Personnel Dispatcher II

General Summary

Play a critical role in building Granite's workforce by leading the onboarding process for craft employees and ensuring a seamless experience from hire to project assignment. This position partners closely with unions, project teams, and employees while coordinating the personnel, equipment, materials, trucking, and rental resources needed to keep construction projects running efficiently.

• Coordinate project resource needs under the direction of the Construction Manager, Superintendents, Safety, and Equipment departments to ensure project schedule goals are met.
• Communicate detailed information such as time and specific locations to dispatch resources to jobs in the field to ensure appropriate resources are allocated.
• Work with the HR, Payroll and craft unions to maintain regulations that the union has established to ensure compliance.
• Arrange and work with the Equipment Department and other area dispatchers to ensure the best opportunity for Granite equipment utilization; schedule equipment repairs as needed.
• Assist management in planning job schedules to anticipate project needs to ensure timely delivery of resources to the job.
• Utilize computerized dispatch and distribute on a daily basis to communicate resource and scheduling with team.
• Communicate dispatch to superintendents so that they can monitor daily work (QC, Shop, PM, Payroll).
• Negotiate with various vendors to ensure Granite receives the best possible pricing for rentals or other materials needed that are not already set in Job setups; utilize the FIS system in order to streamline the processes, including setting up rental equipment and export to Field systems.
• Understand and know contract requirements when it comes to ordering job resources (DBE, listed companies or special Tier compliant equipment).
• Code dispatch office invoices to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Update the underground service alert (USA) to ensure it is current, depending on location.
• Track rentals and equipment moves to ensure efficiency.

Granite Construction Incorporated is a member of the S&P 400 Index and is the parent company of Granite Construction Company, one of the nation's largest heavy civil contractors and construction materials producers. Granite is a Drug-Free Workplace and Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

We consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.

• High School Diploma – some college preferred.

• 2+ years of construction resource and employee coordination experience and/or Human resource experience

• Exceptional organizational and communication skills.
• Administrative duties.
• Organization.
• Attention to detail.
• Communication.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
• Attention to detail required.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work in various computer software programs (excel, word, project, Heavy Job, The Dispatcher).
• Knowledge of Construction Jobs, equipment and needs.

• Ability to abide by Granite’s Code of Conduct on a daily basis.
• A team player.

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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to operate a computer keyboard. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Subject to outside working conditions. At times will be working around large construction equipment, must be safety conscience.