Superintendent, Data Centers

Role Overview

The Superintendent is responsible for overseeing and managing all day‑to‑day job site activities, including project team performance, site conditions, safety and quality standards, compliance with scope, and effective management of trade partners.

• Oversee, manage, and document all day‑to‑day job site activities including OSHA safety compliance.
• Direct field personnel according to the project plan and Suffolk supervisory principles.
• Communicate issues, events, performance, and progress daily to the Project Manager.
• Report any problems promptly to the Project Manager to facilitate the most cost‑effective solutions.
• Establish effective working relationships with clients and Suffolk team members.
• Request advice and assistance from the General Superintendent on matters pertaining to materials, sequencing, scheduling and personnel.
• Project Start‑Up/Turnover Meeting:
  Identify pre‑mobilization activities with the Project Executive, General Superintendent, and Project Manager.
• Develop start‑up schedule with Project Manager and send it to the Project Executive and General Superintendent for review.
• Scheduling:
  Assist in formulating and implementing construction schedules in the field, establish and maintain the Project Baseline Schedule, update monthly, and provide progress reports.
• Safety:
  Ensure subcontractors attend safety pre‑construction meetings, have necessary safety documentation, review daily activities, assess safety performance, budget and staff projects appropriately, communicate expectations, perform safety inspections, and adhere to Suffolk Safety program requirements.
• Quality Management:
  Ensure benchmarks are established in the baseline schedule, all relevant individuals become members of the Q‑Team, inspections occur per schedule, and are documented and communicated.
• Subcontractor and Site Management:
  Manage pre‑construction survey, job site utilization, staging plans, field office mobilization, incident documentation, and subcontractor performance in quality and ethical standards.
• Meeting Management:
  Attend and chair project turnover, mobilization, coordination, safety pre‑construction, weekly foreman and safety meetings, monthly schedule review meetings, closeout meetings, owner meetings, and subcontractor meetings.
• Administrative Management:
  Complete and implement construction office checklists, emergency phone lists, daily reports, maintain logs of key activities, shop drawings, material deliveries quality and condition, required safety reporting, as‑built drawing logs, and communicate to subcontractors.
• Project Closeout:
  Manage subcontractor closeout, transfer of utilities, owner training, work list, and punch list.

• Bachelor's degree in applicable discipline and/or experience relative to project size/scope.
• 4+ years of experience in related construction fields.
• Ability to manage and embrace change, adapting to new processes.
• Applicable area licenses.
• Excellent team development skills and leadership abilities.
• Strong partnership skills with the Project Manager and staff.
• Committed to excellence.
• Self‑motivated and confident.
• Effective communication skills.
• Capable of dealing with ambiguity and tight work oversight.
• Ability to multi‑task and handle competing priorities while maintaining customer relations.
• Business judgment to negotiate the balance between budget and construction processes.
• Excellent organizational skills to manage many details necessary for successful construction.
• Judgment to appropriately raise issues up the chain of command.
• Excellent management skills to manage subcontractor performance at high quality.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and decisive action capability.
• Must possess Suffolk’s Core Values:
  Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly sits for long periods of time, talks or hears, and performs fine motor hand and finger skills using a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee also frequently stands, walks, and reaches with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

The employee spends time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level and job site walking.

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Suffolk will not tolerate unlawful discrimination or harassment toward, or by, applicants or employees at Suffolk, or anyone working on behalf of Suffolk.