Demolition & Site Work Foreman
Gipp Solutions LLC is a growing demolition and site-work contractor serving Hampton Roads and surrounding areas. We are seeking an experienced Demolition & Site Work Foreman who can independently lead residential demolition and site-work projects from pre-job review through completion.
This is a full field leadership position that requires ownership, sound judgment, critical decision-making, and the ability to run a jobsite with minimal day-to-day oversight.
The Foreman is expected to understand the scope of work before demolition begins, lead the crew safely and efficiently, maintain production, communicate field conditions, protect company assets, and ensure the project is completed to company standards.
A Site Superintendent or other company management may oversee, inspect, direct, or support the Foreman as needed, but the Foreman must be capable of managing normal daily jobsite operations without constant supervision.
The successful candidate must be dependable, organized, experienced in demolition/site work, capable of leading operators and helpers, and able to report to changing jobsites or assigned meeting areas on time and ready to lead the crew at 7:00 AM.
Typical Projects Include
Our projects may include:
- Residential house demolition
- Mobile and manufactured home demolition
- Garage and detached structure demolition
- Shed demolition
- Deck and porch removal
- Fire-damaged structure demolition
- Concrete slab removal
- Foundation and footing removal
- Driveway, sidewalk, and patio removal
- In-ground and above-ground pool removal
- Land clearing
- Site cleanup and preparation
- Backfilling
- Rough grading
- Final grading and site restoration
Pre-Demolition Site Review
The Foreman is expected to review and understand the assigned project before demolition begins.
Depending on the project, this may include:
- Reviewing the approved scope of work
- Walking the site before mobilization or demolition
- Understanding what is being removed and what must remain
- Identifying access limitations
- Identifying neighboring structures and property that must be protected
- Reviewing utility locations and known utility conditions
- Identifying overhead and underground hazards
- Reviewing equipment requirements
- Reviewing dumpster placement and disposal needs
- Understanding grading and restoration requirements
- Reviewing site-specific safety concerns
- Confirming crew needs and anticipated production sequence
- Identifying conditions that could affect cost, schedule, safety, or production
- Raising questions or concerns with the Site Superintendent or management before work begins
The Foreman should not begin work without a clear understanding of the scope and expected final condition of the project.
Core Responsibility
The Foreman is responsible for the day-to-day operation and performance of the assigned jobsite.
The Foreman is expected to take ownership of the project and make routine field decisions necessary to keep the work moving safely and efficiently.
The role requires the ability to:
- Think ahead
- Recognize problems early
- Make sound field decisions
- Adjust to changing conditions
- Maintain production
- Protect the company from avoidable damage, delays, and unnecessary cost
- Know when an issue can be handled in the field
- Know when an issue must be elevated to the Site Superintendent or management
This is not a position for someone who requires constant instruction throughout the workday.
Chain of Command & Superintendent Oversight
The Foreman may report to a Site Superintendent, Operations Manager, or company management, depending on the project and company structure.
The Site Superintendent may:
- Review project plans and scope with the Foreman
- Visit or inspect active jobsites
- Review production and schedule
- Provide technical or operational direction
- Assist with unusual or high-risk field conditions
- Review quality and grading
- Coordinate resources between multiple crews
- Evaluate Foreman and crew performance
- Make higher-level operational decisions
The Foreman remains responsible for normal daily execution of the assigned project.
Superintendent oversight does not remove the Foreman's responsibility to lead, make routine field decisions, maintain production, enforce safety, and manage the crew.
Daily Jobsite Leadership
The Foreman is expected to:
- Report to the assigned jobsite or meeting area on time and ready to work at 7:00 AM unless otherwise directed
- Arrive prepared to lead crew startup
- Review the day's scope and production goals
- Lead the daily safety meeting
- Assign work to operators and helpers
- Confirm workers understand their responsibilities
- Organize equipment, labor, attachments, and work zones
- Maintain an organized and productive work environment
- Monitor production throughout the day
- Adjust assignments when field conditions change
- Address routine jobsite issues independently
- Maintain discipline, professionalism, and accountability
- Communicate significant issues to the Site Superintendent or management promptly
- Complete daily closeout and prepare the site for the next workday
Crew Supervision
The Foreman may supervise:
- Heavy Equipment Operators
- Developing Operators
- Helpers / Laborers
- Temporary or project-specific personnel
- Other assigned field employees
The Foreman must be comfortable directing employees with different experience levels and holding the crew accountable for:
- Attendance
- Punctuality
- Safety
- Productivity
- Equipment care
- Jobsite cleanliness
- Following company procedures
- Professional conduct
- Following the assigned scope of work
Critical Decision-Making
This position requires strong judgment.
The Foreman is expected to make appropriate routine decisions involving:
- Demolition sequence
- Crew assignments
- Equipment positioning
- Work-zone organization
- Debris handling
- Dumpster loading and timing
- Equipment and attachment use
- Safe access
- Production adjustments
- Minor sequencing changes
- Site housekeeping
- Routine grading decisions
- Weather-related field conditions
- Stopping work when conditions become unsafe
The Foreman must also recognize situations that require management approval before proceeding, including:
- Work outside the approved scope
- Unexpected structural conditions
- Unknown utilities
- Potential environmental hazards
- Customer-requested additional work
- Significant property damage
- Major equipment failure
- Conditions that may materially affect job cost or schedule
- Any issue involving permits, inspections, pricing, contracts, or legal requirements
Production Management
This is a production-focused leadership position.
The Foreman is expected to understand the project plan and keep the job moving efficiently.
Responsibilities include:
- Establishing daily production goals
- Monitoring progress throughout the day
- Comparing actual progress against expectations
- Identifying delays early
- Keeping operators and helpers productive
- Coordinating ground personnel around equipment
- Planning work to reduce unnecessary idle time
- Monitoring dumpster capacity
- Anticipating dumpster swaps
- Monitoring equipment and attachment needs
- Maintaining efficient site access
- Adjusting the daily plan as conditions change
- Reporting production status to the Site Superintendent or management
- Preparing the next day's needs before leaving the site
The Foreman should understand that unnecessary downtime directly affects project profitability.
Demolition Knowledge
Applicants should have strong practical knowledge of demolition and site-work operations.
The Foreman should understand:
- Safe demolition sequencing
- Structural demolition basics
- Working around neighboring structures
- Working in tight residential environments
- Debris control
- Dumpster loading and staging
- Concrete and foundation removal
- Utility awareness
- Underground and overhead hazards
- Exclusion zones
- Equipment positioning
- Site access
- Backfilling
- Rough grading
- Final grading
- Basic drainage and site restoration requirements
Equipment Knowledge
The Foreman does not have to operate equipment continuously but should be knowledgeable enough to direct equipment operations and recognize poor, inefficient, or unsafe operation.
Experience with the following is strongly preferred:
- Excavators
- Mini excavators
- Skid steers
- Compact track loaders
- Breakers
- Grapples
- Buckets
- Forks
- Grading attachments
- Other demolition and site-work equipment
The ideal Foreman should also be capable of operating equipment when necessary to support production or cover temporary crew needs.
Grading Expectations
The Foreman must understand the difference between rough grading and a professional finished site.
The Foreman should be able to recognize:
- Poor drainage
- Low spots
- Uneven backfill
- Excessive humps
- Improper transitions
- Unsatisfactory final grading
- Areas requiring additional material or correction
The Foreman is responsible for ensuring grading meets company expectations before the project is considered complete.
Safety Responsibilities
Safety is one of the Foreman's primary responsibilities.
The Foreman must:
- Conduct daily safety meetings
- Enforce PPE requirements
- Maintain safe equipment operating zones
- Use spotters when required
- Follow utility markings and locate information
- Monitor employees working around equipment
- Stop unsafe work immediately
- Report injuries, incidents, equipment damage, and near misses
- Maintain safe site access
- Prevent unauthorized entry into work zones
- Never allow employees to work while impaired
- Follow company safety policies and applicable jobsite requirements
The Foreman must be willing to correct unsafe behavior immediately, regardless of an employee's experience level.
Equipment & Jobsite Care
The Foreman is responsible for helping protect company and rental equipment.
Responsibilities include:
- Confirming daily equipment inspections are completed
- Making sure equipment is greased and cared for
- Reporting leaks or mechanical problems promptly
- Preventing unnecessary equipment abuse
- Monitoring attachments and tools
- Maintaining organized jobsite staging
- Preventing avoidable property damage
- Protecting neighboring property, driveways, fences, utilities, landscaping, and structures
Communication & Reporting
The Foreman serves as the primary field contact between the crew and the Site Superintendent or management.
The Foreman must communicate:
- Daily progress
- Crew attendance
- Equipment issues
- Dumpster status
- Material needs
- Production delays
- Safety concerns
- Customer or neighbor concerns
- Unexpected site conditions
- Changes that may affect schedule or cost
- Upcoming equipment, labor, or disposal needs
The Foreman should communicate problems before they become emergencies.
Customer & Professional Conduct
The Foreman may interact with:
- Homeowners
- Property managers
- Inspectors
- Dumpster providers
- Equipment rental companies
- Subcontractors
- Neighbors
- Vendors
- Other project representatives
The Foreman must represent Gipp Solutions professionally.
The Foreman and crew may not make unauthorized promises regarding:
- Pricing
- Additional work
- Scope changes
- Schedule guarantees
- Contract modifications
- Credits or discounts
These decisions remain with authorized company management.
Required Qualifications
Applicants should have demonstrated construction leadership experience in demolition, excavation, grading, site work, land development, utilities, or a closely related field.
Preferred qualifications include:
- 3+ years of relevant field experience
- Previous Foreman, Lead, or Crew Leader experience
- Residential demolition experience
- Excavation/site-work experience
- Heavy equipment knowledge
- Rough and final grading knowledge
- Ability to read and understand scopes of work
- Ability to review a jobsite before work begins
- Strong safety awareness
- Ability to manage multiple employees
- Strong critical-thinking and decision-making ability
- Ability to maintain production under changing conditions
- Strong communication skills
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Valid driver's license
- Reliable transportation
- CDL is a plus
- OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 is strongly preferred
- Equipment certifications are a plus
Attendance & Transportation
Dependability is essential for this position.
The Foreman is expected to be the reliable daily leader of the crew.
Job locations are scheduled to change from project to project.
Most projects are located throughout Hampton Roads and surrounding areas.
Employees will be instructed to report either:
- Directly to the assigned jobsite, or
- To an assigned company meeting/staging area
The standard reporting time is 7:00 AM unless otherwise directed.
The Foreman must be at the assigned location, prepared, and ready to lead the crew at the scheduled reporting time.
Reliable transportation is required.
Employees are responsible for ordinary transportation between:
Home → Assigned Jobsite or Meeting Area
and
Assigned Jobsite or Meeting Area → Home
Gipp Solutions does not reimburse ordinary commuting expenses associated with travel between home and the assigned starting or ending location.
Company-directed travel after the compensable workday begins will be handled according to company policy and applicable wage-and-hour requirements.
Project-Based Schedule
This is a project-based position. Hours are not guaranteed.
Our goal is to provide approximately 40 hours per week when workload, weather, and project conditions allow, but weekly hours may fluctuate.
Some weeks may be full, while other weeks may have reduced hours based on:
- Project volume
- Weather
- Site conditions
- Permitting
- Inspections
- Dumpster availability
- Equipment availability
- Project delays
- Customer scheduling
- Other construction-related conditions
Work is weather permitting.
Applicants must be comfortable working in a growing construction company where weekly hours may vary.
Pay
$32.00–$38.00 per hour, based on demonstrated experience, leadership ability, field knowledge, decision-making, and overall performance.
The upper end of the range is intended for Foremen who can independently:
- Review and understand a project before demolition begins
- Run a demolition/site-work project
- Lead operators and helpers
- Make sound routine field decisions
- Maintain production
- Manage safety
- Understand equipment needs
- Manage dumpster and disposal flow
- Recognize grading quality
- Solve routine field problems
- Communicate professionally
- Keep management informed without requiring constant supervision
Payroll
Employees are paid weekly through ADP payroll.
Gipp Solutions does not provide payroll advances or early wage advances.
Drug-Free Workplace
Gipp Solutions maintains a drug-free workplace.
Applicants and employees may be subject to drug testing in accordance with company policy and applicable law, including pre-employment, reasonable-suspicion, and post-incident testing where permitted.
Employees must report to work fit for duty.
Physical Requirements
The Foreman must be able to perform duties associated with an active demolition and site-work environment, including:
- Walking uneven terrain
- Repeatedly entering and exiting equipment
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, lifting, pushing, and pulling
- Working around dust, mud, debris, noise, and vibration
- Working outdoors in heat, cold, and changing weather conditions
- Wearing required PPE
- Performing physical field work when needed
Paid Field Evaluation
Qualified candidates may be required to complete a paid field evaluation before a final employment offer is made.
The evaluation may assess:
- Leadership
- Safety awareness
- Crew direction
- Jobsite organization
- Scope comprehension
- Pre-demolition site assessment
- Demolition knowledge
- Equipment knowledge
- Grading knowledge
- Critical decision-making
- Problem solving
- Communication
- Ability to recognize production issues
- Ability to work with operators and helpers
- Overall field judgment
Completion of a paid field evaluation does not guarantee employment, and the evaluation rate does not establish the final employment wage.
Growth Opportunity
Gipp Solutions is growing, and we are looking for someone who wants to help build a professional field operation.
This position may grow into additional field leadership responsibilities as the company adds crews and projects.
We are looking for a Foreman who takes ownership of the jobsite, develops employees, communicates effectively, makes sound decisions, and takes pride in producing safe, efficient, professional work.
About Gipp Solutions LLC
Gipp Solutions LLC is a licensed, bonded, and insured demolition contractor providing residential demolition, concrete removal, site work, land clearing, grading, and related services throughout Hampton Roads and surrounding areas.
Our field expectations are built around:
Safety. Reliability. Accountability. Leadership. Judgment. Teamwork. Production.
Job Title: Demolition & Site Work Foreman
Job Type: Project-Based
Pay: $32.00–$38.00 per hour
Payroll: Weekly through ADP
Standard Reporting Time: 7:00 AM
Hours: Goal of approximately 40 hours when workload allows; hours are not guaranteed
Primary Work Area: Hampton Roads and surrounding areas
Work Location: Changing jobsites and assigned meeting/staging areas
Pay: $32.00 - $38.00 per hour
Work Location: On the road
