Are you an experienced construction professional looking to make a meaningful impact across Eastern North Carolina's vibrant coastal and inland communities? Homes by Dickerson is seeking a driven, proactive Construction Superintendent to oversee our job sites spanning Washington, New Bern, and Carteret County.

Reporting to the Sr. Project Manager or VP of Construction, you will lead the charge in building high-performance, quality homes while managing trade contractors, maintaining strict safety standards, and ensuring exceptional client satisfaction. Ideally, you are already rooted in or eager to relocate to the Greenville/Washington area to manage this dynamic territory.

Position Summary:

Display a proactive resourcefulness to solving, anticipating, and preventing problems while working with a sense of urgency.
Read and understand plans and specifications.
Build high quality homes through the management of trade contractors, holding trades accountable to their contracts for service.
Motivate trade contractors and suppliers to achieve the level of quality and performance required to meet Homes by Dickerson’s standards.
Demonstrate the ability to manipulate a construction schedule to effectively complete the job safely, on time and on budget.
Communicate with management to cut building costs and resolve current and future complications
Demonstrate the ability to work with clients in a professional manner.
Set proper expectations and display an awareness of construction to ensure client confidence.
Promote and have knowledge of other Homes By Dickerson communities, initiatives and standards.
Attend seminars, training sessions, and company meetings on production related subjects.

Key Accountabilities:

Manage individual job sites
1. Maintain a clean job site
  1. Hold trade contractors accountable for a clean and orderly job site.
  2. Police lot and interior of home as required maintaining orderly and clean site.
2. Silt Fence Maintenance
  1. Inspect silt fence daily and repair minor damage immediately.
  2. Schedule repairs as required to maintain silt fence integrity.
  3. Document trade damage and create a framework of accountability for trade contractors and vendors.
3. Maintain accessibility to homes for agents, customers and inspectors
  1. Walk boards
  2. Adequate and maintained signage
  3. Adequate steps providing safe access through at least one entrance.
4. Maintain finished homes
  1. Keep landscape fresh (mowed lawn, beds weeded, fresh pine straw/mulch, etc.)
  2. Interior cleanliness, appearance (clean floors and countertops, bulb replacement etc.)
  3. Exterior polish (power washing, clean porches, sweep walks, clean windows, etc.)
5. Maintain job site safety
  1. Complete regular log reports to be submitted weekly.
  2. Enforce OSHA rules.
  3. Personally follow OSHA and company safety standards.
General Neighborhood Upkeep
1. Keep neighborhoods presentable to homeowners, agents and potential customers.
2. Schedule street cleaning when required.
3. Maintain Homes by Dickerson lots that are not yet under construction.
4. Manage common areas.
Material management
1. Check in major deliveries, including material counting.
2. Manage fill in order requests from trade contractors, including expediting delivery and validating orders.
3. Schedule material returns in a timely manner:
  1. On a weekly basis select a random return to audit for accuracy.
PO System/Budget/Invoices
1. Issue purchase orders for all material and labor upon initial ordering or scheduling.
2. Issue variance purchase orders for all material and labor outside of the budget line items. All variance purchase orders must have a dollar value included.
3. Assign VPO’s to each return.
4. Monitor individual project budget line items, notifying the project manager of anticipated overruns and/or problems.
5. Review, vet and approve invoices as required by accounting in the allotted time frame.
Inspect all phases of construction for quality, per plans and specifications. Adjust and provide feedback on design and details that do not meet Homes by Dickerson’s standards.
Compile, schedule and complete pre and post orientation punch lists (starting at front elevation continuing through attic). Pre-orientation punch list is required to be complete prior at time of trim outs. Post-orientation punch list is required to be complete prior to closing.
Demonstrate the ability to manipulate a construction schedule while managing the day-to-day activities to effectively complete the job on time.
1. Provide appropriate lead times for individual trade contractors and vendors.
2. Regularly and consistently follow up with trade contractors and vendors, communicating schedule changes and appropriate job information, including red line plans, specification sheets and change orders.
3. Always know the status of specific jobs.
4. Manage all municipality inspections; including knowledge of what inspections are required and when.
  1. Understand scheduling requirements for these inspections.
  2. Make sure the job site is ready for inspections; including having inspection set of plans on site.
5. Demonstrate the ability to distinguish and prioritize critical and urgent job planning and for specific jobs.
Demonstrate knowledge and the implementation of the various components included in our construction of building high performance homes.
Consult with engineers, architects, and designers on design problems.
Price and expedite appropriate level of customer change orders.

Education and Experience Requirements:

2 to 5 Years of Construction Management Experience

High School Diploma or Equivalent Required

Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management or Relevant Field Preferred

Desired Skills & Expertise:

Ability to maintain a composed problem-solving approach when pressed for time

Ability to maintain composure and handle frequent job changes or unexpected disruptions

Demonstrate sound business ethics

Anticipate problems and develop contingency plans

Have a strong sense of urgency about getting results

Have the desire to be influential for individual projects, with your team, the company and ambition beyond basic job management

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