WHAT DOES A CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR DO?
Published: August 9, 2024 - The Construction Supervisor engages in contract negotiations and constructability planning, including the development of specific deliverables and construction support requirements. Facilitates the implementation of constructability plans and conducts readiness reviews to ensure smooth construction mobilization. Works closely with project managers and planners to refine scheduling, monitor progress, and adjust strategies to meet project milestones effectively.
A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Construction Supervisor
1. Construction Supervisor Duties
- Solution Development: Develop plans and implement solutions for the variety of elements within an engineering construction site.
- Engineering Support: Provide direct support to engineers or engineering teams in managing on-site supervision activities, collecting data, presenting documentation to officials, and other daily tasks.
- Project Execution: Responsible for the production and execution of the assigned projects.
- Operational Coordination: Establish the working relationship with the operations management necessary to facilitate the coordination and execution of the project work, in such a way as to minimize the operational impact.
- Skill Development: Responsible for the development of technical skills in the field of construction engineering.
- Project Assistance: Assist the PM during the execution of the project.
- Reporting Standards: Ensure that accurate and timely reporting standards are maintained throughout all projects.
- Progress Tracking: Track engineering progress against budget and planned schedule.
- Risk Management: Participate in and lead risk assessments and actively manage project and company risks.
- Project Closure: Responsible for the technical and contractual closure of the project and ensures the project report.
- Project Planning: Prepare project estimates, budgets, schedules, and execution plans.
2. Construction Supervisor Details
- Quality Control Testing: Perform routine quality control test procedures including concrete and nuclear moisture/density testing.
- Earthwork Inspection: Earthwork inspections and field testing.
- Concrete Testing: Concrete sampling and field testing.
- Laboratory Reporting: Soil and concrete laboratory testing and reporting.
- Report Submission: Complete and submit daily reports and Job Hazard Analysis forms.
- Safety Compliance: Follow all corporate and job site safety procedures.
- Client Interaction: Frequent interaction with clients.
- Client Scheduling: Schedule client meetings and/or additional services.
- Technician Training: May have responsibility for training or direction of other entry-level technicians.
- Project Handover: Provide a seamless handover to the client once the project has completed, including full snagging / punch-lists and working with the Project Manager to pass all inspections and achieve final certificate of occupancy.
3. Construction Supervisor Responsibilities
- Customer Service Delivery: Deliver a 5 out of 5 service for customers all day every day by making sure to tell customers when and where we are working and what we are doing, ensuring they are not disrupted by work unnecessarily.
- Team Leadership: Lead and inspire an engaged team of Construction operatives by making sure they are supported by excellent performance management.
- Team Communication: Communicate daily with teams and share team performance.
- Safety and Timeliness: Make sure that all Connection work on the clean water network (pipework) in the area of control is carried out in a timely manner (within SLA) and that no one gets hurt (employee, contractor, or member of the public) as a result of the work done.
- Project Support: Support the Construction Project Managers to carry out inspections in a timely manner and work with them to complete Pre-Site Excavations (24hr) and where possible attend Pre Start Meetings with the CPM’s to support with Service Connection Requirements.
- Traffic Management: Support off-site works with Traffic Management experience to complete Gold Standard Permit Sketches.
- Partnership Collaboration: Work in partnership with contractor partners, business partners, and Trade Union colleagues.
- Regulatory Compliance: Manage daily compliance with regulatory requirements and Hub Management.
- Subcontractor Management: Oversee, manage, and direct all subcontractors and trade partners associated with the project.
- Site Maintenance: Ensure the site is maintained to a high level of cleanliness and tidiness at all times, making sure all health and safety protocols are being met.
4. Construction Supervisor Accountabilities
- Workflow Management: Management and reporting of pre-construction workflows.
- Construction Efficiency: Construction timelines and efficiencies.
- Contractor Procurement: Procurement oversight of and review of approved contractors including licensing and compliance.
- Legal Oversight: Oversight and reporting of legal matters, related to construction and defect liabilities, to the directors.
- Client Coordination: Facilitate client inspections and contractor management.
- Performance Monitoring: Provides day-to-day performance monitoring and feedback.
- Bid Management: Responsible for full management of bid analysis and construction contractors, along with fiscal management of field construction to meet all financial and schedule targets.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensures projects are in compliance with applicable state and federal regulations for construction.
- Project Management: Ensures that all construction projects are effectively managed.
- Construction Administration: Overseeing construction administration and accounting, site observation and technical work evaluation, quality management, and project close-out.
- Reporting: Creates and maintains various reports and documents to measure the status of the portfolio of construction and renovation projects.
- Support Coordination: Provides construction support to Project Managers.
- Communication: Regularly communicate with supervisor work progress, questions, and concerns.
5. Construction Supervisor Functions
- Schedule Adjustment: Adjust the schedule to meet business needs.
- Policy Direction: Provide direction to subordinates using established policies and precedents.
- Contract Negotiation: Participate in contract negotiations.
- Constructability Planning: Participate in constructability planning efforts including developing a list of constructability deliverables and required construction support.
- Constructability Plan Development: Develop and implement constructability plans.
- Construction Readiness Review: Conduct a construction readiness review prior to construction mobilization.
- Purchase Order and Subcontract Closeout: Assist Controls with the closeout of purchase orders and subcontracts.
- Schedule Optimization: Work with the project manager and the project planner/scheduler during the planning phase to adjust schedule logic to achieve project objectives.
- Progress Updates: Provide accurate progress updates and achieve the project schedule milestones.
- Construction Execution Monitoring: Monitors and evaluates reports on assigned project construction execution to division management, takes corrective action.