Superintendent Jobs

About The Position

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.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Auto allowances and gas cards for certain roles
• Medical benefits
• Emotional and mental health benefits
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Virtual care options for physical therapy and primary care
• Generous paid time off
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Access to expert financial resources
• Company-paid and voluntary life insurance
• Tax-deferred savings accounts
• 10 backup daycare days each year
• Short- and long-term disability
• Commuter benefits