General Superintendent - Mission Critical

RNGD•Metairie, LA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

RNGD is seeking a General Superintendent, Mission Critical to provide portfolio-wide field leadership for their data center, critical infrastructure, and power sector projects. This senior role focuses on establishing a unified Mission Critical field operating system, developing a strong bench of superintendents, and partnering with sector leadership to manage expanding execution across a growing geographical portfolio. The General Superintendent will spend the majority of their time in the field, coaching leaders and ensuring jobsite readiness, rather than in an office setting. The purpose of this role is to lead integrated field execution, ensuring consistency and high standards across technically intensive projects, while respecting the technical authority of design engineers, trade experts, and other specialists. The position reports to the Sector Leader, Mission Critical and has direct reports including project and area superintendents. The scope encompasses field execution for data centers, critical infrastructure, high-availability facilities, central utility plants, network and technology facilities, and projects within live operating environments. The General Superintendent will collaborate with project management, safety, quality, scheduling, and preconstruction teams, and coordinate with Trades and Manufacturing sectors.

Requirements

10+ years of construction experience.
2+ years leading data center, critical infrastructure, or other high-availability projects as a superintendent or senior superintendent.
Experience leading field execution across more than one project at a time, or across a portfolio, campus, region, or multi-site client program.
Proven record of installing advanced planning, work packaging, constraint management, and progressive quality completion systems and holding them in place.
Track record of developing superintendents and field engineers and of attracting and retaining field talent.
Proficiency with construction management platforms, scheduling tools, model coordination, and commissioning and completion-tracking systems.
Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent field experience.
Willingness to spend most of the week in the field and to travel as the portfolio expands.
Exemplifies RNGD’s core values: Renegade Mentality, Sweep Floors, Build Together, and Honor Promises.
Sets the standard for how RNGD shows up in the field, with clients, and with trade partners.
Sets the tone across the portfolio through ownership, urgency, and follow-through.
Holds superintendents and trade partners accountable while building trust and respect.
Leads through challenges with a solutions-first mindset and takes the difficult conversation early.
Anticipates issues at the portfolio level and drives resolution before they reach the schedule.
Makes sound decisions in fast-paced, high-pressure environments with incomplete information.
Maintains focus on outcomes — safety, quality, schedule, and productivity.
Communicates clearly and consistently from the crew level to the executive team.
Keeps field, project management, and support functions aligned on priorities, expectations, and changes.
Builds strong relationships with internal and external partners and represents RNGD professionally.
Invests in developing field talent and future field leaders as a primary, measured responsibility.
Provides coaching, feedback, and mentorship in the field rather than through reporting.
Builds a culture of accountability and continuous improvement across the portfolio.

Responsibilities

Define, publish, and enforce common Mission Critical field operating standards, including daily reports, daily plans, short-interval planning, constraint logs, production tracking, and weekly staffing plans.
Hold standards consistently while adapting execution models to project type, client program, delivery method, and market.
Keep standards simple, visible, and supported by field coaching.
Align field standards with client program requirements, standardized designs, and repeatable build sequences.
Own the assignment and deployment of project and area superintendents across the portfolio, matching capability to technical complexity.
Maintain a field-staffing forecast reconciled to backlog, award timing, and milestone dates, flagging recruiting, training, or supplemental needs early.
Assist to coach and build advancement pathways for field personnel.
Maintain succession and development plans for critical field-leadership seats and track retention, turnover, and bench readiness.
Require detailed advanced planning before mobilization, including work packages tied to areas and systems, sequencing, logistics, material, equipment, access, information, and readiness conditions.
Verify readiness before each phase, area, and system release, and withhold release when readiness conditions are not credible.
Own the field portion of schedule recovery, including resequencing, staffing, shift strategy, and constraint removal.
Lead the integration of systems into one field sequence and drive coordination and installation sequencing to resolve field conflicts before installation.
Manage owner-furnished and vendor-furnished equipment interfaces, including delivery windows, storage, protection, and installation readiness.
Coordinate long-lead equipment, utility interfaces, and permanent power milestones with project and client teams.
Install an area-based and system-based completion structure for field planning, tracking, and completion.
Sequence trade work, inspections, and verification according to the startup plan.
Align field completion structure with the commissioning and turnover plan from the project's beginning.
Own field readiness for equipment setting, alignment, terminations, point-to-point checks, and pre-functional testing.
Ensure the field delivers complete, clean, documented, and ready work with deficiencies closed before handoff.
Set field expectations for high-risk work, including energized systems, lockout/tagout, stored energy, boundaries, confined space, critical lifts, and work at height.
Govern field interfaces with live and operating environments, including tie-ins, shutdowns, and methods of procedure.
Stop field work when safety, supervision, information, material, access, isolation, or readiness conditions are not credible.
Establish progressive quality completion for inspections, verifications, and sign-offs as work is installed.
Own first-work reviews, mockups, benchmark installations, inspection readiness, and rework accountability.
Run a deficiency and punch process by area and system, with owners, dates, and closure evidence.
Ensure quality problems are visible, corrected at the source, and learned from across projects and programs.
Set field expectations for trade partners regarding manpower commitments, planning participation, quality, safety, documentation, and cleanup.
Coordinate equipment vendors, factory technicians, utility providers, testing agencies, and the commissioning team into the field sequence and site logistics plan.
Partner with client operations and facility teams on access, security, escorting, badging, and operational constraints.
Integrate RNGD self-perform and Trades scope into the project sequence and provide necessary conditions for crews to perform.
Lead field execution of phased turnover so areas and systems are handed over in the sequence required by the client’s operational plan.
Support integrated systems testing, owner training, and demonstration events with field access, staffing, and system availability.
Drive completion of field documentation, including as-built information, test records, labeling, and closeout packages, as a condition of turnover.
Support the client’s operational readiness process and confirm the field has delivered what operations requires.
Represent field execution in pursuits, preconstruction, and constructability reviews.
Review logistics, phasing, work packaging, energization sequence, and commissioning durations before award and identify field risk early.
Lead a consistent project startup process covering staffing, standards, logistics, schedule, safety, quality, and readiness expectations.
Develop Mission Critical field-leadership coverage and mobilization plans for new geographies, campuses, and client programs.
Maintain a capacity view that ties field-leadership depth to the sector's building volume.
Establish local field standards, onboarding, and supervision structures in new regions and on new multi-site programs.
Run a consistent cadence with superintendents focused on safety, quality, staffing, production, constraints, readiness, leadership development, and upcoming work.
Spend most of the week on jobsites, with office time reserved for planning, staffing, and leadership commitments.
Develop field leaders who solve at the lowest appropriate level rather than routing every issue upward.