Mechanical Field Superintendent

Description

We are actively seeking an Mechanical Field Superintendent to join us on a hyperscale data center build.  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 Amarillo, Texas.  

Responsibilities will include but may not be limited to the following:

• 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 multiple 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.

Requirements

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

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.

Why Join Us

OnQGlobalCx is a project management and engineering consulting firm that partners with top-tier clients on some of the most complex mission-critical projects worldwide. While we operate on a large scale, we maintain a family-run, tight-knit culture — with a proactive focus on rolling our people onto new opportunities when projects wrap.

• Competitive pay and benefits package.  
• Opportunity to work on a mission-critical project with long-term career potential.  
• Be part of a tight-knit, high-performing team delivering world-class facilities for leading technology clients.  

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