Traveling Superintendent

About the Role

The Traveling Site Superintendent oversees all field operations and personnel assigned to company projects. This position provides onsite leadership to ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, accurately, and according to project schedules, specifications, budgets, and company expectations. The Superintendent directly manages project foremen, supervises field crews, and serves as the primary onsite representative of the company. This is a traveling position requiring regular assignment to jobsites throughout the company’s areas of operation.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and direction for daily field operations.
• Directly supervise, support, and hold project foremen accountable for crew productivity, accurate time reporting, jobsite organization, safety compliance, quality of work, and effective communication.
• Address performance, conduct, attendance, communication, and accountability concerns involving foremen.
• Ensure company leadership is informed of significant field issues.
• Plan, coordinate, and oversee daily construction activities.
• Monitor the progress of each crew throughout the workday and ensure work is properly sequenced to prevent delays and unnecessary downtime.
• Maintain an organized, productive, and professional jobsite.
• Review foreman performance, crew organization, communication, and productivity.
• Confirm that foremen properly document daily activities, manpower, delays, incidents, and completed work.
• Ensure foremen enforce company policies consistently.
• Verify that employee timesheets reflect actual hours worked by comparing reported time with daily reports, crew schedules, weather conditions, early releases, travel activity, and other jobsite records.
• Manage labor costs in accordance with project budgets and production expectations.
• Review project schedules and establish daily and weekly production goals.
• Track actual progress against the project schedule and coordinate upcoming work, equipment needs, material needs, and staffing requirements.
• Promote and enforce the company’s safety policies and expectations.

Documentation Responsibilities

• Confirm daily reports include manpower, hours worked, work performed, equipment used, weather conditions, delays, deliveries, visitors, safety matters, and significant events.
• Maintain accurate records of project conversations, customer directions, delays, disruptions, and changed conditions.
• Ensure jobsite records support payroll, billing, change orders, and project closeout.

Tooling Requirements

• Ensure tools and equipment are available when needed.
• Ability to use electronic timesheets, daily-reporting systems, email, mobile devices, and project-management software.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of construction field experience preferred.
• Prior experience as a Superintendent, General Foreman, or senior-level Foreman preferred.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, specifications, schedules, and project documents.
• Strong leadership, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to pass applicable background checks, drug testing, and customer-access requirements.
• Valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record.

Work Conditions

• Extended assignments away from the employee’s home location may be required.
• Must be available to work varying schedules based on project needs.
• Regularly stand, walk, climb, bend, reach, and move throughout active construction sites.
• Work indoors and outdoors in varying weather and jobsite conditions.