Mission Critical - Senior Superintendent

Suffolk Construction•Cedar Rapids, IA

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, supporting Suffolk’s Mission Critical Center of Excellence. The role evaluates project performance, site conditions, safety and quality standards, scope compliance, and trade-partner management. It also ensures constructability reviews, logistics plans, and baseline schedules support project turnover requirements. The Senior Superintendent manages day-to-day field operations from project start-up through closeout. This includes directing field personnel, managing subcontractors and site logistics, coordinating schedules and quality inspections, enforcing safety requirements, maintaining project documentation, leading meetings, and communicating progress and issues to the Project Manager and other project leaders. The position also supports training and contributes subject-matter expertise. The position involves time in an office environment and walking on job sites. Suffolk describes its total rewards program as offering benefits and options intended to support employees and their families physically, emotionally, and financially.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an applicable discipline and experience appropriate to the project’s size and scope.
8 to 12 years of experience in related construction fields; project characteristics may determine the precise experience and industry knowledge required.
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 oversight.
Ability to multitask and manage competing business and organizational priorities while maintaining strong customer relations.
Business judgment to balance budget considerations and 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 existing 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 issues, events, performance, and progress daily to the Project Manager, and report problems promptly to support cost-effective solutions.
Build effective working relationships with clients, Suffolk team members, subcontractors, authorities having jurisdiction, and—on union projects—trade union business agents and managers.
Seek 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 a start-up schedule for review.
Help formulate and implement field construction schedules; establish and maintain the Project Baseline Schedule based on contracts, subcontractor input, and potential schedule impacts.
Maintain the schedule, confirm work is consistent with the contract and client expectations, update the project schedule monthly, and provide progress reports with a six-week look-ahead.
Lead Pull Planning and six-week make-ready plan meetings with the Project Manager.
Ensure subcontractors attend safety pre-construction meetings and provide required material safety data sheets, site-specific safety plans, and current insurance or OCIP/CCIP enrollment documentation.
Review daily site activities for compliance with OSHA, governing requirements, and the project-specific safety plan.
Establish project benchmarks, include them in the baseline schedule, ensure appropriate Q-Team participation, and coordinate first-delivery and benchmark inspections, documentation, approvals, and communication.
Manage site pre-construction, including surveys, site utilization, staging plans, field-office mobilization, and site maintenance to Suffolk standards.
Organize job-site documentation and manage subcontractor performance against quality and ethical standards.
Work with the Project Manager to address personnel issues and construction-process revisions; manage construction phases, document and report site activities and progress, and manage excavations and job-site utilization planning.
Attend or chair turnover, mobilization, coordination, safety, foreman, schedule-review, Pull Plan, make-ready, closeout, owner, and subcontractor meetings as needed.
Complete construction-office checklists, daily reports, activity logs, files, and shop drawings; manage material-delivery quality and condition; and maintain safety reports and other required records.
Maintain as-built working drawings and current drawing and revision logs, and communicate relevant information to subcontractors.
Manage subcontractor closeout, utility transfers, owner training, work lists, and punch lists.
Participate in training by contributing in class and serving as a subject-matter expert.