Job Description

Job Title: We are looking to hire a Construction Site Superintendent. There is the potential to move into a Project Manager role in the future.

Type of Employment: Contract

Location: Phoenix, AZ.

Duration: Initial contract will be for 12 months with the opportunity to extend or convert to a permanent employee.

Work Schedule: Candidates will work 3 weeks onsite and 1 week remote (40 hours is guaranteed).

Compensation: Hourly rate, time and half for overtime, up to $70 day per diem (receipts required), $60 monthly cell phone allowance, a company laptop will be provided. Candidates will book their own flight, rental car, and hotel but be reimbursed weekly for these expenses.

Requirements: General Construction background with electrical and/or mechanical experience.

Our client is a leader in the design, build and construction of mission critical data centers. Their Data Center Solutions/Secure Power Division has some large contracts in progress as well as some about to kickoff and some in the pipeline. From a corporate perspective they put a freeze on headcount (full time W-2 hires) but need contractors to support their current projects. These contractors will come on for 12 months initially but could be on various projects for several years. There is also the potential to join them as a permanent employee when they lift the hiring freeze.

The Site Superintendent is one of 3 primary roles for the project team. The Project Manager has overall responsibility and is on site some, but the Site Superintendent is boots on the ground and responsible daily running of the project. There is also a Project Engineer that will be onsite. They are a mission critical construction environment - are really a compliance company, heavy electrical - person needs to understand construction in a mission critical environment. They operate in an environment or SOPs and MOPs. A BIG plus if this person has MEP and mission critical environment exposure (not required).

THE SUPERINTENDENT/ONSITE PROJECT MANAGER (SUPER)

The Superintendent is responsible for the project schedule as it relates to the supervision of all field activities and physical construction. He or she reports to and carries out the direction of the project manager with respect to field operations, to direct the daily progress of the work. The superintendent must ensure a cohesive product that achieves the required quality and is completed in the shortest possible time. To achieve a successful project, the superintendent must continually work to ensure adequate staffing of the workforce, sufficient supply of materials, and complete information as necessary to assemble the project, and must plan for all things enough in advance so as not to interfere with the progress of any one component.

Responsibilities:

· Thoroughly understand the project contract, schedule, and overall scope.

· Maintain the project schedule.

· Thoroughly understand subcontractor agreements and vendor PO.

· Verify actual work completion with the PM for subcontractor and vendor invoices.

· Secure Lien Releases from subcontractors and vendors.

· Secure all permits.

· Work with “Project Scheduler” developing the progress schedule (2 week look ahead schedule for example) with the project manager.

· Prepare and distribute daily field reports.

· Coordinate and schedule necessary inspections.

· Coordinate and schedule necessary testing and surveying.

· Prepare agenda for regular construction meetings.

· Enforce site safety, security, and visitor access.

· Enforce quality and workmanship of finished products.

· Develop and maintain Site Utilization plan.

· Assist PM to identify scope gaps/duplication from sub-contracts and purchase orders (PO).

· Request from subcontractors’ scope and cost to provide back to the PM so he/she may prepare and approve for subcontractor agreement for processing by the Contracts Team

· Maintaining phone log.

· Prepare pre-punch list items.

· Work with “Project Site Engineer” to load all pertinent project information on Procore.

· Perform subcontractor and vendor performance evaluation in Procore.

· Provide site safety training for subcontracts and enforce “Safety compliance” on the project site.

· Weekly “Tool talks”.

· Secure any hot work permits required for the project.

General duties of the superintendent also cover the following items below (regardless if it is delegated to other project staff the responsibility remains with the super) :

· Generating, securing, or otherwise confirming all information needed to create, monitor, and modify the progress schedule on a continuing basis.

· Participating in scope reviews of the various bid packages to properly coordinate their respective interfaces and ensure that nothing is either left out or bought twice.

· Identifying field construction and work sequence consideration when finalizing bid package purchases

· Monitoring actual versus required performance by all parties.

· Determining whether subcontractors are providing sufficient workforce and hours of work to achieve performance commitment.

· Monitoring the performance of the company’s purchasing and Project Site Engineering function to ensure that all subcontracts, material purchases, submittals, deliveries, clarifications, and changes are processed in time to guarantee jobsite arrival by or before, the time needed.

· Directing any company field staff.

· Being thoroughly familiar with the requirements of the general contract, thereby identifying changes, conflicts, etc., that are beyond the scope of responsibility.

· Preparing daily report, job diaries, narrative, and all other regular and special documentation as determined by the company and by the project needs.

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