Site Supervisor

Not everyone on your team will get along, and how you solve conflicts will reflect the type of manager you will be. The interviewer is looking to see if you can handle your employees bickering.

"While I've never had a very serious issue with employees not getting along, I have seen what happens when people on your team do not seem to work well together. If it's something small, like a work miscommunication, I will call them both into my office and we will hash it out. I've see that type of resolution work well. But, if it's something bigger, like personal drama, I usually approach them separately and ask that they leave any personal issues at the door. Then, I make note to not schedule them in the same shift. I keep my time and my employee's time at work as professional as possible."

The concrete safety fencings are made to contain vehicles in their carriageway being travelled so as to reduce the chances of rebounding into the roads leading to more hazards. In the case of normal fencings upon vehicle crashes the fencings give away so as to absorb as much energy as possible henceforth reducing the impact on the vehicles. But in the case of concrete barriers their purpose is not to absorb energy of vehicles crashing into the barrier but to retain them. They have a curved design so as to allow the vehicles that hit them to slightly go up on the barrier but not overturn. They also prevent the vehicle from again getting back on the road by rebounds. This helps in vastly reducing the chances of other vehicle hazards.

Some of the most common arrangements of wing walls in cases of bridge arguments are as follows:

☛ Wing walls parallel to abutments: This method is considered to take least amount of time to build and is simple as well. But on the downside this method is not the most economical. The advantage of this type of design being that they cause the least amount of disturbance to the slope embankment.

☛ Wing walls at an angle to abutments: This design method is considered to be the most economical in terms of material cost.

☛ Wing walls perpendicular to abutments: The characteristic of this design is it provides an alignment continuous with the bridge decks lending a support to the parapets.

In general there are two main approaches of designing the reservoir floors to prevent leakage of water due to seasonal and shrinkage movements:

☛ In this approach the movement joints of the reservoir floor panels are such that the free expansion and contraction of the panels takes place. Every panel is isolated from the other panels and two panels have a sliding layer between them to help in sliding.

☛ The second method does not provide any room for free movement. With seasonal and shrinkage movements, some cracks are designed to voluntarily occur on the floors of the service reservoirs. These tiny cracks are spread throughout the floor and are simply too minute to cause any leakage or corrosion of the floors. But the difference also in this method is that the amount of reinforcement used is much more than the first approach.

In order to make a elastomeric bearing act/ function as a soft spring it should be made to allow it to bulge laterally and also the stiffness compression can be increased by simply increasing the limiting amount of the lateral bulging. In many cases in order to increase the compression stiffness of the bearing the usage of metal plates is made. Once steel plates are included in the bearings the freedom of the bulge is restricted dramatically, also the deflection of the bearing is reduced as compared to a bearing without the presence of steel plates. The tensile stresses of the bearings are induced into the steel plates. But the presence of the metal plates does not affect the shear stiffness of the bearings.

The major types of reinforcements used in prestressing are:

☛ Spalling Reinforcement: The spalling stresses leads to stress behind the loaded area of the anchor blocks. This results in the breaking off of the surface concrete. The most likely causes of such types of stresses are Poisson`s effects strain interoperability or by the stress trajectory shapes.

☛ Equilibrium reinforcements: This type of reinforcements are required where several anchorages exist where the prestressing loads are applied in a sequential manner.

☛ Bursting Reinforcements: These kinds of stresses occur in cases where the stress trajectories are concave towards the line of action of load. In order to reduce such stresses reinforcements in the form of bursting is required.

☛ How many people have you supervised in the past?

☛ Have you personally hired, trained, and coached staff?

☛ How do you handle difficult employees?

☛ Have you ever fired someone due to erratic behavior? If so, explain what process or steps you used to conduct the dismissal?

☛ Describe your management philosophy.

☛ How would your subordinates describe your management style? If asked, what would your subordinates say about you?

☛ What aspects of your previous management roles have you excelled within?

☛ Why should we choose you over other applicants? What's unique about you?

☛ How do you decide important decisions when it comes to staffing, accounting, operations, warehousing, sales, and so on?

☛ With your past (or most recent) employer, what have you done to cut costs? Provide a couple of examples.

☛ How do you motivate your staff to produce optimal performance?

☛ What have been your most notable achievements from the last 2-3 years?

☛ What programs or systems have you introduced to streamline internal operations?

☛ Have you been involved in renegotiating contracts with small to large vendors? What have been your successes?

☛ What has been your experience working with union and non-union personnel?

☛ Have you received any awards or recognition that you're particularly proud of?

☛ How would you describe your personality?

☛ When a problem arises, do you pause and think of a solution, or have you conditioned yourself to act immediately with what seems right?

☛ How many hours per week are you capable of committing to this position?

☛ Are you someone who will stay until the job is done, or do you typically leave when your shift is through?

☛ What techniques do you use to rally your team?

☛ What has been your involvement with self-evaluation and 360-degree programs?

☛ What are your thoughts on organizational restructuring?

☛ Have you had any experience with mergers and acquisition?

☛ Have you been involved with securing or assisting with the maintenance of ISO certifications?

☛ Any involvement with certain methodologies or strategies; i.e. Kanban, Agile, Lean Management?

☛ What is your expected salary?