Bilingual Foreman; Structures

Structures Foreman – Heavy Highway Projects

Location:

Tidewater area of Virginia (Chesapeake, Norfolk, Newport News, and Wallops Island).

Language requirement:
Bilingual Spanish/English.

Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in the construction, installation, and repair of roads, bridge structures, and fixtures.

• Reviews documents and plans, ensuring all questions answered before proceeding.
• Examines blueprints, plans, and profiles to determine dimensions and grade or profile of road or pipeline.
• Works from surveyor’s layout and cutsheets; determines line and grade as needed.
• Directs and trains crew in performing work as shown on contract drawings and specifications within the production budget.
• Acts as OSHA defined “competent person” on job.
• Selects materials and structural units to ensure conformance with project provisions.
• Plans ahead to ensure appropriate materials are on hand when needed.
• Plans sequence of activities with Superintendent and Project Engineer in two‑week schedule planning.
• Assigns workers to tasks such as operating machinery, cutting material, building forms, erecting framework, or laying pipe.
• Inspects subcontractor work to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Supervises workers building structures such as cofferdams, excavation supports, and concrete forms.
• Studies production schedules and estimates worker‑hour requirements for completion of assignments.
• Maintains contact list and knows crew members by name.
• Conducts daily “Huddle” with crew, explains work to be accomplished, and trains inexperienced members.
• Interprets company policies and enforces disciplinary procedures when necessary.
• Evaluates ongoing safety issues, makes changes where necessary, and enforces safety regulations and PPE use.
• Adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules.
• Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and product quality.
• Suggests changes in working conditions and equipment use to increase crew efficiency.
• Analyzes and resolves work problems or assists workers in solving them.
• Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve goals.
• Maintains accurate time and production records, including detailed timesheets, verified quantities, and locations.
• Ensures timesheets are turned in on time.
• Keeps job team informed of progress and problems.
• Estimates, requisitions, and inspects materials.
• Sets up machines and equipment and supervises their use.
• Maintains detailed daily job diary.
• Holds meaningful weekly safety meetings, files attendance and report.
• Performs activities for supervised workers.
• Minimizes punch list and finishes activities.

• Overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the crew.
• May manage 1 Lead Person supervising 2–3 employees; directly supervises 3–5 non‑supervisory employees.
• Manages training, assignment, performance appraisal, rewarding, disciplining, and complaint resolution.

• Five years related experience and/or training.
• Experience with structures for bridge and roadway work.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules and operating instructions.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
• Mathematical skills: add, subtract, multiply, divide; compute rates, ratios, and percentages.
• Reasoning ability: apply common sense and solve problems involving multiple variables.

Regularly required to stand, walk, handle, reach, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds; perform work on uneven ground; work in hot, precarious, or confined spaces; exposure to fumes, airborne particles, vibration, and moderate to loud noise.

Exposed to outside weather conditions, uneven ground, high or precarious places, shafts, tunnels; occasional fumes or airborne particles; moderate to loud noise.

Competitive compensation, medical, life, disability insurance, paid time off, and 401(k) plan.

Expected base hourly range: $33 – $45+.

Kokosing is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action federal and state contractor. The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.