Overview

Who is OHLA USA?

We are a company who believes in building a better, safer, more sustainable world for generations to come. We are committed to making a difference within our communities, who depend on the safety and reliability of the structures we build and is possible with our main asset, our people!

OHLA USA brings together the construction industry's most diverse talent who thrive in a collaborative work environment and appreciate challenges and opportunities.

Community Asphalt, founded in 1980 as an asphalt paving contractor, based in Miami, Florida, and part of OHLA USA since 2006, has since become specialized in general road construction and transportation infrastructure. From its four operation and plant facilities in Miami-Dade, Fort Myers, Vero Beach and West Palm Beach, the company boasts extensive geographic coverage throughout South Florida, focusing on all aspects of transportation infrastructure development, primarily for state and local authorities. Community Asphalt continues to provide traditional paving services which include grading and paving, pavement milling, surveying, excavation, on and off-road hauling, drainage, utilities, base finishing, and highway sweeping. The company also provides engineering, contracting, design and build and finance and more complex PPP contracts services. These projects include parking lots, industrial and retail complexes, road and highway construction, and airport runways.

As a Paving Foreman, your primary responsibilities will encompass a broad range of tasks aimed at ensuring the safety, efficiency, and quality of our paving projects. You will play a crucial role in leading our teams, managing resources, and maintaining the highest standards of safety and professionalism.

Responsibilities

• Safety Management: Oversee the safety of all crew members and the public near work sites, implementing preventive measures to avoid accidents.
• Crew Training and Management: Conduct onboarding and continuous training for new and existing crew members, enhancing their skills and ensuring adherence to industry best practices.
• Daily Planning and Goal Setting: Collaborate with supervisors to outline daily objectives, communicate these goals to the crew, and ensure their successful achievement.
• Resource Allocation: Assign tasks to team members based on their strengths and project needs, effectively managing personnel to optimize productivity.
• Logistics Coordination: Calculate the required number of trucks for asphalt haulage, considering factors like vehicle capacity, traffic conditions, and distance to ensure timely material delivery.
• Record Keeping: Maintain accurate records of time and materials for job costing and compliance with company policy.
• Performance Management: Address employee concerns, administer disciplinary actions, and recommend personnel changes, including promotions and terminations, to maintain a high-performance team.
• Process Improvement: Recommend strategies to enhance production methods, equipment efficiency, and overall crew performance.
• Site Supervision: Regularly visit project sites to monitor progress, ensure proper resource utilization, and verify compliance with contractual standards.
• Quality Control: Conduct inspections and quality control assessments to uphold high-quality standards.
• Workforce Coordination: Manage crew schedules, adjust pay rates, and document work hours to ensure fair compensation and productivity.
• Team Leadership: Direct and mentor crew members, ensuring effective teamwork and skill development.
• Material and Equipment Management: Forecast and request the necessary manpower, materials, and supplies needed for projects.
• Technical Interpretation: Accurately read and understand project plans and specifications to guide team actions and decisions.
• Project Coordination: Lead operations at construction sites, ensuring seamless execution and coordination of activities.

Qualifications

• Educational Background: Possession of a high school diploma or a GED. Additionally, candidates should bring a minimum of 3 years of experience in asphalt paving operations or an equivalent mix of education and hands-on training.
• Mathematical Proficiency: Competent in performing basic arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This includes working with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, as well as calculating rates, ratios, and percentages, and interpreting bar graphs.
• Technical Skills: Demonstrated ability to operate paving equipment safely and efficiently. Candidates must also be proficient in maintaining accurate records of time and materials used on projects.
• Communication Skills: Strong capability to understand and follow both verbal and written instructions. Effective communication skills are essential for drafting simple documents, understanding correspondence, and creating memos.
• Leadership and Interpersonal Skills: Exceptional interpersonal and supervisory skills are required. Candidates must be adept at leading teams, managing tasks, and fostering a positive work environment through excellent leadership attributes.

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 frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision at 20 inches or less, distance vision at 20 feet or more, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Move throughout a construction jobsite which includes minor obstacles including climbing ladders and inclines, operating heavy equipment, and lifting over 50 pounds. Heavy physical activity performing strenuous day activities of a primarily productive/technical nature. 

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 frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud noise.

Benefits offered by OHLA USA:

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• Short- and Long-Term Disability & Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching
• Tuition Reimbursement after 1 year of employment
• Personal Time Off Program (PTO)
• Engaging work environment
• And much more!!

OHLA ADA Message: 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 will require the ability to freely access all points of a construction site in wide-ranging climates and environments. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; Employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud noise.

OHLA EEO Message: OHLA USA and its affiliates are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

OHLA USA and its subsidiaries (“OHLA”) shall not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to OHLA or an employee of OHLA, by mail, electronically, or otherwise will be considered OHLA property. OHLA will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. OHLA will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred to by the Agency free of any charges or fees. OHLA Human Resources is the only authorized representative of OHLA to execute any agreements with search firms or staffing agencies. As a condition for payment, a Vendor shall have OHLA USA Inc.’s Personnel Agreement and a Job Order signed by an authorized OHLA HR representative. Verbal or written communications from any employee of OHLA and its subsidiaries shall not be considered binding obligations. All resumes, whether unsolicited or solicited, shall be the property of OHLA.

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