Concrete Foreman - Christman Mid-Atlantic Constructors
Knoxville, TN
About the Job
Build More with Your Career at ChristmanSoutheast Constructors
With projects throughout the mid-Atlantic, Christman Southeast Constructors (CSEC) is a great place to begin, continue or grow your career. We're searching for the next generation of innovative minds who want to shape the world and live to build.CSEC is looking for a Concrete Foreman to join our Trades division in our Knoxville, TN region. You will oversee, run, and direct the general and daily responsibilities for their team. Other responsibilities include coordinating work according to priorities and plans ensuring carpentry jobs are completed on schedule.
What You Will Do:
As Concrete Foreman, your primary daily responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:
- Directly oversee the performance of workers completing specific phases of construction to meet the company standards and client expectations.
- Monitor the work performance and productivity of subcontractors as well as laborers and craft workers.
- Manage time cards, maintain timesheets and coding for laborers.
- Motivate/Train new workers to meet the production schedule.
- Schedule Christman subcontractors and material deliveries to include ready mix concrete, concrete pump trucks, rebar subcontractors and suppliers.
- Conduct tool box safety talks
- Can serve as Project Safety Team Mentor and develop subordinates.
- Interpret specifications, blueprints and job orders to workers and assign duties.
- Interpret and effectively communicate company policies to workers and enforce safety regulations.
- Conduct Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) with crews.
- Must be competent to erect scaffolding (OSHA certification is required) and assist carpenters in ladders for structure assembly above ground.
- Correctly rig and hoist materials.
- You may be responsible for other various construction duties at the site.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Proven experience as construction foreman/forewoman.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
- Physical stamina to perform physical tasks in various weather conditions.
- Attention to detail.
- Excellent organizational and leadership skills.
- Ability to communicate and report effectively.
- Problem-solving abilities.
- Must be able to read and understand safety rules, instructions in the use and maintenance of tolls and equipment.
- Due to varied conditions, must ensure that workers know the hazards and understand the safety requirements of each job, and must wear the appropriate personal protective equipment as required by the company's safety policies for every situation.
Expected Hours of Work: Full time, more than 40- hours a week. May work nights and weekends, construction may, at times, continue around the clock to meet deadlines.
Travel: Must have reliable transportation. Must be willing to travel 60 miles a day dependent on project location relative to where the employee lives
Why Christman?
At Christman, everyone is an owner. Through our employee stock ownership plan, each employee-owner shares in the collective success and wealth of our nationally recognized company and is eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance, 401K contribution, professional development and tuition reimbursement, and more.
CSECis a premier full-service constructioncontractor with a tradition of excellencespanning more than a century and more than 75 years of regional experience.We are passionate about constructingfacilities that drive oureconomy, improve our public infrastructure,and create the spaces that enable ourclients to do what they do best.
With offices in Knoxville, Tennessee and Greensboro and Raleigh, North Carolina, CSEC specializes in:
- Carpentry & General Trades
- Concrete & Civil
- Mass Timber
- General Contracting
Learn more about how you can grow as a Christman Expert, Leader and Partner and build more with us.
Work Environment and Physical Demands: The majority of work is completed outside at the construction site and in an office trailer where the project is monitored, and daily decisions are made about construction activities. The position is often exposed to sounds and loud noises, such as construction equipment. The job requires the wearing of protective equipment when on the construction site (hardhats, safety glasses, and highly visible clothing). Temperatures and conditions may vary depending on the weather and seasons. As part of our focus on being a Great Place to Work, we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics we expect:
- Ability to occasionally stand, walk, sit, reach (with hands and arms), climb, balance stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Must be able to talk, hear, use hands and fingers to handle or feel, be able to use a telephone and operate a keyboard.
- Be able to frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds.
- The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Notice to Recruiting Agencies (Unsolicited Resumes): The Christman Company does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our applicant tracking system, website, or to any Christman employee/affiliates. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Christman employees or its' affiliates will be considered property of The Christman Company and will be processed accordingly. Christman will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume without an executed agreement and assigned to a specific search.
The Christman family of companies is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.