Senior Superintendent Traveling Mobile - Builders
hace 3 días
Metairie
Job Description:\n\nAbout the Company\nRNGD is a rapidly scaling organization emerging as a nationally recognized leader in construction through our unique Renegade mindset focused on innovation, creativity, and culture. The team is made up of a highly engaged group of seasoned professionals and emerging leaders. We are creators who believe that what we build drives the growth of our cities and that to fulfill our mission, we must constantly challenge the old way of doing things. Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, we thrive on building communities, building teams, building leaders, and growing the business throughout the Southeast region with additional offices in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama.\nAbout the Role \nWe’re looking for a Senior Superintendent - Traveling, Mobile to provide senior on-site leadership for complex commercial construction projects based from the Mobile, Alabama market and assigned throughout the Southeast. This role owns field execution from preconstruction and mobilization through substantial completion, turnover, and final closeout, ensuring work is performed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with contract requirements, project schedules, quality standards, and client commitments.\nThe Senior Superintendent leads project Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, labor teams, subcontractors, and trade partners; establishes the project’s field operating rhythm; and serves as the primary field connection among project management, clients, design partners, inspectors, and site personnel. The position requires regular overnight travel and the flexibility to remain at assigned project locations for the duration required by project needs, including assignments across Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and other Southeast markets.\nSuccess requires advanced construction knowledge, decisive field leadership, disciplined planning, schedule and logistics expertise, strong safety and quality ownership, and the ability to develop field leaders while maintaining consistent execution across changing locations and project conditions.\nCore Responsibilities\nField Leadership and Project Execution\n\nLead all field operations for assigned projects and establish clear expectations for safety, quality, schedule, logistics, productivity, documentation, and professional conduct.\nDirect Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, labor teams, subcontractors, and trade partners while preserving clear ownership and accountability.\nDevelop a comprehensive understanding of the contract documents, plans, specifications, owner requirements, permitting conditions, and project risks.\nCreate cost and schedule efficiencies through disciplined planning, reliable work sequencing, technology adoption, and continuous improvement.\nServe as the senior on-site leader and primary field point of contact for clients, project management, design teams, inspectors, and trade partners.\n\nPreconstruction, Mobilization, and Workfront Readiness\n\nRepresent field operations during pursuits, preconstruction, constructability reviews, estimate validation, schedule development, logistics planning, and project turnover.\nEvaluate proposed means and methods, staffing, durations, site access, temporary conditions, hoisting, material flow, utility constraints, inspections, and supervision needs before work begins.\nLead the transition from preconstruction to operations and establish project-specific startup expectations for safety, quality, schedule, logistics, documentation, and field controls.\nVerify permits, approved drawings and submittals, access, materials, equipment, manpower, surveys, inspections, and required information before releasing critical work areas.\nDevelop and maintain site logistics plans, phasing plans, mobilization plans, temporary facilities, access routes, delivery controls, and public or occupied-site protections.\n\nScheduling, Production, and Recovery Planning\n\nLead development and execution of milestone schedules, phase plans, three-week lookaheads, weekly work plans, daily coordination, and constraint-removal activities.\nIntegrate subcontractors, self-perform labor, inspections, procurement, commissioning, owner activities, and closeout requirements into reliable field sequences.\nMonitor production, installed quantities, manpower, equipment, deliveries, constraints, and milestone performance against the approved schedule.\nDevelop and implement corrective or recovery plans through resequencing, resource adjustments, shift strategies, work-area development, and constraint removal.\nCommunicate schedule status, risks, required decisions, and recovery actions clearly to project executives, project managers, clients, and field partners.\n\nSafety, Quality, and Regulatory Compliance\n\nLead the project safety culture in partnership with the Field Safety Team and enforce company policies, project plans, JSAs, competent-person requirements, and regulatory standards.\nStop or pause unsafe or unready work and require appropriate controls, planning, and authorization before work resumes.\nEstablish progressive quality-completion practices, including first-work reviews, mockups, inspection hold points, testing, deficiency tracking, and documented acceptance.\nEnsure field work aligns with approved drawings, specifications, submittals, codes, permits, manufacturer requirements, and authority-having-jurisdiction expectations.\nDrive timely correction and closure of safety concerns, quality deficiencies, nonconforming work, rework, and punch-list items.\n\nTrade Partner, Client, and Stakeholder Coordination\n\nLead subcontractor startup meetings and communicate scope, schedule, safety, quality, logistics, reporting, testing, and closeout expectations.\nCoordinate architects, engineers, inspectors, utilities, testing agencies, vendors, owners, occupants, and internal departments within the field sequence.\nProactively manage client, employee, and subcontractor experiences while maintaining professional, transparent, and solutions-oriented communication.\nIdentify drawing conflicts, incomplete information, scope gaps, and constructability concerns and route them through the appropriate RFI, submittal, or decision process.\nAvoid unauthorized design interpretations or commercial commitments and escalate contractual, technical, cost, and client matters to authorized leaders.\n\nTeam Leadership and Development\n\nCoach, develop, and retain high-performing Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, foremen, and labor personnel.\nProvide clear expectations, regular feedback, performance accountability, and practical development opportunities through visible field engagement.\nAssess staffing needs and capabilities, recommend project assignments, and identify recruiting, training, succession, and supplemental staffing needs early.\nPromote teamwork, accountability, and consistent field standards across project personnel and trade partners.\nAct as Superintendent of record when needed while developing others to independently lead defined phases, scopes, or project responsibilities.\n\nDocumentation, Cost Awareness, and Risk Management\n\nEnsure accurate and timely daily reports, progress photographs, manpower records, safety documentation, inspection records, work plans, redlines, and field correspondence.\nUse Procore, scheduling platforms, field-production tools, and project reports to monitor performance and maintain traceable project records.\nPartner with project management to understand budget, change events, subcontractor performance, general conditions, schedule exposure, and financial risk.\nIdentify emerging safety, quality, schedule, cost, staffing, design, procurement, client, and commercial risks early and implement or recommend mitigation measures.\nProtect completed work, control waste and rework, and support accurate documentation of changed conditions, time impacts, and extra work.\n\nTraveling Project Support\n\nTravel regularly from the Mobile, Alabama market to active construction projects and remain at assigned locations for the duration required by project needs.\nLead projects across multiple states and adapt to changing locations, clients, teams, site rules, schedules, delivery methods, and operating conditions.\nMaintain reliable transportation to designated reporting locations and comply with company travel, lodging, expense, timekeeping, and mobilization requirements.\nMaintain consistent leadership, attendance, communication, safety, and professionalism while working away from the home location.\nSupport nights, weekends, overtime, shutdowns, critical placements, or off-hour activities when required by project conditions and company policy.\n\nProject Closeout and Turnover\n\nPlan closeout from project startup and progressively complete punch lists, testing, commissioning, owner training, attic stock, warranties, and turnover documentation.\nDrive completion of redlines, as-built information, inspection records, testing reports, operation and maintenance materials, permits, and final field records.\nCoordinate substantial completion, final inspections, occupancy requirements, owner acceptance, demobilization, and timely turnover of project facilities.\nLead field lessons-learned reviews and transfer practical improvements to future projects and field leaders.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nTen or more years of progressive commercial construction experience, including substantial responsibility as a Superintendent or Senior Superintendent on complex projects.\nDemonstrated experience independently leading projects from preconstruction and mobilization through turnover and final closeout.\nExperience managing multiple field leaders, large subcontractor teams, complex logistics, phased or occupied work, and accelerated schedules.\nAdvanced ability to read and interpret contracts, plans, specifications, submittals, RFIs, project schedules, logistics plans, and construction documents.\nStrong knowledge of field planning, scheduling, quality control, safety management, inspections, testing, commissioning, change documentation, and closeout.\nProven ability to develop Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, foremen, and labor teams while building a high-performance culture.\nProficiency with Procore or comparable construction-management software and working knowledge of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or similar scheduling tools.\nOSHA 30 certification required or ability to obtain promptly; First Aid/CPR, competent-person, lift, and other project-specific certifications preferred.\nHigh school diploma or GED required; bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field preferred, with equivalent field experience considered.\nValid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and ability to travel regularly and remain assigned to project sites throughout the Southeast as required.\n\nCore Competencies\nRNGD Values Alignment\n\nExemplifies RNGD’s core values:\n\n▪ Renegade Mentality\n▪ Sweep Floors\n▪ Build Together\n▪ Honor Promises\nSenior Field Leadership and Team Development\n\nSets clear direction, develops field leaders, and creates accountability across employees, subcontractors, and trade partners.\nBuilds Together by aligning project leadership, craft personnel, design partners, clients, and support teams around shared execution goals.\nProvides candid feedback, coaching, and succession opportunities that strengthen long-term field-leadership capacity.\n\nPlanning, Scheduling, and Operational Execution\n\nConnects contract milestones, logistics, manpower, materials, equipment, inspections, and work areas into reliable execution plans.\nBalances the big picture with field-level detail and implements recovery strategies when performance deviates from plan.\nDemonstrates the Sweep Floors mindset by staying close to actual site conditions and addressing constraints before they become larger problems.\n\nSafety, Quality, and Risk Leadership\n\nEstablishes high expectations for safe work, quality completion, inspection readiness, documentation, and protection of people and property.\nUses observations, project data, field conditions, and sound judgment to identify and mitigate risk early.\nHonors Promises by ensuring commitments, deficiencies, and critical follow-up items are completed accurately and on time.\n\nConstructability and Technical Judgment\n\nUses construction knowledge, contract documents, and actual field conditions to evaluate means, sequencing, coordination, and constructability.\nDemonstrates a Renegade Mentality by challenging ineffective practices and developing practical improvements without bypassing design or contractual authority.\nEscalates technical, design, commercial, or client decisions to the appropriate authorized party.\n\nClient and Stakeholder Management\n\nBuilds cooperative, trusting relationships through clear communication, preparation, responsiveness, and consistent follow-through.\nCoordinates clients, designers, inspectors, utilities, vendors, subcontractors, and internal partners around project needs and decisions.\nManages difficult conversations professionally and communicates material risks, impacts, and required actions candidly.\n\nTravel Readiness and Adaptability\n\nReliably mobilizes to assigned projects and adapts to different locations, teams, clients, schedules, and project conditions.\nMaintains consistent leadership, communication, judgment, and performance while working away from the home location.\nRepresents RNGD professionally at jobsites, in company-provided lodging, and within the communities where projects are located.\n\nAnalytical and Results Oriented\n\nUses schedule, production, manpower, safety, quality, cost, and risk information to make timely field decisions.\nAdapts strategies based on actual performance and focuses teams on safe, high-quality, on-time, and profitable outcomes.\nIdentifies recurring constraints and implements improvements that reduce rework, increase productivity, and strengthen project predictability.