Superintendent III

The Superintendent III is a senior field leader responsible for directing KDC's most complex, high-profile, or strategically important commercial construction projects. The role leads large-scale Ground-Up work, complex phased programs, occupied remodel environments, accelerated schedules, and assignments requiring advanced planning, sequencing, coordination, risk management, and independent judgment.  The Superintendent III serves as KDC's senior on-site representative and an extension of Operations Leadership for assigned projects.

The role anticipates and resolves complex field challenges, recovers threatened projects, protects safety, quality, schedule, cost, and client outcomes, and develops Superintendent I and II personnel through coaching, technical guidance, and consistent field standards.
** Apply if you:
*** Bring a cooperative spirit to your team and neighboring department.
* Have an understanding that through your contributions, you aid in the overall Company’s success.
* Pursue continuous efforts to see beyond current business modes and methods.
* Embody an understanding that as a committed team member, tenure with an organization is achievable.
* Bring your whole self to work. Applying your knowledge, skills, and abilities ensures that every task you perform is performed at the highest level.
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* Job Description:

** 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.  

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
* 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,…