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Superintendent / Lead Foreman

ManagementFull-time

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead daily field execution, construction coordination, work sequencing, look-ahead planning, and issue resolution across assigned semiconductor tool-installation and construction scopes.
  • Coordinate tool move-in, pre-facilitation, utility hook-up, installation, equipment support, punch-list completion, commissioning support, turnover readiness, and handover activities.
  • Direct daily priorities for subcontractor crews, field coordinators, vendors, trades, and support personnel.
  • Conduct regular field walks to monitor construction progress, installation quality, work-area readiness, site conditions, safety compliance, material availability, and schedule-sensitive activities.
  • Verify that field work is performed in alignment with approved drawings, work packages, specifications, client requirements, cleanroom protocols, and project procedures.
  • Maintain work-area access, equipment movement, staging needs, facility interfaces, installation constraints, and trade coordination requirements.
  • Identify field conflicts, constructability concerns, incomplete work, manpower gaps, access limitations, material shortages, and schedule risks that may affect project execution.
  • Support field execution from early mobilization through installation, inspection, commissioning support, punch-list closure, turnover, and client handover.

Construction Coordinator & Field Team Management

  • Manage, guide, and prioritize Construction Coordinators supporting field activities, progress tracking, subcontractor coordination, documentation, and issue escalation.
  • Assign daily work priorities, follow-up actions, field documentation responsibilities, and coordination tasks to field-support personnel.
  • Review field updates, progress reports, open-issue logs, action-item trackers, and daily coordination needs with Construction Coordinators.
  • Support the development of field leadership capability, accountability, communication standards, and project-execution discipline within assigned teams.
  • Ensure Construction Coordinators maintain accurate records related to progress, field conditions, contractor activities, quality concerns, material readiness, and outstanding actions.
  • Cover interfaces between tool vendors, facility operations, cleanroom teams, mechanical contractors, electrical contractors, process utility teams, controls teams, logistics teams, and other project disciplines.
  • Support resolution of trade-interface issues, routing conflicts, utility-readiness concerns, equipment-access constraints, and installation-sequencing challenges.
  • Participate in contractor coordination meetings, daily huddles, weekly planning meetings, progress reviews, and client-facing field discussions.
  • Hold subcontractors and field teams accountable for assigned work, corrective actions, schedule commitments, documentation requirements, and safety expectations.

Planning, Scheduling & Project Controls Support

  • Develop and maintain short-term look-ahead plans for field execution, tool-installation activities, utility connections, equipment movement, inspection needs, and turnover milestones.
  • Coordinate construction sequencing, work packages, installation priorities, access windows, material deliveries, vendor mobilization, and workforce requirements.
  • Track field progress against project schedules, milestones, contractor commitments, work plans, and turnover requirements.
  • Monitor productivity, manpower levels, completed quantities, open work items, critical-path activities, and schedule-sensitive scopes.
  • Identify potential delays, field constraints, design gaps, material risks, labor shortages, or coordination concerns that could impact project milestones.
  • Support recovery planning, resequencing efforts, work-arounds, and corrective actions to address schedule risks and maintain project momentum.
  • Provide accurate daily and weekly progress updates, field reports, manpower information, issue logs, and required action items to project leadership.
  • Coordinate with Project Managers, schedulers, engineering teams, procurement, logistics, QA/QC, EHS, and subcontractors to support project controls and execution planning.

Quality, Documentation & Turnover Support

  • Review drawings, specifications, P&IDs, construction schedules, work packages, RFIs, submittals, and field documentation to support accurate construction execution.
  • Coordinate with QA/QC personnel, subcontractors, field teams, and client representatives to support inspections, deficiency correction, punch-list closure, and turnover readiness.
  • Maintain installation quality, workmanship, cleanliness, contamination-control practices, equipment protection, labeling, and documentation completeness.
  • Support resolution of field-quality concerns, nonconforming work, inspection findings, and rework requirements.
  • Ensure field changes, redlines, progress records, inspection documentation, material concerns, and open work items are accurately tracked.
  • Support commissioning teams, tool vendors, facility teams, and client representatives during startup, testing, final inspections, and handover activities.
  • Help ensure turnover documentation, field records, inspection status, punch-list items, and required closeout deliverables are complete and ready for client review.

Safety, Cleanroom Compliance & Communication

  • Ensure all field activities comply with company safety policies, OSHA requirements, client procedures, cleanroom rules, PPE standards, permitting requirements, and contamination-control protocols.
  • Lead or participate in daily safety meetings, pre-task planning, toolbox talks, field safety observations, and work-area safety reviews.
  • Identify unsafe conditions, hazardous work practices, housekeeping concerns, cleanroom compliance gaps, and other field risks; coordinate corrective action with EHS and field teams.
  • Maintain strong awareness of active fab and cleanroom requirements, including gowning, restricted-area access, contamination control, material handling, and equipment-protection expectations.
  • Communicate progress, safety concerns, quality issues, schedule risks, material needs, field constraints, and required decisions clearly to project stakeholders.
  • Maintain a proactive, accountable, hands-on, and solution-oriented leadership style in a fast-paced construction environment.

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