OverviewThe RoleThe Senior MEP Superintendent is responsible for overseeing and managing all day-to-day MEP job site activities, including project team performance, site conditions, safety and quality standards, compliance with scope, and effective management of trade partners.
Responsibilities- Oversee, manage, and document all day-to-day MEP job site activities including OSHA safety compliance
- Direct field personnel according to the project plan and Suffolk supervisory principles
- Communicate issues, events, performance, and progress daily to the Project Manager
- Report any problems promptly to the Project Manager to facilitate the most cost-effective solutions
- Establish effective working relationships with clients and Suffolk team members
- Request advice and assistance from the General Superintendent on matters pertaining to materials, sequencing, scheduling and personnel
- Project Start-Up/Turnover Meeting:
- Identify pre-mobilization activities in conjunction with the Project Executive, General Superintendent, and the Project Manager
- Develop start-up schedule with Project Manager and send it to the Project Executive and General Superintendent for review
- Scheduling:
- Assist in formulating and implementing construction schedules in the field
- Establish and implement the Project Baseline Schedule based on the project contracts and subcontractor input, taking into account any elements that might impact the schedule
- Maintain the schedule and ensure that work performed is consistent with the contract and will meet or exceed client expectations
- Update Project Schedule monthly
- Provide progress report with the two-week look ahead of schedule to the Project Manager and the field staff
- Safety:
- Ensure that all subcontractors participate in a safety pre-construction meeting prior to starting work on the project
- Ensure that all subcontractors have a full set of MSD sheets on the project, as well as their site specific safety plan and current insurance certificate or OCIP/CCIP enrollment ID
- Review the project daily to ensure that all activities are being performed in accordance with all OSHA and governing requirements and the project site specific safety plan
- Review safety reports and injury data to assess safety performance on assigned projects
- Ensure project(s) are budgeted & staffed appropriately to support safety programs
- Communicate clear expectations for safety to project teams
- Perform safety inspections using predictive solutions software IAW SCCI safety program
- Adhere to all Suffolk Safety program requirements
- Quality Management:
- Ensure that all pertinent benchmarks for the project are established and inserted into the baseline schedule
- Ensure that all appropriate individuals become members of the Q-Team
- Ensure that all 1st delivery inspections and Benchmark inspections occur per the baseline schedule so as not to impact the progression of the subsequent work
- Ensure that the inspections are approved, documented, and communicated to the project team
- Subcontractor and Site Management throughout the Project:
- Manage site pre-construction including pre-construction survey, job site utilization and staging plans
- Mobilize the field office and maintains the job site to Suffolk standards
- Organize documentation of the job site for easy access and review
- Manage subcontractor performance to quality and ethical standards
- Work with PM to identify and resolve personnel issues and construction process revisions
- Manage all phases of the construction process including documenting and reporting site activities and progress, manage excavations and assist with Job Site Utilization Plan
- Meeting Management:
- Attend project turnover, mobilization, and project coordination meetings
- Attend/chair safety pre-construction meetings
- Attend/chair weekly foreman and safety meetings
- Attend/chair monthly schedule review meetings
- Attend closeout meetings
- Attend owner meetings
- Attend/chair subcontractor meetings and any others necessary to monitor and manage the project
- Administrative Management:
- Complete and implement construction office checklists including emergency phone lists
- Complete daily reports and maintains logs of key activities, files, and shop drawings
- Manage the quality and condition of all material deliveries
- Maintain required safety reporting and all other required files to Suffolk standards
- Insure that as-built working drawings are maintained as well as the current drawing log and revision log, communicating this to the subcontractors
- Project Closeout:
- Manage subcontractor closeout, transfer of utilities, owner training, work list and punch list
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in applicable discipline and experience relative to project size/scope
- 8+ years of experience in related construction fields
- The ability to manage and embrace change. Respond and adapt to new processes and new ways of looking at old problems
- Applicable area licenses
- Excellent team development skills and leadership abilities
- Strong ability to partner with the Project Manager and their staff
- Committed to excellence
- Self-motivated and self-confident
- Must possess effective communication skills
- Capable of dealing with ambiguity and tight work oversight
- Able to constantly multi-task and handle competing priorities between Suffolk business needs and organizational issues while maintaining excellent customer relations
- Must possess business judgment to negotiate the critical balance between budget and construction processes
- Excellent organizational skills to manage the many details necessary for successful construction
- Must have judgment to know when to appropriately escalate issues up the chain of command
- Excellent management skills to effectively manage subcontractor performance to high quality
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to take action confidently and decisively
- Candidate must possess Suffolk's Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring
Working ConditionsWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand and finger skills in the use of a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stands; walk; and reach with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will spend their time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level. Job site walking.
