Superintendent III

Cirks Construction Inc. (CCI), dba KDC Construction, is a leader in the Grocery/Retail/Restaurant construction industry with diverse individuals dedicated to our people, customers, projects, and community. We strongly focus on building a culture encouraging our employees to grow personally and professionally. KDC is also a proud recipient of the Top Workplaces 2022, 2023 and 2024, presented by the Orange County Register.

Lead comprehensive preconstruction and constructability reviews of approved plans, specifications, addenda, permit corrections, deferred submittals, client and landlord requirements, logistics constraints, utilities, and existing conditions to identify and mitigate technical, schedule, cost, and operational risk. Develop advanced project execution strategies, phasing plans, site-logistics plans, sequencing plans, and schedule-recovery approaches for complex, accelerated, occupied, or high-risk assignments. Direct field operations from mobilization through turnover for KDC's most complex or strategically significant projects with minimal oversight.

Establish a proactive project safety culture, lead risk planning and required meetings, enforce applicable requirements, coach field leaders and subcontractors in incident prevention, and maintain required safety and field-operations training. Develop and manage baseline, milestone, three-week look-ahead, and daily execution plans; secure project-team and subcontractor commitments; and hold responsible parties accountable for recovery actions and milestone achievement. Lead complex coordination involving subcontractors, design partners, utilities, inspectors, agencies, tenants, permits, special inspections, deferred approvals, long-lead requirements, and other stakeholders, and resolve escalated conflicts that threaten execution or final approval.

Anticipate and resolve complex technical, sequencing, access, logistics, manpower, material, and operational challenges, and lead field stabilization or schedule recovery when projects are threatened. Establish project quality standards, lead preinstallation and quality-planning activities, direct corrective action for complex deficiencies, and enforce continuous, accurate redline and as-built documentation. Establish standards for timely project reporting and direct documentation and response strategies for significant decisions, RFIs, delays, incidents, subcontractor defaults, damages, cleanup failures, potential back charges, and other contractual or financial exposures.

Protect project profitability through strategic planning, cost-conscious field decisions, disciplined resource management, and early mitigation of schedule, manpower, rework, material, temporary-facility, and subcontractor-related cost exposure. Develop trusted relationships with key clients and stakeholders, represent KDC in challenging client, tenant, public-facing, and agency situations, and support client retention through reliable project delivery. Establish closeout requirements at project startup and maintain turnover readiness, including redlines, as-builts, agency signoffs, certificates, equipment information, client-required forms, final photographs, project records, and lessons learned.

Serve as a senior field resource and mentor Superintendent I and II personnel while supporting Operations Leadership with project planning, staffing input, leadership development, lessons learned, and consistent field best practices. Perform other related responsibilities consistent with the position's purpose and level of authority.

Establishes safety performance that serves as a model for the organization, with project risks anticipated, corrective actions sustained, and field leaders and subcontractors held accountable for safe execution. Delivers complex project milestones through disciplined baseline and look-ahead planning, early risk mitigation, reliable trade commitments, and decisive recovery leadership when schedules are threatened. Establishes and maintains project-wide quality standards that minimize rework and turnover deficiencies and drive timely resolution of complex field-quality issues.

Ensures project documentation, redlines, as-builts, notices, decision records, inspection records, and closeout information are complete, timely, and sufficient to protect project and company interests. Protects project profitability by anticipating cost exposure, aligning field resources…