Senior Superintendent

Suffolk Construction•Boston, MA

About The Position

The Senior Superintendent provides overall direction on projects and develops and maintains strong working relationships with owners and architects throughout the project lifecycle. The role evaluates project performance, site conditions, safety and quality standards, scope compliance, and trade partner management. It ensures that constructability reviews, logistics plans, and baseline schedules support project turnover requirements. The Senior Superintendent oversees field operations from project startup through closeout. Responsibilities span scheduling, safety, quality management, subcontractor and site management, meetings, project administration, and closeout. The role partners closely with the Project Manager and other project leaders, communicates project progress and issues, and develops field personnel while meeting client expectations and Suffolk standards.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an applicable discipline and experience relative to project size and scope.
8 to 12 years of experience in related construction fields.
Applicable area licenses.
Excellent team-development skills and leadership abilities.
Strong ability to partner with the Project Manager and staff.
Effective communication skills.
Ability to deal with ambiguity and close work oversight.
Ability to multitask and manage competing business and organizational priorities while maintaining excellent customer relations.
Business judgment to balance budget considerations with construction processes.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to act confidently and decisively.
Ability to manage and embrace change and adapt to new processes and new approaches to problems.
Must possess Suffolk’s Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

Responsibilities

Oversee, manage, and document day-to-day job site activities, including OSHA safety compliance.
Direct field personnel according to the project plan and Suffolk supervisory principles.
Communicate daily issues, events, performance, and progress to the Project Manager, and promptly report problems to support cost-effective solutions.
Establish effective working relationships with clients, Suffolk team members, subcontractors, authorities having jurisdiction, and, on union projects, trade union business agents and managers.
Request guidance from the General Superintendent or Project Executive on materials, sequencing, scheduling, logistics, and personnel matters.
Identify pre-mobilization activities with project leadership and develop the startup schedule with the Project Manager for review by the Project Executive and General Superintendent.
Assist in developing and implementing field construction schedules; establish and maintain the Project Baseline Schedule based on contracts and subcontractor input.
Ensure work is consistent with the contract and meets or exceeds client expectations; update the project schedule monthly.
Provide progress reports and six-week look-ahead schedules to the Project Manager and field staff.
Lead Pull Planning meetings and six-week make-ready planning meetings with the Project Manager.
Ensure subcontractors attend safety pre-construction meetings and provide required safety data sheets, site-specific safety plans, and current insurance or OCIP/CCIP enrollment documentation.
Review site activities for compliance with OSHA, governing requirements, and the project-specific safety plan.
Establish project benchmarks, ensure appropriate Q-Team participation, and coordinate and document first-delivery and benchmark inspections according to the baseline schedule.
Manage site pre-construction, including surveys, site utilization, and staging plans; mobilize the field office and maintain the job site to Suffolk standards.
Organize job-site documentation and manage subcontractor performance against quality and ethical standards.
Work with the Project Manager to identify and resolve personnel issues and construction-process revisions.
Manage all phases of construction, document and report site activities and progress, manage excavations, and assist with Job Site Utilization Plan meetings.
Attend or chair turnover, mobilization, coordination, safety pre-construction, weekly foreman and safety, monthly schedule review, Pull Plan, six-week make-ready, closeout, owner, subcontractor, and other project-monitoring meetings.
Complete and implement construction office checklists, including emergency phone lists; complete daily reports and maintain logs, files, and shop drawings.
Manage the quality and condition of material deliveries and maintain required safety reports and other project files to Suffolk standards.
Maintain as-built working drawings, the current drawing log, and revision log, and communicate these to subcontractors.
Manage subcontractor closeout, utility transfers, owner training, work lists, and punch lists.
Participate in training programs by contributing in class and serving as a subject matter expert.