Area Superintendent

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is building a semiconductor manufacturing plant in New Albany, Ohio. We are partnering with the North America Building Trades Unions and suppliers to create several thousand new jobs and work with local education organizations to implement new training programs that will support the future talent pipeline. Bechtel Manufacturing & Technology, Inc. offers engineering, procurement, and construction services for customers in the semiconductor manufacturing, electric vehicle, and data center markets. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the M&T global business unit also includes colleagues working in Arizona, Ohio, Texas, India, and additional project locations around the world.

Job Summary:

Assigned to a field construction organization in a senior multi-discipline leadership capacity and reporting to the Area Manager. Responsible for leading, supervising, mentoring, and developing direct-report superintendents and coordinating craft professionals, subcontractors, and other project participants within an assigned geographic area. Directs integrated civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, and related construction activities from planning through completion and turnover. Ensures area work is executed safely, to required quality, within approved schedule and budget, and in accordance with design documents, project procedures, and project objectives. Establishes clear expectations, maintains accountability, removes field constraints, coordinates discipline interfaces, and provides accurate area status, forecasts, risks, and recovery actions to the Area Manager and project leadership. 

Major Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate safe, quality, cost-effective, and schedule-driven multi-discipline construction execution within the assigned area, subcontractor, supplier, and client activities. 
• Provide direct supervision, mentoring, coaching, training, competency development, and performance feedback for assigned superintendents; establish accountability and strengthen succession capability.
• Champion Bechtel's Zero Accident Philosophy through hazard recognition, risk assessment, pre-task planning, field verification, regulatory compliance, and immediate correction of uncontrolled conditions.
• Establish and implement integrated construction plans, work methods, Installation Work Packages, schedules, Three Week Lookaheads, work sequencing, access, logistics, turnover priorities, and recovery actions.
• Determine and coordinate workforce, supervision, materials, tools, equipment, temporary works, services, and subcontract resources required for productive field execution.
• Monitor progress, installed quantities, productivity, costs, forecasts, critical-path impacts, and constraints; initiate timely corrective actions to protect project milestones and approved budgets.
• Ensure Craft Professionals have current design information, work packages, materials, tools, equipment, access, permits, inspections, and other prerequisites needed to perform the work.
• Coordinate subcontractor performance and cross-functional interfaces with Field Engineering, Engineering, ES&H, Quality, Project Controls, Procurement, Commissioning, Startup, Logistics, and client representatives.
• Ensure construction complies with approved drawings, specifications, codes, standards, inspection and test requirements, quality expectations, and completion and turnover requirements.
• Communicate area status, priorities, staffing, progress, risks, forecasts, decisions, and required actions to the Area Manager and construction leadership; implement applicable corporate and project procedures.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13 years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work experience.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Advanced knowledge of EPC and EPCM construction programs, technologies, means, and methods in the semiconductor industry is preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of supervisory functions relating to construction field activities.
• Demonstrated commitment to Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) and commitment to a Zero Accident safety program.
• Extensive experience in the construction management of EPC projects.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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