Data Center Construction Superintendent

Traveling Senior Superintendent – Data Center Day-Two Construction

Location: Boydton, Virginia

Travel: Extensive travel required

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Summary

The Traveling Senior Superintendent owns field execution for day-two construction at an active data center campus in Boydton, Virginia. This position leads the project from mobilization through final turnover, with responsibility for safety, security, production, quality, schedule, operational continuity, and field accountability.

The Senior Superintendent coordinates upgrades, expansions, retrofits, equipment replacements, tie-ins, and infrastructure improvements in a live, mission-critical environment. The successful candidate must understand the risks associated with working around active critical systems and execute the work with zero unplanned disruption to facility operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage daily field operations in an active, mission-critical data center while maintaining safety, security, quality, and uninterrupted facility operations.
• Lead day-to-day field execution with responsibility for schedule, production, coordination, cost awareness, and accountability.
• Coordinate subcontractors and trades, including manpower, materials, equipment, work areas, logistics, deliveries, access, and construction sequencing.
• Coordinate electrical, mechanical, controls, fire protection, structural, architectural, and low-voltage scopes.
• Direct subcontractors and field personnel, remove roadblocks, resolve trade conflicts, and hold project teams accountable for performance.
• Manage short-term planning and production by leading coordination meetings, developing look-ahead plans, monitoring progress, and implementing recovery measures.
• Lead daily coordination meetings, subcontractor planning sessions, pre-installation meetings, toolbox talks, and high-risk activity reviews.
• Identify and communicate emerging issues early so they can be resolved before affecting safety, security, cost, schedule, quality, or data center operations.
• Communicate project status, constraints, and risks to project stakeholders while coordinating timely solutions to field and operational issues.
• Escalate unresolved field issues and critical-system risks promptly to project leadership, client representatives, and the Operations team.
• Coordinate closely with the Operations team for MOPs, shutdowns, tie-ins, energizations, energized work, system impairments, equipment start-ups, testing, and other high-risk activities.
• Verify that required permits, approvals, notifications, contingencies, back-out plans, and qualified personnel are in place before critical work begins.
• Review and enforce approved methods of procedure, standard operating procedures, emergency operating procedures, lockout/tagout plans, and change-control requirements.
• Identify system impacts, access limitations, operating constraints, and potential conflicts before work begins.
• Stop work when conditions differ from the approved plan or when safety, security, quality, or operational continuity may be compromised.
• Protect existing equipment, utilities, critical infrastructure, occupied spaces, and operational systems throughout construction.
• Maintain compliance with project safety plans, site policies, security protocols, contract documents, approved submittals, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Manage site access, badging, escorts, restricted areas, material staging, delivery schedules, work zones, housekeeping, and daily logistics.
• Enforce quality-control and workmanship standards through field inspections, installation verification, deficiency tracking, and punch-list management.
• Verify that installations comply with drawings, specifications, approved submittals, manufacturer requirements, applicable codes, and client standards.
• Review drawings, specifications, RFIs, submittals, coordination documents, and change information before field execution.
• Maintain accurate documentation in Procore, including daily reports, progress photographs, inspection records, issue logs, schedule updates, punch lists, redlines, and as-built information.
• Coordinate inspections, pre-functional checks, testing, commissioning readiness, system start-up, turnover, and project closeout.
• Drive deficiency and punch-list completion while ensuring systems and spaces are fully ready for client acceptance.
• Mentor assistant superintendents and field personnel while establishing clear expectations for leadership, communication, and accountability.
• Support the project goals of zero injuries, zero quality escapes, and zero unplanned operational disruptions.

Required Qualifications

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Required Qualifications

• At least 10 years of construction experience, including significant superintendent-level responsibility on commercial or industrial projects.
• At least 2 years of direct data center construction experience, preferably involving active, mission-critical facilities and day-two work.
• Experience performing upgrades, renovations, expansions, or equipment replacements in operating facilities.
• Strong knowledge of critical electrical and mechanical systems, including electrical distribution, switchgear, generators, UPS systems, cooling equipment, controls, fire protection, and life-safety systems.
• Experience coordinating MOPs, shutdowns, tie-ins, energizations, testing, equipment start-ups, and commissioning activities.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, submittals, contracts, and technical procedures.
• Proven ability to lead multiple subcontractors and complex scopes under demanding schedule and operational constraints.
• Strong understanding of construction safety, quality control, scheduling, change management, commissioning, and operational-risk management.
• Proficiency with Procore and standard construction documentation processes.
• Excellent leadership, organization, documentation, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work nights, weekends, holidays, and scheduled shutdown periods when required.
• Willingness to travel or remain in the Boydton, Virginia area for the duration of the assignment.
• Valid driver’s license.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior hyperscale data center construction experience.
• Experience working under formal change-control and critical-environment protocols.
• Experience leading electrical and mechanical infrastructure tie-ins in operating facilities.
• OSHA 30 certification.
• First Aid/CPR certification.
• Familiarity with Bluebeam, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, and similar construction-management platforms.

Physical and Work Requirements

• Ability to walk active construction sites for extended periods.
• Ability to climb ladders and stairs and work around operating equipment.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds when necessary.
• Ability to work indoors and outdoors in varying weather conditions.
• Ability to comply with all project safety, security, badging, background-screening, and substance-testing requirements.

Successful Candidate Profile

The successful candidate is a hands-on field leader who anticipates problems, communicates constraints early, and understands the consequences of construction activity around live critical infrastructure. This individual plans work thoroughly, escalates risks promptly, maintains accurate documentation, holds the field team accountable, and delivers safe, high-quality results without unplanned operational disruption.