Plumbing Superintendent

Are you looking for a career with an established company, great pay & benefits, work/life balance, and a company that values their employees? That is just the beginning of what we offer here at Comfort Systems USA Southwest! The purpose of the Plumbing Superintendent position is to manage the manpower to run the day-to-day field-coordinated operations on all construction projects. The Plumbing Superintendent is responsible for safety guidelines, hiring and maintaining the best personnel, proper manpower mix, manpower performance, productivity, promoting teamwork, and producing a satisfied customer.

The Plumbing Superintendent will collaborate with the Project Managers to develop a work plan and manpower loading plan to meet or beat the budgets on all construction projects. Implement management techniques that are cost-effective and efficient.

• Must have a sound knowledge of the industry.
• Must have sound knowledge of OSHA requirements as they apply to construction.
• Good organizational skills and time management skills.
• Good decision-making skills.
• Ability to communicate with a diverse range of people when in the field.
• Ability to understand the industry's field requirements.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.

Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Promote our safety culture.
• Locate, hire, train, and maintain the RIGHT team members to be successful.
• Maintain a proper ratio of apprentices in our workforce.
• Superintendents to work with Training Manager for specific training needs for field crew workers.
• Encourage a team approach to promote effective constructability and productivity.
• Ensure daily documentation is completed daily by the field foreman.
• Review project documents, information, and requirements.
• Assign a foreman suitable for each project and keep the foreman on the job site for the duration of the project.
• Encourage and enforce BIM coordination participation by project foreman and general foreman.
• Hold team members accountable for our 5-star results and culture of accountability!
• Encourage proper use and procedures of company assets.
• Encourage the use of prefabrication to increase productivity and control cost. No pre-fab will be produced without Foreman’s sign-off.
• Develop a checklist for weekly accounting of required foreman documentation. Hold team members accountable for all required paperwork (daily reports, 3-week look aheads, Safety, etc.).
• Visit job sites regularly and walk projects to identify quality concerns and future punch list items.
• Work with team members to pre-plan materials and manpower activities to correspond with a three-week look ahead. Goal – 1 requisition per week.
• Meet with GC’s every time you are onsite and communicate where we are on their projects.
• Attend and participate in all manpower meetings.
• Fill out weekly manpower tracker and send to Vice President at least one day prior to manpower meeting.
• Attend and participate in all Operations meetings.
• Implement mandatory monthly Foreman meetings to discuss best practices, recent challenges, and changes being implemented, encourage and reinforce expectations, and recognize and reward high performers. Include other depts. (Vendor training if possible)
• Participate in all quarterly foreman meetings.
• Performance reviews of all foreman.
• Maintain the proper documentation on employees.
• Maintain CDR and Procore.

• Project schedule
• Quality
• Project hours to complete – including overtime & temp labor.
• Pre-planning – Verify foreman are staying ahead of the team per the 3 week look ahead.
• Verify that rentals are being used to the full extent and/or called off if not being used.
• Attend weekly onsite staff meetings with project team as available.

• Require foremen to perform punch-lists and/or remediation of deficiency lists immediately upon receipt. Upon completion, documentation will be provided with a letter to the general contractor.
• Walk all projects with general foreman and foreman to create an accurate 3-week look ahead.
• Work with the foreman to use their 3-week look ahead to minimize emergency purchase requests and emergency pre-fab requests.
• Require foremen to…