Site Superintendent

Synectics Inc.; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Synectics Inc. is seeking an experienced field leader to direct on-site activities across multiple trades. You will coordinate foremen, prioritize daily tasks, and resolve access, sequencing, and logistics conflicts to keep projects on schedule.

The role requires enforcing safety standards, coordinating with project teams and customers, and maintaining a professional jobsite. Travel to project sites nationwide is required.

Qualifications

• Minimum seven years of construction experience, including leadership roles.
• Experience coordinating multiple contractors and trades from mobilization through startup and closeout.
• Knowledge of industrial or agricultural construction practices and site logistics.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall field leadership and coordinate contractors through foremen or field representatives.
• Establish daily/weekly priorities, conduct coordination meetings, resolve conflicts and site logistics.
• Coordinate with Project Manager, Field Execution Leader, customers, inspectors, and vendors.
• Maintain an orderly, professional jobsite with accountability for safety, quality, schedule and execution.

Skills

Field leadership

Contractor coordination

Safety compliance

Planning & scheduling

Problem solving

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

High school diploma or GED

Construction management or related education preferred

Tools

OSHA 30‑Hour Construction

First Aid/CPR

Job description

• Provide overall field leadership and coordinate contractors through their foremen or designated field representatives.
• Establish daily and weekly priorities, conduct coordination meetings, and resolve trade, access, sequencing, and site-logistics conflicts.
• Coordinate work with the Project Manager, Field Execution Leader, customer representatives, inspectors, and vendors.
• Maintain an orderly, professional jobsite with clear accountability for safety, quality, schedule, and execution requirements.

Roles & Responsibilities

Jobsite Leadership & Coordination:

• Provide overall field leadership and coordinate contractors through their foremen or designated field representatives.
• Establish daily and weekly priorities, conduct coordination meetings, and resolve trade, access, sequencing, and site-logistics conflicts.
• Coordinate work with the Project Manager, Field Execution Leader, customer representatives, inspectors, and vendors.
• Maintain an orderly, professional jobsite with clear accountability for safety, quality, schedule, and execution requirements.

Safety & Quality

• Enforce company, customer, OSHA, and project-specific safety requirements and stop work when unsafe conditions exist.
• Coordinate orientations, pre-task planning, Job Safety Analyses, toolbox talks, inspections, permits, and corrective actions.
• Verify that work conforms to current drawings, specifications, approved submittals, manufacturer requirements, and quality standards.
• Document and communicate incidents, deficiencies, field conditions, and required corrective actions.

Planning, Scheduling & Execution

• Participate in preconstruction planning and develop site logistics, sequencing, access, laydown, temporary-facility, crane, and mobilization plans.
• Coordinate civil/sitework, concrete, structural steel, building systems, millwright installation, process equipment, piping, electrical, controls, and specialty scopes.
• Maintain short-term look-ahead schedules, monitor field progress, and identify labor, equipment, material, information, inspection, and access requirements.
• Escalate schedule risks, scope gaps, design conflicts, unforeseen conditions, and potential cost impacts.
• Coordinate deliveries, cranes, inspections, testing, startup, commissioning, punch-list completion, demobilization, and closeout.

Documentation & Site Administration

• Maintain daily reports, progress records, photographs, site logs, delivery documentation, and as-built information.
• Monitor contractor staffing, equipment utilization, site services, and jobsite consumables for alignment with the project plan.
• Review field work records, time-and-material documentation, delivery tickets, and equipment usage as assigned.
• Coordinate project tools, rented equipment, fuel, sanitation, waste disposal, temporary facilities, testing services, cranes, and concrete pumping.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; construction management, engineering, technical, or trade education preferred.
• Minimum of seven years of construction experience, including at least three years in a superintendent, assistant superintendent, general foreman, or comparable field‑leadership role.
• Industrial, agricultural, or food processing construction experience required. Industrial or agricultural experience is strongly preferred.
• Greenfield construction management experience strongly preferred.
• Experience coordinating multiple contractors and trades from mobilization through startup and closeout required.
• OSHA 30‑Hour Construction, current First Aid/CPR, and applicable competent‑person training required.
• Broad knowledge of industrial and agricultural construction practices, sequencing, equipment installation, and jobsite logistics.
• Ability to coordinate multiple contractors and trades without direct day‑to‑day supervision of individual craft workers.
• Working knowledge of greenfield construction from site development and foundations through equipment installation, startup, and closeout.
• Ability to read and interpret civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, process, piping, and electrical construction documents.
• Working knowledge of OSHA requirements, hazard recognition, quality control, and construction documentation.
• Ability to plan work, identify project risks, resolve conflicts, hold contractor foremen accountable, and communicate effectively.
• Strong organization, judgment, documentation, and problem‑solving skills.
• Full‑time travel and temporary relocation to project sites throughout the United States are required.
• Valid driver's license, acceptable driving record, and legal authorization to work on U.S. project sites required.
• Ability to work extended hours, weekends, alternate schedules, and holidays as project conditions require.
• Ability to work in active construction environments, varying weather, uneven terrain, at elevation, and around operating equipment.
• Drug and alcohol testing is required in accordance with company policy and applicable law.
• Other duties may be assigned based on project and business requirements.