Maintenance Site Manager (Houston, TX) - Austin Industrial

Austin Industries is one of the nation's largest, most diversified U.S.-based construction companies. With more than 7,000 employee-owners, Austin Industries provides nearly every type of civil, commercial and industrial construction services through the expertise of our operating companies: Austin Bridge & Road, Austin Commercial and Austin Industrial.

Austin Industrial, Inc. delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to the nation's leading producers of oil, gas & chemicals; energy; and manufactured goods. As a merit shop, employee-owned company that self-performs more than 95% of a typical project scope, we pride ourselves on helping our customers maximize their return on investment.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Contract Administration

• Know the prime contract and ensure all internal and external reporting obligations and deliverables are identified and complied with.
• Supports the development of an annual site strategic plan for assigned business.
• Manages a site scorecard of key performance indicators and reporting to deliver operational excellence, trending results on a weekly/monthly basis.
• Manage cost budget within markup components.
• Holds customers, subcontractors, and vendors accountable to the performance of agreements.
• Manage timely billing and receivables performance.

Cost and Productivity Management

• Performs monthly financial reviews and takes corrective actions to bring productivity and cost performance within expectations.
• Analyze budget and quantity updates for job cost reporting.
• Performs field productivity analysis to ensure continuous improvement.
• Ensure daily time and required reporting are completed timely and accurately.
• Execute the weekly maintenance schedule by delegating work to front line supervisors.
• Ensure site supervision has the opportunity to review scheduled work prior to execution. Supervise high risk jobs to ensure proper skill sets, safety equipment, PPE, and process are utilized.
• Manage the efficient use of the Austin equipment, vehicles, and tools.

Scheduling

• Perform work force planning and scheduling to support maintenance work schedule.
• Internal and external schedule updating and reporting.
• Manage manpower levels required to execute schedule work. Schedule and coordinate all resources as needed to meet execution requirements.
• Participate in weekly schedule reviews prior to the finalization of the upcoming week's schedule.
• Review "Look Ahead" schedules and schedule updates.

Quality

• Ensure work is in compliance with all applicable quality requirements.
• Ensure timely inspection of work in progress to ensure that work put in place is in accordance with Customer plans and specifications. Ensure that uniformly high standards of quality are established and maintained throughout the project.
• Maintain accurate documentation of inspections and quality reviews, ensuring follow up inspections for all non-compliant work.

Relationships

• Develop and maintain the trust of customer representatives.
• Provide leadership to the project team to promote safety, quality, teamwork, respect, and productivity.
• Effective working relationships with subcontractors and suppliers.
• Manage personnel compliance with EEOC, Harassment, ADA, FMLA, etc.

Safety and Environmental

• Ensures the safety, health and well-being of all assigned employee-owners by assuring compliance with Austin Safety Programs and Policies.
• Lead their team to achieve the company objectives for safety performance. Instill and reinforce a culture of safe work practices throughout the project.
• Responsible to report any safety incidents, near misses, injuries, and quality issues to the Operations Manager, Site or Regional HSE representative. Participate in the incident investigations and is accountable to execute action items.
• When required, serve as the senior safety representative on site.
• Perform safety observations and ensure correction of hazardous conditions.
• Assist in development of project specific safety plans.
• Ensure all environmental obligations required by contract and regulatory agencies are fulfilled.

Other

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education

• Degree preferred; will consider equivalent education that combines technical training and/or related experience.
• CMRT required; will be expected to achieve CMRP certification within 1 year of assignment.

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years in a Superintendent or Project Coordinator role in maintenance operations.
• Experience in managing nested small cap reimbursable operations is preferred.
• General competency in maintenance operations, specific management capability in at least two of the following areas: civil, structural steel, fixed equipment, piping, I&E, soft craft, bulk loading, etc. This would include a good knowledge of craft skillsets, work planning, estimating, scheduling and work execution.

Technical Skills

• Communication - ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization; ability to write routine reports and correspondence; ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point).
• Understanding of maintenance execution best practices.
• Read and interpret project drawings and specifications.
• Ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures concerning employment, compensation, HSE, employee relations, etc.
• Contribute to project pursuit efforts and effectively present to groups or in interviews for project competitions.
• Contribute to evaluation of a preventative maintenance program.
• Risk assessment to identify and mitigate hazards.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• See the "Know Your Rights" poster available in English and Spanish.
• See the "Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision" poster available in English and Spanish.

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

• This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Accessibility Note

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