Title: Superintendent

Location: Sioux Falls, South Dakota

About Cosand Construction:

Cosand Construction has been providing general contracting and subcontracting services in the Sioux Falls area since January 2013. Specializing in Carpentry – rough, finish, and specialties.

Our Mission:

We are dedicated to our mission of creating lasting value through construction. Driven by our passion for building projects of enduring quality, educating our workforce for continuous improvement, fostering growth opportunities, adapting to industry advancements, and consistently exceeding our customers’ expectations.

Cosand Construction offers a wide variety of services in both residential and commercial settings, and has performed work in new construction homes, remodels, as well as work in healthcare facilities, schools, and casinos.

Residential

• New Construction General Contracting
• Remodel General Contracting
• Rough Carpentry – framing, backing, sheathing
• Finish Carpentry – including trim, doors, windows, siding

Commercial

• Commercial New Construction General Contracting
• Commercial Remodels General Contracting
• Commercial Rough Carpentry – framing, roof blocking, sheathing
• Commercial Finish Carpentry – casework install, trim, hollow-metal/wood doors and hardware install
• Commercial Specialties Install – toilet accessories, wall protection, flag poles, car lifts, trash chutes, fire extinguisher cabinets, fire extinguishers, lockers

The Cosand Construction Value Proposition:

At Cosand Construction, our vision is to be an industry leader recognized for building quality projects, educating and empowering our team members, and continuously enhancing the customer experience through our commitment to growth and innovation.

Job Description – Superintendent

Primary Responsibility is to oversee and coordinate the field activities of a project from beginning to the project closeout.

Expectations/Responsibilities:

Safety

• Safely work in all conditions, including:
  • Wearing the proper PPE
  • Analyze situations and create proper and safe fall protection systems
  • Using ladders, scaffolding, vehicles, equipment, and lifts in a safe manner
• OSHA 10 hour training or higher
• Understand and be able to implement action plans in the case of major injury, natural disaster, or catastrophic event
• Report any damage or unsafe practices that occur on the jobsite
• Daily safety checks of the jobsite

Project Site

• Maintain a clean jobsite, including sweeping, dusting, moping, taking out trash, etc.
• Provide adequate storage for subcontractors and employees to store materials where they will not get damaged, or coordinate deliveries to minimize material stored on site.
• Quality check subcontractor work and hold subcontractors accountable for their work
• Update and maintain vendor and customer database
• Assist in taking and archiving project photos

Administration

• Maintain and manage Tool Watch software for shop tools
• Assist other team members with checking tools in and out
• Accurately complete timecards and review other employees timecards weekly
• Complete daily logs of work completed, problems that occurred, injuries, deliveries and important decisions
• Give fair and honest assessment of any Cosand employee working on their jobsite
• Track progress of work being completed on jobsite
• Track and initiate all permits needed to keep progress on schedule
• Set weekly schedules and hold subcontractor meetings as needed
• Look ahead and deal with issues before they slow productions (Plan discrepancies, long lead times, etc.
• Quality check subcontractor work and create punchlist items to meet Cosand/Client standards

Ideal Candidate Characteristics:

The ideal candidate must be detail-oriented, organized, dependable, and productive. The candidate must be able to work independently with minimal direction and oversight, but also collaborate effectively. The candidate must develop a broad understanding of the business, comprehend established best practices, and be dedicated to meeting the high level of customer service expected of all members of Cosand Construction. Adaptability to constantly shifting priorities and comfortability with change is required to execute a multitude of transactions. Creativity and ingenuity are desired for continuous enhancements and improvements in the role.

• Energy & Drive: A self-starter driven by a sense of urgency; ambitious, proactive, disciplined, and diligent. Demonstrates the initiative to make things happen, has a “can-do” attitude.
• Independence: Takes charge of own work plans: autonomous, organized, planful and goal- oriented. Excellent at managing time and organizing workflow.
• Problem Solving & Decision Making: Demonstrates sound judgment and reasoning. Able to generate and evaluate options. Numerical, abstract, and critical thinking skills. Has an intellectual curiosity to “figure things out.”
• Competitiveness: Driven to compete, win, and to be the best; assertive, tenacious, focused, tough, agile and action oriented. Sees work as a series of challenges and objectives/goals to be exceeded. Is resilient and persistent. Maintains an “I will find a way” mindset.
• Customer Focus: Builds rapport quickly. Genuine interest in helping customers and/or prospects succeed: understands their economic and value drivers. Able to support sales team’s efforts to tailor solutions to meet customer/prospects needs. Focused on moving toward the “close”.
• Continual Learning: Desire to discover and understand, curious, inquisitive, questioning, and observant. Seeks out answers and solutions to problems. Willing and able to learn from experiences and apply to new situations.
• Communication: Clear and articulate in conversation with others. A good listener and able to be confident, assertive, and straight forward with others. When using written communications (letters/emails) candidate must have the ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner paying attention to detail, word choice, grammar, etiquette, punctation, and spelling.
• Interpersonal: Maintains a very positive presence with others: engaging, sociable, optimistic, and friendly. Builds trust and respect easily while maintaining professionalism. Comfortable with many types of people. Connects quickly.

• Technology: Comfortable with latest technology and tools. Leverages systems and resources to maximize job performance (Must be proficient and comfortable utilizing most Microsoft applications such as OneNote, Excel, Outlook and Word).

Ideal Candidate Requirements:

Qualifications

• Flexibility and ability to prioritize tasks as they come up.
• Acts with integrity and professionalism.
• Customer service
• 2-5 years experience in foreman or superintendent role is preferred
• Detail oriented in the execution and follow-up of work
• Takes accountability for performance and results
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Self-motivated

Training:

• All Cosand employees will be trained to their level of employment and safety requirements, this will include on the job training as well as classroom training when it applies. Cosand Construction will provide all safety equipment and PPE that is needed for the task at hand.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Compensation (A competitive package will be offered for the right candidate)

• Benefits:
• PTO
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Retirement Plan