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Traveling Superintendent

Sachse Construction
Detroit, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 1/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/6/2026

We have been repeatedly recognized with several national and local awards, including:

  • Best and Brightest Company to Work For
  • Best and Brightest in Wellness
  • Top Workplace
  • Certified Great Place to Work


 

Responsibilities

  • Must demonstrate and model Sachse Construction’s core values
  • Safety
  • Enforce corporate and OSHA safety policies on jobsite, providing key responsibility for safety compliance in the field
  • Implement proactive pre-task safety planning for all work activities
  • Coordination of Shut Downs/Tie-ins
  • Conduct weekly Toolbox Talks with Trades
  • Quality Assurance/Quality Control
  • Observe and interface with contractors or trades to monitor work performance and productivity of trades
  • Enforce compliance with project schedule
  • Ensure project rules and procedures are maintained
  • Enforce contractors’ responsibilities and scope of work
  • Oversee creation and completion of punchlist process
  • Assist with any commissioning activities
  • Verify that approved products are being installed on site
  • Planning
  • Monitor and support trade harmony, including jurisdiction compliance with local practice
  • Facilitate Mechanical/Electrical overhead coordination
  • Supervise, coordinate and sequence contractors’ work to minimize interference between various contractors on the project
  • Develop site logistics plans for entire project with assistance to maximize productivity and minimize impacts to building occupants
  • Initiate setup of a project schedule and creation of activities and logic. Maintain project schedule through updates, implementing logic modifications, and adding activities
  • Mentor interns, project engineers and assistant superintendents
  • Run weekly sub-contractor coordination meetings
  • Prepare constructability reviews to determine completeness of documents; review details for buildability
  • Assist with initiation of set up of jobsite
  • Submissions of drawings to city and state agencies and inspection process leading to Certificate of Occupancy
  • Attend weekly team and OAC meetings
  • Document Control
  • Appropriately file documentation using the project electronic filing system as it relates to field paperwork
  • Assist Engineer with RFI review requests for information, including resolution of issues involving multiple trades
  • Perform surveillance of contractor documents to ensure they are building from the latest document set
  • Coordinate project changes with trades and contractors
  • Assist with review of submittals and shop drawings. Coordinate with construction documents and field/constructability issues. Use submittals to verify work or materials in the field
  • Prepare detailed and timely daily reports. Incorporate/review subcontractor’s daily reports for issues, coordination and claim avoidance
  • Assist with maintenance and updating of record set of documents
  • Assist Engineer with material/ submittal log to ensure timely submission by completing document review as required
  • Cost Management
  • Assist with management of overall budget by helping to control cost and monitoring potential changes from contractors
  • Assist with management of general conditions budget
  • Identify contractor changes to purchased scope
  • Review contractor quotations for changes

  • Qualifications

    • 5 year’s construction experience
    • 2 years as seasoned traveler
    • Project experience with interior renovations, ground-up, established malls and new mall environments, renovation work in occupied and unoccupied environments, urban and suburban work locations


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