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Excavating Superintendent

Horst Group
Lancaster, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/4/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2031

Excavation Superintendent

Join Our Team at Horst Excavating!

Are you ready to apply your leadership and managerial skills to oversee daily operations of diverse projects, from planning through completion? Horst Excavating is seeking a dedicated Superintendent to manage on-site earth moving activities, ensuring projects are completed within budget, on schedule, and to the highest quality standards outlined in contract documents.

Key Responsibilities:

Managerial Skills Expectations:

  • Safety Leadership: Act as or supervise Horst Excavating's competent safety person on site, maintaining activities in accordance with company safety policy and project-specific safety plans.
  • Daily Coordination: Schedule and coordinate daily work activities, including subcontractor work and deliveries, ensuring conformance with the project schedule.
  • Productivity Monitoring: Communicate estimated productivity rates for self-performed work to employees and monitor conformance to these rates.
  • Team Development: Foster a positive working atmosphere, work schedule, and habits. Mentor foremen to develop their leadership and managerial skills, supporting their growth into positions of increased responsibility.

Project Skills Expectations:

  • Profitability Assurance: Ensure project profitability by inquiring about mobilization and lead times for subcontractors and materials.
  • Progress Calculation: Calculate job progress, risks, and time necessary to perform tasks. Assist the Project Manager in creating and updating the project schedule.
  • Quality Monitoring: Monitor the quality of all work, whether self-performed or subcontracted. Document as-built conditions on a record set of as-built drawings as changes occur.
  • Remediation: Address all non-conforming work, ensuring compliance with municipality requirements, specifications, safety standards, and company policies.
  • Contract Review: Review contracts, subcontracts, and purchase orders. Communicate effectively with the Project Manager, Owner, Subcontractors, employees, inspectors, suppliers, architects, and engineers.
  • Problem Solving: Interpret contract documents, project layouts, and solve problems as they arise.
  • Reporting: Prepare Daily Log Reports, Job Site Managers Weekly Report, O.S. Reports, etc. Purchase materials via Field Purchase Orders. Coordinate project site set-up (fencing, signage, trailers, etc.).

Minimum Qualifications:

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • At least 6 years of excavation experience.
  • Minimum of 2 years management experience.
  • Ability to read and understand blueprints and contract documents, and effectively communicate their contents.
  • Required clearances for school projects, including Pennsylvania and Federal criminal history records, fingerprint submission, Act 34 background check, and Act 151 child abuse clearances.

Excellent Benefits:

  • Affordable and customizable Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
  • Generous 401K match and profit-sharing plan.
  • Employer-covered Short Term Disability.
  • Employer-covered Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance Program.
  • Employer-covered Identity Fraud Protection.
  • Generous paid vacation policy.
  • Paid holidays / Paid sick days.
  • Tuition Assistance.
  • Referral Bonus.

If you are interested in joining an established commercial excavating firm with a long-standing reputation for quality work and dependability, apply and submit your resume today.

Only qualified candidates will be considered.

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Horst Group is an EEO employer and maintains a drug-free workplace.

 

Salary : $80,000 - $125,000

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