Daren Turk
San Diego
Summary
Experienced Construction & Building Maintenance Supervisor / Project Manager / Safety Officer / Site Superintendent
Results-driven professional with 20 years of hands-on field and management experience in fast-paced, dynamic environments. Highly skilled in leading projects from initiation through completion, ensuring quality, safety, and efficiency at every phase. Strong written and verbal communication skills with proven ability to coordinate teams, stakeholders, and resources.
Proficient in OSHA/CAL/OSHA compliance, project scheduling, cost estimating, budget management, inspections, and heavy equipment operations. Expertise spans new construction, multi-story PUDs, commercial buildings, and HOA communities.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Superintendent
AME Proline Inc.
San Diego, CA
04.2023 - Current
- Oversee the daily operations of mid rise multi family 50 unit with commercial TI space in North Park San Diego
- Plan review / value engineering
- Scheduling
- Change order review and approvals
- 3 week lookahead and milestone scheduling
- Hold weekly safety meetings
- Maintain postings and workers comp reporting
- OSHA 300 / 300A
- Weekly subcontractor meetings
- SDS, MSDS, product information sheets
- Material handling and storage
- RFI's
- ASI's
- Red line plans / As built plan sets
- OSHA 30
- Competent person in aerial lift platforms, fall protection, trenching / excavation, confined space entry, certified operator
- Close out documents & warranty information
- Review and approve subcontractor's percentage of completions
- Bi-weekly architect and engineer meetings
Maintenance Manager
Shore Management
San Diego, CA
08.2021 - 04.2023
- Oversee the daily maintenance and operations of a 700 unit portfolio including single family residences, multi-family residences, and commercial spaces located in the San Diego area. Duties including, but not limited to:
- Pre / Post / Final inspections of unit turnovers and remodels
- Daily maintenance and work order assignment of properties though vendors and in house personnel
- Property condition assessments
- Create preventive maintenance schedules
- Safety training and incident reporting / accident investigations
- Create Purchase Orders
- Create site specific property profiles on all portfolio units including MEP operations, Points of Connection, Easements, and useful life schedules for all high value repairs.
- Written and verbal communications with owners, vendors, and tenants
- Scope of work creation
- Material take-off, bidding, and proposal creation for remodels and unit turn overs
- Contract review, negotiation, and execution
- Equipment operation and maintenance
- Three week work look ahead schedules
- Inspection of buildings to ensure are up to code and in good conditions including foundation, building envelope, waterproofing systems, interior and exterior finishes
- SWPPP
- Create cost effective solutions for building and maintenance
- Project manage remodels in the valuation between $10,000-$60,000 per project from document planning to turnover and closeout.
- Project turnover and closeout documentation
- Create as built plans for remodels
- Submittals, transmittals, and RFI's
- Close out flagged violations from the City of San Diego caused by deferred maintenance
- Maintain and update all life safety and fire alarm systems for multifamily properties
- Creation of warranty schedules for all newly turned buildings and remodels
Facility Foreman
Coronado Cays Homeowners Association
Coronado, CA
03.2020 - 08.2021
- Run Day to day maintenance for a 1,200 unit Homeowners association.
- Maintain waterways and 600 docks including electrical, potable water, and safety access and egress systems
- Oversee large scale projects and coordinate work with subcontractors
- Contract negation and review for large scale projects
- Plan review for large scale projects
- Inspections of common areas, building facilities, HOA maintained liabilities
- Create schedules and look ahead schedules
- Create preventive maintenance schedules
- Develop and maintain a CALOSHA compliant safety program and write the IIPP
- Attend board meetings and maintenance / landscape walks
- Preform emergency services from slab leaks / roof leaks to down powerline operations
- Heavy equipment operations and maintenance
- Create controlled access zones for subcontractors, maintenance staff, and members of the HOA community to ensure all safety precautions are in place
- Gather materials for open work orders
- Create purchase orders
- Lock out tag out.
- Maintain the OSHA 300 (300A) log
- Close out work orders and log into system including reports, notes, labor and material used to complete tasks
- Purchase order creation
- Maintain a balanced budget for all communities
- Creative solution and problem solving
- Weekly safety meetings for office and maintenance staff
- Maintain ship channel markers
- Maintenance of 6 company vehicles and 2 company boats
Account Executive
EmpireWorks Reconstruction & Paint
Santa Maria, CA
10.2018 - 08.2019
- Secured high-value accounts through consultative selling, effective customer solutions and promoting compelling business opportunities
- Liaised between account holders and representatives to resolve issues and maintain satisfaction
- Designed program implementation and maintenance plan, including ensuring availability of appropriate resources
- Maximized revenue by servicing accounts and proposing new products and services to established customers
- Collected information from clients before securing accounts, verifying payments and special needs
- Effectively communicated with clients using well-developed interpersonal skills, which helped to improve relationships and rapport
- Scope of work creation
- Contract creation, negotiation, and presentations to HOA board members and members of the HOA community
- Project management of all executed contracts from permit and planning to document close out
- Executed contracts in value between $100,000- $1,500,000
- Inspections of exterior building envelopes, structural repairs, waterproofing, and site work
- Create warranty packages and close out documentation for executed contracts
- Create schedules and building repair matrixes
- Purchase order creation
- Submittals, RFI's, and call outs for inspections with appropriate city authority
- Daily reporting and budget management
- Labor management and budgeting
- Material take offs
DSO Operator
Hawaiian Beaches Water Company
Pāhoa, HI
09.2016 - 10.2018
- Daily monitoring of the water system, well heads, and system components
- Daily reporting on condition of water system, chlorine levels, and gallons produced
- Installation of new water services via copper and HDPE pipe
- Meter clearing and location
- Bimonthly water quality testing and reporting
- Exercising underground valves
- Monthly meter reading
- Heavy equipment operation and maintenance
- Monthly testing of backup generator and maintenance
- Leak inspections and leak locating
- Meter testing for accuracy and reporting to the Public Utility Commission
- Create traffic control plans for installations that cross major roadways
- Patch back all A/C pavement from installations that crossed major roadways including sand bedding, compaction, and install of A/C pavement
Director of Field Operations / Safety Director
AMS Realty Inc
Ventura, CA
09.2011 - 06.2016
- Managed 15 day laborers in completing large landscaping projects and maintenance exceeding $62,000 per month in accounts
- Adhered to OSHA guidelines and standards, including proper handling of hazardous chemicals and pesticides.
- Develop and maintain Accident Prevention Plan / Illness Prevention Plan including OSHA300 reporting, incident investigation, weekly safety meetings, and training on all necessary PPE
- Maintained tools and equipment to foster safe and consistent operation.
- Consulted with suppliers for landscape, irrigation, building materials to cut costs and guarantee timely project completion to clients.
- Communicated with clients to provide price quotes, discuss design needs and schedule work.
- Monitored weather conditions to plan work schedules effectively and minimize project delays.
- Adapted daily plans according to weather, staffing levels and client needs to maintain excellent client satisfaction and adhere to timelines.
- Coordinated daily workflow through task prioritization and concise scheduling.
- Drove continuous commitment to product quality and safety, reducing downtime and overtime with effective budgeting and assignation of talents as well as resources.
- Analyzed and identified equipment failure root causes and initiated correction actions.
Project Superintendent
T.B. Penick & Sons, Inc.
San Diego, CA
06.2006 - 09.2011
- Oversee the daily operations of large scale military projects on NAS Lemoore, Camp Pendleton, and FNMOC.
- Plan review
- Scheduling and three week scheduling
- Maintain project budget and labor hours
- Daily reporting and documentation
- Hold weekly safety meetings
- Maintain postings and workers comp reporting
- Maintain OSHA 300 / 300A
- Weekly subcontractor meetings
- Weekly owner representative meetings with NAFAC personnel
- JHA/AHA creation
- Maintain SDS logs
- Material handling and storage
- RFI's and logs
- ASI's and logs
- Red line plans for "As Builds"
- Maintain OSHA 30 / EM385-1-1compliance
- Competent person in aerial lift platforms, fall protection, trenching / excavation, confined space entry, certified operator
- Create and compile close out documents, OMSI's, warranty packages
- Submit certified payroll
- Escort personnel and subcontractors through the rapid gate process for on base activities
- Create site specific safety plans
- Create traffic control plans for adjacent and in road activities on base
- Competent person in all critical lift and crane work activities
Education
Bachelor of Science - Audio Engineering
SAE Institute of Technology
Los Angeles, CA06.2008
High School Diploma - undefined
Wylie High School
Wylie, TX05.2000
Skills
- Effective leadership and team management
- Experienced in construction management
- Expertise in strategic planning
- Extensive experience in project reporting
- Comprehensive maintenance proficiency
- Proficient in OSHA regulations
- Proven self-motivation
- Experience in commercial construction
- Project management software for construction
- Safety management expertise
- Electrical expertise
- Client account management
- Hand and power tool expertise
- Proficient in safety equipment management
- Extensive landscaping experience
- Advanced blueprint reading
- Experienced heavy equipment operator
- Extensive experience in customer relations
- Team leadership experience
- Invoicing expertise
- Consumer insights gathering
- Proficient in MS Office
Certification
- Ariel lift Present
- Hilti ram set Present
- Confined Space Entry Present
- Heavy Equipment Operator Present
- Trenching and Excavation Present
- Fall Protection Present
- SWPPP Present
- EM385-1-1 40 Hour June 2025 to June 2030 40 Hour EM385-1-1 Construction Hazard Awareness Safety Training for SSHO's by Kugan & Associates, Inc.
- CQM-C April 2025 to April 2030 Construction Quality Control Management for Contractors - Kugan & Associates
- CPR/First Aid May 2025 to May 2027
- OSHA 30 April 2019 to April 2024 OSHA 30
- Driver's license
Timeline
Project Superintendent
AME Proline Inc.
04.2023 - Current
Maintenance Manager
Shore Management
08.2021 - 04.2023
Facility Foreman
Coronado Cays Homeowners Association
03.2020 - 08.2021
Account Executive
EmpireWorks Reconstruction & Paint
10.2018 - 08.2019
DSO Operator
Hawaiian Beaches Water Company
09.2016 - 10.2018
Director of Field Operations / Safety Director
AMS Realty Inc
09.2011 - 06.2016
Project Superintendent
T.B. Penick & Sons, Inc.
06.2006 - 09.2011
High School Diploma - undefined
Wylie High School
Bachelor of Science - Audio Engineering
SAE Institute of Technology