Civil General Foreman (Pasadena, TX) - Austin Industrial

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, Gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

Civil Foreman

The purpose of this job is to provide supervision and coordination of workers (both skilled and unskilled) engaged in various types of construction projects, such as highway structures, clearing right-of-way, pile driving, preparing subgrade, laying road surface, installing curb, installing underground utilities, traffic control, concrete paving of streets and related lime and dirt work, etc. The goals of this position include scheduling work to meet timetables in a safe manner, per the plans and specifications, and to meet estimated cost. This position may be required to maintain a good working relationship with inspectors, developers, vendors, subcontractors, etc. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• A Civil Foreman is responsible for managing large public construction projects such as communication towers, bridges, highways, and airports.
• Entails leading a team that takes on construction projects that are of importance to the public and supervising crews of workers to ensure that projects proceed smoothly.
• Civil foreman refers to one whose profession is to coordinate operations and oversee workers at construction sites.
• A foreman ensures that he/she constructs construction work according to priorities and plans, oversees production schedules, and monitors crew attendance, and allocates general and daily responsibilities.
• The construction foreman is expected to carry out numerous core responsibilities in his/her daily activities.
• These include monitoring team members to ensure that operations flow since construction projects require group efforts to be completed successfully.
• He/she may also be required to hire people and schedule their work hours on the construction site, communicate instructions, carry out thorough inspections on works, and sometimes work side-by-side with workers to demonstrate techniques or to help.
• It is also the duty of a civil foreman to try to keep the construction team’s energy and spirits up, as good morale increases productivity.
• Therefore, he/she is required to handle construction workers by stepping in to resolve issues between workers, firing employees who do not perform their duties efficiently and effectively, and dealing with worker-related concerns such as payroll.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

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 sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education – no minimum education requirements.

Experience – 8 years of Journeyman level experience.

Certification/License – NCCER Preferred Civil and Valid State ID

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