General Superintendent - Water​/Wastewater

Job Title: General Superintendent
Company: TOLM Group Inc.
Reports To: Vice President of Construction
Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary:
The General Superintendent provides overall field leadership and oversight for one or more assigned water/wastewater construction projects. This position leads through Superintendents and Foremen to ensure work is planned and executed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with schedule, quality, production, and cost expectations. The General Superintendent works closely with the VP of Construction, Senior Project Managers, Safety, and field leadership to coordinate resources, remove barriers, develop field leaders, and improve project performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, develop, and hold accountable Superintendents and Foremen responsible for field crews and subcontractors across assigned projects.
• Provide overall leadership for field execution, ensuring projects are planned and performed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with schedule, quality, production, and cost expectations.
• Coordinate with Superintendents on project staffing, manpower, equipment, scheduling, sequencing, and other field resource requirements.
• Establish clear expectations for safety, quality, productivity, accountability, and field leadership, and ensure those expectations are consistently implemented across projects.
• Monitor field performance and work with Superintendents to identify production issues, schedule concerns, resource constraints, and other barriers before they significantly impact project performance.
• Assess manpower and equipment needs across assigned projects and coordinate resources with Superintendents and project leadership based on project priorities.
• Maintain regular communication with project leadership, owners, engineers, subcontractors, and field teams to resolve field-related construction challenges and keep work progressing.
• Provide field input to project management for budgets, forecasts, progress updates, schedules, change conditions, and cost-to-complete evaluations.
• Ensure Superintendents maintain compliance with project plans and specifications, safety requirements, quality standards, environmental requirements, and applicable codes and regulations.
• Oversee quality-control expectations across assigned projects and work with field leadership to prevent rework and address quality concerns.
• Adjust field plans, manpower, equipment, and priorities in response to schedule changes, delays, emergencies, unforeseen conditions, or changing project needs.
• Support incident and significant jobsite investigations in coordination with Safety, HR, project management, and field leadership, ensuring appropriate corrective actions are identified and implemented.
• Provide field and constructability input regarding subcontractor scopes, contract changes, project revisions, sequencing, and other matters affecting field execution.
• Participate in bid walks, pre-bid meetings, constructability reviews, and preconstruction planning to provide field input regarding means and methods, manpower, equipment, sequencing, productivity, and project risks.
• Develop field leadership capacity by identifying high-potential employees, coaching Superintendents and Foremen, addressing performance gaps, and supporting succession and workforce-development efforts.
• Step into direct project leadership, when necessary, due to emergencies or critical project needs while maintaining oversight of assigned projects.
• Review project performance with Superintendents and project management to evaluate production, labor and equipment utilization, schedule performance, upcoming work, and field-related cost exposure, and establish corrective actions when performance is not meeting plan.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Strong knowledge of large-scale water/wastewater construction, including treatment plants, pump stations, underground utilities, process piping, structural concrete, mechanical equipment, and related infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through multiple Superintendents and Foremen and manage field operations across multiple projects or major work areas.
• Strong leadership, communication, coaching, planning, accountability, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of construction scheduling, sequencing, look-ahead planning, manpower planning, and production management.
• Strong understanding of construction job costs, labor and equipment productivity, resource management, forecasts, and cost-to complete…