Excavating Superintendent

Are you ready to apply your leadership and managerial skills to oversee daily operations of diverse projects, from planning through completion? Horst Excavating is seeking a dedicated Superintendent to manage on-site earth moving activities, ensuring projects are completed within budget, on schedule, and to the highest quality standards outlined in contract documents.

Key Responsibilities:

• Safety Leadership: Act as or supervise Horst Excavating's competent safety person on site, maintaining activities in accordance with company safety policy and project-specific safety plans.
• Daily Coordination: Schedule and coordinate daily work activities, including subcontractor work and deliveries, ensuring conformance with the project schedule.
• Productivity Monitoring: Communicate estimated productivity rates for self-performed work to employees and monitor conformance to these rates.
• Team Development: Foster a positive working atmosphere, work schedule, and habits. Mentor foremen to develop their leadership and managerial skills, supporting their growth into positions of increased responsibility.

Project Skills Expectations:

• Profitability Assurance: Ensure project profitability by inquiring about mobilization and lead times for subcontractors and materials.
• Progress Calculation: Calculate job progress, risks, and time necessary to perform tasks. Assist the Project Manager in creating and updating the project schedule.
• Quality Monitoring: Monitor the quality of all work, whether self-performed or subcontracted. Document as-built conditions on a record set of as-built drawings as changes occur.
• Remediation: Address all non-conforming work, ensuring compliance with municipality requirements, specifications, safety standards, and company policies.
• Contract Review: Review contracts, subcontracts, and purchase orders. Communicate effectively with the Project Manager, Owner, Subcontractors, employees, inspectors, suppliers, architects, and engineers.
• Problem Solving: Interpret contract documents, project layouts, and solve problems as they arise.
• Reporting: Prepare Daily Log Reports, Job Site Managers Weekly Report, O.S. Reports, etc. Purchase materials via Field Purchase Orders. Coordinate project site set-up (fencing, signage, trailers, etc.).

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• At least 6 years of excavation experience.
• Minimum of 2 years management experience.
• Ability to read and understand blueprints and contract documents, and effectively communicate their contents.
• Required clearances for school projects, including Pennsylvania and Federal criminal history records, fingerprint submission, Act 34 background check, and Act 151 child abuse clearances.

Excellent Benefits:

• Affordable and customizable Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• Generous 401K match and profit-sharing plan.
• Employer-covered Short Term Disability.
• Employer-covered Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance Program.
• Employer-covered Identity Fraud Protection.
• Generous paid vacation policy.
• Paid holidays / Paid sick days.
• Tuition Assistance.
• Referral Bonus.

If you are interested in joining an established commercial excavating firm with a long-standing reputation for quality work and dependability, apply and submit your resume today.