The Mechanical Superintendent oversees the planning, coordination, and supervision of mechanical construction, installation, and maintenance activities to ensure work is completed safely, on schedule, within budget, and to quality standards while leading crews and coordinating with other trades.
- Works with the project manager to ensure implementation of Tesla's safety program, including integrating Teslas safety program into all site plans and procedures and adhering to all safety and record-keeping requirements
- Supervises, directs, coaches, trains, and mentors the project team, including direct and indirect reports
- Effectively communicates with own forces and trades and ensures that performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements are met
- Consistently collaborates with construction/project manager and project team. Proactively manages potential problems, work interferences, and schedule conflicts/setbacks
- Liaises between field engineers, estimators, and subcontractors to ensure construction complies with drawings and specifications
- Liaises with client, other site contractors, union and labor relations, and site and office representatives
- Visualizes an entire project, plans, and creates the complete project schedule, identifies the critical path, and anticipates constructability issues
- 5 years of progressive experience in field supervision
- In-depth knowledge of and experience in construction industry and company operations, including building materials, construction specifications, and methods and procedures
- Understanding of project scope and ability to apply basic engineering principles and embed solutions in construction plans and schedules
- Proficient understanding of and ability to apply logic to the schedule to build a plan using scheduling software
- Ability to coordinate multiple scopes of a construction project, including scheduling, monitoring, and coordinating own forces work and trade contractors with three-week lookahead schedules
- Thorough understanding of productivity rates or own forces work, Labor Cost Reports, and ability to interpret cost reports
- Ability to lead and run effective site meetings with the client, consultants, trades, own forces work, and internal employees; ability to present at client meetings or for project pursuit work
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
- Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
- Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
- Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
- Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
- Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
- Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
- Tesla Babies program
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
- Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)