Grading Superintendent - South District

Position Overview

As a Grading Superintendent, you serve as Kiewit’s on-site representative and primary point of contact for construction activities. You are responsible for managing communication between the client’s on-site representatives, inspectors, subcontractors, craft employees and Kiewit personnel. Your role includes planning, coordinating, and supervising on-site functions such as scheduling, material control, and the day-to-day direction of field personnel to ensure safe, efficient and high-quality grading operations.

This position supports major infrastructure initiatives across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, where our teams are advancing projects that enable AI data centres, improve energy reliability and strengthen community resilience. These efforts are driven by close collaboration between our Infrastructure and Power groups, with a shared focus on utility infrastructure development.

Your leadership ensures that grading operations are executed with precision and coordination, contributing to the successful delivery of reliable, future-ready infrastructure across the South Central region.

Kiewit’s South Central District is one of Kiewit’s leading infrastructure districts specialising in heavy civil, transportation and water resource markets. Projects you could be working on could include mass grading, drainage, paving, utility and more. Although most of our work is regionally based in the south-central region of the United States, we also pursue various projects stretching across the United States.

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about infrastructure and committed to the construction industry as opposed to design.

One of the many things that makes Kiewit’s culture unique is that we go where the work is, which exposes your career to abundant opportunities. We relocate our teams based on the work that is available, combined with the development plans, skill sets and career goals of each team member. This means your Kiewit adventure is custom-designed to meet our shared needs.

• Assist the project team by providing input to identify key success factors, timing of design and procurement deliverables, and establishing a common work breakdown.
• Provide leadership to create the organisational structure and processes required to fully execute the requirements of services and be responsible for the execution of the work, quality, subcontractor performance and construction cost.
• Evaluate execution for compliance to contract, design data, schedule, cost budgets and quality, advising the project team of status, issues, impacts, risk and cost influence factors on the scope.
• Monitor the implementation of safety orientations and safety indoctrinations, and provide coaching for improvement.
• Monitor crews for organisational structure, sizing, crew mix ratios and wage compliance.
• Review and monitor cost and man‑hour budget for installation process and develop a staff, facilities, equipment and tool requirement plan.
• Have direct knowledge in the areas of roads, highways and bridges, along with Maintenance of Traffic, erosion control and safety training requirements.
• Bilingual proficiency is a plus.

• Working knowledge of Trimble/machine grade control, demolition, excavation, lime and flex‑base operations.
• Knowledge of local materials.

• 5+ years’ work experience in the construction industry, with at least 3+ years in a supervisory role managing multiple grading crews at one time.
• A high school diploma or general education degree (GED) is preferred.
• Must be able to understand work directions and communicate effectively with management and fellow employees.

• Regular, reliable attendance.
• Work productively and meet deadlines timely.
• Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees and others individually or in a team environment.
• Perform work safely and effectively; understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use and other policies.
• Work during normal operating hours to organise and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
• May work at various different locations, and conditions may vary.

We offer our full‑time staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top‑tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programmes, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching and generous paid time off.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.