Responsible for monitoring quality and safety and providing planning and direction directly to the assigned crew for construction activities for construction projects. This is normally a first-level supervisory position and requires previous experience as a craft worker. The role of a Foreman is to assist the General Foreman in providing leadership, direction, and supervision of craft workers; and to provide coordination so that crafts work safely and productively.
Overview of Primary Duties:
- Coordinates, oversees, and briefs crew on daily work to be done.
- Plans and prioritizes job tasks, and trains, directs, organizes, and supervises a crew on the job site for quality work and efficient production.
- Is familiar with the job site safety plan.
- Enforces safe practices.
- Conducts training in safety.
- Completes safety reports.
- Ensure that all work meets or exceeds the standards.
- Manage crew timesheets.
- Prepares quality and quantity reports, and other required reports.
- Comprehend blueprints, sketches, and plans.
- Evaluate, monitor, and report on work progression, while ensuring that all works are conducted in compliance and line with the man-hour budget.
- Experience in maintaining short-range look-ahead plans.
- Must have the ability to read and interpret instructions and documentation.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in the field of work being completed to step in if needed or conduct training.
- Know what to do if an OSHA inspector comes onsite.
- Recognize and correct any unsafe conditions that may exist or occur on the job site
- Assist with job site inspections.
- Attend any required meetings, including scheduled supervisory meetings
- Demonstrate Yates Core Values and Principles
- Follow Yates Code of Conduct
- Safety Responsibilities and Expectations
- Responsible for refusing unsafe work and for carrying out all work by the established Yates Safety Procedures and Work Practices
- Report all incidents, near hits, and hazards to management.
- Required to wear and maintain personal PPE.
- Advise fellow employees of hazardous situations.
- Participate in workplace inspections.
- Comply with statutory requirements, including duty of care.
- Participate in required and assigned training.
- Provide suggestions to improve Safety.
- Present a mature approach to working safely.
- Attend prestart and Safety meetings and contribute.
- Other related duties as needed and assigned by Field Supervision.
- This is not an all-inclusive list of tasks an employee may be asked to do. Employees are expected to complete any tasks they are assigned.
Qualifications:
Level I:
- Minimum of eight (8) years of construction experience
- Minimum of six (6) years of craft-classified experience
- Required minimum of two (2) years of experience in supervision for any externally recruited candidates that are not currently a Yates employee
- Formal education/degree/certificate in construction, technical, or trade school such as NCCER Certification Plus.
- Must be able to speak, read, and write in the English language Level II:
- Same as Level I
- Successful completion of Yates Supervisor training
Requirements:
- Supervise installation per work packs and report quantities
- Complete time sheets for their direct reports to track progress and verify time
- Responsible for the quality of the finished product, completing quality documentation including check sheets and final documentation
- Read ISO's, Blueprints, P&IDs
- Successful completion of required Safety training to include, but not limited to, Confined Space, LOTO, and Working at Heights
Physical Demands/Essential Job Functions:
This job description reflects an assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. This is not an all-inclusive list of functions that an employee may be asked to do. Employees are expected to complete any tasks they are assigned.
Physical requirements for this role may include but are not limited to:
- All weather conditions at varying temperatures
- Work at varying elevations
- Will work in windy and dusty environments
- Moderate to high noise levels
- The project site will contain light to heavy equipment vehicles, small to large equipment, materials, communication equipment, and tools
- Ability to hear bells, whistles, and alarms
- Required to wear safety-approved body harnesses when working at 4’ or above
- Required to adhere to large amounts of standing, walking, bending, squatting, climbing, and lifting
- Ability to talk and hear to communicate
- Will use arms and hands to signal, grab, hold, turn, push, and pull objects, materials, controls, and tools
- Must be able to lift, carry, and move heavy objects up to 25 lbs.
- Will use vision abilities to focus, see short and long distances, colors, depth perception, and peripheral vision
About Yates Construction
Ranked among the top commercial and industrial construction companies in the country by Engineering News-Record, Yates Construction is family-owned. It provides a wide range of construction and building services. Incorporated in 1964 by William G. Yates Jr., we have steadily grown to become one of the nation's top commercial and industrial construction companies. We are financially sound, with a significant bonding capacity and vast personnel and equipment resources.
Our portfolio includes commercial and industrial projects from various sectors, including arts and culture, civil, commercial, education, entertainment and gaming, federal, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, municipal, retail, and technology. We work hard to understand our client's business needs and continually look for opportunities to add value to them and their projects.
Our client relationships are the foundation of our success, and our primary goal is to help each client achieve their vision. We do this by carefully managing the details and complexities of each project and communicating constantly with all team members.
Yates Construction is a military-friendly employer and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics, in addition to federal and state law requirements.
Yates complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities.
