Construction Foreman Certification Program
The new Construction Foreman Certification Program is a comprehensive, turnkey solution designed for existing and upcoming foremen to provide them with a solid foundation for their first role in field leadership.
This rich and robust online program provides valuable knowledge and practical tools that individuals can immediately apply on the jobsite. Participants learn to communicate effectively with crews and lead them efficiently, productively, and safely, equipping frontline supervisors with the skills needed to tackle any job site challenge.
The program serves two key organizational objectives: risk reduction and employee retention.
Program Benefits include:
- Flexible online training that can be implemented as a self-paced, facilitator-led, or hybrid model.
- Practical, real-world lessons by seasoned construction industry experts.
- Accelerated leadership development that focuses on leading people, managing work, creating a safety culture, solving problems, and making decisions.
- A rigorous assessment designed to evaluate the knowledge and skills of individuals who have completed the program or assess knowledge and skills of current construction foremen.
- Ability to include company-specific training and/or information.
Pricing
Includes all five courses, assessment & one assessment retake
Includes one assessment retake
All five courses – Only available after assessment purchase
This program is designed for:
This program is completely self-paced and designed to do the teaching for you. You can assign it to your employees and let them go through it on their own, or you can set it up as a cohort with a facilitator that meets with the group regularly to answer questions and go through predesigned activities and scenarios. Either way, NCCER provides everything you need.
You can complete this program on your own. Master all five core courses when your schedule allows and at your own pace. Start building your construction leadership skills today! Click the link below to get started.
Course Details
You can take the courses in any order
Introduction: Getting Started
This course includes everything a learner needs to have a successful training experience, including how to get started on the learning journey, an overview of the program and its elements, and a learner’s guide to help refresh their study skills. The Introduction also features information about the pathways to training and how to get help, should a learner need it.
- Leadership and Supervision: Driving Results and Motivating Success
In the Leadership and Supervision course, you will explore the connection between ethics and leadership and learn about leadership principles and strategies. You will also learn about the role of a supervisor, including solving problems, coaching, and managing performance. - Communication: Connecting Effectively
The Communication course covers the effective communication methods critical to a foreman’s success. The course covers specific communication challenges you will face and offers practical advice and techniques to improve your communication skills. - Productivity: Maximizing Project Outcomes
The Productivity course covers the processes critical to making work productive, including planning and scheduling, and managing tools, information, materials, and logistics. - Quality: Delivering Value
In the Quality course, you will learn about the importance of doing work right the first time and the need to understand and communicate the quality requirements for your work. You will recognize how you can build, support, and maintain quality work and a quality culture on your projects. - Safety, Health and Environment: Safeguarding the Future
The Safety, Health, and Environment course covers key topics, such as leadership in safety, the cost of incidents and injuries, safety best practices, hazard recognition and remediation, safety education and training, incident and emergency preparedness, and protecting the environment.
What’s Included
Each of the five courses is designed to engage learners and support comprehension. An introduction course is included to provide a learner everything they need to know to be successful. Each course includes:
- Learning Objectives help prepare and set expectations for what learners will learn in each course
- Learn and Engage lessons provide instruction using text, audio, scenarios, and videos that provide practical and actionable lessons on key topics . There is also a feature that offers additional opportunities to enhance learning.
- Apply and Reflect activities provide opportunities to put new learning into practice.
- Continue Learning provides practical forms, checklists, guidelines, expert videos, and links to recommended reading to help expand the learning experience.
- Review and Practice Questions at the end of each course tests to ensure comprehension of the materials and practice for taking the end-of-program assessment. The Review and Practice tests can be taken as many times as an individual likes to prepare for the certification assessment.
- How Did We Do? Each course concludes with an opportunity for you to share your thoughts and feedback about the learning experience in that course.
Certification Assessment
Participants will earn the NCCER Construction Foreman Certification upon:
- Passing the rigorous program-level assessment.
- Demonstrating two or more years of verifiable, qualified journey-level experience in the craft the participant currently leads or will be responsible for leading (prior to or after successfully passing the foreman assessment).
Program Overview and Facilitator's Guide
If your company decides to set up a cohort to go through the program together, this tool will help the facilitator guide learners through mastering the content and passing the certification assessment. It provides an overview, a program tour, a sample Facilitator Plan, Learners’ Guide and recommendations for successful program facilitation.
- Enables any organization, association or training center to deliver a facilitated program, supported by online learning.
- Allows your organization to add its own content to the program.
FAQs
- 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.
- 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.
- The Construction Foreman Certification Program includes five online courses that present instruction through text, audio, scenarios, videos and activities.
- Leadership and Supervision
- Communication
- Quality
- Productivity
- Safety, Health, and Environment
- There is also Introduction: Getting Started that explains to the learners how to be successful in the program.
- The courses can be completed in any order.
- This depends on the learner and the expectation of the company. Since it is self-paced, the learner can work at a speed that is appropriate for their level of comprehension.
- If a person was dedicated and completed every section, activity and video, it would take approximately three hours to finish one course. So completing one course a week plus the assessment, it could potentially be finished in six weeks.
- 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.
- 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 setup 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 foreman, a company trainer, or anyone else you feel has the time, knowledge and skills to effectively engage with the group.
- The facilitator guide provides everything someone would need to lead the program.
- The specific responsibilities of a facilitator are at your discretion
- Familiarizing themselves with the program content
- Determining the frequency of group meetings (e.g., weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly)
- Helping learners apply program concepts to your company’s construction practices
- The program was designed and created with industry subject matter experts, technical writers and instructional designers to ensure the program meets 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 ones on which they 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.
Contributing Subject Matter Experts
Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are a vital part of NCCER’s program development process. We would like to thank the following SMEs for writing and reviewing the course materials, providing jobsite photos, giving us permission to share their content, creating videos, and sharing their expertise. You are the heart of this program, and we appreciate your drive and passion to help NCCER certify the next generation of construction foremen.
Adam Hoots, Lean Shepherd, Construction ACHEsolutions
Armando Tunales, Operations Systems Manager, REEDER Construction
Bill Lawson, Vice President, Operations, Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing
Bob Seegmiller, Cianbro
Boone White, General Superintendent, ICM Construction
Bradley Rowan, Director of Training and Development, Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing
Brian Brogen, Chief Inspiration Officer, Build Consulting Services
Brian McKinley, Superintendent, Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing
Bruce Worcester, Recruitment Specialist, DPR Construction
Bryce Castro, Interiors Superintendent, DPR Construction
Buddy Brumley, Senior Superintendent, Skiles Group
Chad Bradley, Vice President, Construction Division, Turner Industries
David Bates, Vice President, Construction Core, The Haskell Company
Dustin Murphy, Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing
Ed Cheney, Marek Brothers
Eric Simmons, Vice President, Risk Management, Helix Electric
Faith Boren, Vice President, Risk Management and Claims, Adams Insurance Service, Inc.
Gabriel Ocando, Assistant Superintendent, DPR Construction
Gary Schoenhofer, Crossland Construction Company, Inc.
Ian Wilson, Superintendent, Skanska USA Building, Inc.
Jack Callahan, Construction Specialist, Suffolk Construction
James Gable, General Superintendent, Adolfson & Peterson Construction
James Glass, Senior Project Superintendent, Turner Construction
Jared Foster, Gaylor Electric, Inc.
Jason Schroeder, Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Elevate Construction
Jeff Isaac, DPR Construction
Jesse Hernandez, Principal, Depth Builder
Justin Uyar, Senior Superintendent, Balfour Beatty US
Kabri Lehrman-Schmid, Project Leader, Hensel Phelps
Lance Simmons, Vice President, Safety and Quality, The Haskell Company
Leslee Montomery, Mental Wellness Architect, Humanology Partners
Linda Carter, President, Resource Management Associates
Lyle Coston, Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing
Mack Story, Founder, Blue-Collar Leadership
Manny Hoyo, Senior Superintendent, Skanska USA Building, Inc.
Mark Kozloski, Director of Safety/Training, Tri-City Electrical Contractors, Inc.
Matthew Allread, Education Manager, Gaylor Electric, Inc.
Mike Bennett, Vice President, HSE & HR, Cianbro
Mike Poole, Lean Manager, Barton Malow
Pete Klein, Field Operations Manager, Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing
Ryan Poropat, Mortenson
Sam Sinclair, Pre-Fabrication/LEAN Project Manager, Henson Robinson Company
Samantha Coker, Chief Human Resources Officer, Apache Industrial
Shane Hubbard, Senior Operations Manager, Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing
Stanley Boysen, Superintendent, Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing
Terry Reed, Senior Vice President, CHRO, Comfort Systems, USA
Thomas Hardy, Superintendent, Skiles Group
Tim Mosley, Manager of Field Personnel, The Haskell Company
Tom Tanner, Comfort Systems, USA
Vonia Waither, EH&S Manager, Printpack
William Sheane, Project Manager, DPR Construction
Zeke Smith, Director, Leadership and Workforce Development, Apache Industrial
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