Building Superintendent Job Description
Building superintendent
provides general maintenance and repairs, such as minor plumbing, electrical, carpentry, roofing, flooring, and painting as required.
Building Superintendent Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective building superintendent job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included building superintendent job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Perform maintenance tasks such as light carpentry, painting, plumbing, and electrical repairs
Supervises scheduled employees involved in electrical and mechanical
Managing the modernization safety program
Maintaining customer quality assurance
Provide expert supervision for Commercial construction projects for the JOC contract in Kansas City, MO
Perform routine preventative and corrective maintenance tasks
Inspects community continuously, identifying, documenting, and correcting maintenance needs
Clean and repair building fixtures including lights, locks, windows, doors, screens, walls, floors, gutters, drains, sprinklers, toilets, water fountains
Pressure cleaning sidewalks, catwalks, and pool deck
Performs janitorial and custodial tasks as needed, including daily litter collection, sweeps sidewalks and catwalks, cleans areas around dumpsters
Building Superintendent Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Building Superintendent
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: OSHA, CPR, NYC, P99, S95, S14, S13, S12, AED
Education for Building Superintendent
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the building superintendent job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Management, Construction Management, Engineering, Education, Civil Engineering, Business, Electronics, Project Management, Construction, Technical
Skills for Building Superintendent
Desired skills for building superintendent include:
Electrical
Plumbing
Carpentry trades
Excel and PowerPoint
Mechanical
Use of Microsoft Outlook
Word
Adherence to OSHA work-site and personal safety requirements
General maintenance requirements
Applicable local
Desired experience for building superintendent includes:
Organizes work orders to be performed by Building Maintenance Staff
Maintains an annual inventory of permanent tools and equipment for each property
Conducts weekly inspections of all engineering spaces and equipment
Understands operating procedures and proper chemical treatment levels for cooling towers and boilers
Employee regularly uses a computer workstation or wireless device for extended periods, and must be able to reach out/up and grasp, work in close quarters with others, communicate over the telephone and communicate in writing
Employee is regularly required to see, talk and hear
Building Superintendent Examples
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Building Superintendent Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a building superintendent. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for building superintendent
- Manages relationships with contractors involved in electrical and mechanical maintenance, housekeeping, shipping and receiving, office relocation, grounds keeping, security, and related building services for day-to day operations
- Supervise all lower-level grounds maintenance, building trades, building maintenance, automotive maintenance, mechanical trades and electronic technology personnel
- Cleans mail room, pool area, laundry room, and other common areas
- Hiring, training, firing of foremen and craft personnel
- Management of sub-contractors on site
- Coordinate and evaluate self-perform craft operations
- Track and monitor costs vs budget
- Develop schedules for crews, equipment and materials
- Develop detailed work plans in conjunction with engineers
- Oversee equipment utilization
Qualifications for building superintendent
- Provide input on contractual matters and constructability review
- Identify safety hazards and take necessary corrective actions
- Lead culture of safety through commitment to an incident- free environment
- Assure quality compliance through use of specifications and internal QA/QC resources
- Lead and attends various meetings
- Communicate key project information to owners, designers, architects, governing authorities, subcontractors, suppliers and internal partners
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Building Superintendent Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of building superintendent. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for building superintendent
- Maintain good owner relations
- Be responsible for the repair and maintenance of the facility and its equipment
- Support administrative functions including training, documentation, program/SOP development, and execution
- Run/supervise capital projects throughout the facility, the purchase of all required maintenance supplies and equipment
- Facilitate/negotiate outside contractor contracts, as required
- Moderate physical effort is required, including building walk thorugh, bending, pushing, pulling and lifting
- Directs Construction process and is responsible for implementation of construction remodel program
- Maintains updated records of current costs of all elements of remodel and makes such information available for evaluation and comparison
- During the bidding process, reviews the submitted costs when requested
- While in the construction phase, provides field observations of building design and concept issues to GC Development
Qualifications for building superintendent
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering or a closely related degree preferred
- Ability to understand project scheduling and cost control
- Ability to read and understand project owner specifications and engineering drawings
- Ability to quickly learn and understand various processes regarding the company’s policies, procedures and software programs
- Ability to access all points of a construction site in wide-ranging climates, environment and terrain
- Must have ability to read, write, and communicate in English
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Building Superintendent Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a building superintendent. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for building superintendent
- Schedule building maintenance, preventative maintenance, and/or repair and renovation work
- Perform inspections of work performed and completed, review inspection reports and results with employees, and provide guidance on how to improve performance
- Conduct quality inspection as it relates to trades
- Prioritize assignments, monitor projects, follow up on steps or phases of work orders, and handle event set-up and scheduling
- Request and/or prepare estimates including specification development regarding material and project needs
- Develop and administer an effective, efficient cleaning program, procedures, work methodology, and operation protocol as it relates to trades and housekeeping processes and procedures for the MUC and SSC
- Manage the department schedule for completing health and safety certifications and ensure compliance in accordance with state rules and regulations
- Perform porter duties such as mopping, refilling dispensers, maintaining restrooms, waste collection and removal, garage maintenance
- On-call 24/7, with the ability to respond to alarms (fire, security)
- Direct contractors that will be engaging in painting and performing structural repairs to masonry, woodwork and furnishing of buildings and mechanics on HVAC repairs
Qualifications for building superintendent
- Experience managing union labor preferred
- Must be able to work flexible hours and be on call as needed
- Experience with Building Link or similar building maintenance software is a strong plus
- Graduation from college with a major in business, engineering, public administration or related degree and progressively responsible experience in management of facilities operations
- Demonstrated supervisory experience to direct and coordinate the work of others
- Experience developing operations manuals
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Building Superintendent Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a building superintendent. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for building superintendent
- The ideal candidate will be responsible for directing and supervising the work and efforts of subcontractors to ensure that the requirements of the project are met with respect to safety, schedule, quality control, and cost control
- Supervise and manage a team of Field Superintendents
- Support the requirement to provide construction management services that meet or exceed the expectations of our clients
- Help to develop, update, modify, and maintain the project schedule
- Communicate the date by which materials must arrive on the job
- Develop and maintain a site safety plan, and a site logistics plan
- Lead weekly foreman and superintendent meetings
- Facilitate the resolution of all field related issues with the project management, design team and Owner
- Attend weekly meetings with the project team for the purposes of updates on the status of the field work and communication of any issues requiring the input or action of others on the project team, and for notification to the project team of issues that may be of importance or interest to them
- Communicate any issues requiring additional information from designers in a timely manner to the project manager for issuance of RFIs or submittal approvals
Qualifications for building superintendent
- Intermediate computer application skills
- Demonstrated and successful experience in effectively facilitating and coordinating customer service, communications and logistics
- Must have an approved certificate from an accredited related apprenticeship program and four years related work experience following the apprenticeship program, including one year supervisory experience
- 1+ year Project Management experience, ideally within the construction or precast concrete industry
- Experience using MS Project highly desired
- Ability to prioritize and direct the work of others, including staff, contractors, vendors, third-party entities
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Building Superintendent Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of building superintendent. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for building superintendent
- Supervise building maintenance superintendent 1 and assigned (e.g., building maintenance, equipment maintenance, skilled trades) staff and have independent responsibility for all programs of maintenance and repair
- Plan, coordinate and oversee all maintenance and repair programs for all shops and building under jurisdiction of one assigned adult correctional institution
- Assists in preparing or prepares quarterly, annual and biennium budget and exercises budgetary control for department’s or institution’s maintenance and repair programs
- Approves purchase of equipment and supplies
- Develops cost estimates
- Develops long range plans for entire maintenance operation
- Reviews specifications, proposals and contracts
- Monitors contracts and agreements
- Prepares progress report of maintenance projects
- Approves/disapproves requests for leave
Qualifications for building superintendent
- Experience in commercial/ structural construction
- Solid decision making and reasoning skills, ability to develop original ideas to solve problems, and perform operations analysis and quality control analysis
- Must possess and maintain an applicable NY State Driver License and a driving record acceptable to insurance carrier
- Graduation from high school and five (5) years of work experience in building maintenance or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities
- 1 to 3 years as Trade/Shipyard/military/Planning /Production Control/Construction Engineering
- Must be able to work all shifts, at hieghts, and in extreme temprerature conditions as required