Job Title: Heavy Equipment Foreman
Department: Striping
Job Summary:
As a Heavy Equipment Foreman, you will be responsible for overseeing and managing the operations of heavy equipment within a construction, mining, or industrial setting. Other duties include but are not limited to, enforcing Company standards and procedures, ensuring overall operational efficiencies, customer service, oversight of the quality of service provided, and capacity planning. Engages and communicates effectively with TXDOT Inspectors, contractors, and engineers on-site. You will ensure quality standards are met, and all equipment and materials are available on-site at all times.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Responsible for directing and managing trades, sub-contractors, on-site work equipment, and visitors to maximize efficiency, production, and safety
- Coordinate and maintain construction schedules to ensure projects are being completed on time and according to drawings and specs
- Create schedules for workers and subcontractors
- Create cost estimates for labor, supplies, materials, and other project costs
- Make changes in the operation as necessary to best meet construction deadlines
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Coordinate the daily work activities, job site organization, reading of plans, determine layout placement, and monitor quality control
- Verify measurements, quantities, grades, material, and trucking requirements to ensure compliance with the contract documents and job sheets
- Organize job site goals, timelines, and meet production and materials budgets
- Read and relay job information from the plans, work orders, and contracts to other crew members.
- Touring job sites to ascertain progress in meeting time schedules, to detect insufficient utilization of workers and equipment
- Prepare daily time cards and field diaries
- Perform other labor/operator related tasks as necessary in assisting crew with job completion
- Enforces the organization’s safety policies in accordance with OSHA and also by establishing a climate that emphasizes safety on the job for the entirety of the project
- Liaising with inspection authorities regarding approvals
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Knowledge of OSHA safety regulations and PPE procedures
- Ability to conduct accident investigations and safety inspections
- Proficient written and oral communication skills according to skill requirements
- Possess strong computer skills, able to read, write, and comprehend written instructional documents in English
- Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume
- Ability to apply concepts of introductory algebra and geometry
- Proficient Microsoft Office productivity suite
- Experience in managing large or multiple facilities
Education and Experience:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- At least two years of related experience required
- Proficient with scheduling software, and CAE and CAD applications
- Proficient with the reading CAD or design documents and diagram
- Proficient with taking and uploading digital photographs
- Blueprint knowledge
- Experience operating a Longliner
- Able to read TXDOT, engineer, and other plans
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Prolonged period of standing, bending, reaching, and working with hands
- Occasional periods of prolonged exposure to loud noises
- Ability to lift up to 75 pounds at times
- Ability to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands as necessary
- Ability to hear and see to position and safety requirement levels
- Occasional exposure to elements such as heat, cold, noise, dust, dirt, and chemicals
Special Qualifications/Requirements:
- Must be able to successfully pass as required a federal, state, or local government's background investigation
- Valid state driver's license
Disclaimer:
The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Job Description last updated Septemberr 28, 2022.