1.5.5 The Superintendent

The Superintendent is responsible for the supervision of all field activities related to the physical construction. He or she reports to, and carries out the direction of, the Project Manager with respect to field operations, and thereby directs the daily progress of the work. The jobsite workforce is made up of an army of specialists. The Superintendent must ensure that the combination of their components results in a cohesive product that achieves the required quality and is completed in the shortest possible time. To that end, the Superintendent must continually work to ensure adequate staffing of the workforce, sufficient supply of materials, and complete information as necessary to assemble the product, and must plan for all these things enough in advance so as not to interfere with the progress of any one component. General duties of the Superintendent include:

• Generating, securing, or otherwise confirming all information needed to create, monitor, and modify the progress schedule on a continuing basis
• Developing the progress schedule with the Project Manager
• Participating in scope reviews of the various bid packages to properly coordinate their respective interfaces and ensure that nothing is either left out or bought twice
• Working with the Project Manager to develop and administer the site utilization program, site services, security arrangements, and other facilities and arrangements necessary for appropriate service to the construction effort
• Identifying field-construction and work-sequence considerations when finalizing bid package purchases
• Monitoring actual versus required performance by all parties
• Determining whether subcontractors are providing sufficient workforce and hours of work to achieve performance commitments
• Monitoring the performance of the company’s Purchasing and Project Engineering functions to ensure that all subcontracts, material purchases, sub-mittals, deliveries, clarifications, and changes are processed in time to guarantee jobsite arrival by, or before, the times needed
• Directing any company field staff
• Being thoroughly familiar with the requirements of the general contract, thereby identifying changes, conflicts, etc., that are beyond the scope of responsibility
• Preparing daily reports, job diaries, narratives, and all other regular and special documentation as determined by the company and by the project needs