Superintendent III

Cirks Construction•Orange, CA

10d

About The Position

The Superintendent III is a senior field leader responsible for directing KDC’s most complex, high-profile, or strategically important commercial construction projects. Assignments may include large-scale ground-up construction, complex phased programs, occupied remodels, accelerated schedules, and work requiring advanced planning, coordination, risk management, and independent judgment. The role serves as KDC’s senior on-site representative and an extension of Operations Leadership, anticipating and resolving complex field challenges, recovering threatened projects, and protecting safety, quality, schedule, cost, and client outcomes. The Superintendent III also mentors Superintendent I and II personnel and reinforces consistent field standards. Cirks Construction Inc. (CCI), doing business as KDC Construction, works in the grocery, retail, and restaurant construction industry. The company describes a focus on employee growth and a culture supporting its people, customers, projects, and community. The role leads work from mobilization through turnover, establishes project execution and closeout standards, represents KDC with clients and stakeholders, and supports Operations Leadership with project planning, staffing input, leadership development, and field best practices.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
At least 10 years of commercial construction superintendent experience.
Demonstrated success leading highly complex ground-up, tenant improvement, and remodel projects.
Extensive ground-up construction experience, including successful completion of multiple large-scale commercial projects.
Experience managing complex phasing, occupied construction environments, accelerated schedules, and challenging project conditions.
Experience recovering threatened or troubled projects and resolving significant field execution issues.
Experience mentoring and developing field leadership personnel and managing senior-level client and stakeholder relationships.
Expert knowledge of commercial construction means, methods, materials, sequencing, logistics, and project execution.
Advanced understanding of structural, civil, architectural, and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.
Ability to develop execution strategies, phasing and logistics plans, baseline and look-ahead schedules, and schedule-recovery initiatives.
Ability to anticipate and manage complex technical, operational, contractual, schedule, cost, and stakeholder risks.
Ability to lead coordination involving subcontractors, clients, tenants, inspectors, utilities, design partners, and public agencies.
Advanced understanding of how field planning, manpower, temporary facilities, material handling, rework, schedule performance, and subcontractor issues affect project profitability.
Strong leadership, coaching, mentorship, conflict-resolution, communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
Ability to establish field standards, provide practical staffing and execution input, and contribute to continuous improvement across projects.
Advanced proficiency in scheduling software, construction management platforms, Microsoft Office Suite, and project reporting systems.
Valid driver’s license, acceptable driving record, and reliable transportation.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
Equivalent combination of education and extensive commercial construction experience may be considered.

Responsibilities

Lead comprehensive preconstruction and constructability reviews of plans, specifications, addenda, permit corrections, deferred submittals, client and landlord requirements, logistics constraints, utilities, and existing conditions.
Develop execution strategies, phasing plans, site-logistics plans, sequencing plans, and schedule-recovery approaches for complex, accelerated, occupied, or high-risk projects.
Direct field operations from mobilization through turnover on complex or strategically significant projects with minimal oversight.
Establish a proactive project safety culture, lead risk planning and required meetings, enforce applicable requirements, coach field leaders and subcontractors in incident prevention, and maintain required safety and field-operations training.
Develop and manage baseline, milestone, three-week look-ahead, and daily execution plans; secure team and subcontractor commitments; and hold responsible parties accountable for recovery actions and milestones.
Lead complex coordination involving subcontractors, design partners, utilities, inspectors, agencies, tenants, permits, special inspections, deferred approvals, and long-lead requirements; resolve escalated conflicts affecting execution or final approval.
Anticipate and resolve technical, sequencing, access, logistics, manpower, material, and operational challenges, including leading field stabilization or schedule recovery on threatened projects.
Establish project quality standards, lead preinstallation and quality planning, direct corrective action for complex deficiencies, and enforce accurate, continuous redline and as-built documentation.
Establish project reporting standards and direct documentation and response strategies for significant decisions, RFIs, delays, incidents, subcontractor defaults, damages, cleanup failures, potential back charges, and other contractual or financial exposures.
Protect project profitability through strategic planning, cost-conscious field decisions, disciplined resource management, and early mitigation of schedule, manpower, rework, material, temporary-facility, and subcontractor-related cost exposure.
Develop trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders; represent KDC in challenging client, tenant, public-facing, and agency situations; and support client retention through reliable project delivery.
Establish closeout requirements at project startup and maintain turnover readiness, including redlines, as-builts, agency signoffs, certificates, equipment information, client-required forms, final photographs, project records, and lessons learned.
Mentor Superintendent I and II personnel and support Operations Leadership with project planning, staffing input, leadership development, lessons learned, and consistent field best practices.
Perform other related responsibilities consistent with the position’s purpose and level of authority.