Plumbing Foreperson

What's In It For You

Roles and Responsibilities

• Accountable for project plans and schedules and ensuring the crew’s daily and weekly activities to meet goals
• Identify and/or verify that all tools and materials required by the crew are available
• Identify needs and deficiencies in the plan/schedule and communicate these to the appropriate persons
• Translate general work requirements into a prioritized plan for individual tasks and assignments
• Resolve, or if unable to resolve, report any scheduling conflicts with other crews and contractors to the appropriate person
• Accountable for ensuring that the completed work meets standards and for recommending work processes that will improve productivity and product quality
• Oversee the execution of the work, including quality and production, by ensuring that the crew works to job specifications and follows blueprints
• Inspect completed work and initiating timely resolutions
• Ensure new crew members are oriented to the job
• Assess competency and capability of tradespersons; evaluating crew capability and benchmarking to others to ensure that the crew meets required levels of quality
• Assign individual and crew tasks
• Coordinate on the job training for apprentices and facilitating mentoring of apprentices by Journeymen/women
• Identify other training needs for the crew and facilitate the delivery of that training
• Responsible for facilitating a safe work culture and is accountable for the safety of the crew and must understand the legal liability of the role
• Responsible for ensuring crew members apply the standards for safe working conditions and are fit for work each day
• Conduct “safety tool box” meetings