Site Superintendent

Purpose

This profile defines the minimum qualifications, certifications, experience benchmarks, and behavioral indicators required for a Site Superintendent who can step onto a CJW federal project on Day 1 without a learning curve. The Site Superintendent role is purely field-operations focused — owning site logistics, subcontractor execution, schedule adherence, and safety. Quality Control documentation and compliance is a separate role handled by the QC Manager.

• Minimum 10 years as a Site Superintendent on federal government construction contracts — commercial experience does not count toward this threshold.
• Must have delivered projects under NAVFAC, USACE, GSA, USAF, or NIH contract vehicles — MACC/IDIQ, SATOC, MATOC, or standalone task orders.
• Must have managed at least two of three delivery methods:
  Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, and IDIQ Task Order.
• Must have experience on occupied federal facilities — managing active operations, phasing, and access control while construction is ongoing.
• Experience on DoD installations in the DC Metro region is strongly preferred:
  Indian Head, Dahlgren, NRL, JBAB, Bethesda, Fort Belvoir, Aberdeen, Patuxent River, Norfolk Naval Station.
• Minimum portfolio must include at least three of the following federal project types:
  • Interior renovation of occupied federal building (office, lab, or medical)
  • MEP upgrade or full system replacement on a federal facility
  • Fire Alarm / Mass Notification System installation or upgrade
  • Perimeter security / Force Protection (anti-ram barriers, guard booths, fencing)
  • Pre-Engineered Metal Building (PEMB) — erection and full enclosure
  • Design-Build project with a Designer of Record and government design review
  • Ground-up new construction on a military or federal installation

The following are hard requirements — not preferred qualifications:

• OSHA 30-Hour Construction — active, not expired
• First Aid / CPR — current certification
• Valid driver’s license — required for all CJW operating states

Preferred — differentiating qualifications:

• Active CAC or DBIDS base access credential — can get on-site Day 1
• Procore Certification — platform used on all CJW projects
• ASHE Healthcare Constructor — relevant for NIH and VA hospital work
• Note:
  
  CQM-C is NOT required for this role — that is the QC Manager’s credential

• Must establish and maintain full site logistics from mobilization through demobilization without PM direction — staging, laydown, temporary facilities, access control, haul routes.
• Must manage and direct multiple subcontractors simultaneously — knows how to sequence trades, resolve conflicts on site, and maintain production momentum.
• Must manage badging, escort, and installation access for all personnel and subcontractors on secure military bases — including coordinating DBIDS and base access submissions.
• Must be able to read and apply construction drawings at expert level — architectural, structural, civil, MEP, fire protection — and cross-reference against specs without assistance.
• Must identify field conflicts, drawing discrepancies, or scope ambiguities and immediately communicate RFI needs to the PM with clear documentation.
• Must maintain a marked-up, current set of drawings on site at all times and contribute to as-built preparation throughout the project.
• Must conduct and document pre-task meetings before each new trade activity — not just attend, but run them.

• Must produce and own a 3-week lookahead schedule every week without PM prompting — distributes to subs, updates actuals, identifies float risks.
• Proficient in Primavera P6 or MS Project at the task level — can update actuals, identify critical path erosion, and revise after a government-directed change.
• Must understand CPM logic well enough to have an independent recovery conversation with a COR without the PM present.
• Must have documented a government-caused delay with contemporaneous field records sufficient to support a future REA — and understand why that documentation matters contractually.
• Must pre-order long-lead materials and pre-position crews well in…