Superintendent
Position Summary
The Superintendent is responsible for the overall leadership, execution, and profitability of medium to large-scale projects. This role oversees all aspects of project delivery, including safety, quality, staffing, scheduling, financial performance, customer relations, and operational efficiency. The Superintendent serves as the primary liaison between the company and the customer, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and in compliance with company and client requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage project teams, including recruiting, hiring, training, mentoring, performance management, and employee development.
- Serve as the primary customer contact and maintain strong client relationships throughout project execution.
- Oversee project planning, staffing, scheduling, workload distribution, and resource allocation.
- Manage project budgets, profitability, invoicing, collections, financial reporting, and job cost accuracy.
- Ensure projects meet customer deadlines, quality standards, and company expectations.
- Conduct site walks, quality inspections, outage prevention measures, and maintain as-built/redline documentation.
- Troubleshoot technical issues and provide leadership on complex operational challenges.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across estimating, purchasing, scheduling, warehousing, invoicing, and reporting processes.
- Promote and enforce safety standards while partnering with training teams to address quality and compliance requirements.
- Lead operational meetings, training sessions, and oversee company tools, equipment, and vehicle inventory.
Required Qualifications
- Strong leadership experience managing field operations and project teams.
- Proven ability to manage large-scale projects, budgets, schedules, and customer relationships.
- Strong knowledge of construction practices, blueprints, specifications, and project documentation.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, organizational, and presentation skills.
- Ability to learn and train others on company and customer project management systems.
- Experience with quality control, financial management, and operational process improvement.
- Willingness to travel within assigned territories as needed.
- Proven high skill level to interpret blueprints and other project documents, including but not limited to, specifications, reporting and quality requirements.
- Ability to work at heights, off of a ladder and in confined spaces, lift up to 50 pounds and move up to 75 pounds.
- Regular attendance is mandatory.
- Self-motivated, positive in approach, and convey an appropriate professional image.
- Promote the Company culture and mission to all employees, vendors, clients and business partners.
- Proven high skill level to interpret blueprints and other project documents, including but not limited to, specifications, reporting and quality requirements.
- Must be able to work within the branch territory and/or regional territory as needed.
- Proven ability to define a project, create a project scope of work, create an estimate, develop detailed associated tasks and manage these to final completion and customer turnover.
- Must be proficient with a computer and be skilled with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and MS Project).
- Must meet Company minimum driving standards.
- Must have demonstrated verifiable ability to define a project, create a project scope of work, create an estimate, develop detailed associated tasks and manage these to final completion and customer turnover.
- Must have a minimum of five (5) years’ experience of supervisory or managerial experience.
- Must have a minimum of three (3) years’ experience as a Lead Communications Technician or similar position.
- Must have a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in telecommunications or a related technical or construction field.
Physical and Mental Requirements
- Regular attendance is mandatory.
- Self-motivated, positive in approach, and convey an appropriate professional image.
- Promote the Company culture and mission to all employees, vendors, clients and business partners.
- Proven high skill level to interpret blueprints and other project documents, including but not limited to, specifications, reporting and quality requirements.
- Must be able to work within the branch territory and/or regional territory as needed.
- Proven ability to define a project, create a project scope of work, create an estimate, develop detailed associated tasks and manage these to final completion and customer turnover.
- Must be proficient with a computer and be skilled with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and MS Project).
- Must meet Company minimum driving standards.
- Must have proven high skill level to interpret blueprints and other project documents, including but not limited to, specifications, reporting and quality requirements.
- Must be able to work at heights, off of a ladder and in confined spaces, lift up to 50 pounds and move up to 75 pounds.
- Must be able to stand and walk very large job sites regularly.
- Must be able to see and distinguish different colors, read small print and hear and recognize audible signals such as dial tones.
Education, Certification, License, And Skill Requirements
- Prefer a minimum of five (5) years’ experience of supervisory or managerial experience.
- Must have a minimum of three (3) years’ experience as a Lead Communications Technician or similar position.
- Must have a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in telecommunications or a related technical or construction field.
- Must be proficient with a computer and be skilled with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and MS Project).
- Must meet Company minimum driving standards.
- Must have demonstrated verifiable ability to define a project, create a project scope of work, create an estimate, develop detailed associated tasks and manage these to final completion and customer turnover.
- Must have proven high skill level to interpret blueprints and other project documents, including but not limited to, specifications, reporting and quality requirements.
- Must be able to use the following trade Tools: punch tool with 110 block and 66 block blade, 6/8 position combo crimp tool, Krone/3M/BIX, butt set, volt-ohmmeter, 4-pair continuity tester and 5-gang punch tool.
Qualifications
- Minimum of six (6) years of relevant experience.
Pay
Min USD $37.00/Hr. Max USD $45.00/Hr.
Benefits
See details in the "Overview" section.
About IES
IES is a national provider of industrial products and infrastructure services to a variety of end markets, including electrical, mechanical and communications contracting solutions for the commercial, industrial, residential and renewable energy markets. IES is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol IESC. As of the end of IES’s 2025 fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, IES produced over $3.3 billion in revenue and employed over 9,400 employees at over 174 domestic locations across the United States. IES is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: Minorities, Females, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Individuals with Disabilities, Protected Veterans Encouraged to Apply.
EEO Statement
Please note that unsolicited agency resumes or agency represented candidates that are presented to any IES employee without first having a signed contract between that agency and the IES Talent Acquisition organization will become the property of IES and no fees will be paid.
EEO & Affirmative Action
IES is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. IES provides reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Applicants who need accommodation in the job application process should contact the IES corporate office at (713) 860-1500 or any IES office to request assistance.
E-Verify Participation
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