Job Description

The General Foreman provides leadership and is responsible for supervising workers and work crews under his or her charge, ensuring the safety of crew members, following OHSA guidelines and Austin Industrial safety rules and the overall productivity of crew members.

As a key participant in the relationship between Austin Industrial and the client, the general foreman functions largely as a coordinating manager and client interface.

Key Responsibilities:

Safety - The site foreman must provide leadership that results in a safe work culture, is responsible and accountable for the safety of the crew under his/her direction, and must understand and accept the importance and legal liability of the role.

This includes:

• Knowing and understanding the requirements of the OHSA
• Knowing, understanding, communicating and ensuring compliance with the OHSA, and company safety policies and procedures
• Facilitate mandatory safety tool box meetings
• Ensuring completion of initial safety and hazard assessments
• Participating in safety/incident investigations
• Ensuring that vehicle and equipment checks are carried out

Leadership and Supervision - The site foreman coordinates the crew, and must understand and consistently apply the general foreman’s policies. The site foreman is required to be involved and supportive of any day to day disciplinary decisions.

This includes:

• Communicating the job to and with the crew
• Assigning crew tasks
• Recognizing, addressing and resolving issues/problems among/between crew members
• Maintaining work standards and outlining behavioral expectations to ensure crew morale and productivity
• Applying the principles of workplace respect on site
• Ensuring crew compliance with project policies and procedures
• Ensuring crew compliance with company policies and procedures

Planning and Scheduling - The general foreman is accountable for following project plans and schedules and ensuring that crews under his/her direction perform daily and weekly activities to meet production goals.

This includes:

• Translating general work requirements into a prioritized work plan for the crew
• Working with the crew to overcome work challenges
• Periodically reassess daily goals to meet forecasted production

Employee Relations - The general foreman must champion an inclusive employee relations culture, is accountable for the adherence to policies and procedures by the crew to ensure a respectful and inclusive work environment.

This includes:

• Recognizing, addressing and resolving issues/problems among/between crew members
• Promoting, supporting and facilitating teamwork and harmony between all crew members by promoting and fostering a positive, visible teamwork attitude among all crew members

Quality Control - The general foreman is accountable for ensuring that the completed work meets quality standards.

This includes:

• On-site assessment prior to commencing work to ensure that the job is ready, and addressing any concerns
• Overseeing the execution of the work, including quality and production, ensuring that the crew works to job specifications and follows the plans
• Inspecting and measuring completed work

Administration - The site foreman is accountable for the preparation of reports as required by the employer.

This includes:

• Maintaining site foreman’s log & site reports
• Preparation of daily production records
• Reporting on work progress
• Completing quality reports when necessary
• Daily time keeping & reporting
• Worker violation reports
• Recommending personnel actions such as hiring, firing, promotions and discipline

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management or Engineering preferred.
• Five+ years of experience in construction or mechanical engineering projects as a Craft Foreman.
• Ability to read engineering and architectural drawings and specifications in order to interpret a variety of instructions in legal, mathematical or diagrammatic form.
• Ability to perform financial and mathematical analysis.
• Ability to read and understand contracts.
• Ability to manage a team, resolve disputes and foresee potential cost or schedule issues.
• Outstanding and professional oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and project management and scheduling software, including online tools.

Working Conditions:

• Office environment – extensive sitting at desk and computer; some standing, bending at the waist, stooping and reaching required; ability to lift 5-20 pounds occasionally.
• Construction site environment – physical ability to stand, walk, crawl, bend, reach and climb.
• Exposed to high noise levels.
• Ability to travel 10%-25% of the time.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so ( i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

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