Build Your Career at Milestone Contractors!Manages multiple small construction projects or one large construction project, in general construction, asphalt, concrete, or bridge disciplines; maintaining the highest levels of safety and meeting or exceeding company and customer quality standards.
Essential Functions- Manages total construction project to meet design, budget and scheduling specifications:
- Coordinates work with other contractors
- Interfaces with client representatives
- Authorizes and approves project personnel transactions, purchase requisitions, field design change requests
- Facilitates collaboration between Estimating, Project Control, scheduling and other internal departments to keep project on track
- Analyzes project plan, cost performance, weather conditions and equipment availability
- Ensures resource availability
- Provides weekly schedule updates
- Plans, coordinates and supervises onsite
- Provides day to day direction to field staff
- Manages project labor, including hiring, disciplining and firing
- Provides technical assistance as needed
- Assists project management with project procedures, working documents and standards
- Ensures all onsite personnel comply with required project, safety, OSHA procedures and work rules
- Resolves conflicts and labor relations issues; understands contract agreements with regard to scheduling and assigning work
- Manages performance of employees; ensures that work meets customer and company expectations for quality and technical specifications
- Communicates effectively:
- Advises project manager or senior managers of problems, potential problems, schedule difficulties
- Shares information about work plan with subordinates, peers, subcontractors
- Collaborates with project control, estimating, schedule and equipment to keep project on schedule
- Facilitates collaboration among work crews
- Promotes and maintains safe work environment:
- Exhibits safe work behaviors; evaluates work area for hazards; eliminates or controls hazards
- Wears all prescribed PPE
- Leads daily safety huddles and safety training; follows safe work plans
- Ensures subordinate employees are following safe work plan and exhibiting safe behaviors
- Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, including but not limited to continuously growing in alignment with the Company's core values, competencies, and skills.
Education Qualifications- Required Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management or related field
Experience Qualifications- Required 8+ years experience supervising a field construction crew
- Preferred prior experience in heavy highway construction
Licenses and CertificationsWorking Conditions/Physical Demands- Continuous exposure to a variety of extreme conditions at construction job sites, including heights, moving vehicles, stopped traffic
- Continuous exposure to equipment cabs, including computer controls, dials, handles, knobs, switches
- Outdoor conditions that include inclement weather, precipitation, heat, humidity, dust, asphalt and/or concrete, dirt
- Regular exposure to noise, including horns, mechanical equipment, heavy equipment, jackhammers
- Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts, vibration, fumes and airborne particles
- Regular exposure to indoor work environments including job trailers, field offices or asphalt plants/labs
- Climbs in and out of equipment, job trucks or trailers
- Uses abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue
- Uses good manual dexterity (hand, hand with arm, two hands) and multi-limb coordination, with the ability to quickly move arms and legs, to operate equipment, hand tools, laptop, tablet
- Possess excellent stamina to work between 8-12 hours per day
- Uses sight and sound to visualize work area
- Travel is primarily local during business day; some out-of-area and overnight travel may be required.
About Milestone Contractors Milestone Contractors is a privately held, family-owned business headquartered in Indianapolis. Milestone Contractors is a fully integrated heavy construction company specializing in highway, bridge, asphalt and concrete paving and site development. Over its 30-year history, Milestone has built a reputation for prioritizing safety, quality, people and innovation. Milestone Contractors is a part of The Heritage Group's family of companies. Learn more at https://www.milestonelp.com/