Construction Superintendent Certification Program Details

Learners will delve into the leadership role of a superintendent, examining the link between ethics and leadership, essential qualities and principles, communication challenges, and creating a personal leadership plan to manage projects and teams effectively.

Learn to define project quality standards and scope of work, apply quality requirements, support team quality efforts as a project leader, and utilize management tools to foster a culture of quality on projects.

Master information management for a project team by identifying key information, documenting handling processes, developing a management plan, clarifying documentation roles and responsibilities and understanding tools for effective information management.

Learn to develop a project schedule, use it as an effective management tool and address delays. Understand the purpose of schedule maintenance and reporting and explore additional applications for the schedule.

In this course, participants engage in preconstruction planning to ensure constructible designs, refine medium and short-term construction planning by breaking down tasks into detailed steps, and leverage planning skills, knowledge and field experience to drive project success.

Master the fundamentals of estimating, cost control, project accounting and cost reporting. Learn techniques for critically reviewing cost reports, using earned value and productivity methods to manage labor costs, overseeing materials, logistics and waste reduction to effectively control project expenses.

This course emphasizes the importance of contracts in construction projects, equipping superintendents with essential knowledge to protect both the project and the company. Participants will learn to identify the benefits of various contract types, understand key contract clauses relevant to their role, and effectively manage the procurement of equipment, materials and subcontracts.

This course addresses essential aspects of projectlevel planning and the labor market, including assessing labor needs and costs, managing equipment, tools and material requirements, and examining the advantages of implementing project-specific training programs.

This course explores the superintendent’s Human Resources responsibilities, the role of the HR department, and how superintendents collaborate to build strong teams. Topics include effective recruiting and onboarding techniques, strategies for evaluating, retaining and transitioning employees, and an overview of key laws that influence their interactions with staff.

Learn to define project scope, identify and assess the impact of changes and assign responsibility for those changes. Participants will also learn to lead a team capable of recognizing change, following the proper change control documentation process and implementing an effective change management system.

This course covers the development of a comprehensive risk management plan. Superintendents will gain the skills to confidently identify, mitigate and manage risks. They will also learn strategies to prevent claims and understand their role in defending against claims when necessary.

This course delves into the fundamentals of contract law and its application in day-to-day construction site operations. It clarifies essential legal terms and conditions to facilitate contract comprehension. Participants will learn to manage claims as superintendents, such as documentation, contractual notice and dispute resolution. The course concludes with an overview of key laws and regulations.

In this course, participants discover what constructibility is and its significance in construction projects. Learners explore key considerations for conducting a constructibility analysis and how it applies across all project phases. The course also covers constructibility reviews and includes case studies that illustrate constructibility in practice.

In this course, participants will learn the essential elements of a site logistics plan, including just-in-time delivery, and how to effectively develop one. Participants will also explore the connection between the site logistics plan and project goals, such as safety, quality, productivity and scheduling.

In this course, participants learn the importance of project closeout and why early planning and organization are essential. They will be equipped to ensure a smooth hand off to the owner by delivering a facility that meets all requirements and fulfilling all contractual obligations, including the necessary documentation.

This course covers essential concepts related to the safety role as a superintendent. Participants will learn about leadership in safety, the costs associated with incidents and injuries, OSHA inspections, safety best practices, hazard recognition and remediation, safety education and training, and incident and emergency preparedness.

• An easy-to-access, online program that is mobile friendly. Learners can train anytime, anywhere.
• Individuals can work at their own pace and complete the program without any guidance.
• The program can also be delivered to a cohort within a company led by a facilitator. Organizations are encouraged to include their company-specific information as part of the cohort delivery.
• NCCER is in the process of developing a national cohort model for companies who want the cohort experience for their employees but do not have a facilitator to run the program.

• For your company, assigning learners to take the course as self-paced online training makes it easy to get started immediately.
• For participants, self-paced online learning gives them the flexibility to gain new skills while on the go. Participants can fit training into their busy schedules without
  sacrificing time on the job.
• Training in this way also allows aspiring or experienced foremen to learn at their own pace and apply new knowledge directly in the field, boosting quality, safety and productivity on-site.

• Within each lesson, participants encounter Check Your Understanding questions to help them measure their learning progress.
• Review and Practice questions at the end of each course provide a way for the learners to evaluate their understanding of the full course content and practice for the end-of-program assessment. These questions provide real-time feedback on right or wrong answer choices to help learners build their understanding and their confidence prior to the assessment

• The Construction Superintendent Certification Program includes 16 online courses that present instruction through text, audio, scenarios, videos and activities.

• You do not have to set up anyone as a facilitator, but if you would like to set up a cohort to have a group go through the program together, you will have access to a facilitator guide that explains how to set up the cohort, best practices, and activities to do when meeting virtually or in person.
• Selecting a facilitator is totally up to you. This individual may be an experienced superintendent, a company trainer, or anyone else you feel has the time, knowledge and skills to effectively engage with the group and apply the concepts to your organization’s practices.
• If you would like suggestions and/or referrals to qualified facilitators, NCCER can help! Please reach out to the Workforce Development Solutions team.

• The specific responsibilities of a facilitator are at your discretion. Suggested responsibilities include:
  • Reviewing the provided facilitator guide
  • Familiarizing themselves with the program content
  • Determining the frequency of group meetings (e.g., weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly)
  • Assigning learners and providing schedules and deadlines
  • Setting expectations for the group and creating a community of learning
  • Organizing and setting up meetings
  • Addressing questions related to course content
  • Utilizing the pre-designed activities
  • Encouraging learner accountability for completion and setting them up for success
  • Helping learners apply program concepts

• The program was designed and created with industry subject matter experts, technical writers and instructional designers to ensure the program was developed to meet quality online learning standards.
• The program includes clear learning objectives, authentic content, engaging activities, review questions and an end-of-program assessment.
• The end-of-program assessment evaluates the knowledge of the learner and provides a personalized training prescription that shows which areas or knowledge domains the learner has mastered and the domains that may require remediation. You can give the assessment before a learner takes the course and after to see the increase in knowledge.
• You will have access to a dashboard in our learning platform that allows you to see learner progress through key course components and monitor grades and completions.

• The program includes an assessment designed to evaluate your experienced superintendents. If they meet the experience requirements and pass the assessment, they earn certification without having to go through the training. Additionally, the assessment generates a gap analysis report, highlighting their strengths and areas for improvement, which can be aligned with training to support additional upskilling.

• Visit NCCER.org and click the Support button in the top-right corner.
• Alternatively, you can use this direct link: Construction Superintendent Certification Experience Verification form

• Participants are allowed two attempts to pass the assessment. Each time the assessment is taken, it generates a gap analysis report highlighting strengths and weaknesses directly tied to the training for upskilling.
• For those who don’t pass, this report provides a clear training plan — a focused prescription to address areas of improvement before retaking the assessment.