Superintendent

Summary

As a member of the Multi-Family Division in Dallas, the Superintendent manages all project planning and proactively monitors and verifies project execution, including safety, schedule, cost, and quality. The Superintendent is also responsible for identifying and resolving conflict and assuring efficient internal and external communication.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Superintendents are responsible for overseeing the construction job/site from the first day we are on-site to the last day we are on-site (Start to Finish)
• Management: Proactively managing the job site by maintaining a detailed record of all labor, materials, and equipment and managing the deliveries and schedules to avoid delays.
• Communication and Customer Service Consistent and clear communication with crew leaders, other subcontractors, vendors, and customers. Professionally represent Kent Companies internally and externally through all forms of communication.
• Safety - As the job site leader, the Superintendent is responsible for identifying unsafe working environments and works internally and externally to resolve them.
• Planning Study drawings before starting a project, and as they are updated, identify errors on drawings and initiate the RFI (Request for Information) process to keep all projects running smoothly.
• Budget - Demonstrate knowledge of a job sequence and how to push a job forward safely and productively while focusing on staying under budget.
• Quality Control - Understand the quality expectation and ensure the quality of the final product meets or exceeds client satisfaction.
• Schedule - Work with the General Superintendent and the Project Manager to build and maintain a schedule, including updates, changes, and look-a-heads. This includes timely communication internally and externally on all problems and changes.
• Monitor productivity, efficiency, and profitability for all current projects, including the correct allocation of resources.
• Works with the Project Manager to develop a construction plan, including schedule, equipment, and buyout.
• Works with the Project Manager to maintain as-built drawings, incorporating all RFI's, supplemental drawings, and miscellaneous updates.
• Works with the Project Manager to ensure all required materials, equipment, and inspections support the project schedule.
• Oversees total job site construction effort to ensure the project is constructed following design, budget, and schedule.
• Locate materials, formwork, equipment, and tools onsite and offsite and direct others to utilize such items to meet established production and quality goals.
• Properly lay out all work to be performed based on drawings and given survey points.
• Responsible for all project safety, including fall protection, barricades, and other safety systems.
• Perform detailed, concise, and professional daily reports using the Construction & Maintenance Logbook (Green Books).
• Submit a 2-week schedule look ahead to General Superintendent every week.
• Main liaison with clients' on-site field supervision.
• Supervises various subcontractors, foremen, and craftsmen to ensure projects are properly executed.
• Leadership: As the leader of the job and site, a Superintendent sets the tone by being on time daily. Great leaders typically lead from both the front and the rear, meaning they are the first ones in and the last ones to leave. Attitude reflects leadership.
• Acts as a resource by mentoring, training, and developing personnel in all aspects of their careers.
• Train and manage others to properly maintain all equipment, form boards, and tools so that they are in a safe and reliable working condition.
• Responsible for managing field crews in leadership and utilizing the time clock tool (Exak Time)

Other Duties

Please note 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 and responsibilities are not comprehensive and can be changed at any time, with or without notice.

Required Experience, Qualifications, and Education

• Bachelors degree in construction management, engineering, or business management, or ten years of experience in the construction industry and five years in a leadership capacity.
• Working knowledge of various construction disciplines and safety regulations, and how to apply them.
• Understanding of cost management processes, planning, and scheduling.
• Practical written and verbal communication skills.
• Valid drivers license
• Must have reliable transportation to the workplace(s)/ job location(s).
• Ability to successfully pass a background check related to driving.
• Ability to pass drug screening.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and in the future.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Knowledge of construction budgeting best practices
• Good planning skills, including design execution, resource allocation, and contingencies
• Understanding of construction equipment, including safe operating practices and signs of maintenance issues
• In-depth understanding of local, state, and federal construction regulations
• Great problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Effective leadership abilities, like motivation, goal setting, and conflict management
• Organizational skills, including time management, delegation, prioritization, and multitasking.
• Possesses good leadership skills.
• Expert at handling a diverse project workflow.
• Can read and understand drawings and shop drawings.
• Accountable for their project, make-it-happen attitude, out-of-the-box thinker.
• Diverse in creating schedules and maintaining job progress.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Benefits

Kent Companies provides its employees with one of the most competitive compensation and benefits packages in the construction industry. Benefits vary by location, with a fully customized benefits package presented upon hire. Typical benefits packages include:

• Weekly pay
• PTO (Paid Time Off)
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Supplemental insurance options
• Retirement plans with discretionary employer-matching
• Holiday pay (New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day)
• Scholarship opportunities for dependents
• Leadership development opportunities

Work Environment/Physical Demand

• This position works outside at job locations, traveling to the field to work and supervise projects daily.
• This position will demand long periods of walking, standing and working in all sorts of weather ( hot, cold and rainy days). The ability to kneel, crouch, bend, and stoop regularly is essential for this role. Must be able to lift and move up to 40 LBS as needed.

Position type and expected hours of work

• This is a full-time office position with considerable time spent in the field on job sites.
• Typical hours will range from 45-50 hours per week and are subject to change. This role requires working non-typical days and irregular hours based on construction schedules. Due to the critical nature of the role, accepting phone calls even during non-typical workdays and hours is also necessary.
• Typical travel and visiting jobs in and around Dallas, TX should be expected. Limited occasional travel outside of the state may occur.

Office Location

830 East Valley Ridge Blvd. Lewisville, TX 75057

Perks associated with this role

Our goal is to offer an unparalleled career progression that is not precisely pre-determined, rather it builds on the teammates strengths, interests, and pursuits as the individual gains experience, grows, and develops in their career. You would be hard-pressed to find another ENR Top 6 Commercial Concrete Company that parallels Kent Companies.

About Kent Companies

Kent Companies is a full-service specialty trade contractor with operations across Michigan, Texas, Ohio, and the Carolinas. As a third-generation, family-owned business, we believe our people are our greatest assets. We employ over 2,000 trade professionals nationwide and deliver every project with our Four Hallmarks: Safety, Productivity, Quality, and Customer Service. Kent Companies is known as The Leaders in Concrete and continuously ranks in the Top 10 Concrete Contractors nationwide by ENR Magazine.

Kent Companies family of brands includes Kent Concrete, Kent Underlayments, Kent Facilities, Kent Foundation Solutions, and Foundation Rescue Supply.

Kent Concrete

We deliver comprehensive, turnkey concrete construction services for customers nationwide. Our services include structural concrete, tilt-up concrete, concrete paving, curb and gutter, and concrete pumping. From the most complex cast-in-place structures to mission-critical facilities, our customers turn to us because they know well deliver the horsepower and expertise to get the job done.

About our Dallas-based multifamily and Structural Concrete division

Kent Concrete operates a Dallas-based multifamily and structural division. This team provides comprehensive concrete construction services for garden-style residential construction and high-density multifamily and mixed-use properties. We offer specialized experience in complex wrap-around structures and parking garages. Our portfolio includes the most complex multifamily construction projects in the region. With this team, youll have a hand in the projects that change Dallas and all of North Texas. Learn more about Kent Concrete by visiting concrete.kentcompanies.com.

EEO Statement

At Kent Companies we value a diverse, inclusive workforce and we provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Kent Companies does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices and personnel actions, including but not limited to hiring, recruiting, promotions, performance evaluations, termination, and compensation decisions.

The Company will strive to ensure that all employees and prospective employees will be treated equally in regard to recruitment, employment, promotions, demotions, discipline, termination, access to benefits and training, leaves of absence and layoffs. The Company will further ensure that its management staff is aware of the Companys commitment to this policy and each member understands their individual role in the process of administering this plan.

Kent Companies will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.