Superintendent

About the role

Suffolk is seeking a Superintendent to oversee and manage all day-to-day job site activities, including project team performance, site conditions, safety and quality standards, compliance with scope, and effective management of trade partners. We’re looking for people who are bold, curious, innovative, and caring—individuals eager for the career opportunity of a lifetime. Here, you’ll be challenged and inspired to be your very best, embracing what makes you unique while acting with purpose and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Oversee, manage, and document all day-to-day job site activities including OSHA safety compliance.
• Direct field personnel according to the project plan and Suffolk supervisory principles.
• Communicate issues, events, performance, and progress daily to the Project Manager.
• Report any problems promptly to the Project Manager to facilitate cost-effective solutions.
• Establish effective working relationships with clients and Suffolk team members.
• Request advice and assistance from the General Superintendent on materials, sequencing, scheduling, and personnel.

Project Start-Up/Turnover Meeting

• Identify pre-mobilization activities in conjunction with the Project Executive, General Superintendent, and Project Manager.
• Develop start-up schedule with Project Manager and send it to the Project Executive and General Superintendent for review.

Scheduling

• Assist in formulating and implementing construction schedules in the field.
• Establish and implement the Project Baseline Schedule based on project contracts and subcontractor input.
• Maintain the schedule and ensure work performed meets contract requirements and client expectations.
• Update Project Schedule monthly.
• Provide progress report with a two-week look ahead to the Project Manager and field staff.

Safety

• Ensure all subcontractors participate in a safety pre-construction meeting prior to starting work.
• Ensure subcontractors have a full set of MSD sheets, site-specific safety plan, and current insurance certificate or OCIP/CCIP enrollment ID.
• Review the project daily to ensure compliance with OSHA and governing requirements, and the project site-specific safety plan.
• Review safety reports and injury data to assess safety performance on assigned projects.
• Ensure projects are budgeted and staffed appropriately to support safety programs.
• Communicate clear safety expectations to project teams.
• Perform safety inspections using predictive solutions software in accordance with SCCI safety program.
• Adhere to all Suffolk Safety program requirements.

Quality Management

• Ensure pertinent benchmarks for the project are established and inserted into the baseline schedule.
• Ensure appropriate individuals become members of the Q-Team.
• Ensure 1st delivery inspections and Benchmark inspections occur per the baseline schedule.
• Ensure inspections are approved, documented, and communicated to the project team.

Subcontractor and Site Management

• Manage site pre-construction including pre-construction survey, job site utilization, and staging plans.
• Mobilize the field office and maintain the job site to Suffolk standards.
• Organize documentation of the job site for easy access and review.
• Manage subcontractor performance to quality and ethical standards.
• Work with Project Manager to identify and resolve personnel issues and construction process revisions.
• Manage all phases of the construction process, including documenting and reporting site activities and progress.
• Manage excavations and assist with Job Site Utilization Plan.

Meeting Management

• Attend project turnover, mobilization, and project coordination meetings.
• Attend/chair safety pre-construction meetings.
• Attend/chair weekly foreman and safety meetings.
• Attend/chair monthly schedule review meetings.
• Attend closeout meetings.
• Attend owner meetings.
• Attend/chair subcontractor meetings and others necessary to monitor and manage the project.

Administrative Management

• Complete and implement construction office checklists including emergency phone lists.
• Complete daily reports and maintain logs of key activities, files, and shop drawings.
• Manage the quality and condition of all material deliveries.
• Maintain required safety reporting and all other required files to Suffolk standards.
• Ensure as-built working drawings are maintained, along with the current drawing log and revision log, communicating this to subcontractors.

Project Closeout

• Manage subcontractor closeout, transfer of utilities, owner training, work list, and punch list.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an applicable discipline and experience relative to project size/scope.
• 4+ years of experience in related construction fields.
• Ability to manage and embrace change; respond and adapt to new processes and problem-solving approaches.
• Applicable area licenses.
• Excellent team development skills and leadership abilities.
• Strong ability to partner with the Project Manager and staff.
• Committed to excellence; self-motivated and self-confident.
• Effective communication skills.
• Capable of dealing with ambiguity and tight work oversight.
• Able to multi-task and handle competing priorities while maintaining excellent customer relations.
• Business judgment to negotiate the balance between budget and construction processes.
• Excellent organizational skills to manage project details.
• Judgment to escalate issues appropriately up the chain of command.
• Excellent management skills to effectively oversee subcontractor performance.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to take decisive action.
• Must possess Suffolk’s Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand, and finger skills for keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and reach with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will spend time in an office environment with quiet to moderate noise levels, as well as job site walking.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and auto allowances/gas cards for certain roles.
• Market-leading medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, including emotional and mental health benefits.
• Virtual care options for physical therapy and primary care.
• Generous paid time off and 401k plan with employer match.
• Access to expert financial resources.
• Company-paid and voluntary life insurance.
• Tax-deferred savings accounts.
• 10 backup daycare days each year.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Commuter benefits.

About Suffolk

Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates, and invests. We provide value across the entire project lifecycle through core construction management services and complementary business lines in real estate investment, design, self-perform construction, and technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies). By integrating data, artificial intelligence, and advanced technology through our Seamless Platform, we connect design, construction, and operations to deliver smarter, more predictable results and redefine how America builds.

Suffolk is a national company with more than $9 billion in annual revenue, 3,000 employees, and 17 offices, including Boston (headquarters), New York City, Miami, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Estero, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Herndon, U.S. Virgin Islands, and other key markets. We manage complex and transformative projects across healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, aviation, transportation, government, mission critical, and commercial sectors.