Lead Welding General Superintendent - Combined Cycle - Oklahoma

Job Summary

Leads and coordinates all site welding activities, interfacing with direct-hire welding supervision, major subcontractor supervision, field engineering, quality, and project management. Ensures project requirements and expectations are met for welding safety, quality, productivity, schedule, cost, and supervisory performance. Provides welding supervisors and craft with the technical direction, work priorities, and resources required to execute work safely, on time, and in accordance with approved procedures, drawings, specifications, and applicable codes. Ensures welding sequence, system turnover priorities, and project expectations are clearly communicated across all levels of supervision. Coordinates interpretation of welding technical requirements and provides required data to the direct-hire workforce, subcontractors, Construction Engineers, and Quality personnel. Ensures compliance with company standards, approved welding procedures, contractual commitments, and applicable regulatory and code requirements. #LI-KC1 #welding #superintendent

Key Responsibilities

• Lead site welding execution in compliance with Black & Veatch safety, quality, ethical, contractual, and performance standards.
• Plan welding sequences, work fronts, crew deployment, equipment, consumables, access, preheat, post-weld heat treatment, and supporting resources.
• Develop and manage three-week look-ahead plans aligned with the CPM schedule, system priorities, testing, punch-list completion, and turnover milestones.
• Ensure work complies with approved WPSs, PQRs, welder qualifications, drawings, specifications, material-traceability requirements, and applicable codes.
• Coordinate with Quality, Field Engineering, Project Controls, other disciplines, and subcontractors to resolve constraints and complete inspections, NDE, documentation, and acceptance activities.
• Monitor welding progress, productivity, repair rates, labor, quantities, costs, and subcontractor performance; report results and implement corrective actions.
• Review timesheets, production records, installed quantities, progress payments, technical requests, extra-work authorizations, and potential back charges.
• Conduct planning meetings, maintain daily site records, communicate work priorities, and administer welding work packages and turnover requirements.
• Develop Job Hazard Analyses for welding, fabrication, erection, hot-work, and heat-treatment activities; reinforce stop-work responsibility.
• Supervise, coach, train, and evaluate welding general foremen, foremen, and other direct reports while driving continuous improvement and lessons learned.

Management Responsibilities

Supervises work of others. Responsible for hiring, discipline, and pay administration of their subordinates.

Preferred Qualifications

Construction Management, Welding Engineering, Engineering Technology, or related degree; or equivalent combination of education and extensive field welding leadership experience. Completion of industrial relations, cost control, back-charge, scheduling, construction management, and contract administration training. Demonstrated experience leading welding execution on large industrial, power, energy, or heavy construction projects. Working knowledge of applicable welding codes and standards, such as ASME, AWS, and API, as required by project scope. Current or prior Certified Welding Inspector credential is preferred.

Preferred Skills:

• Combined or Simple Cycle construction experience

• Welding field leadership, workface planning, and crew coordination
• Knowledge of Welding Procedure Specifications, Procedure Qualification Records, welder performance qualifications, weld maps, and material traceability
• Working knowledge of applicable ASME, AWS, API, project, and client welding requirements
• Understanding of welding processes, consumable control, preheat, post-weld heat treatment, distortion control, and repair practices
• Coordination of visual inspection, non-destructive examination, testing, documentation, and turnover requirements
• Ability to analyze weld production, productivity, reject and repair trends, and implement corrective actions
• Budget and Cost Control Skills
• Industrial Relations knowledge for recognizing and resolving potential labor issues
• Knowledge of Company construction guides and manuals
• Construction Safety awareness and comprehension
• Knowledge of Cultural and Social Awareness Skills
• Conflict Management Skills
• Multi-tasking Ability (prioritize, organize, schedule work)
• Problem-solving Skills (identify, analyze, research, evaluate, resolve)
• Project Management Skills
• Communication Skills
• Constructability Knowledge within discipline
• Construction Knowledge within other disciplines
• Conceptual Planning Ability
• Legal Contract understanding ( EPC / Subcontracts )
• Human Relations Skills
• Risk Assessment/Management
• Time Reporting Systems
• Cost Code Labor Productivity Systems
• Time Reporting Policies and Procedures
• Expense Reporting Policies and Procedures
• Construction Guides and Standards
• Administrative Policies and Procedures

Minimum Qualifications

11+ years experience as a Superintendent or Construction Manager on equivalent projects . Valid Driver's License. All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Certifications

OSHA 10 certification.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

Physical Demands:
• Lift and carry heavy items weighing up to 50 pounds. 
• Stand, Kneel, Bend, Stoop, Move, and Walk long distances in and around confined, cluttered places, and uneven areas.
• See and hear naturally or with correction.   
• Full range of motion and flexibility consistent with requirements of the job duties. 
• Requires using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls according to a set procedure. 
• Requires repetitive movement. 
• May require work above 5 feet in height.
• Climb and maintain balance on steel framework, stairs, ladders and scaffolds. 
• Work up to a 12 hour shift doing hard physical labor in varying temperature extremes and other outside conditions. 

Work Environment:
• Typical construction site environment:  

• Requires working in cramped work spaces and getting into awkward positions. 

• Requires working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32F degrees) temperatures and exposure to inclement weather such as dust, wind, snow, rain, etc. 
• Requires working in extremely bright or low lighting conditions 
• Includes exposure to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable. 
• Work around hazardous equipment.
• Typical office environment.
• This position is considered a safety sensitive position.