Supervisory Training Program
Course Descriptions:
Unit 1: Leadership & Motivation
This course will describe the value of effective supervision of workers and improve the construction supervisor’s ability to lead and motivate others. It will help you recognize your style of leadership and how to utilize other styles when appropriate.
- The dollars and sense of people in construction
- The role of the construction supervisor
- Helping people perform better
- Analyzing worker needs to affect motivation; leading others
- Providing positive feedback to improve job performance, attitudes and abilities
- Training and orienting crew members
- Teams and team building
- Leadership skills in action
Unit 2: Oral & Written Communication
This course presents a body of knowledge and skills that today’s construction supervisors need in order to be effective communicators on their job site. You will acquire the skills and understanding of positive, direct communication with an emphasis on construction supervision.
- Effective communication
- Learning to listen
- Carrying on conversations
- Persuasion, negotiation, and confrontation
- Communicating with all levels of an organization
- Putting it in writing
- Meetings that work
- Electronic communication
- Improving communication
Unit 3: Planning & Scheduling
Construction supervisors understand ways in which planning and scheduling saves time and money, while increasing quality in the construction process.
- Preparing the project plan
- Communicating the plan
- Preparing bar chart and critical path schedules
- Computer use in scheduling
- Using the schedule on the jobsite
- Updating the construction schedule
- The schedule as documentation
- Using planning and scheduling
Unit 4: Contract Law & Documents
This course will provide information about contract documents and construction law to help supervisors recognize the roles and responsibilities of all contracted parties, to develop an understanding of how contract documents can be helpful to solve problems and resolve conflicts, and to develop positive relationships between all parties in the construction process.
- Introduction to contract documents and construction law
- Creating a positive environment through partnering
- Contractual relationships
- Contract forms and documents
- Managing general conditions
- Good documentation practices
- Changes
- Differing site conditions
- Time impacts
- Negotiation of resolutions
Unit 5: Construction Productivity & Cost Management
This course covers understanding how project estimates are compiled, how to compare actual project costs with those estimated and how to control costs to meet the estimate. This course also details how productivity is measured, how the supervisor plays a major role in increasing jobsite productivity and how a small increase in productivity can have a significant impact on the time and cost of a project.
- Construction estimates
- Who controls project costs
- Reporting and analyzing actual costs
- Planning for cost control
- Cost control strategies
- Labor cost variances
- Working with project partners
- Managing risk and loss potentials
- Cost control strategies
- Post-project evaluations
- Benchmarking construction productivity
- Improving productivity through preplanning
- New skills for effective supervision
- Personnel management
- Equipment management for productivity improvement
- Jobsite productivity, planning and scheduling
- Quantifying lost labor productivity
- Record keeping, control, changes, and defect analysis
Unit 6: Risk Management & Problem Solving
This course will cover the roles and responsibilities of a construction supervisor in accident prevention and loss control.
- Safety leadership, communication and expectations
- Planning for site safety
- Site safety management
- Site security and protection
- Multi-employer jobsite safety
- Construction risk management
- Safety and human resources
- Regulatory procedures, record keeping and documents
2023 / 2024 Schedule
- Unit 1: Aug-Sept 2023
- Unit 2: Oct-Nov 2023
- Unit 3: Nov-Jan 2024
- Unit 4: Jan-Feb 2024
- Unit 5: Feb-May 2024
- Unit 6: May-June 2024
STP Advisory Board Members
Amber Shepard
Self-Perform Assistant Manager
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
Brad Nelson
General Superintendent
Hensel Phelps
Jeff Dalton
Vice President
FCL Builders, LLC
Mike Sulcer
Director of Field Operations
DP Electric
Ryan Poropat
Field Operations Manager
Mortenson
Stephen Nichols
Instructional Design & Training Manager
Arizona Builders Alliance
Zachary Byard, CHC
Superintendent
Adolfson & Peterson Construction
