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Manages multiple small construction projects or one large construction project, in general construction, asphalt, concrete, or bridge disciplines; maintaining the highest levels of safety and meeting or exceeding company and customer quality standards.

Essential Functions

• Manages total construction project to meet design, budget and scheduling specifications:
• Coordinates work with other contractors
• Interfaces with client representatives
• Authorizes and approves project personnel transactions, purchase requisitions, field design change requests
• Facilitates collaboration between Estimating, Project Control, scheduling and other internal departments to keep project on track
• Analyzes project plan, cost performance, weather conditions and equipment availability
• Ensures resource availability
• Provides weekly schedule updates
• Plans, coordinates and supervises onsite
• Provides day to day direction to field staff
• Manages project labor, including hiring, disciplining and firing
• Provides technical assistance as needed
• Assists project management with project procedures, working documents and standards
• Ensures all onsite personnel comply with required project, safety, OSHA procedures and work rules
• Resolves conflicts and labor relations issues; understands contract agreements with regard to scheduling and assigning work
• Manages performance of employees; ensures that work meets customer and company expectations for quality and technical specifications
• Communicates effectively:
• Advises project manager or senior managers of problems, potential problems, schedule difficulties
• Shares information about work plan with subordinates, peers, subcontractors
• Collaborates with project control, estimating, schedule and equipment to keep project on schedule
• Facilitates collaboration among work crews
• Promotes and maintains safe work environment:
• Exhibits safe work behaviors; evaluates work area for hazards; eliminates or controls hazards
• Wears all prescribed PPE
• Leads daily safety huddles and safety training; follows safe work plans
• Ensures subordinate employees are following safe work plan and exhibiting safe behaviors

• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, including but not limited to continuously growing in alignment with the Company’s core values, competencies, and skills.

Education Qualifications

• Required Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management or related field

Experience Qualifications

• Required 8+ years experience supervising a field construction crew
• Preferred prior experience in heavy highway construction

Skills and Abilities

• Accountability
• Communication
• Decision Making/Decision Quality
• Ethics/Integrity
• Instills Trust
• Developing Others
• Drives Results
• Resourcefulness

Licenses and Certifications

• Drivers License Required

Working Conditions/Physical Demands

• Continuous exposure to a variety of extreme conditions at construction job sites, including heights, moving vehicles, stopped traffic
• Continuous exposure to equipment cabs, including computer controls, dials, handles, knobs, switches
• Outdoor conditions that include inclement weather, precipitation, heat, humidity, dust, asphalt and/or concrete, dirt
• Regular exposure to noise, including horns, mechanical equipment, heavy equipment, jackhammers
• Regular exposure to moving mechanical parts, vibration, fumes and airborne particles
• Regular exposure to indoor work environments including job trailers, field offices or asphalt plants/labs
• Climbs in and out of equipment, job trucks or trailers
• Uses abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue
• Uses good manual dexterity (hand, hand with arm, two hands) and multi-limb coordination, with the ability to quickly move arms and legs, to operate equipment, hand tools, laptop, tablet
• Possess excellent stamina to work between 8-12 hours per day
• Uses sight and sound to visualize work area
• Travel is primarily local during business day; some out-of-area and overnight travel may be required.

About Milestone Contractors

Milestone Contractors is a privately held, family-owned business headquartered in Indianapolis. Milestone Contractors is a fully integrated heavy construction company specializing in highway, bridge, asphalt and concrete paving and site development. Over its 30-year history, Milestone has built a reputation for prioritizing safe