Superintendent - Position SummaryThe Superintendent is responsible for the overall leadership, execution, and profitability of medium to large-scale projects. This role oversees all aspects of project delivery, including safety, quality, staffing, scheduling, financial performance, customer relations, and operational efficiency. The Superintendent serves as the primary liaison between the company and the customer, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and in compliance with company and client requirements.
Key Responsibilities- Lead and manage project teams, including recruiting, hiring, training, mentoring, performance management, and employee development.
- Serve as the primary customer contact and maintain strong client relationships throughout project execution.
- Oversee project planning, staffing, scheduling, workload distribution, and resource allocation.
- Manage project budgets, profitability, invoicing, collections, financial reporting, and job cost accuracy.
- Ensure projects meet customer deadlines, quality standards, and company expectations.
- Conduct site walks, quality inspections, outage prevention measures, and maintain as-built/redline documentation.
- Troubleshoot technical issues and provide leadership on complex operational challenges.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across estimating, purchasing, scheduling, warehousing, invoicing, and reporting processes.
- Promote and enforce safety standards while partnering with training teams to address quality and compliance requirements.
- Lead operational meetings, training sessions, and oversee company tools, equipment, and vehicle inventory.
Required Qualifications- Strong leadership experience managing field operations and project teams.
- Proven ability to manage large-scale projects, budgets, schedules, and customer relationships.
- Strong knowledge of construction practices, blueprints, specifications, and project documentation.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, organizational, and presentation skills.
- Ability to learn and train others on company and customer project management systems.
- Experience with quality control, financial management, and operational process improvement.
- Willingness to travel within assigned territories as needed.
Min
USD $37.00/Hr.
Max
USD $45.00/Hr.
Qualifications
Physical and Mental Requirements:- Regular attendance is mandatory
- The General Superintendent must be self-motivated, positive in approach, and convey an appropriate professional image.
- The General Superintendent must promote the Company culture and mission to all employees, vendors, clients and business partners.
- The General Superintendent must possess proven problem-solving skills, critical thinking skills and the ability to effectively read, write and give oral presentation(s).
- The General Superintendent must also have excellent organizational skills and the ability to develop branch and job processes and best practices.
- The General Superintendent must have proven high skill level to interpret blueprints and other project documents, including but not limited to, specifications, reporting and quality requirements.
- The General Superintendent must be able to travel within the branch territory and/or regional territory as needed.
- The General Superintendent must possess the ability to learn and teach the Company and customer project management systems.
- The General Superintendent must be able to work at heights, off of a ladder and in confined spaces, lift up to 50 pounds and move up to 75 pounds.
- Must be able to stand and walk very large job sites regularly.
- The General Superintendent must be able to see and distinguish different colors, read small print and hear and recognize audible signals such as dial tones.
Education, Certification, License, and Skill Requirements:- Prefer a minimum of five (5) years' experience of supervisory or managerial experience.
- The General Superintendent must have a minimum of three (3) years' experience as a Lead Communications Technician or similar position.
- The General Superintendent must also have a minimum of five (5) years' experience in telecommunications or a related technical or construction field.
- Must be proficient with a computer and be skilled with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and MS Project).
- Must meet Company minimum driving standards.
- The General Superintendent Must have demonstrated verifiable ability to define a project, create a project scope of work, create an estimate, develop detailed associated tasks and manage these to final completion and customer turnover.
- Must be able to use the following trade Tools: punch tool with 110 block and 66 block blade, 6/8 position combo crimp tool, Krone/3M/BIX, butt set, volt-ohmmeter, 4-pair continuity tester and 5-gang punch tool.
Minimum Years of Experience
6+
License Required
No
Minimum Education
High School
Overview
IES is a national provider of industrial products and infrastructure services to a variety of end markets, including electrical, mechanical and communications contracting solutions for the commercial, industrial, residential and renewable energy markets. IES is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol IESC. As of the end of IES's 2025 fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, IES produced over $3.3 billion in revenue and employed over 9,400 employees at over 174 domestic locations across the United States.
