Position Title: Supervisor
Reports to: Superintendent
Direct Reports: Labourers, Leading Hands, Plant Operators
Location: Melbourne
Position Summary
The Supervisor is responsible and accountable for the onsite site performance labour, plant and subcontractors allocated to your duties. This will include the Health & Safety of your team, the care of the environment in which your work and the quality of the wok you and your team produce. Your sites must be both safe and productive, with our works built right the first time. Responsible means ensuring these things occur, not doing it all yourself and that you use the available resources efficiently and allocate tasks appropriately.
The Supervisor is in control of the day-to-day activities of the work area allocated to you on site. This includes planning activities in advance; organising day-to-day labour and plant resources to ensure the works are completed within the construction budget and program; and direct management of subcontractors. Subcontractor management includes detailed staging of their works to optimise the program and opportunities.
Supervisors work closely with our Project Engineers to complete projects on time and within budget. The Engineers are in place to provide you with technical, administrative and HSEQS support during the construction of the works. Together, you should ensure the program is regularly updated (i.e. weekly) and reflective of our forecast.
A Supervisor maybe required to liaise with the client’s site representative to ensure the smooth running of the project, while communicating and cooperating with other trades in matters relating to HSEQS, as well as logistics and procurement. This may require you to attend site meetings with the client’s representative to provide program updates and resource scheduling.
Because you are a leader of the organisation, a Supervisor must always maintain a professional demeanour and appearance, setting the standard for all site personnel. The Company’s reputation and image in the community is very important to the successful operation of the business and must be upheld at all times.
On larger projects, your responsibilities extend to coordinating construction activities, direct labour employees including other supervisors, subcontractors and work groups, and internal and external plant, driving effective performance from all to ensure the safe and successful completion of the project on time and to the specified quality.
Job Description
Key ResponsibilitiesAs a Supervisor, your main roles and responsibilities can be broken down into the following areas:
(1) Efficient application of resources (labour and equipment)
(2) Safety Management;
(3) Environmental Management; and
(4) Quality Management.
(1) Resource Management• Be responsible for the efficient deployment of labour, plant and other resources to the area or areas of the project allocated.
• Follow the approved construction sequences and mythologies proscribed in the approved Work-pack.
• Monitor and record the physical progress of the portion of the project allocated.
• Ensure the site rules are followed in relation to Traffic Management
(2) Safety Management - As a Supervisor/Foreman, you are responsible for the safe undertaking of all works on your site on any given day, including the safety of all site personnel. This requires you to:
- Plan all activities in advance;
- Maintain a safe workplace, and lead by example;
- Effectively communicate with all site personnel;
- Report all incidents (including near misses) and/or injuries immediately; and
- Suspend work when site conditions and/or the works are deemed to be unsafe.
- Do not start work without:
- Delivering and/or facilitating a daily pre-start meeting, where job specific task risk assessments are undertaken, culminating with all workers signing on to the pre-start; and
- All permits to work e.g. underground and overhead services permit, working platform permit, etc.
- Review the construction safety documentation and work packages prepared by the Engineer/s, being:
- A fit for purpose Project Management Plan (PMP);
- Fit for purpose Construction Safety Procedures (that reference global SWMS’ and PHRAs);
- Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS’);
- Plant Hazard Risk Assessments (PHRAs); and
- Related Quality documentation and Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs);
- You must ensure that all plant & equipment is:
- Inducted to site and maintained in safe working condition at all times;
- Accompanied by a Plant Hazard Risk Assessment (PHRA);
- Thoroughly inspected by the Plant Operator prior to starting each shift;
- Any and all detected faults are immediately reported (by the Plant Operator) in the DPI and verbally communicated to you, and communicate any fault/s to the Workshop Manager and/or Mechanic (where the safe operation of plant is affected, the plant must be immediately tagged out until corrected);
- Regularly serviced, with recent service records provided and retained on the plant (or equipment); and
- Kept clean and presentable by the Plant Operators.
(3) Environmental Management - Promote environmental awareness to project personnel
- Implement and monitor all environmental controls in accordance with the Environmental Management Plan.
(4) Quality Management - Be responsible for all works being planned and built in accordance with our contractual requirements
- Understand the drawings and all technical aspects of the project before proceeding
- Cleary communicate site activities to all site personnel and ensure timely response to the requirements of the program
- Be responsible for all works being planned and executed in a manner that meets or exceeds budget expectations. This requires you to communicate key production targets to site personnel, as well as manage plant (and equipment and tools) and labour selection to achieve production forecasts and meet program requirements
- At the end of the shift, record the day’s events in the Company’s project management software, GeoSITE or GeoPRO.
Furthermore, you will be required to:
- Attend the office on a regular basis to:
- Coordinate with the Engineers and operational staff; and
- Maintain a rolling 2-week program & resource plan for your project/s
- Attend and actively participate in regular Supervisor development sessions organised by the Company, as well as other training programs
- Escalate any IR issues to the Project Manager
- Comply with Code of Conduct
- Comply with and promote other Company policies, guidelines and procedures
- Actively participate in the onboarding, probationary review and annual performance review processes
- Other duties that are consistent with your qualifications, skills and capabilities.
Key Competencies for the Position
- Constant alertness to project risks and opportunities, including proactive intervention where required
- The ability to make good decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, experience and judgment
- The ability to follow up and follow through on instructions and tasks
- The ability to use and accurately enter data into the Company’s project management system, GeoSITE or GeoPRO
- Fluent in the Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications and related software packages
- Good quality communication skills, both written and verbal.
Experience/Qualifications
• ~10 years’ hands-on experience as a Supervisor/Leading Hand/Operator in the construction engineering industry, in related disciplines such as SMPE and associated civil infrastructure
• Trade certificate or similar
• Construction Induction Training (CIT/’White Card’, formerly a ‘Red Card’)
• Provide First Aid (Level 2), ensuring this certificate is current at all times
• Certificate III in Occupational Health and Safety (or similar Safety Leadership-type program)
• Current Driver Licence and own reliable vehicle.