Superintendent - Commercial - Columbia, SC

Superintendent Opportunity

Harper General Contractors has a proud 75-year legacy of building trust and community across the Southeast. We are expanding our footprint with a growing office in Columbia, SC. We are actively seeking a Superintendent to join our team as long-term team member, committed to building our presence in the region. This is a unique opportunity to become a cornerstone of our Columbia office, helping shape its culture, growth, and reputation from the ground up. If you're passionate about quality, safety, and being part of a company that values both people and place, we want to hear from you.

Company Mission Statement: To build up our communities, our clients and each other by building trust in everything we do.

Summary/Objective: Promotes the company mission statement by joining the Project Manager as a team who work together to create a safe work environment, build a quality project and keep projects on schedule while earning a fair and reasonable profit.

Essential Functions:

• Act as the main contact for the project at the jobsite.
• Oversee the project to make all critical field decisions in collaboration with the Project Manager.
• Oversee the project to ensure proper project decisions with support and input from PM.
  • Scheduling.
  • Delivery.
  • Logistics, staging and phasing.
  • Quality control.
  • Employee staffing levels.
• Ability to communicate with Owner and Architect/Engineer relating to field issues.
  • Understand issues and assist in resolving issues.
  • Judge the proper time to involve Owners, Architects and Engineers.
• Leadership regarding Harper BIG 6:
  • Safety/SOAR.
  • Core.
  • Procurement/Scheduling.
  • Pre-Install meetings.
  • Exterior skin systems meetings.
  • Utility strike prevention plan.
• Oversee the Project Safety Requirements:
  • Ensure Harper safety requirements are explained, implemented, and demonstrated.
  • Develop and implement working relationship with Safety Manager.
    • Project specific safety pre-planning.
    • Coordinate with Safety Manager to develop a project-site specific SOAR orientation document.
    • SOAR implementation if allowing other Harper staff to conduct orientations ensure proper message and execution of the document.
    • OSHA standards are understood and followed based on the actions of workers on the job.
    • Perform weekly Toolbox Talks with all active trades.
    • Conduct Safety Stand down training as necessary.
    • Participate in the timely and effective investigations of all incidents including injuries, property damage, behavioral issues and near misses.
    • Conduct weekly site safety inspections in Procore.
• Ensure accurate and up to date material and equipment delivery requirements to support the procurement log/schedule.
• Ensure and is responsible for creating Schedules alongside PM.
• Develop and manage (takes the lead) on project QAQC.
  • QA example:
    • Pre-installation meetings.
  • QC example:
    • Visual and documents inspections of work in place.
• Oversee coordination of all Trade partners:
  • Project site specific logistics/use including associated rules.
  • Scheduling of each trade.
  • Developing and implementing recovery strategies to maintain project schedule.
  • Clarity of design versus (RFI's).
  • Schedule for the trades (durations and commitments of durations).
• Supervise field staff to ensure staff development.
  • This includes Assistant Superintendents, Foreman, Field Engineers, and Interns.
  • Also includes assisting in the development of Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers.
• Manage timesheets for field staff.
• Manage and complete all daily reports.
• Manage all jobsite equipment.
• Have working knowledge of local building codes.
• Have working knowledge of all ADA code requirements.
• Ensure implementation of all required inspections for the project.
• Ensure by documenting and executing a proper Harper punch list prior to inviting Owner and Design Team punch list.
• Participate in updating the schedule.
• Estimating and Preconstruction:
  • Can affectively assist in Harper's efforts regarding estimating, scheduling, interviewing, etc.
• Scheduling:
  • Ability to understand and create an Overall Project Schedule.
    • Includes understanding critical milestone dates.
  • Ability to understand and update an active Construction Schedule.
    • Includes understanding the critical path and its changes.
  • Ability to lead a pull a schedule and update a Work Plan.
  • Ability to understand material delivery dates and when they are required.
• Can effectively navigate and resolve conflicts regarding design.
  • With Trade Partners.
  • With Arch/Engineers.
  • Knows when to RFI an issue or resolve effectively.
• Can effectively run a Trade Partner coordination meeting.
  • Includes setting an agenda and maintaining the agenda.
  • Understand critical issues for meeting.
  • Run the meeting effectively.
• Can effectively run an OAC meeting.
  • Includes setting an agenda and maintaining the agenda.
  • Understand critical issues for meeting.
  • Assist in running the meeting effectively where required.
• Can effectively solve clashes and conflicts of building systems in a manner that does not compromise the engineered basis of design.
  • Also show the ability to understand when documentation is required related to drawing and specification updates and/or cost impacts.
• Supervise a project utilizing BIM technologies:
  • Coordinate a 3D design for conflicts.
  • Coordinate a 3D design layout in the field.
  • Utilize BIM Glue and Navisworks software when appropriate to assist in the BIM process on a project.
• Procore:
  • Fill-In Daily Log.
  • Read commitment scopes of work and understand content.
  • Navigate and understand how to utilize directory.
  • Utilize and understand all functions of the drawings tab.
    • Recent drawings.
    • Overlay function of previous drawings.
    • Attachments to drawings.
  • Create inspections.
  • Know where and how to utilize information from meeting minutes.
  • Create and track an observation.
  • Utilize the photos application.
  • Create and maintain the punch list.
  • Create an RFI for review by Superintendent and seek RFI information where applicable.
  • Know where to find the schedule, read and understand.
  • Understand how to navigate and seek information from Specs tool.
  • Understand how to navigate and seek information from Submittals.
  • Ability to enter timesheet in Procore.

Competencies