Superintendent/Senior Superintendent - USS Solar and BESS
About the Company:
The company is an industry-leading engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) renewable energy firm that develops, designs, and builds optimized solar, energy storage, and emerging energy projects. The company has successfully designed and installed over 2 GW of solar and 650 MWh of energy storage projects across the United States. Owned by a leading US private equity firm, the company leverages strong relationships with solar developers, IPPs, utilities, off-takers, suppliers, and landowners to help customers streamline the project development process, lower project costs, and create value for all stakeholders as a trusted long-term partner.
The company has achieved its success through attracting and retaining highly talented and motivated individuals who are passionate about the company's success. We recognize the value of diversity and are committed to protecting, training, enriching, and empowering our team members as they grow their careers in the renewable energy space.
We work hard, are mindful of our social and environmental responsibilities, and continuously give back to our local communities. Our commitment is based on the following principles: safety, quality, integrity, collaboration, expertise, and diversity. We are proud to be continually awarded as a great place to work by nationally recognized programs based on employee feedback.
About the Superintendent Role:
The Superintendent collaborates with Project Operations and Field Management to build strong client relationships, develop team members, and oversee the construction of safe, high-quality, profitable, and timely renewable projects.
Responsibilities of the Superintendent:
- Passionately builds the team by attracting, interviewing, assessing, mentoring, and retaining top performers.
- Provides on-site leadership for the project team by motivating members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and milestones.
- Leads and enforces safety policies and procedures, addressing non-compliance among all employees, subcontractors, and vendors.
- Executes the project using the Quality Management System, recognizing potential patterns of rework and developing solutions to eliminate it.
- Performs or oversees fundamental project management practices such as construction progress tracking, financial forecasting, document management, problem-solving, dispute resolution, design troubleshooting, and value engineering.
- Sets, communicates, and enforces production goals and schedules with subcontractors.
- Leads the development of the project schedule with the Project Manager, ensuring the team executes the plan; develops derivative four-week look-ahead schedules to facilitate daily progress, communicates them to all, and balances resources to meet the schedule.
- Accurately develops the Four Week Look Ahead schedule weekly and adheres to it.
- Works to beat the project cost budget; implements effective cost controls over subcontractors, materials, equipment, and other related expenditures.
- Trains the Project Team on planning, surveying, plan reading, productivity, efficiency, economical crew size, quality workmanship, and safety to ensure projects are constructed expeditiously and profitably.
- Utilizes daily huddles to promote communication, resolve issues, and share ideas, ensuring projects are constructed expeditiously and profitably.
- Reviews all Foreman's and Daily Reports as well as Subcontractor's Daily Reports for accurate hours, time coding, production quantities, and activity summaries.
- Knows the key terms and conditions of the Prime Contract with the Owner; identifies and communicates deviations accordingly.
- Knows the key operational details of the subcontract and holds subcontractors accountable to their agreement and company standards.
- This position is field-based at project construction sites.
Qualifications for the Superintendent:
- 4+ years of relevant construction industry experience, with progressively greater responsibility.
- 4+ years overseeing self-perform work with several crews totaling 20 craft persons and equipment operators or more; prior experience as a Foreman and/or Master Electrical License is a plus.
- Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to lead a diverse group of individuals.
- Successfully led relatively complex construction projects with diverse scopes and aggressive time-lines.
- Superb customer service skills and proven ability to mitigate difficult client relations.
- Expert knowledge of various areas of construction (electrical, earthwork, utilities, structures, mechanical, etc.).
- Expert knowledge of OSHA Safety regulations.
- Excellent teamwork, communication, leadership, people skills, and solid time management skills are a must.
- Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, P3/P6 Primavera software.
- Ability to travel and/or temporarily relocate to project construction sites every 3-12 months throughout your region of the United States.
- Minimum of High School diploma or GED required.
Additional Information:
- All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment must take a pre-employment drug test and receive a negative result as a condition of hire.
- An offer of employment is conditioned upon complying with company requirements, including signing a separate disclosure and consent form prior to any background check.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
- The company does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters and/or third parties in response to job postings. Any unsolicited resumes become property of the company, and we reserve the right to pursue and hire any such candidate.
Benefits for Superintendent:
The company provides great benefits to our valued employees:
- Competitive Salaries
- Discretionary Bonus Program
- Field Weekend Pay Program
- Project Incentive Bonus Program (based on position eligibility)
- Per-diem Program for Field Employees (based on eligibility)
- Vehicle Allowance & Gas Card Program (based on position eligibility)
- 401K Programs with Employer Matching
- Medical & Dental Benefits (Plan options 100% paid by employers), and Vision Plans
- Access to HSA with Employer Contribution
- Paid Referral Program
- Access to FSA - Health & Dependent Care
- Access to Short Term Disability
- Employer Paid Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off & Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave Program
- Volunteer Time Off
- Student Loan Benefit Program
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