Superintendent, Brownfield Construction

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SUMMARY OF THE ROLE

The Superintendent, Brownfield Project provides field execution leadership throughout the brownfield project lifecycle, from FEED and project development through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout. This role partners with Engineering, Project Engineers, Operations, Maintenance, Turnarounds, HSSE, and contractors to ensure projects are safely planned, constructible, and successfully executed within an operating LNG facility. The Superintendent leads field activities with particular focus on SIMOPS, tie-ins, outages, constructability, contractor performance, Permit to Work, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Management of Change (MOC), quality, schedule, and safe integration with ongoing plant operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide visible field leadership for brownfield projects and construction activities, promoting a strong safety culture and compliance with site HSSE requirements.
• Lead field execution from mobilization through construction, testing, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Partner with Engineering and Project Engineers during FEED and detailed engineering to provide construction, field execution, and constructability input.
• Participate in field walkdowns, constructability reviews, risk assessments, execution reviews, and project readiness activities.
• Review P&IDs, plot plans, layouts, isometrics, work packages, and other engineering deliverables for constructability and field execution requirements.
• Coordinate SIMOPS, tie-ins, isolations, outages, Permit to Work, LOTO, and other activities affecting operating equipment or production.
• Develop and support execution plans, construction sequencing, look-ahead schedules, work packages, outage plans, and contractor scopes of work.
• Ensure materials, equipment, permits, drawings, resources, inspections, and work areas are field-ready before execution.
• Provide Owner oversight of contractors and subcontractors, including safety, quality, productivity, schedule, staffing, documentation, and field performance.
• Coordinate brownfield project scopes with turnaround planning, schedules, work fronts, contractor resources, commissioning, and operational priorities.
• Serve as a field interface among Projects, Engineering, Turnarounds, Operations, Maintenance, HSSE, QA/QC, Planning, Commissioning, and contractors.
• Monitor field progress, productivity, schedule, costs, constraints, field changes, and execution risks; develop or support recovery plans as required.
• Coordinate inspections, testing, mechanical completion, system walkdowns, punch lists, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and turnover activities.
• Ensure redlines, as-builts, quality records, test documentation, and turnover packages are complete and accurate.
• Provide timely field updates and reporting on progress, upcoming work, safety, quality, constraints, risks, and action items.

EDUCATION, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, & COMPETENCIES

Basic Requirements:

• Significant field construction or project execution experience within LNG, oil and gas, petrochemical, refining, chemical, power generation, or comparable industrial facilities.
• Demonstrated brownfield construction experience within an operating plant environment.
• Experience supporting projects through FEED, detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Working knowledge of SIMOPS, tie-ins, Permit to Work, LOTO, MOC, constructability, mechanical completion, commissioning, and turnover.
• Demonstrated ability to lead contractors, subcontractors, supervisors, and multidisciplinary field teams while managing multiple concurrent work fronts.
• Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, plot plans, equipment layouts, isometrics, specifications, work packages, and construction documentation.
• Strong safety leadership, communication, coordination, decision-making, problem-solving, ownership, and accountability.
• Relevant technical, construction, engineering, or craft qualification, or equivalent demonstrated industry experience.
• Ability to work in an active LNG construction and operating environment, including nights, weekends, holidays, outages, or designated tie-in windows when required.

Preferred Requirements:

• LNG operating-facility experience.
• Previous Superintendent or comparable senior field leadership experience.
• FEED and constructability review experience.
• Turnaround (TAR) project planning and execution experience.
• Experience with project controls, field change control, and contractor performance management.
• Experience with commissioning, mechanical completion, startup, and turnover systems.

Site Working Conditions & Physical Expectations Work Environment

• Must be able to wear all necessary PPE equipment to perform job functions.
• Operates in a complex construction environment.
• Exposure to indoor and outdoor weather conditions.
• Not necessarily protected from weather and temperature changes. Possible exposure to hot, cold, wet, humid, or windy weather conditions.
• Exposure to moving mechanical parts and electrical circuits.
• Exposure to constant or intermittent sounds of a pitch level sufficient to cause marked distraction.
• Routinely uses standard office and field communications equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers w/scanner and fax, and radios.

Able to meet the following physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations:

• Ability to drive to other Company work locations as required.
• Ability to move throughout all areas of the facility, including being physically capable of traveling to a designed muster point during emergency situations.
• Stand and/or sit continuously and perform job functions for a full shift.
• The incumbent is required to have fully mechanical motion and usage of all extremities.
• Physically able to walk, stand, bend, stoop, kneel, reach, twist, lift, push, pull, climb, balance, crouch, handle, and lift items weighing up to 20 lbs. without assistance.
• Visual acuity corrected to perform job functions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to clearly communicate with others via radio, phone, and verbal methods.
• May be required to enter confined spaces.
• May be required to work at elevated heights and access elevated structures without assistance.

Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

*In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

NEXTDECADE VALUES

• Safety – We make safety a priority. Everything we do relies on the safety of our people and the communities around us.
• Integrity – We do the right thing, and are open, ethical, and fair. We hold ourselves to the highest standards in all that we do.
• Honesty – We value truth and honesty in ourselves and others. We honor our commitments and take responsibility for our actions.
• Respect – We listen, and respect people, the environment, and the communities in which we live and work.
• Transparency – Transparency builds trust. We promote open communication with our people, our customers, and all our stakeholders.
• Diversity – We value diversity of people and thought. It takes people with different strengths, ideas, and cultural backgrounds to make our company succeed.

NextDecade provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. NextDecade complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.