Project Construction Supervisor

Project Construction Supervisor

Colorado Springs Utilities is hiring a Project Construction Supervisor to lead a team of construction managers and coordinators who drive the construction phase of utility capital infrastructure projects. These projects include linear and vertical construction of electric, gas, water, and wastewater utility infrastructure ranging from small to large multi-million-dollar projects and programs. If you have experience with leading and managing project construction efforts, along with the ability to lead, coach, and manage employee performance, this may be the opportunity for you!

A day in the life of a Project Construction Supervisor may include:

• Developing and implementing consistent project construction management and inspection practices, processes, methodologies, and metrics in support of innovating our business processes and tools used to deliver projects, programs, and portfolios of work
• Collaborating with Colorado Springs Utilities' project supervisors, managers, engineers, operations, and maintenance teams along with contracted engineering, construction, and inspection resources to deliver linear and vertical infrastructure projects in electric, gas, water, and wastewater service lines
• Providing leadership, functional expertise, and work direction to staff
• Proactively addressing and resolving issues as they emerge to ensure smooth operations and maintaining team productivity
• Developing detailed work plans, schedules, cost estimates, resource plans, and status reports, conduct risk analysis, and monitor the progress of plans against milestones and budgets
• Providing technical and analytical guidance to project teams and ensuring adherence to quality standards and review of project/program deliverables
• Leading a team in providing services during the planning and design phases including activities such as value engineering and constructability reviews
• Leading a team in performing field services to ensure the safe completion of assigned Construction phase deliverables within budget, to schedule, and meeting quality standards
• Supervising a staff of construction professionals, maintaining resource classification series with human resources, making hiring and pay decisions, assigning and monitoring work, developing employees, and managing performance

Who You Are

• Experienced leader in construction and/or project management
• Ability to build rapport, work collaboratively with direct reports, peers, utility operations, maintenance, engineering, construction trade workers, management, and executive leadership
• Proficient in linear and vertical construction best practices, and methods to construct and deliver infrastructure construction projects; sequencing work and managing construction schedules and costs; and maintaining accurate project site records
• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field - or through demonstration of training, education, and experience that provides the required skills, knowledge, and abilities for this position
• Knowledge of procurement contracting strategies, processes, engineering and construction contracts, and change management
• Possession of a Professional Project Manager (PMP) Certification and/or Certified Construction Manager (CCM) Certification is valued

Our Commitment to Our Employees  

Our people are the heart and soul of Colorado Springs Utilities.  They keep the lights on, gas flowing, water coming in, and wastewater leaving.  We do not just say people are important – we prove it!  That’s why we are honored to invest in protecting the health and financial security of our employees and their families through our rich benefits program.

• Time Off – Because everybody needs time off to recharge
  • Vacation – New employees accrue 13 days of paid time off to start, while our more tenured employees accrue 24 days per year
  • Personal Leave –3 days per year of personal leave
  • Paid Holidays –12 paid holidays per year
  • Sick Leave – Accrue 12 days of sick leave annually for those days when you or a family member is feeling under the weather
  • Vacation Buy – Purchase up to 40 hours of additional vacation time
• Pension Plan – Looking forward to a comfortable lifestyle once you’re done working? The Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) provides you with retirement benefits and peace of mind when you retire 
• Medical – Select from three comprehensive medical plans, starting at $0 per month.  Employees also enjoy access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA). (eff