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Senior Construction Project Superintendent

dcb Construction Company
Los Alamos, NM Full Time
POSTED ON 3/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/3/2025

Job Description

Job Description

A Vision for Long-Range Possibilities

Do you welcome the challenge of becoming one of the most elite General Contracting Superintendents on the planet?

We are building a Mission Critical commercial building for the National Nuclear Security Agency. It’s a Fire Station. The contracting, construction, QA / QC are identical to that of our nuclear enrichment facility with exception to the engineering.

What’s in it for you

If you are ready for the challenge, the upsides are unparalleled. The work is very interesting. The salary far exceeds the average superintendent salary in the state. It is for a construction company that has been in business for 65 years with a reputation as a trusted partner. You’re working with a great team. You will have the honor of constructing to support first responders, our National Defense, and our nation’s Energy path into the future.

Career Path

You will become the leading expert of building this fire station design, which will be repeated at 2 other nearby locations. You may also achieve many qualifications to possibly build nuclear enrichment facilities, which may be interesting and extremely lucrative.

Basic Qualifications

The ideal superintendent will have experience, skills, maturity, and drive to run this project. Here are some important qualifiers.

12 years of progressive general contracting site supervision experience of ground up commercial buildings over 5 million dollars.

Proven track record for organizing work, driving schedules, and leading subcontractors for ground up commercial construction.

A habit of taking responsibility for your work.

Experience committing to a single project and working hard and with little direct oversight.

The habit of anticipating ground up commercial construction issues and addressing them before they become problems.

The experience and ability to handle pressure to reach critical schedule milestones.

The habit of completing clerical activities on a daily basis.

The skill to ensure that work is ready for successive trades.

Other job description details, responsibilities, and qualifications are listed below.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties & Job Functions :

  • Works with safety manager to ensure implementation of the safety program.
  • Supervises, directs, coaches, trains, and mentors the project team, including direct and indirect reports.
  • Effectively communicates with own forces and trades and ensures that performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements are met.
  • Consistently collaborates with construction / project manager and project team. Proactively manages potential problems, work interferences, and schedules conflicts / setbacks.
  • Proactively identifies, manages, and resolves potential problems, work conflicts, and / or schedule challenges. Contributes to development and implementation of a recovery plan and works with the project team to anticipate and resolve issues.
  • Liaises between project team to ensure construction complies with drawings and specifications.
  • Liaises with client, other site contractors, and site and office representatives.
  • Absorbs and conveys vision of an entire project, identifies, and drives the project schedule’s critical path.
  • Oversees and manages development and implementation of Project Execution Plan (PEP) and resource-loaded three-week lookahead schedules.
  • Oversees and manages the project plan and schedule and ensures compliance with budget and quality.
  • Reviews and understands the contract and subcontracts and develops a plan that identifies and mitigates risks and maximizes opportunities to ensure that all financial targets, including budgets, forecasts, and profitability levels are met.
  • Works independently to oversee a start to finish approach to work order and task management.
  • SPS has primary responsibility for keeping field activities on schedule. The SPS will anticipate, plan, lay-out, coordinate and drive subcontractor work to meet schedule milestones.
  • Reviews Scope of work and develops Scope of Work for subcontractors.
  • Writes RFIs when it is performed by the office management.
  • Schedules and supervises work progress, communicating directly with everyone involved to coordinate every aspect of multiple tasks simultaneously.
  • Performs Quality Control and Safety Inspections as needed, verifies subcontractor compliance with scopes of work and applicable specifications and regulations.
  • Collects and submits subcontractor submittals for approval as required.
  • Acts as a representative of dcb Construction in discussions with government officials and communicates government requirements to subcontractors.
  • Determines end of the month billing for multiple subcontractors.
  • Coordinates with Project Manager for task support as required.
  • Schedules and manages on site construction and completion. Final job close-out, warranty issue and final billing.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

Experience :

  • A minimum of 12 years of progressive general contracting field supervision experience preferred, with a focus on commercial construction projects, including government construction contracts.
  • Valid state issued Driver’s License with acceptable driving record.
  • Ability to successfully pass any background checks, including obtaining a security clearance and / or drug testing required on the contract.
  • U.S. Citizenship.
  • Experience performing clerical work using with computers.
  • experience adhering to quality control and quality assurance principles.
  • OSHA certification and a commitment to ensuring a safe working environment.
  • Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with project stakeholders and team members.
  • Successfully supervised a construction workforce.

    In-depth knowledge of and experience in construction industry and company operations, including building materials, construction specifications, and methods and procedures.

    Ability to coordinate multiple scopes of a construction project, including scheduling, monitoring, and coordinating trade contractors with three-week lookahead schedules.

    Observation of subcontractor productivity to direct adjustments in required subcontractor labor.

    Job Type : Full-time

    Benefits :
  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance
  • Schedule :

  • 8 hour shift
  • License / Certification :

  • Driver's License (Required)
  • Ability to Commute :

  • Los Alamos, NM (Required)
  • Ability to Relocate :

  • Los Alamos, NM : Relocate before starting work (Required)
  • Work Location : In person

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