Refractory General Superintendent

Impact of the Role

A general superintendent leads all construction project phases to include directing and leading team members and subcontractors, tracking and recording changes, ensuring project requirements and schedules are met, and maintaining work quality. This role enforces policies, while managing daily operations. All work is performed efficiently, safely, and according to specifications, regulations, and guidelines at the sites. This hands-on nonexempt role requires travel.

What the Role Does

1. Direct and manage large and/or multiple crews of team members and subcontractors, ensuring work quality meets company and customer standards, specifications, and manufacturer recommendations


2. Enforce safety culture in compliance with federal, state, customer, and company regulations and policies.


3. Orientate, select, and discipline team members as needed. Act as the company liaison for site team members.


4. Identify and address risks; act as a first responder for near misses, incidents, and injuries; and proactively implement preventive safety actions.


5. Promote professionalism, lead by example; mentor, coach, train, and develop team members. Build a team.


6. Adhere to project schedule/plan; manage and assign work of tradespeople, professionals, and laborers, while communicating with the project manager, director, contractors, and other relevant stakeholders.


7. Regularly inspect and monitor work for quality, safety, and timeliness; prepare and provide various reports.


8. Effectively manage all resources, and communicate variances in a timely manner.


9. Manage timecards and absences.


10. Relocation to customer location during the duration of a large project is required.

What You Bring

Knowledge, Education

• High school diploma or equivalent


• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in construction management, architecture, or civil engineering


• MSHA Part 48 and OSHA-30 certification preferred


• Valid driver’s license, current DOT medical card (DOT physical to obtain card provided as needed), must maintain satisfactory driving record


• Demonstrated knowledge of blueprint reading, layout, anchoring, forming, castables, welding, structural steel, and scaffolding


• Preferred: proven working knowledge of refractory pumping and shotcrete, castables, brick, and scaffold erection

Experience

• 5 or more years of practical construction experience in refractory


• Experience managing and supervising others, on a field construction site


• Experience in efficiently managing large, long-term projects


• Combined education and experience will be considered

Skills, Abilities

• Must demonstrate RSI’s Core and Leadership Competencies


• Customer focus, to include understanding and meeting customer expectations


• Motivational, with the ability to share the company’s vision, recognize strong performers, and promote and implement policies and procedures


• Analytical thinker who logically breaks down problems to create solutions


• Strong time management and influencing skills


• Flexible, open to change, able to multitask, able to pivot based on customer and company needs and deadlines


• Leadership skills, ability to monitor and measure work of large and multiple crews


• Able to deliver results despite ambiguity


• Effective communication skills, including verbal, written, presentation, and listening


• Ability to read, understand, and execute blueprints, drawings, directions, and plans


• Thorough understanding of quality refractory practices

Physical

• Strength and stamina, including regularly using hands to handle, or feel; regularly walk, stand, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl


• Must have close, distance, color, and peripheral vision; depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus


• Must lift 70 lbs. from floor to waist, 90 lbs. from waist to chest, and 25 lbs. chest to above head. Must carry 50 lbs. for 50 ft., push a 100 lb. wheeled cart for 100 ft., and drag 50 lbs. for 100 ft.

Work Environment/Schedule

• Site location is based on the assignment (within the U.S.); travel, lodging, and fuel expenses are paid according to company policy


• Standard construction and field environment includes exposure to odors, fumes, varying weather conditions, airborne particles, and machinery noise (moderate to loud)


• Overtime may be required, depending on project deadline and travel needs