Project Superintendent
Description
Key Responsibilities (Essential Duties and Functions)
Field Operations Management
- Lead daily field operations on heavy civil construction projects.
- Coordinate and supervise Foremen, operators, laborers, truck drivers, and subcontractors.
- Plan and schedule labor, equipment, and material resources to maximize productivity.
- Monitor project progress and adjust work plans to meet production goals.
- Ensure all work is performed according to plans, specifications, and contract requirements.
- Conduct regular site inspections to verify quality, safety, and schedule compliance.
Project Execution
- Collaborate with Project Managers and Estimators to support project planning and execution.
- Participate in project startup meetings and development of work plans.
- Track production, quantities, equipment utilization, and workforce performance.
- Assist with project scheduling and milestone tracking.
- Identify and resolve field issues that impact productivity, cost, quality, or schedule.
- Support change order documentation and project reporting efforts.
Safety Leadership
- Promote and maintain a strong safety culture across all job sites.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, OSHA regulations, and applicable safety requirements.
- Conduct safety meetings, audits, and job hazard analyses.
- Investigate incidents and implement corrective actions as needed.
- Lead by example in demonstrating safe work practices.
Customer & Stakeholder Relations
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with owners, engineers, inspectors, agencies, and customers.
- Participate in progress meetings and communicate project updates.
- Address field concerns promptly and professionally.
- Represent Idaho Materials & Construction with professionalism and integrity.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
Education
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related field preferred.
- Equivalent combinations of education and heavy civil construction experience will be considered.
Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of heavy civil construction experience required.
- Minimum of 3 years in a supervisory or superintendent role preferred.
- Experience with earthwork, grading, utilities, excavation, asphalt paving, site development, roadway construction, or infrastructure projects required.
- Proven experience managing crews, subcontractors, schedules, and budgets.
- Will be subject to drug testing, medical exams and physical agility testing.
Knowledge/Skill Requirements
- Ability to influence people to work enthusiastically towards goals and performance targets by effectively providing necessary coaching, mentoring, and feedback.
- Ability to lead and manage change through continuous performance improvement in employee development, quality, safety, and production.
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one on one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiple and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ration, percent, land to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- To perform this job successfully, an individual should be able to type and use keyboards accurately and have knowledge of Database software.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- A Standard Driver’s License is required. A Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) is preferred.
- Traffic control certificate is preferred.
Key Competencies
- Customer Service - Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; Responds promptly to customer needs.
- Teamwork - Contributes to building a positive team spirit.
- Judgment - Exhibits sound and accurate judgment.
- Planning/Organizing - Uses time efficiently.
- Professionalism - Approaches others in a tactful manner; Reacts well under pressure; Accepts responsibility for own actions.
- Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures; Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly.
- Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time.
- Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals.
- Initiative - Asks for and offers help when needed.
- Innovation - Generates suggestions for improving work.
- Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee is frequently required to sit, climb, and use hands to signal and handle equipment. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, crawl, kneel, bend, and reach with hands and arms above their shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move anywhere up to 50-75 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; outside weather conditions; and cold and/or heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
The statements included in this job description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements and criteria necessary to successfully perform the job. Other duties may be assigned as required. Requirements for this job are subject to modification by the Company and its designees, and reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.