Field Superintendent

Hoffman Construction is seeking a Field Superintendent.  This individual will work with our project management team and our subcontractors to manage day-to-day site activities, driving field execution, and ensuring alignment with project schedule, safety standards, quality expectations, and design intent.  The Field Superintendent plays a critical leadership role, directing trade partners, supervisors, and field staff across multiple scopes in a complex mission-critical environment.  The position requires experience in managing high-volume structural, CSA, and MEP scopes in parallel with the ability to anticipate challenges and proactively resolve coordination issues in the field.  This position will be fully at the project site near Boise, Idaho.  

Salary Range: $100,000-$150,000 DOE + Incentives

Essential Responsibilities:

• Oversee and coordinate all field construction activities, including civil, structural, architectural and MEP trades, collaborating closely with project engineers, construction managers, building superintendents and other field superintendents.
• Direct the daily work of multi-plate subcontractors and ensure compliance with design, specifications, and schedules.
• Drive execution of short-interval plans and look ahead schedules; ensure alignment with the overall master schedule.
• Monitor field productivity, identify constraints, and implement corrective measures to maintain momentum.
• Lead daily supervisor coordination meetings, trade walks, and safety briefings.
• Ensure strict adherence to project-specific safety protocols and participate in safety audits and incident investigations.
• Monitor field installations for quality, adherence to design, and compliance with building codes and specifications.
• Collaborate with QA/QC teams to coordinate inspections, punch lists, and system turn over milestones.
• Support commissioning efforts by ensuring system readiness and trade participation in functional testing.
• Maintain details daily field reports, progress photos and as-built documentation.
• Communicate progress, constraints, and labor status to the Building Superintendent.
• Review and provide feedback on RFIs, submittals, cost estimates, and construction documentation as it relates to field conditions.
• Provide resolution to design and constructability issues.
• Respond to client requests and/or issues and develop resolution to problems using technical expertise.
• Must be able to interpret and implement proper installations in compliance with all local authority permitting, codes, and site specifications.
• Facilitate contractor activity ensuring performance to all contractual agreements.
• Assist with management project staffing.
• Provide clear communication, verbally, written, and electronically.
• Collaborate closely with clients, architects, engineers, consultants, and subcontractors.

Qualifications

We are looking for a flexible, detail-oriented team player with the ability to manage multiple tasks, produce quality work, and consistently meet deadlines.  The successful candidate will possess:

Professional Experience and Education

• Minimum 5 years’ construction field supervision experience required, with at least 3 years on hyperscale or mission-critical data center projects preferred. 
• Deep understanding of construction means and methods, trade sequencing, and commissioning workflows.
• Proven experience managing concurrent scopes involving structural steel, large-scaled MEP systems, generator yards, duct banks, and underground and overhead utilities is preferred.
• OSHA 30 Certification. 
• High School diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor of science in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, structural engineering, construction management or equivalent degree and/or equivalent craft level work experience.

Position Related Skills

• A strong commitment to safety compliance with OSHA standards and site-specific requirements.
• Ability to work closely with trade and craft people in a field work situation.      Patience and professionalism are essential to being able to maintain a cooperative attitude through pressure situations.
• Ability to manage several work activities at once while frequently interrupted by phone calls and urgent questions on work in progress.
• Proficiency in ready design and construction documents including drawings, schedules, and specifications.  Demonstrated understanding of survey theory and techniques.
• Advanced visual observation and interpretation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; must be able to work closely with clients, architects, engineers, equipment manufacturers, vendors, and subcontractors.
• Must be a dedicated team player, self-starter, flexible and able to work well with a variety of personalities and minimal instruction.  Ability to remain calm in high-pressure situations is required.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and Bluebeam.
• Strong working knowledge of project management and scheduling software such as Procore and Primavera Project Planner (P6). 
• Experience with design software such as AutoCAD, Revit and Navisworks.

Physical and Mental Requirements:

• Standing/Walking/Sitting: Workday is a combination of being stationary and moving about the work location.
• Must be able to work outdoors in varying weather conditions and on active construction sites.
• Must be able to climb stairs, to ascend and descend ladders, scaffold, inspect confined or underground spaces.
• Hands/Arms: Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery.      Frequently operates machinery and will use hand/fingers and legs to operate, activate, use, prepare, inspect, place, detect, and position materials.
• Sight: Specific vision abilities required include close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus in an outdoor environment. Must be able to safely operate a vehicle with a valid driver’s license. The work is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, reading print and digital documents.
• Hearing: Must be able to work in proximity to loud equipment mor than 75% of the time. Mst be able to wear hearing protection, as necessary.  Often required to communicate with customers and co-workers in an office setting and on the job site.
• Speech: Ability to communicate laws, ordinances, plans, regulations, protocols, directives, and standard operating procedures related to project scope in English.
• Lift/Carry: Must have the ability to lift or manipulate fifty pounds to a height of three feet and carry or push it 50-100 feet.
• Bending/Twisting: Frequent.
• Kneeling/Crouching/Crawling: Must be able to regularly position self in a kneeling, crouching or crawling position for purpose of examining project work.
• Must be able to physically access all areas and levels of construction site for work progress review.
• Work schedule must be flexible to allow for extended hours or off-shift work to accommodate changing construction schedule and sequences.
• Must use independent judgment, organizational and critical thinking skills to determine best method to accomplish desired results.