Construction Superintendent - Design Build

Title:Construction Superintendent

Trade:Design Build

Reports to: Principal

Position Overview:

We are looking for a mid-level Construction Superintendent who will be responsible for coordinating all site construction activities and support/report to management. You will work for with clients like NBC Universal, Disney, NBC Sports, and A+E Networks. The role requires travel to jobsites throughout New York City, Brooklyn, Northern New Jersey and Southern Connecticut; there is limited time spent in the office.

Who We Are? AMA Design Build (AMADB) is a full-service construction management company established in 2004, emanating from its parent company, AMA Group, an industry leader in the design of MEP/FP building systems for media, broadcast, and production facilities, including sound stage campuses, having a portfolio of over 1000 such completed projects, as well as a diverse array of corporate, financial, education and residential clients. AMA Group employs 200+ dedicated and talented professionals; founded in 2000 in New York City, we’ve grown to provide a comprehensive suite of services across national offices in New York, New Jersey, California, Florida, and Texas.

The Employee Experience

At AMA, people are at the heart of everything we are and what we do. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture where all our employees flourish, individually as a team; employee experience at our focal point we are dedicated to ensuring employees’ development, wellness, and overall experiences are satisfying and rewarding. We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package to our team members, and provide an open, honest, and fun work environment. We were voted #7 2023 Best Medium Company to Work For in New York, and were also named a Best Place to Work in NYC 2022 by Crain’s.

Role Responsibilities:

As a Construction Superintendent for you will be responsible for supervising all trade and field personnel, implementing and/or improving our companywide project management processes; with the highest level of focus on administering good safety practices. Your responsibilities include:

• Establish site safety/site-office setup to ensure you have everything that is necessary at the time construction begins, to include but not limited to: a logistics plan, how materials will arrive and exit a project site, project safety requirements, and an emergency/evacuation plan
• Review and understand project schedule, assist Project Manager in maintaining schedule (in MS project format)
• Create Project Team & Home Page on Procore. Generate a project directory with all field personnel including the building engineers/staff, design teams, expeditor, special inspector, contractor’s PM’s/foremen, etc. in Procore
• Issue subcontractor welcome letters, collect subcontractor insurance, and communicate project safety requirements
• Review trade scope sheets/proposals to ensure an understand of each subcontractor’s scope of work.
• Generate a list of RFI’s based upon your drawing, scope, and job site review; gather a full understanding of what is owed. Review and highlight drawings to ensure all scope shown is captured. Coordinate the design team addressing any open RFI issues.
• Prepare a submittal log based upon review of the design drawings, issue log to subcontractors and coordinate reviews of all submittals/shop drawings with the design team via Procore
• Print and post all required/helpful OSHA/Safety signage; and permits on a permit board near the freight entrance and field office
• Perform site specific safety orientations, enforce subcontractor weekly toolbox talks and daily huddles: generate meeting agenda and take minutes
• Mark up MEPS plans daily to track progress of work, take daily progress photos, issue weekly progress report to client and two week lookaheads
• Managing laboring staff and record timesheets
• Create change events (CE’s) and obtain sub-contractor pricing when required
• Coordinate Subcontractor meetings and record meeting minutes
• Prepare client meeting minutes for Project Manager review and editing in Procore
• Generate close out and permit matrix
• Organize site clean off and removal of all material

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related field; OR equivalent years of related experience required.

Experience:

• 4 - 7 years of experience in construction management; MEP and Interiors.
• Requires working knowledge of various construction disciplines, union agreements/jurisdiction, cost control, scheduling, safety regulations, engineering drawings and other documents.
• Working knowledge of MS Project, MS Project Suite, PlanGrid/Procore.
• Experience working on cross functional teams within different offices.

Specific Skills:

• Proven ability to work in a deadline driven environment.
• Ability to adapt communications; have strong verbal, and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a team and independently while managing multiple projects.

Salary Range: $115-135K per year

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans).

To all recruitment agencies: AMA Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or agencies. Any resume submitted to any employee of AMA Group without a prior written search agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of AMA Group. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Our company is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally-recognized basis [”protected characteristics’] including, but not limited to: race, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals over forty years of age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status of any person, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.