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1ManWreckingCrew said:
So personally I would want a super on every job to make sure everything is done the way it should be and to be safe. Pure demolition operators are hard to come buy.yeah anyone can wreck a house but it takes a special breed to take multi story buildings down
I agree with that. They are definitely are hard to find, if they are any good they are working already. Some of them get real comfortable and don
I agree there about the competent operators. I have had to use temp/union spec operators on a few jobs who were great excavation operators but didn't have any seat time wrecking. It makes for a very tense jobsite.
7:06 PM
September 22, 2006
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I started out as a laborer and worked my way up to project manager in 15 years.. Right now I work for a Very large Demolition company In the MD/DC/VA area..I took a demotion and went back to being a superintendant because I love working in the field..We have it worked out that all superintendants are working supers..Even our crane operators are supers.So when It comes to wrecking a building the Super will do the initial Demolition and then we have the operators follow up for clean up..Ive been wrecking buildings for 15 years and I have had operators work for me wrecking and they just cant do it the way I want it done or there just not safe enough for me..So personally I would want a super on every job to make sure everything is done the way it should be and to be safe. Pure demolition operators are hard to come buy.yeah anyone can wreck a house but it takes a special breed to take multi story buildings down.. Thats my opinion
8:07 AM
yeah, the best arrangement is when management has come up through the ranks, got its hands dirty and really understands what is going on in all aspects of the demo job.
It's good for repeat business from the GC too.
I have done it in the past where I had foreman who ran smaller jobs. For the larger, longer projects we had a superintendent along with 1 or 2 forman, depending on the job.
We also had a general superintendent who would visits the jobs daily or at least every other day.
With the general superintendent going to the job, the general contractor feels that he has some kind of relationship with the main office. If the project manger only shows up for the weekly meetings.
My favorite supers are ones who have worked up through the ranks and know pretty much all of the jobs on site; of course finding one who can then liase with a client is a little more difficult but not impossible.
Professionalism is better present as demobud stated. I know a few contractors that have superintendants/operators/foreman/laborers. It just don't get it on the big ones.
Micromanaging like that can only limit a company's growth. You have to respect a client and give them any attention necessary without losing productivity.
Try working for a Fortune 500 company like that...well...file your paperwork in the recycle bin, if not they'll do it for you!
I like the idea of a super/foreman especially when "competent person" issues may arise. I do know some who think a super is a waste of money and that operators/laborers are all that are necessary; I don't agree with that. I feel like most clients like to have one person on site that they can access with out interrupting the flow of work and you can't do that when you have to get off the machine to stop and speak with the client. Just my two cents.
How does everyone set-up their jobs with regards to super/foreman??
Do you have a foreman, operator, laborer???
Do you expect you operators to run the job ???
We try to have a super/foreman running the job with the operators running equipment and laborers doing what laborers. We also have some operators that can run work.
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