Superintendent - Water - Dayton, OH

Shook Construction; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Shook Construction seeks a seasoned field operations leader to manage one or more water resources projects, overseeing labor, equipment, schedules, and safety compliance. The role guides project teams and ensures timely, quality delivery while coordinating with project management and subcontractors.

The successful candidate will optimize field performance, maintain accurate records, and support estimating and closeout activities across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Experience leading field operations and coordinating multiple crews.
• Proven ability to create and manage cost-loaded schedules.
• Knowledge of contract documents, safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Manages all field operations.
• Creates and manages the cost-loaded project schedule.
• Coordinates labor, equipment, subcontractors, drawings, and specifications.
• Responsible for labor and equipment costs and monthly projections.
• Identifies and mitigates project risk.
• Forecasts problems from contract documents and communicates solutions.
• Directs quality standards with subs and vendors.
• Oversees jobsite cleanliness and daily logs.
• Assists in estimating change orders and future projects.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Safety planning

Quality planning

Scheduling

Education

2-year technical college

4-year degree preferred

Tools

Estimating software

Job description

Job Purpose

Provides overall management of field operations to one or more

• Manages all field operations.
• Creates and manages the cost–loaded project schedule.
• Coordinates labor, equipment, subcontractors, drawings, and specifications.
• Responsible for all labor and equipment costs, including input with the monthly projections.
• Identifies, evaluates, and mitigates project risk.
• Understands the contract documents to foresee problems before they arise.
• Communicates quality standards to each subcontractor and vendor.
• Assists the Project Manager in preparing monthly billings.
• Assists in estimating change orders and future projects.
• Understand and prepare EEO logs as required.
• Manages the recruiting and evaluating of new talent.
• Manages the size of field staff by increasing or decreasing the crew sizes, as needed.
• Communicate with other projects to share resources.
• Assigns tasks and areas of responsibility to labor foreman and project superintendents.
• Ensures that on-site construction equipment is maintained.
• Receives materials and records the condition of shipments.
• Ensures that progress is updated timely and correct in the project schedule.
• Creates and manages a 3-week look ahead schedule.
• Tracks production units completed each week.
• Manages punch list completion and project closeout.
• Plans the work to ensure that each crew member under their supervision has all the materials, tools, and equipment to complete the work.
• Ensures crew’s safety planning is completed and followed.
• Ensures crew’s quality planning is completed and followed.
• Participates in routine schedule and coordination meetings with project staff for material, equipment, subcontractor, and labor needs.
• Maintains accurate timekeeping for crews under their responsibility.
• Ensures accurate daily reports and critical information are documented and completed regularly and timely.
• Coordinates and communicates engineering and layout needs with the other project team members.

Job Purpose

Provides overall management of field operations to one or more water resources projects, establishes field objectives and policies, safety, quality control, monitors construction and financial activities through administrative direction of Project Manager, as well as mentoring Project Superintendents.

Essential Duties

• Manages all field operations.
• Creates and manages the cost–loaded project schedule.
• Coordinates labor, equipment, subcontractors, drawings, and specifications.
• Responsible for all labor and equipment costs, including input with the monthly projections.
• Identifies, evaluates, and mitigates project risk.
• Understands the contract documents to foresee problems before they arise.
• Communicates quality standards to each subcontractor and vendor.
• Manages jobsite cleanliness.
• Assists the Project Manager in preparing monthly billings.
• Prepares daily logs.
• Assists in estimating change orders and future projects.
• Understand and prepare EEO logs as required.
• Manages the recruiting and evaluating of new talent.
• Manages the size of field staff by increasing or decreasing the crew sizes, as needed.
• Communicate with other projects to share resources.
• Assigns tasks and areas of responsibility to labor foreman and project superintendents.
• Ensures that on-site construction equipment is maintained.
• Receives materials and records the condition of shipments.
• Ensures that progress is updated timely and correct in the project schedule.
• Creates and manages a 3-week look ahead schedule.
• Tracks production units completed each week.
• Manages punch list completion and project closeout.
• Plans the work to ensure that each crew member under their supervision has all the materials, tools, and equipment to complete the work.
• Ensures crew’s safety planning is completed and followed.
• Ensures crew’s quality planning is completed and followed.
• Participates in routine schedule and coordination meetings with project staff for material, equipment, subcontractor, and labor needs.
• Maintains accurate timekeeping for crews under their responsibility.
• Ensures accurate daily reports and critical information are documented and completed regularly and timely.
• Coordinates and communicates engineering and layout needs with the other project team members.

This Job description is not all-inclusive. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned from time to time and this job description may be revised with or without notice.

Reporting Relationships

• The position reports to the Regional Leader
• The position is mentored by the Senior Superintendent
• The position is a mentor for: Project Engineer, Project Superintendent, Labor Foreman
• Position to work closely with Project Manager, Senior Project Manager

Competencies

• Able to communicate technical information, convey ideas or concepts to recommend suggestions, and/or develop solutions.
• Encourages teamwork at all levels on the job.
• Is self-motivated and has a good work ethic.
• Is looked to as a role model.
• Professional Certifications preferred.
• Member of a professional organization preferred.
• Lead field labor recruitment
• Keep up with current technology (BIM, 3D Modelling, Pipe Detailing, Surveying, etc.)

Level of Responsibility

Project Size

Effectively and efficiently manage the company’s medium to large projects.

Project Team

Senior Project Manager, Project Manager, Senior Project Engineer, Project Engineer, Project Superintendent

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Education and Experience

• 2-year technical college or equivalent experience required, 4-year degree in related field preferred
• On-site experience required.
• Formal apprenticeship training, journeyman improvement classes, or equivalent experience preferred.
• 5-10 years general construction experience preferred.

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization. Ability to communicate and understand different complex requirements of various project types and to work with different personality types.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills

Proficiency with office equipment, computers and various PC software programs and knowledge of estimating software.

Other Skills

Construction Knowledge- must have a thorough background and knowledge, skills, and abilities (self-perform) to plan and direct day-to-day work in a high-quality, professional & cost-efficient manner. Should be strong in areas of self-perform work including carpentry, concrete, sitework, mechanical systems, process equipment, process piping, and surveying. Contract plans and specification knowledge as well as knowledge of ADA requirements, building codes, instrument, and equipment knowledge preferred.

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations

Valid driver’s license with a clean driving record. Motor Vehicle report required.

OSHA 30 hours required.

Physical Demands

Medium amount of physical exertion. Medium manual dexterity or physical manipulation. Medium level of physical stamina and endurance. Maintain regular and punctual attendance, work overtime as assigned, travel overnight as required, drive long distances, work in cold, hot, dusty, loud environments, and comply with all company policies and procedures including safety.

Work Environment

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.