Lead Superintendent

Responsibilities

• Lead all construction activities on site for an active hyperscale data center campus, ensuring safe, high-quality, and efficient execution.
• Provide direct oversight of field teams, subcontractors, and project staff, aligning daily operations with overall project goals and milestones.
• Manage construction schedules, monitor progress, and drive adherence to aggressive timelines using pull planning, look-ahead scheduling, and critical path management.
• Own site-wide safety performance by enforcing safety standards, conducting regular inspections, and fostering a safety-first culture across all trades.
• Ensure construction quality meets mission-critical and hyperscale standards, implementing robust QA/QC processes throughout all phases of work.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for ownership, technology clients, and executive stakeholders, representing the project in all on-site matters.
• Cook up structural, civil, electrical, mechanical, and commissioning teams to deliver integrated data center facilities from early site work through turnover.
• Lead project meetings, provide clear status updates, and present progress, risks, and mitigation plans to executive leadership and owner representatives.
• Oversee budget and overall project performance, balancing cost, schedule, and quality on projects valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Guide the project through commissioning, startup, and operational turnover processes, ensuring successful owner acceptance of mission-critical systems.
• Mentor project teams, field staff, and subcontractors, driving accountability, performance, and collaboration across multiple disciplines.
• Coordinate and manage multiple buildings and phased campus construction work, coordinating simultaneous scopes and managing interdependencies.
• Maintain strong client-facing relationships with major cloud and technology providers, responding to priorities and aligning site execution with hyperscale standards.
• Travel as needed and manage any remote/home rotation schedules while maintaining consistent leadership presence on site.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading large-scale data center construction projects, including hyperscale and mission-critical environments.
• Proven track record serving as the top site leader or primary construction representative on complex hyperscale data center projects.
• Deep understanding of data center construction methodologies and execution for large campus-style developments.
• Strong knowledge of electrical distribution systems supporting mission-critical loads.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical and HVAC systems used in large data center facilities.
• Familiarity with generators and backup power systems for mission-critical infrastructure.
• Experience with commissioning and startup processes, including coordination through turnover and owner acceptance.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee safety, quality, schedule, budget, and overall project performance on high-value construction projects.
• Experience managing multiple subcontractors and simultaneous scopes of work on large commercial or industrial construction sites.
• Familiarity with pull planning, look-ahead scheduling, and critical path management techniques.
• Proven ability to lead large project teams, field staff, and subcontractors on complex mission-critical projects.
• Experience serving as the primary construction representative to owners, consultants, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong decision-making skills in fast-paced, schedule-driven environments.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with technology clients and owner representatives.
• Experience leading project meetings and presenting project status to executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
• An equivalent combination of education and relevant mission-critical construction experience will be considered.
• Experience supporting data center projects for major cloud and technology providers such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, or AWS.
• Previous work on multiple hyperscale campus developments or large campus-style projects.
• Experience working on nationally recognized mission-critical construction projects.
• Background in data center construction, supervision, MEP coordination, project management, commercial construction, and site leadership.

Skills

• Extensive experience leading large-scale data center construction projects, including hyperscale and mission-critical environments.
• Proven track record serving as the top site leader or primary construction representative on complex hyperscale data center projects.
• Deep understanding of data center construction methodologies and execution for large campus-style developments.
• Strong knowledge of electrical distribution systems supporting mission-critical loads.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical and HVAC systems used in large data center facilities.
• Familiarity with generators and backup power systems for mission-critical infrastructure.
• Experience with commissioning and startup processes, including coordination through turnover and owner acceptance.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee safety, quality, schedule, budget, and overall project performance on high-value construction projects.
• Experience managing multiple subcontractors and simultaneous scopes of work on large commercial or industrial construction sites.
• Familiarity with pull planning, look-ahead scheduling, and critical path management techniques.
• Proven ability to lead large project teams, field staff, and subcontractors on complex mission-critical projects.
• Experience serving as the primary construction representative to owners, consultants, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong decision-making skills in fast-paced, schedule-driven environments.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with technology clients and owner representatives.
• Experience leading project meetings and presenting project status to executive leadership.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid employee medical
• 401(k) match
• Lifetime life and disability coverage
• Student loan assistance
• Strong wellness offerings
• Workplace Type: Fully onsite position in Saint Louis, MO

Pay

$180,000.00 - $200,000.00/yr.