Cooling Tower Construction Supervisor

The purpose of this position is to oversee the field erection of cooling towers, ensuring that each job is completed safely, efficiently, and with quality.

The incumbent ensures that the construction aspect of cooling towers is completed under experienced leadership and direction.

This role involves travel within the US to effectively hire and supervise craft workers who complete cooling tower construction.

The successful incumbent demonstrates strong leadership skills, ensures that job sites are as safe as possible, works well with clients and fellow associates, and stays on time and on budget.

This position typically oversees large-scale projects with a large budget and/or smaller projects operated as part of the overall project.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Knowledgeable of the policies set in the Employee Information Handbook and aware of the consequences of not following company policy.
• Interface with clients.
• Highly knowledgeable in carpentry skills, procedures, and fabrication to ensure efficient and timely installation.
• Demonstrate safety knowledge on all tools used within their area.
• Conduct safety orientations and supervise safe work practices.
• Receive and manage construction materials.
• Create daily reports and time reports.
• Close out each job, including final paperwork, ensuring client approval and satisfaction.
• Attend pre-construction meetings.
• Confer with supervisory and engineering personnel and inspectors and suppliers of tools and materials to resolve construction problems and improve construction methods.
• Study specifications to plan procedures for construction based on starting and completion times and staffing requirements for each phase of construction.
• Keep work area neat and clean.
• Conduct daily and weekly Safety meetings.
• Complete incident reports as necessary.
• Purchase small construction needs, rent equipment required, and issue purchase requisitions to management as necessary.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Recruit and train field construction employees in job duties and safety, including foremen who can independently handle a specific job assignment.
• Hire, supervise, and terminate craft employees.
• Responsible for all supervision of crew members, handle day-to-day labor problems, and any safety violations on the jobsite.
• Send employees for urine drug screens when required by either Midwest Cooling Towers or jobsite personnel and complete necessary paperwork.
• Responsible for inspecting and supervising work to ensure that the workmanship is to job specifications.
• Monitor progress of subcontractors.
• Maintain contact with management concerning job progress.

Qualifications:

• Required HS Diploma or GED.
• Minimum 5 years cooling tower field experience or equivalent.
• Must have OSHA 30 within 18 months of taking position.

Safety Knowledge:

• Conduct daily and weekly Safety meetings.
• Demonstrate safe work practices in installation of cooling towers, including safety knowledge concerning chemical and/or process hazards associated with work in plants.
• Must work safely on and around scaffolding, platforms, ladders, and/or cooling tower structures.
• Administer basic first aid when/if needed on the jobsite.

Language Skills:

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and large group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed and involved written or oral instructions.
• Capable of laying out work, preparing progress reports on construction, errors in design, fabrication, shipments, recording time records and field payroll records.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 100 pounds, frequently lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock.

The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals and vibration.

The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

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