General Superintendent- Bridge Operations

Title: General Superintendent - Bridge Operations

Location: Lafayette

Reports To: VP, Bridge Operations

Duties/Responsibilities:

Provides overall administrative and technical direction for construction operations in a variety of disciplines, maintaining the highest levels of safety and meeting or exceeding company and customer quality standards.

Essential Functions:

• Oversees multiple construction projects to meet design, budget, and scheduling specifications
  • Plans and directs personnel on assigned projects, directly or indirectly
  • Collaborates with the equipment manager and others for effective equipment utilization
  • Interfaces with client representatives, customers, suppliers, vendors, sub-contractors, and union officials
  • Authorizes and approves project personnel transactions, purchase requisitions, field design change requests
  • Facilitates collaboration between Estimating, Project Accounting, scheduling, and other internal departments to keep project on track to meet completion dates and budget
  • Provides strategic and technical direction as needed
• Manages financials
  • Assists with development of bids
  • Develops, monitors, and reports on operating costs within functional areas.
  • Makes recommendations and implements solutions to problems related to same
• Develops employees
  • Coaches and mentors field staff
  • Supports direct reports developmental activities
  • Ensures direct reports meet personal and professional developmental goals
  • Motivates employees and work groups to achieve productivity, performance, safety, and quality goals
• Communicates effectively
  • Represents company as project/company spokesperson
  • Shares information about project status with senior management; makes presentations to small and large groups
  • Facilitates collaboration among work groups
  • Resolves conflicts and labor relations issues; understands contract agreements regarding scheduling and assigning work
• Promotes and maintains safe work environment.
  • Exhibits safe work behaviors; evaluates work area for hazards; eliminates or controls hazards
  • Wears all prescribed PPE
  • Ensures employees are following safety policies and exhibiting safe behaviors

Qualifications/Competencies:

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Mgmt, Construction Engineering Mgmt, Civil Engineering, Business Administration, or other related field; OR equivalent work experience; OR a combination of a lesser degree and equivalent work experience
• 5 or more years' experience in bridge construction management position in heavy highway industry

Work Environment The work environment described here is representative of those that experienced by an employee performing the essential functions of this job.

• Regular exposure to job sites; outdoor conditions that include inclement weather, precipitation, heat, humidity, dust, asphalt and/or concrete, dirt, noise, including horns, mechanical equipment, heavy equipment, jackhammers, moving mechanical parts, vibration, fumes and airborne particles
• Indoor work environment includes normal office environment, private or semi-private, including computer equipment, phones, mobile phones and tablets

Physical Demands 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.

• Sitting at a desk, using a computer keyboard, and looking at a screen for hours at a time; reading paperwork or job specs
• Uses good manual dexterity (hand, hand with arm, two hands) and multi-limb coordination, with the ability to quickly move arms and legs to visit job sites
• Possess excellent stamina to work between 8-12 hours per day

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work This is a full-time position, normally 40 hours per week. Days and hours of work can vary, but shifts are normally 8 or more hours. Overtime, weekend and shift work are frequently required.

Travel Travel is primarily local during business day; some out-of-area and overnight travel may be required.

Qualifications/Competencies:

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Mgmt, Construction Engineering Mgmt, Civil Engineering, Business Administration, or other related field; OR equivalent work experience; OR a combination of a lesser degree and equivalent work experience
• 5 or more years' experience in bridge construction management position in heavy highway industry

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Must pass a pre-employment drug screen
• Must adhere to drug free workplace and union substance abuse testing requirements
• If required to drive a company vehicle, must have or be able to obtain valid, state driver's license and meet company driver requirements

Work Authorization/Security Clearance (if applicable) Must be authorized to work in the United States, as verified through E-Verify. Some job sites may require additional criminal background testing.

Other Duties This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

EOE, including disability/veterans

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