Senior Superintendent Traveling Mobile - Builders

About the Company

RNGD is a rapidly scaling organization emerging as a nationally recognized leader in construction through our unique Renegade mindset focused on innovation, creativity, and culture. The team is made up of a highly engaged group of seasoned professionals and emerging leaders. We are creators who believe that what we build drives the growth of our cities and that to fulfill our mission, we must constantly challenge the old way of doing things. Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, we thrive on building communities, building teams, building leaders, and growing the business throughout the Southeast region with additional offices in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama.

About the Role 

We’re looking for a Senior Superintendent - Traveling, Mobile to provide senior on-site leadership for complex commercial construction projects based from the Mobile, Alabama market and assigned throughout the Southeast. This role owns field execution from preconstruction and mobilization through substantial completion, turnover, and final closeout, ensuring work is performed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with contract requirements, project schedules, quality standards, and client commitments.

The Senior Superintendent leads project Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, labor teams, subcontractors, and trade partners; establishes the project’s field operating rhythm; and serves as the primary field connection among project management, clients, design partners, inspectors, and site personnel. The position requires regular overnight travel and the flexibility to remain at assigned project locations for the duration required by project needs, including assignments across Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and other Southeast markets.

Success requires advanced construction knowledge, decisive field leadership, disciplined planning, schedule and logistics expertise, strong safety and quality ownership, and the ability to develop field leaders while maintaining consistent execution across changing locations and project conditions.

Core Responsibilities

Field Leadership and Project Execution

• Lead all field operations for assigned projects and establish clear expectations for safety, quality, schedule, logistics, productivity, documentation, and professional conduct.
• Direct Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, labor teams, subcontractors, and trade partners while preserving clear ownership and accountability.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the contract documents, plans, specifications, owner requirements, permitting conditions, and project risks.
• Create cost and schedule efficiencies through disciplined planning, reliable work sequencing, technology adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as the senior on-site leader and primary field point of contact for clients, project management, design teams, inspectors, and trade partners.

Preconstruction, Mobilization, and Workfront Readiness

• Represent field operations during pursuits, preconstruction, constructability reviews, estimate validation, schedule development, logistics planning, and project turnover.
• Evaluate proposed means and methods, staffing, durations, site access, temporary conditions, hoisting, material flow, utility constraints, inspections, and supervision needs before work begins.
• Lead the transition from preconstruction to operations and establish project-specific startup expectations for safety, quality, schedule, logistics, documentation, and field controls.
• Verify permits, approved drawings and submittals, access, materials, equipment, manpower, surveys, inspections, and required information before releasing critical work areas.
• Develop and maintain site logistics plans, phasing plans, mobilization plans, temporary facilities, access routes, delivery controls, and public or occupied-site protections.

Scheduling, Production, and Recovery Planning

• Lead development and execution of milestone schedules, phase plans, three-week lookaheads, weekly work plans, daily coordination, and constraint-removal activities.
• Integrate subcontractors, self-perform labor, inspections, procurement, commissioning, owner activities, and closeout requirements into reliable field sequences.
• Monitor production, installed quantities, manpower, equipment, deliveries, constraints, and milestone performance against the approved schedule.
• Develop and implement corrective or recovery plans through resequencing, resource adjustments, shift strategies, work-area development, and constraint removal.
• Communicate schedule status, risks, required decisions, and recovery actions clearly to project executives, project managers, clients, and field partners.

Safety, Quality, and Regulatory Compliance

• Lead the project safety culture in partnership with the Field Safety Team and enforce company policies, project plans, JSAs, competent-person requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Stop or pause unsafe or unready work and require appropriate controls, planning, and authorization before work resumes.
• Establish progressive quality-completion practices, including first-work reviews, mockups, inspection hold points, testing, deficiency tracking, and documented acceptance.
• Ensure field work aligns with approved drawings, specifications, submittals, codes, permits, manufacturer requirements, and authority-having-jurisdiction expectations.
• Drive timely correction and closure of safety concerns, quality deficiencies, nonconforming work, rework, and punch-list items.

Trade Partner, Client, and Stakeholder Coordination

• Lead subcontractor startup meetings and communicate scope, schedule, safety, quality, logistics, reporting, testing, and closeout expectations.
• Coordinate architects, engineers, inspectors, utilities, testing agencies, vendors, owners, occupants, and internal departments within the field sequence.
• Proactively manage client, employee, and subcontractor experiences while maintaining professional, transparent, and solutions-oriented communication.
• Identify drawing conflicts, incomplete information, scope gaps, and constructability concerns and route them through the appropriate RFI, submittal, or decision process.
• Avoid unauthorized design interpretations or commercial commitments and escalate contractual, technical, cost, and client matters to authorized leaders.

Team Leadership and Development

• Coach, develop, and retain high-performing Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, foremen, and labor personnel.
• Provide clear expectations, regular feedback, performance accountability, and practical development opportunities through visible field engagement.
• Assess staffing needs and capabilities, recommend project assignments, and identify recruiting, training, succession, and supplemental staffing needs early.
• Promote teamwork, accountability, and consistent field standards across project personnel and trade partners.
• Act as Superintendent of record when needed while developing others to independently lead defined phases, scopes, or project responsibilities.

Documentation, Cost Awareness, and Risk Management

• Ensure accurate and timely daily reports, progress photographs, manpower records, safety documentation, inspection records, work plans, redlines, and field correspondence.
• Use Procore, scheduling platforms, field-production tools, and project reports to monitor performance and maintain traceable project records.
• Partner with project management to understand budget, change events, subcontractor performance, general conditions, schedule exposure, and financial risk.
• Identify emerging safety, quality, schedule, cost, staffing, design, procurement, client, and commercial risks early and implement or recommend mitigation measures.
• Protect completed work, control waste and rework, and support accurate documentation of changed conditions, time impacts, and extra work.

Traveling Project Support

• Travel regularly from the Mobile, Alabama market to active construction projects and remain at assigned locations for the duration required by project needs.
• Lead projects across multiple states and adapt to changing locations, clients, teams, site rules, schedules, delivery methods, and operating conditions.
• Maintain reliable transportation to designated reporting locations and comply with company travel, lodging, expense, timekeeping, and mobilization requirements.
• Maintain consistent leadership, attendance, communication, safety, and professionalism while working away from the home location.
• Support nights, weekends, overtime, shutdowns, critical placements, or off-hour activities when required by project conditions and company policy.

Project Closeout and Turnover

• Plan closeout from project startup and progressively complete punch lists, testing, commissioning, owner training, attic stock, warranties, and turnover documentation.
• Drive completion of redlines, as-built information, inspection records, testing reports, operation and maintenance materials, permits, and final field records.
• Coordinate substantial completion, final inspections, occupancy requirements, owner acceptance, demobilization, and timely turnover of project facilities.
• Lead field lessons-learned reviews and transfer practical improvements to future projects and field leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ten or more years of progressive commercial construction experience, including substantial responsibility as a Superintendent or Senior Superintendent on complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading projects from preconstruction and mobilization through turnover and final closeout.
• Experience managing multiple field leaders, large subcontractor teams, complex logistics, phased or occupied work, and accelerated schedules.
• Advanced ability to read and interpret contracts, plans, specifications, submittals, RFIs, project schedules, logistics plans, and construction documents.
• Strong knowledge of field planning, scheduling, quality control, safety management, inspections, testing, commissioning, change documentation, and closeout.
• Proven ability to develop Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, field engineers, foremen, and labor teams while building a high-performance culture.
• Proficiency with Procore or comparable construction-management software and working knowledge of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or similar scheduling tools.
• OSHA 30 certification required or ability to obtain promptly; First Aid/CPR, competent-person, lift, and other project-specific certifications preferred.
• High school diploma or GED required; bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field preferred, with equivalent field experience considered.
• Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and ability to travel regularly and remain assigned to project sites throughout the Southeast as required.

Core Competencies

RNGD Values Alignment

• Exemplifies RNGD’s core values:

▪ Renegade Mentality

▪ Sweep Floors

▪ Build Together

▪ Honor Promises

Senior Field Leadership and Team Development

• Sets clear direction, develops field leaders, and creates accountability across employees, subcontractors, and trade partners.
• Builds Together by aligning project leadership, craft personnel, design partners, clients, and support teams around shared execution goals.
• Provides candid feedback, coaching, and succession opportunities that strengthen long-term field-leadership capacity.

Planning, Scheduling, and Operational Execution

• Connects contract milestones, logistics, manpower, materials, equipment, inspections, and work areas into reliable execution plans.
• Balances the big picture with field-level detail and implements recovery strategies when performance deviates from plan.
• Demonstrates the Sweep Floors mindset by staying close to actual site conditions and addressing constraints before they become larger problems.

Safety, Quality, and Risk Leadership

• Establishes high expectations for safe work, quality completion, inspection readiness, documentation, and protection of people and property.
• Uses observations, project data, field conditions, and sound judgment to identify and mitigate risk early.
• Honors Promises by ensuring commitments, deficiencies, and critical follow-up items are completed accurately and on time.

Constructability and Technical Judgment

• Uses construction knowledge, contract documents, and actual field conditions to evaluate means, sequencing, coordination, and constructability.
• Demonstrates a Renegade Mentality by challenging ineffective practices and developing practical improvements without bypassing design or contractual authority.
• Escalates technical, design, commercial, or client decisions to the appropriate authorized party.

Client and Stakeholder Management

• Builds cooperative, trusting relationships through clear communication, preparation, responsiveness, and consistent follow-through.
• Coordinates clients, designers, inspectors, utilities, vendors, subcontractors, and internal partners around project needs and decisions.
• Manages difficult conversations professionally and communicates material risks, impacts, and required actions candidly.

Travel Readiness and Adaptability

• Reliably mobilizes to assigned projects and adapts to different locations, teams, clients, schedules, and project conditions.
• Maintains consistent leadership, communication, judgment, and performance while working away from the home location.
• Represents RNGD professionally at jobsites, in company-provided lodging, and within the communities where projects are located.

Analytical and Results Oriented

• Uses schedule, production, manpower, safety, quality, cost, and risk information to make timely field decisions.
• Adapts strategies based on actual performance and focuses teams on safe, high-quality, on-time, and profitable outcomes.
• Identifies recurring constraints and implements improvements that reduce rework, increase productivity, and strengthen project predictability.