Crew Supervisor

Description

About Focus on Renewal:

The Focus On Renewal Sto-Rox Neighborhood Corporation (FOR) was founded in 1969. FOR founders led a group of mobilized citizens and community activists to create an umbrella organization for much needed social services now ranging from food security, nutrition, early-childhood education, support groups, crime prevention and mental health services. Also included are arts programs for all ages and access to the Sto-Rox Public Library.

Position

Description:

The Work Crew Supervisor is responsible for overseeing and supporting transitional workers according to the standards established by the Allegheny County Community Violence Reduction Initiative transitional employment and service delivery program. This program is adapted from the READI Chicago model and developed in partnership with Heartland Alliance.

The Work Crew Supervisor is responsible for supervising and supporting transitional workers, managing day-to-day crew site logistics and operations, and adhering to the program model philosophies and approaches, manuals, and protocols. This position will be energetic, flexible, collaborative, and proactive—team leaders who positively and productively support transitional workers through a trauma-informed, restorative justice lens.

The Work Crew Supervisor directly reports to the Site Staff Supervisor and supervises the Transitional Workers.

• Work closely with the model developer network to provide seamless support to workers and staff.
• In conjunction with program staff, develop and maintain referral relationships for a range of support services; connect participants to appropriate services as needed.
• Attend regular staff meetings, partner meetings, one on one supervision meetings, and community meetings.
• Participate in all mandatory trainings and professional development as required to ensure effective work to learn the principles of trauma-informed care, cognitive-behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, confliict de-escalation, harm reduction, and other relevant concepts, and apply that knowledge on a daily basis.
• Regulate safety of work crew and equipment, tools, and vehicles:
• Drive Transitional Workers to and from sites.
• Oversee the management of work crew vehicles and equipment, including performing inventory, maintenance, and proper storage, keeping maintenance and mileage records, and reporting loss or damage.
• Ensure work vehicles are fully equipped with the necessary safety equipment such as cones, door signage, safety goggles, gloves, safety kits, etc.
• Ensure worker safety by following safety protocols, monitoring worksites for hazardous conditions and monitoring workers for appropriate use of tools and materials.
• Oversee the management for worksite safety including ensuring safe use of tools and equipment, mitigating worksite risks to Transitional Workers, and enforcing safety related worksite policies
• Manage Work Crew and site logistics and operations:
• Ensure hotspot mapping and site selection is completed per protocol.
• Create and execute daily schedule for work crew locations and tasks
• Assign transitional workers to work crews daily in order to ensure worksite coverage and participant safety.
• Monitor transitional worker hours in order to avoid overages.
• Complete and submit timely and accurate incident reports.
• Review paperwork, daily feedback entries, and other reporting, and ensure reports are submitted on time to Site Supervisor.
• Approve TJ employee timesheets, ensuring accuracy, timely sign off, and submission to Payroll.
• Represent the program to external stakeholders; act as primary liaison with worksite personnel and intervene when necessary as situations arise at worksites; provide excellent customer service to…