Senior Superintendent

Taleo; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Potawatomi Defense Operations, LLC is seeking a Senior Superintendent in San Antonio, Texas, to manage day-to-day field operations across Environmental, Civil, Demolition and Vertical Construction scopes. The role includes bidding, take-offs, quotes, and craft labor recruitment when not in the field.

Responsibilities include overseeing trades, producing daily reports, maintaining safety standards, and ensuring contract compliance while steering project timelines and budgets.

Qualifications

• AS degree in Construction Management or 15 years of related experience.
• Minimum 15 years of construction industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day field activities to meet milestone dates.
• Oversee trades such as operators, carpenters and laborers.
• Produce Daily Reports.
• Maintain a culture of safety and cleanliness.
• Develop short-interval look-ahead schedules and communicate them.
• Administer contracts, subcontracts and purchase orders.
• Closeout: punch list and project closeout processes.

Skills

Field operations leadership

Safety compliance

Schedule management

Contract administration

Team coordination

Education

AS degree in Construction Management

15 years of related experience

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Position Title: Senior Superintendent

Division: PDO

Location: San Antonio, Texas

Position Summary

The Superintendent Sr. provides the knowledge, skills and experience required to manage the day-to-day field operations for project with Environmental, Civil, Demolition and Vertical Construction Scopes of work. Superintendents are responsible for the production aspects of the work and are accountable for: producing quality work that is constructed consistent with the standard’s set forth in the project’s contract documents; performing the work in a timely and cost-effective manner and; maintaining a work environment that is safe and continuously kept clean and orderly. Additionally, when not in the field the Senior Superintendent will assist in bidding projects, material take-offs, getting quotes, and craft labor recruitment.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Managing the day-to-day field activities to ensure that the project milestone dates and overall schedule completion date is met;
• Management of trades class works such as operators, carpenters and laborers;
• Production of Daily Reports
• Extensive Knowledge of remote logistics
• Creating short-interval look-ahead project schedules that make sure that upcoming events are communicated, tracked and are being proactively attended to;
• Creating and maintaining a culture that values safety, health and cleanliness;
• Managing and coordinating the work to ensure that it is constructed in an orderly and deliberate manner that is consistent with the standard-of-care set forth in the contract documents that is viewed by industry as an effort that is consistent with best-practice standards;
• Establishing and maintaining all dimensional controls for the project to include the use of third party survey and layout personnel when appropriate;
• Verifying that all work is installed in a workmanlike manner (i.e.: plumb, level, straight, etc...);
• Manage and look-ahead no less than two weeks to proactively identifying issues that could lead to problems and facilitate solutions;
• Obtaining all inspections and ensuring that the quality aspects of the physical work are fully documented;
• Ensuring all aspects of the project are compliant with all contract terms and legal requirements that govern the project and the community in which the project(s) takes place;
• Administering client specific programs, such as CQC, Safety, Environmental Stewardship, etc. ;
• Conducting and/or attending pre-construction, progress and other project and staff meetings;
• Meeting with client representatives on a regular basis to discuss the status of projects, to proactively identify and resolve problems and to assure that the client is kept knowledgeable about the status of the work;
• Managing self-performed activities to ensure that work is being performed within the established project budget;
• Managing changes in project scope to ensure that the most contemporary contract documents are being used at all times to prevent avoidable rework;
• Administering contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders and other agreement to ensure that the scope, terms and conditions are consistently and proactively being met;
• Managing the punch list and project closeout process to assure timely completion;
• Maintaining daily paperwork such as timecards, field reports, schedule updates and E-mail correspondence;
• Providing timely and cordial interaction with supporting work groups, such as accounting, HR, ICs, etc.
• Directing and managing the work loads of supporting staff to include training, mentoring and follow up; and
• Participating in and encouraging staff to seek out life-long learning opportunities and professional development
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements and Qualifications

Education

• AS degree in Construction Management or 15 years of related experience

Experience

• Minimum 15 years of experience in the construction industry with a commercial and/or institutional general contractor engaged in general building, demolition and civil construction;

Potawatomi Defense Operations, LLCis an equal opportunity employer.Potawatomi Defense OperationsLLC does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.