General Foreman Construction
General Foreman Construction
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Job Description
Duties & Responsibilities
Job Position: General Foreman (Construction)
Ref: 4993
Location: Eastern Cape
Salary: Negotiable commensurate with qualification and experience
Qualifications / Requirements:
Qualifications/certifications required:
- Minimum of Grade 12
- Minimum of 15 years technical experience
- Minimum of 10 years managerial experience
- Able to thrive under pressurised and stressful situations
IT skills:
- Diary management One note intermediate
- Excel intermediate
- Navigating on virtual meeting platforms
- Outlook intermediate
- PowerPoint intermediate
- Word intermediate
System and software skills:
- BuildSmart intermediate
- OneDrive and Bos intermediate
- SharePoint intermediate
- SHEQ compliance system advanced
Management skills:
- Change management
- Delegation
- Managing performance
- Mentoring skills
- Situational management of people
- SMME management
- Strategic objectives management
- Subcontractor management
- Team morale and effectiveness
Personal effectiveness skills:
- Accurate recordkeeping
- Communication skills verbal and written
- Conflict management
- Consequence management
- Coordination skills
- Deadlines achievement
- Ethics and confidentiality
- Mentoring skills
- Ownership and accountability
- Planning and organising
- Presentation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Telephone etiquette
- Train the Trainer intermediate
Technical skills:
- Bill of Quantities interpretation advanced
- Community participation advanced
- Construction industry standards advanced
- Construction material and supplier knowledge advanced
- Construction programming advanced
- Contract knowledge advanced
- Cost reporting advanced
- Drawings understanding advanced
- Measurement advanced
- Negotiation skills
- Project costing
- Project management
- Project sequencing
- Report writing
- Wet trades understanding
- Structural understanding
- Services installation knowledge
- Setting out
Key Performance Areas:
Ensure overall implementation and maintenance of HSE measures in the work area:
- Actively contribute to creating a safe working environment
- Ensure discipline and compliance amongst team and subcontractors
- Issue NCRs where required to correct and prevent non conformance
- Report all incidents and near misses to their line manager and HSE Officer
- Ensure good housekeeping practices are maintained
- Attend fortnightly HSE meetings
- Conduct weekly toolbox talks with teams
- Complete required checklists and register as legal appointments
- Actively contribute to achieving site specific HSE objectives
Taking complete responsibility and accountability for the overall quality compliance of all areas under his/her control:
- Extensive knowledge of the project specifications
- Complete comprehension of the company quality system as well as the associated compliance documentation i.e. project quality control plans work instructions and associated checklists and registers
- Constantly assuring and comparing activities against the area specifications
- Completion of documentation as contemplated by quality control plans and relevant checklist
- Active participation with project team in terms of the effectiveness of control measures
Drive the construction process on site:
- Supervise to the contracts financial provisions
- Identify and escalate delays variations changes and new items and monitor ongoing issues
- Identify and recommend opportunities for profit enhancement / waste reduction using value engineering principles where possible
- Advise the Site Agent and Quantity Surveyor of any additional costs incurred on the project
- Proactively drive progress of the works challenging methods to maximise progress and minimize costs
Execute the project plan and program:
- Executes the works in accordance with the layout provided by the Contract Manager/Site Agent
- Ensure the site establishment is maintained to the standard expected from the company
- Study the project method statement to gain a comprehensive understanding of the project and the construction process materials to be used and sequencing of works
- Study and understand and execute the project drawings and details prior to commencing the works to gain an in depth understanding of the project project layout project requirements details finishes services etc
- Implement the program project and project details and requirements as per the sequence of the works
- Know the interim completion dates the practical works and final completion dates
- Setout monitor and manage sequence of the works ensuring a logical sequence of works and minimising abortive works or reworks
- Order materials timeously works out a delivery schedule maintain a record of all materials in stock and ensure that stock controls are in place using BuildSmart
- Order materials timeously works out a delivery schedule maintains a record of all materials in stock and ensures that stock controls are in place using build smart
- Allocate areas for delivery of materials on site and optimises storage. Monitors the removal of materials tools or equipment off site; ensures no materials are allowed off site without the signature of the Site Agent
- Ensure that all plant particularly hired plant is used effectively and returned promptly
- Ensure that all plant is stored used and maintained in accordance with regulations and best practice
- Supply information to resolve disputes if they arise
- Identify minimise and flag areas of risk and dispute
- Monitor progress of the works on the project to ensure the program is being achieved or exceeded
- Notify the Contract Manager / Site agent of any slippage on program and assist in the drawing up and implementation of a recovery program to recover time lost
Collaborate with stakeholders and ensures good relations:
- Supervises all subcontractors in all aspects of the work (HSE Quality housekeeping program sequence of works timekeeping
- Attend all subcontractor meetings
- Liaise with the project QS on all financial matters
- Function as the main point of contact for all site personnel on the project
- Provide expertise to build sustainable relationships with key parties
- Monitor the progress of all subcontractors and promotes and maintains constructive relationships with all parties involved in the contract ensuring good communication and clear expectations
- Liaise with professional design team on details
Desired Experience & Qualification
Qualifications / Requirements:
Qualifications/certifications required:
- Minimum of Grade 12
- Minimum of 15 years technical experience
- Minimum of 10 years managerial experience
- Able to thrive under pressurised and stressful situations
IT skills:
- Diary management One note intermediate
- Excel intermediate
- Navigating on virtual meeting platforms
- Outlook intermediate
- PowerPoint intermediate
- Word intermediate
System and software skills:
- BuildSmart intermediate
- OneDrive and Bos intermediate
- SharePoint intermediate
- SHEQ compliance system advanced
Management skills:
- Change management
- Delegation
- Managing performance
- Mentoring skills
- Situational management of people
- SMME management
- Strategic objectives management
- Subcontractor management
- Team morale and effectiveness
Personal effectiveness skills:
- Accurate recordkeeping
- Communication skills verbal and written
- Conflict management
- Consequence management
- Coordination skills
- Deadlines achievement
- Ethics and confidentiality
- Mentoring skills
- Ownership and accountability
- Planning and organising
- Presentation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Telephone etiquette
- Train the Trainer intermediate
Technical skills:
- Bill of Quantities interpretation advanced
- Community participation advanced
- Construction industry standards advanced
- Construction material and supplier knowledge advanced
- Construction programming advanced
- Contract knowledge advanced
- Cost reporting advanced
- Drawings understanding advanced
- Measurement advanced
- Negotiation skills
- Project costing
- Project management
- Project sequencing
- Report writing
- Wet trades understanding
- Structural understanding
- Services installation knowledge
- Setting out
Key Performance Areas:
Ensure overall implementation and maintenance of HSE measures in the work area:
- Actively contribute to creating a safe working environment
- Ensure discipline and compliance amongst team and subcontractors
- Issue NCRs where required to correct and prevent non conformance
- Report all incidents and near misses to their line manager and HSE Officer
- Ensure good housekeeping practices are maintained
- Attend fortnightly HSE meetings
- Conduct weekly toolbox talks with teams
- Complete required checklists and register as legal appointments
- Actively contribute to achieving site specific HSE objectives
Taking complete responsibility and accountability for the overall quality compliance of all areas under his/her control:
- Extensive knowledge of the project specifications
- Complete comprehension of the company quality system as well as the associated compliance documentation i.e. project quality control plans work instructions and associated checklists and registers
- Constantly assuring and comparing activities against the area specifications
- Completion of documentation as contemplated by quality control plans and relevant checklist
- Active participation with project team in terms of the effectiveness of control measures
Drive the construction process on site:
- Supervise to the contracts financial provisions
- Identify and escalate delays variations changes and new items and monitor ongoing issues
- Identify and recommend opportunities for profit enhancement / waste reduction using value engineering principles where possible
- Advise the Site Agent and Quantity Surveyor of any additional costs incurred on the project
- Proactively drive progress of the works challenging methods to maximise progress and minimize costs
Execute the project plan and program:
- Executes the works in accordance with the layout provided by the Contract Manager/Site Agent
- Ensure the site establishment is maintained to the standard expected from the company
- Study the project method statement to gain a comprehensive understanding of the project and the construction process materials to be used and sequencing of works
- Study and understand and execute the project drawings and details prior to commencing the works to gain an in depth understanding of the project project layout project requirements details finishes services etc
- Implement the program project and project details and requirements as per the sequence of the works
- Know the interim completion dates the practical works and final completion dates
- Setout monitor and manage sequence of the works ensuring a logical sequence of works and minimising abortive works or reworks
- Order materials timeously works out a delivery schedule maintain a record of all materials in stock and ensure that stock controls are in place using BuildSmart
- Order materials timeously works out a delivery schedule maintains a record of all materials in stock and ensures that stock controls are in place using build smart
- Allocate areas for delivery of materials on site and optimises storage. Monitors the removal of materials tools or equipment off site; ensures no materials are allowed off site without the signature of the Site Agent
- Ensure that all plant particularly hired plant is used effectively and returned promptly
- Ensure that all plant is stored used and maintained in accordance with regulations and best practice
- Supply information to resolve disputes if they arise
- Identify minimise and flag areas of risk and dispute
- Monitor progress of the works on the project to ensure the program is being achieved or exceeded
- Notify the Contract Manager / Site agent of any slippage on program and assist in the drawing up and implementation of a recovery program to recover time lost
Collaborate with stakeholders and ensures good relations:
- Supervises all subcontractors in all aspects of the work (HSE Quality housekeeping program sequence of works timekeeping
- Attend all subcontractor meetings
- Liaise with the project QS on all financial matters
- Function as the main point of contact for all site personnel on the project
- Provide expertise to build sustainable relationships with key parties
- Monitor the progress of all subcontractors and promotes and maintains constructive relationships with all parties involved in the contract ensuring good communication and clear expectations
- Liaise with professional design team on details
Package & Remuneration
Salary: Negotiable commensurate with qualification and experience
Employment Type
Full-Time
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