Grading Supervisor
Compensation starting at $100,000.00 commensurate with experience level.
Core Job Responsibilities:
Crew & Daily Supervision: Directs field workers and equipment operators, manages attendance, assigns daily tasks, and conducts pre-shift safety huddles (“toolbox talks”)
Plan & Blueprint Interpretation: Reads, interprets, and executes civil grading plans, blueprints, shop drawings, and engineering specifications.
Grade Checking & Surveying: Works alongside survey teams and soil technicians to set grade stakes, verify elevations, check slopes, and monitor trench or embankment depths.
Heavy Equipment Management: Oversees the operation of heavy machinery (such as bulldozers, graders, scrapers, backhoes, and excavators), monitors productivity, and ensures operators complete daily maintenance and inspections.
Technology & Control: Utilizes GPS grading systems and machine-control technology to maintain tight earthwork tolerances.
Safety & Compliance: Enforces OSHA regulations, conducts site hazard assessments, and maintains a clean, organized, and compliant workspace.
Scheduling & Reporting: Coordinates with project superintendents, tracks daily production quantities, reports material/labor usage, and helps plan look-ahead schedules.
Required Qualifications:
Experience: Generally, requires 3 to 5+ years of hands-on earthwork, mass/fine grading, or heavy civil construction experience, including prior field leadership experience.
Education: High school diploma, GED or trade school completion certificate (or equivalent work experience).
Technical Skills: Proficiency in reading civil engineering plans, using grade-checking software and equipment.
Physical & Environmental Conditions: Ability to work outdoors year-round in various weather conditions, perform physical labor, work up to 12 hours/day, 60 hours per week with some Saturdays, and navigate active construction sites safely.
Licenses: A valid drivers license with the ability to pass pre-employment and random drug tests plus background checks.