Superintendent

Tecta America Commercial Roofing; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Empire Roofing in Nashville, TN is seeking a Commercial Roofing Superintendent to lead field crews on commercial projects. You will work with supervisors, estimators, and site teams to ensure safety, quality, and on-time delivery.

The role requires extensive roofing experience, blueprint literacy, strong communication, and travel to project sites. This position offers exposure to diverse roofs and opportunity to mentor staff.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent with 8–10 years related experience.
• 5+ years of commercial roofing experience.
• Ability to read blueprints and construction docs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Valid driver’s license with clean driving record.
• Willingness to work at heights and travel 1–3 months annually.

Responsibilities

• Manage and supervise commercial roofing crews and jobs.
• Attend and participate in Pre-construction meetings.
• Read field books and plans to plan work within schedules and budgets.
• Establish lines of communication with GC’s, Owners, PMs, and others.
• Instruct best practices for roofing production and participate in training.
• Train employees on safety procedures and equipment.
• Teach roofing materials terminology and proper use.
• Plan and participate in education programs for new hires and technicians.
• Recruit, train, mentor, and retain field personnel.
• Ensure jobs are completed efficiently and cost-effectively.

Skills

Blueprint reading

Communication

Driver's license

Safety awareness

Team leadership

Bilingual English/Spanish

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

8–10 years related experience

Construction management exposure

Job description

Description

With over 35 years of experience, Empire Roofing is your go to expert for roof replacement, repair, and maintenance for commercial, industrial, and institutional properties. We specialize in everything from built up and modified bitumen roofs to single ply and architectural metal roofing. Whether it’s leak repairs, preventative maintenance, custom sheet metal fabrication, or thorough inspections, we’ve got you covered! Trust Empire Roofing for reliable, comprehensive roofing solutions that stand the test of time.

Description

With over 35 years of experience, Empire Roofing is your go to expert for roof replacement, repair, and maintenance for commercial, industrial, and institutional properties. We specialize in everything from built up and modified bitumen roofs to single ply and architectural metal roofing. Whether it’s leak repairs, preventative maintenance, custom sheet metal fabrication, or thorough inspections, we’ve got you covered! Trust Empire Roofing for reliable, comprehensive roofing solutions that stand the test of time.

We are seeking a Commercial Roofing Superintendent for our Nashville, TN shop. This position involves working with existing supervisors, estimators and supervising roofing production field crews. This position is responsible for the recruiting, training, and retention of the field workforce.

Job Functions

• Manage and supervise commercial roofing crews and commercial roofing jobs
• Attend and participate in Pre-construction meetings
• Read and understand field books with various construction job scopes of work, plans and specifications to be able to properly plan out jobs and perform work accordingly within schedules and budgets
• Establish lines of communication with external and internal customers (GC’s, Building Owners, Owners Representatives, Consultants, Project Managers, Accounting, Operations, Field Personnel, Etc.) before, during and after job completion
• Instructs the best practices for roofing production by fully participating in on the job training as well as periodic manufacturer training.
• Trains employees on safety procedures and safety equipment.
• Teaches terminology of roofing materials, tools, and equipment and proper use.
• Plans, administrates, and participates as instructor in company sponsored education programs for new hires and developing roof technicians.
• Recruits, trains, mentors, and retains a dependable and knowledgeable field personnel
• Ensure jobs are completed in the most efficient and most cost effective manner

Knowledge, Skills & Experience (Essential)

• Education/Experience: High School Diploma or equivalent; 8-10 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ yrs of commercial roofing experience
• Ability to read and understand blueprints
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations; Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos; ability to write simple correspondence; Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and general public.
• Strong interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills.
• Valid Driver’s license and clean driving record.
• Must not be afraid of heights and must be able to position extension ladder to access roof for roof inspection/survey.
• Ability to add, subtracts, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience (Desirable)

• Bilingual in English and Spanish is highly preferred

Occupational Health and Safety

• Compliance with workplace policies and procedures for risk identification, risk assessment and risk control
• Active participation in activities associated with the management of workplace health and safetyIdentification and reporting of health and safety risks, accidents, incidents, injuries and property damage at the workplace

Working Conditions

Physical surroundings: Field environment with exposure to heights, noise and temperature. Ability to work outdoors in extreme weather conditions, both hot and cold and in windy conditions.

Physical Effort: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, climb ladder, bend, kneel, type, and talk or hear. The employee is also required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Travel: This role involves periodic travel to project sites and operating locations, typically totaling 1-3 months annually. Travel duration and frequency will vary based on project demands.