About the Role
We’re looking for a General Superintendent - Builders to establish and lead consistent field execution across the Builders portfolio. This senior field leadership role is accountable for how commercial construction projects are planned, staffed, mobilized, executed, recovered, and closed out. The General Superintendent partners with operations leaders, project executives, project managers, Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, Safety, Quality, Preconstruction, and trade partners to ensure projects are delivered safely, predictably, and in alignment with contract requirements, schedules, quality standards, financial objectives, and client commitments.
The role owns the Builders field operating system, including field-leadership standards, production planning, manpower and capacity planning, workfront readiness, schedule recovery, talent development, safety and quality leadership, technology adoption, and portfolio-level field performance. The General Superintendent remains highly visible in the field, develops the next generation of Superintendents, and serves as the primary field counterpart to Builders operations leadership across a geographically expanding project portfolio.
Core Responsibilities
Field Operating Standards and Portfolio Leadership
- Define, publish, coach, and enforce consistent field expectations across Builders projects, including daily reports, site operating routines, short-interval planning, lookahead schedules, production tracking, logistics, and weekly manpower planning.
- Establish differentiated field execution models appropriate for negotiated, hard-bid, design-build, occupied, phased, mission critical, hospitality, healthcare, multifamily, and other commercial project types.
- Conduct regular jobsite reviews to assess safety, quality, schedule, logistics, staffing, documentation, workfront readiness, client conditions, and leadership effectiveness.
- Create a visible field operating rhythm that identifies exceptions early, assigns ownership, and closes actions before the next review.
- Serve as the senior Builders field leader and escalation point when execution issues cross projects, teams, or functional boundaries.
Preconstruction, Mobilization, and Workfront Readiness
- Represent field operations during pursuits, preconstruction, constructability reviews, estimate validation, logistics planning, schedule development, staffing strategy, and project turnover.
- Validate proposed means and methods, supervision plans, general conditions, milestone durations, phasing, temporary conditions, site access, hoisting, material flow, and owner constraints.
- Require front-end field planning before mobilization, including permits, approved information, work packages, safety plans, inspections, materials, equipment, access, manpower, and site readiness.
- Approve or recommend Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent assignments based on project complexity, phase, location, client needs, and leadership-development goals.
- Stop or delay mobilization when safety, information, access, supervision, material, logistics, or readiness conditions are not credible.
Scheduling, Production, and Recovery
- Establish expectations for project baseline schedules, phase plans, three-week lookaheads, weekly work plans, daily coordination, and constraint-removal activities.
- Review milestone performance, installed progress, manpower, subcontractor production, procurement, inspections, commissioning, and closeout status across the portfolio.
- Coach project teams in work sequencing, pull planning, production measurement, schedule analysis, and timely corrective action.
- Lead or support field recovery plans through resequencing, supplemental resources, shift strategies, logistics changes, subcontractor intervention, and executive escalation.
- Feed actual production rates, schedule lessons, constructability findings, and supervision requirements back to Preconstruction and Operations.
Manpower, Staffing, and Capacity Planning
- Run a consistent weekly field-leadership and manpower planning process aligned with active schedules, backlog, qualified pipeline, geography, and project complexity.
- Maintain a rolling forecast for Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, labor teams, and supplemental field resources.
- Identify recruiting, retention, training, travel, succession, and leadership-coverage needs early and recommend practical staffing actions.
- Coordinate assignment and reassignment of field leaders and shared resources in partnership with operations leadership.
- Maintain contingency plans for project startup, leave coverage, performance gaps, schedule recovery, and geographic expansion.
Safety and Quality Leadership
- Champion RNGD’s Safety Always culture and set visible leadership expectations in partnership with the Field Safety Team.
- Integrate hazard planning, JSAs, competent-person requirements, emergency planning, and stop-work authority into production and logistics planning.
- Establish portfolio expectations for first-work reviews, mockups, inspection readiness, testing, quality documentation, progressive punch, turnover, and rework accountability.
- Use trends from observations, incidents, deficiencies, rework, punch lists, and warranty issues to target coaching and systemic improvement.
- Ensure project leaders promptly correct unsafe conditions and nonconforming work and document closure through established systems.
Field Leadership Development and Succession
- Own the field-side strategy for attracting, retaining, evaluating, and developing Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, and labor leaders.
- Define clear role expectations, readiness criteria, development pathways, and advancement standards for Builders field leadership.
- Maintain named development and succession plans for critical Superintendent and General Superintendent coverage needs.
- Provide regular jobsite-based coaching, candid feedback, performance accountability, and stretch opportunities.
- Develop leaders who solve issues at the lowest appropriate level while recognizing when safety, contractual, design, cost, schedule, or client matters require escalation.
Project Support, Coordination, and Client Experience
- Partner with project executives and project managers to resolve field risks involving scope, design, subcontractor performance, procurement, logistics, schedule, quality, or client commitments.
- Coordinate shared execution issues with Trades, Heavy Civil, Mission Critical, Manufacturing, Safety, Quality, and other internal teams.
- Support Superintendent startup meetings, subcontractor interventions, owner and architect meetings, critical inspections, recovery planning, and major turnover events.
- Promote professional, consistent field communication with owners, design partners, inspectors, neighbors, occupants, vendors, and trade partners.
- Protect project teams from unclear authority by escalating commercial, contractual, design, and client commitments to the appropriate authorized leader.
Technology, Documentation, and Continuous Improvement
- Establish expectations for accurate daily reports, progress photographs, manpower records, safety documentation, inspection records, work plans, redlines, and field correspondence.
- Drive disciplined use of Procore, scheduling platforms, production tools, and field reporting systems for decision-making rather than reporting alone.
- Develop dashboards and review routines that make safety, quality, manpower, production, constraints, schedule, and closeout performance visible.
- Lead field lessons-learned reviews and convert findings into updated standards, training, checklists, and preconstruction assumptions.
- Evaluate and implement practical technology and process improvements that reduce rework, strengthen predictability, and improve field productivity.
Closeout and Warranty Performance
- Require closeout planning from project startup and progressive completion of punch lists, testing, commissioning, training, attic stock, warranties, as-builts, and turnover documentation.
- Review closeout readiness and intervene when incomplete work, documentation, inspections, or ownership threaten substantial completion or final acceptance.
- Ensure field leadership supports timely demobilization, final inspections, owner acceptance, warranty handoff, and resolution of remaining deficiencies.
- Use closeout and warranty trends to improve field standards, subcontractor expectations, quality controls, and future project planning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Twelve or more years of progressive commercial construction field experience, including substantial leadership as a Superintendent, Senior Superintendent, or General Superintendent.
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent field leadership experience considered.
- Demonstrated success leading field execution across multiple concurrent commercial projects, project teams, geographic locations, or market sectors.
- Advanced knowledge of construction sequencing, scheduling, logistics, manpower planning, subcontractor management, safety, quality, commissioning, closeout, and recovery planning.
- Ability to read and interpret contracts, drawings, specifications, submittals, RFIs, schedules, logistics plans, cost reports, and field-performance data.
- Proven record of developing Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents, strengthening retention, and building succession depth.
- Experience participating in preconstruction, constructability reviews, estimate validation, staffing strategy, project turnover, and lessons-learned processes.
- Proficiency with Procore or comparable construction-management platforms and strong working knowledge of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or similar scheduling tools.
- OSHA 30 required; First Aid/CPR, competent-person, and other project-specific credentials preferred.
- Valid driver’s license and willingness to spend most of the week in the field and travel throughout RNGD’s operating region as required.
Core Competencies
RNGD Values Alignment
- Exemplifies RNGD’s core values:
- Renegade Mentality
- Sweep Floors
- Build Together
- Honor Promises
Enterprise Field Leadership and Accountability
- Sets the tone for Builders field execution through visible ownership, urgency, consistency, and follow-through.
- Holds field leaders accountable while building trust, clarity, and professional respect.
- Makes timely decisions within field authority and escalates contractual, commercial, design, and client matters appropriately.
Planning, Production, and Results Orientation
- Connects portfolio demand, project schedules, manpower, logistics, procurement, inspections, and workfront readiness into executable field plans.
- Uses milestone, production, staffing, safety, quality, and closeout data to identify risk and drive corrective action.
- Maintains focus on safe, high-quality, on-time, predictable, and profitable project outcomes.
Talent Development and Succession
- Treats development of Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, and labor leaders as a primary measured responsibility.
- Provides coaching and direct feedback in the field and creates meaningful assignments that build capability.
- Builds leadership depth, retention, and named succession coverage for critical field roles.
Safety and Quality Leadership
- Integrates safety and quality into planning, staffing, sequencing, and daily execution rather than treating them as separate programs.
- Reinforces stop-work authority, inspection readiness, first-work quality, progressive completion, and documented closure.
- Uses trends and lessons learned to prevent recurrence and strengthen portfolio-level standards.
Communication and Alignment
- Communicates clearly and consistently from craft and Superintendent teams through senior leadership and clients.
- Builds Together by aligning Field Operations, Project Management, Preconstruction, Safety, Quality, Trades, and support teams around shared priorities.
- Leads difficult conversations early and presents risks, impacts, decisions, and required actions candidly.
Constructability and Problem Solving
- Anticipates execution issues and drives resolution before constraints affect the schedule or client commitments.
- Demonstrates a Renegade Mentality by challenging ineffective practices and implementing practical improvements.
- Balances field conditions, contract documents, safety, quality, cost, schedule, and stakeholder needs when evaluating options.
Field Presence and Continuous Improvement
- Demonstrates the Sweep Floors mindset through frequent jobsite engagement, direct observation, and support for field teams.
- Honors Promises by ensuring standards, commitments, action items, and client expectations receive consistent follow-through.
- Converts project performance and lessons learned into simpler standards, stronger training, and better future planning.
