Federal Construction Superintendent

Tidewater, Inc. is proud to announce our recent award of the FLETC Charleston construction contract. This is a high-visibility federal project where precision, leadership, and accountability are critical. As the Construction Superintendent, you will play a pivotal role in delivering complex renovations within one of the nation's premier training centers for federal law enforcement. This is not just a job-it's an opportunity to lead impactful work on a secure federal campus, guiding teams, driving safety and quality, and ensuring mission success for our client.

If you thrive in fast-paced, secure environments and are ready to take ownership of every aspect of field execution, we want you on our team.

About Us:
Tidewater was founded in 1983 as an industrial hygiene (IH) and environmental consulting services provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Today, Tidewater has over 140 employees performing work across three divisions involving environmental consulting, facilities, and construction. Our environmental division includes consulting, remediation, radiological, and IH service lines. Tidewater is headquartered in Elkridge, Maryland. We currently have eight offices throughout the United States including California, Ohio, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania with additional personnel working in Japan, Kenya, and Germany.

Our business spans over 75 multi-year government contracts and an average of 1,000 projects annually for Federal, State, municipal, and commercial clients worldwide.

We are proud to offer our clients and business partnerships an employee base that includes a dynamic mix of industry experts and field personnel. This includes project managers, engineers, geologists, scientists, health physicists, industrial hygienists, health and safety specialists, cost estimators, site superintendents, tank inspectors, licensed drillers, radiological technicians, lead/mold/asbestos assessors, HVAC personnel, and general field technicians and equipment operators.

Tidewater's core values of integrity, collaboration, innovation, growth, and service, guide employee decision making, relationship building, problem solving, and help to develop and achieve personal and professional goals. Our organization's Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion framework strives to promote, fair treatment and full participation of all people and to create a positive work culture that fosters trust, respect, engagement, and contributes to our success and growth.

Tidewater values its workforce and provides a comprehensive and extensive benefit package including company sponsored Life, Accidental Death, and Disability (AD&D) Insurance, health insurance (health, dental, and vision); 401K Plan with employer match, continuing education reimbursement, and paid leave.

Responsibilities Include:

• Site leadership & safety: Drive a strong safety culture; lead JHAs/JSAs, daily toolbox talks, and incident reporting; enforce OSHA 29 CFR 1926 and site-specific safety plans; coordinate site logistics, fencing, and access control.
• Schedule & phasing: Build and maintain a short-interval (3-6 week) look-ahead aligned to the master schedule; sequence work to minimize campus disruption; coordinate after-hours work as needed.
• Subcontractor management: Plan, direct, and verify subcontractor work; chair daily huddles; verify manpower, materials, and equipment; escalate constraints early; maintain a clean, organized site.
• Quality control: Implement QA/QC checklists, first-work inspections, and hold points; verify materials and workmanship meet contract documents and submittals; lead punchlist and deficiency resolution.
• Documentation & controls: Produce complete daily reports (labor, equipment, deliveries, inspections, photos); manage RFIs, submittals, as-builts, and O&M collection in Procore (or similar); support change events and time-impact analyses.
• Stakeholder coordination: Serve as the primary field contact with the Owner's representatives/COR, security, and facilities; schedule inspections; ensure escorts/badging; attend OAC/progress meetings.
• Procurement & logistics: Coordinate just-in-time deliveries, laydown, and storage on a secure campus; verify long-lead items;…