typically has hiring, firing,  promotion and reward  authority within own area,  in accordance with  Corporate Guidelines.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree – Civil Engineering/Construction Management or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience.• Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead multiple job areas. • Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.

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