Traveling Superintendent

nVent; El Paso (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

nVent is seeking a Traveling Superintendent to lead on-site coordination for large-scale bus duct installation projects across North America. The role requires travel to customer sites, overseeing field teams, and coordinating with customers and subcontractors to ensure safe, on-time project delivery.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of field project coordination experience, reads construction drawings, and is proficient with MS Office and scheduling tools.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent education.
• 3+ years of experience leading or coordinating field-based project activities at customer sites.
• Experience supporting project execution at client locations, including schedule coordination and customer communication.
• Ability to travel overnight up to 75% across the country.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and project documentation.
• Solid understanding of OSHA requirements and job-site safety practices.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and scheduling software.

Responsibilities

• Serve as nVent's primary on-site representative for large-scale engineered bus duct system installation projects.
• Coordinate daily project activities involving customers, subcontractors, field service technicians, project managers, and internal support teams.
• Lead project site coordination and customer progress meetings with regular updates on schedules, risks, and issues.
• Monitor project schedules, staffing, equipment, material readiness, and progress throughout execution.
• Review drawings and project documentation to support effective project delivery and customer experience.
• Make sound field decisions balancing safety, schedule, customer commitments, and costs.
• Complete daily reports and maintain accurate project records.
• Support a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement across all sites.

Skills

Project coordination

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Reading construction drawings

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project scheduling tools

Job description

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.As demand for critical power infrastructure projects continues to grow, we're expanding our field services team to support an increasing number of installation, commissioning, maintenance, and repair projects across North America. Our team works with custom-engineered bus duct systems that support electrical power distribution in power generation, industrial, data center, and other critical infrastructure environments. As a Traveling Superintendent, you'll play a highly visible role leading on-site project coordination, supporting customers, and helping ensure successful project execution in the field.

Important: This is a remote position that requires approximately 75% overnight travel, primarily across the continental United States. Projects will require extended stays at a single customer site lasting multiple weeks and occasionally several months.

While candidates located near Richland, MS are preferred, we welcome applicants located throughout the Southeast United States (TX, OK, AR, LA, TN, MS, AL, GA, FL, SC, NC) that support convenient travel to customer project sites.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:

• Serve as nVent's primary on-site representative for large-scale engineered bus duct system installation projects, while also supporting outage, rebuild, and other field service projects as needed throughout North America.
• Coordinate daily project activities involving customers, subcontractors, Field Service Technicians, Project Managers, and internal support teams.
• Lead project site coordination and customer progress meetings while maintaining regular communication regarding project schedules, risks, and issue resolution.
• Monitor project schedules, workforce requirements, equipment availability, material readiness, and project progress throughout execution.
• Review drawings, project documentation, and project scope requirements to support effective project delivery and a positive customer experience.
• Make sound field decisions by balancing safety, schedule, customer commitments, operational needs, and project costs.
• Complete daily reports, project documentation, timekeeping records, and status updates while maintaining accurate project records.
• Support a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement across all assigned job sites.

YOU HAVE:

• High school diploma or equivalent education.
• 3+ years of experience leading or coordinating field-based project activities at customer sites, including construction, installation, outage, commissioning, maintenance, or similar project environments.
• Proven experience supporting project execution at client locations, including schedule coordination, subcontractor coordination, issue resolution, progress reporting, and customer communication.
• Strong organizational, planning, and communication skills with the ability to lead multiple priorities in a fast-paced field environment.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, assembly drawings, plans, and project documentation.
• Solid understanding of OSHA requirements, job-site safety practices, workforce documentation, and timekeeping processes.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and experience using project scheduling, reporting, or project tracking tools.
• Ability and willingness to travel overnight up to 75% across the country. Extended stays at customer sites are required. The job involves working at heights and in different outdoor settings.

WE HAVE:

A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at www.nvent.com.

Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work

We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money.

Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:

• Innovative & adaptable
• Dedicated to absolute integrity
• Focused on the customer first
• Respectful and team oriented
• Optimistic and energizing
• Accountable for performance

Benefits to support the lives of our employees

Benefit Overview

• Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
• A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
• Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.

At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other’s authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.

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