Installation Supervisor

Functional Responsibilities

• Attend team meetings to outline, define, and plan installation approaches.
• Drawing on input from designers and lead fabricators, develop installation schedules that define TE and GC resources (people and equipment), steps, and milestones.
• Create estimates for installation. Collaborate with Lead Fabricators and Project Managers to define installation methods and time requirements. Develop information for and collect bids from delivery and install subcontractors.
• Prepare Site Safety Plans for each site mobilization.
• Attend client meetings as needed, often with project manager or lead fabricator.
• Carry out site surveys and pre-installation planning meetings with clients.
• Research local resources (equipment and material suppliers, sub-contractors).
• Manage all installation-related purchasing, including team travel, lodging, per diem, site consumables, and equipment rental.
• Schedule and lead installation planning meetings.
• Plan and manage packing, shipping, and delivery. Create shipping manifests.
• In the shop, contribute to project setups and testing in order to fully test exhibits and kinetic architecture systems.
• Document shop mockups by red-lining plans, taking photos and video, and saving these to appropriate network files.
• While on site, represent TE to clients and contractors.
• Communicate Site Safety Plan to all install participants.
• Work as an installation supervisor and/or installer. Direct the work of other TE installers, or the work of labor supplied by the client.
• Monitor, control, and communicate changes to schedule, scope, and budget, should any occur. Communicate updates to the project manager, account partner, and as needed, the client.
• Track actual hours and activities of TE team and GC team. Document departures from plan or schedule for customer communication and for feedback regarding accuracy of estimate.
• Manage installation subcontractor purchases, information, schedule, and expectations.
• Monitor and control schedule, scope and labor/material/subcontract costs.
• Monitor and control quality.
• Contribute to project closeout process. Participate in a project closeout meeting: collect information about what went right and wrong, define ideas for change and improvement.
• Identify ways to improve team performance and customer satisfaction.

• Appropriate industry knowledge relevant to industry served (architecture, general contracting, exhibits).
• Planning skills. Able to anticipate project needs, resource needs, and problems.
• Strong organizational and communication skills. Able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks, and to delegate tasks and responsibilities clearly and effectively, and prepare documents for internal and external recipients.
• Strong leadership skills. Able to communicate with and lead diverse teams on site composed of both familiar and unfamiliar people, subcontractors, and situations.
• Strong decision-making skills. Able to assess conditions and situations on site and make clear and timely decisions. Able to act.
• Calm, controlled demeanor. Able to de-escalate issues/solve problems under pressure.

• Willingness to travel for site surveys and installs
• Valid WA state driver’s license and automobile liability insurance
• Valid enhanced driver’s license or valid passport
• Ability to work in Canada (no felony arrest history)
• Ability to safely lift 50 pounds
• Willingness to attend OSHA certification training
• Willingness to participate in customer-required drug testing
• Willingness to be certified in First Aid Training
• Willingness to be certified in heavy equipment operation

• Travel and on-site purchasing within constraints of established budget.
• Control of site safety.
• Day-to-day scheduling authority with crew on site.

• Site safety record.
• Customer satisfaction regarding quality of process: planning, communication, behavior on site, and follow-through.
• Customer satisfaction regarding quality of finished product.
• Estimate accuracy for estimating installation costs and activities.
• Positive team feedback regarding quality of leadership: ability to collaborate, decision-making and ability to anticipate and remove installation roadblocks.
• Positive team feedback regarding appropriate and timely level of details in installation estimates, schedules, site requirements documents, site safety plans, and other installation-related planning documentation.

• This position is an hourly position that includes overtime pay.
• This position reports to the President, who manages the work of TE’s Project Managers and Site Supervisors.
• Within project teams, the planning, vendor communication, and customer communication work produced by this position will be reviewed by the project manager.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Engineering and Information Technology / Architecture and Planning