MEP Superintendent

Hodess•Irvine, CA

1d•$140,000 - $170,000

About The Position

The MEP Superintendent provides field leadership, coordination, and execution for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and related building systems on complex construction projects. Working with Project Management, Engineering, subcontractors, vendors, commissioning teams, and clients, this role ensures MEP systems are coordinated, installed, started up, tested, and commissioned in accordance with project requirements, schedule, quality, and safety standards. The Superintendent proactively identifies design, coordination, constructability, and existing-condition issues and drives timely resolution to minimize project impacts. The role oversees MEP field activities and trade coordination; supports BIM/VDC and design coordination; coordinates controls, building automation, data, and system integration; and leads or supports mechanical system installation, startup, commissioning, testing, and turnover. It also contributes to preconstruction activities, including MEP scopes of work, subcontract leveling and buy-out, equipment pre-purchases, and schedule development.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in MEP construction, field supervision, or a related construction discipline.
Demonstrated experience leading mechanical and electrical coordination on complex construction projects.
Strong understanding of mechanical and electrical systems, including chilled water systems, air-handling equipment, electrical distribution, controls, and system integration.
Experience with BIM/VDC coordination and the ability to interpret and work from MEP models and construction documents.
Experience with startup, commissioning, and turnover of complex MEP systems.
Proven ability to identify design and constructability issues and drive timely resolution.
Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to coordinate multiple trades and stakeholders in a fast-paced construction environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience working on mission-critical, life sciences, data center, cleanroom, advanced manufacturing, or other technically complex projects is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day field leadership and oversight of MEP construction activities, subcontractors, and trade partners.
Lead mechanical and electrical trade coordination meetings and facilitate resolution of field and coordination issues.
Coordinate MEP activities across multiple trades to maintain project schedule and sequencing.
Review installation progress and ensure work complies with drawings, specifications, BIM models, and project requirements.
Partner with Project Managers and engineering teams to identify potential issues early and develop practical field solutions.
Take overall responsibility for project safety, coordinate with the safety team on confined-space work and job-specific safety analyses, conduct daily site safety walks, and review subcontractor safety manuals.
Complete training to qualify as the competent person on site for crisis management and emergency first response.
Maintain a safe work environment in accordance with safety regulations, including required PPE use.
Assist with MEP BIM coordination, including coordination of mechanical and electrical systems, equipment, feeders, piping, controls, and other building systems.
Review BIM models and drawings for constructability, clashes, access, sequencing, and installation requirements.
Identify design gaps, scope conflicts, and coordination issues and drive resolution with project stakeholders.
Coordinate electrical and mechanical systems through design, installation, startup, and commissioning.
Support coordination of medium-voltage systems, panels, equipment energization, and associated MEP infrastructure.
Coordinate controls, building automation, data, and head-end integration across applicable project teams and trade partners.
Identify scope gaps and interface issues among controls, electrical, mechanical, and data teams and drive resolution.
Support system integration to ensure MEP systems operate as designed and are ready for commissioning.
Oversee installation and coordination of critical mechanical systems.
Identify and escalate design and existing-condition issues affecting mechanical systems.
Drive field modifications and reconfiguration of mechanical systems when needed to address constructability, design, or existing-condition issues.
Lead startup coordination for critical mechanical systems and equipment.
Coordinate equipment energization and startup with electrical, mechanical, controls, and commissioning teams.
Support and lead commissioning coordination from planning through final turnover.
Develop and support commissioning strategies, scopes, and RFPs with Project Management and commissioning partners.
Coordinate startup, testing, balancing, controls integration, and commissioning among trades and project stakeholders.
Track commissioning requirements and identify issues that may affect system readiness or project turnover.
Identify design, constructability, existing-condition, and base-building issues before they affect installation or schedule.
Lead resolution of complex MEP issues across engineering, subcontractors, vendors, and client teams.
Evaluate potential impacts of proposed changes and communicate risks and recommendations to project leadership.
Maintain focus on schedule, quality, safety, and successful system turnover.
Communicate with Project Management, field leadership, engineering, BIM/VDC, subcontractors, commissioning agents, and clients.
Participate in project meetings and provide updates on MEP progress, coordination issues, risks, and upcoming activities.
Document, track, and resolve MEP coordination and field issues.
Support project turnover, including documentation, testing, commissioning, and closeout.
Assist in developing scopes of work specific to MEP trades.
Assist in leveling and buy-out of MEP subcontracts.
Assist in reviewing and coordinating pre-purchase equipment.
Assist in developing the project schedule for MEP trades and coordinating it with other trades.