Paving Foreman

Hinkle Contracting, LLC, a CRH company, is a leading construction company with locations throughout Kentucky. CRH is the world’s largest building materials business, offering a decentralized, diversified structure with opportunities in a large enterprise while maintaining a small-company feel.

This is a skilled position requiring an employee to supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in spreading, rolling, compacting, and patching asphalt or similar material to form surfaces of highways, streets, parking lots, aircraft landing strips, driveways, etc. This position will report directly to the Project Manager.

• Ensuring the safety of crew members and the public who may interact with job
• Training new crew members
• Calculating the number of trucks required to haul asphalt from the hot plant according to vehicle capacity, traffic conditions, distance from work site, and productivity of drivers
• Touring job sites to ascertain progress in meeting time schedules, detect insufficient utilization of workers and equipment, measure slope and material thickness to verify contract compliance, and supervise the job
• Supervising and coordinating crew activities, studying production schedules, and estimating work requirements for completion of the job in compliance with or beating the job estimate
• Maintaining time and materials records necessary to complete daily job costing
• Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, and crew performance
• Directly supervise asphalt paving employees
• Ensure a safe work environment in compliance with all safety policies and procedures using the appropriate tools and equipment for the task
• Follow all company policies and OSHA / MSHA regulations for safe working procedures and environment
• Ability to operate equipment safely and efficiently
• Ability to keep time and material records
• Ability to follow verbal and written instruction
• Ability to communicate effectively on the telephone
• Excellent interpersonal and supervisory skills and attributes
• Perform other general duties as specified

• Minimum high school diploma or GED and at least 3 years of related asphalt and paving experience or an equivalent combination of education and training
• Pass pre-employment drug screen and criminal background check
• Pass a pre-employment “Fit for Work” physical
• Provide valid documentation for the I-9 Immigration document
• Professional and courteous attitude toward co-workers, supervisors and the general public
• Report to work at the designated start time
• Be willing to work nights and weekends when necessary
• Be able to work overtime when required
• Maintain a current driver’s license that meets state requirements
• Have a Motor Vehicle Record that meets company standards
• Willingness to work outdoors in extreme temperatures
• Adhere to safety requirements and procedures in the Employee Handbook
• Willingness to work in a team environment and assist co-workers or supervisors with other duties as required
• Wear PPE in designated operations and production areas as stated by OSHA and / or MSHA
• Be at least 18 years old
• Previous related experience in construction is preferred

The physical demands, work environment factors and mental functions described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance and occasionally to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Specific vision abilities required include distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. The employee must regularly lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.

While performing duties, the employee works near moving mechanical parts and in outside weather conditions, and is regularly exposed to…