Civil Superintendent - Battery Storage - Mississippi

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Company : Overland Contracting Inc

Req Id : 116970

Opportunity Type : Staff

Relocation eligible : No

Full time/Part time : Full-Time

Project Only Hire : No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Why Black & Veatch?

Join the Overland Contracting (a Black & Veatch company) construction team and build with pride. As a 100% employee‑owned company, every role matters - you own your work, your impact, and your future. We lead with care, and safety is non‑negotiable and embedded into every role, site and decision, ensuring our teams return home safe, every day.

From field engineering to project management to quality and startup, you'll work with cutting‑edge technology, learn from seasoned experts, and grow through real‑world, hands‑on experience. With a strong backlog across power, water, grid, and industrial markets, you'll have the stability to grow and the opportunity to shape what comes next.

Job Summary

In this role, you will help lead safe, high-quality field execution by partnering closely with subcontractor supervision, craft teams, and field engineering. You will provide the technical guidance, coordination, and project information needed to keep work moving safely, efficiently, and on schedule. You will play a key role in communicating expectations, resolving field issues, monitoring subcontractor performance, and ensuring work is completed in alignment with safety, quality, schedule, and contractual requirements.

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Key Responsibilities

• Monitor construction activities, schedule progress, and commodity installation to support successful project delivery.
• Help resolve field issues related to drawings, schedule, quality, quantity tracking, cost reporting, and safety.
• Track discipline productivity, progress, and cost, and communicate updates to construction and project controls leadership.
• Take proactive steps to keep work aligned with project targets and performance expectations.
• Lead subcontractor supervision meetings to support daily, weekly, and monthly planning.
• Develop and maintain the 3 Week Look Ahead Schedule for assigned work scope.
• Create corrective action plans when needed to help meet progress and productivity goals.
• Confirm materials, manpower, and resources are available to support upcoming work.
• Develop, monitor, and report on craft and subcontractor punch list completion.
• Maintain accurate daily site records and logs.
• Review timesheets, installed quantity reports, and progress payment requests.
• Review supplier technical service representative logs and approve related timesheets.
• Coordinate daily and weekly work plans with subcontractors, discipline facilitators, and construction leadership.
• Monitor assigned subcontractors for alignment with scope, schedule, safety, quality, and contractual requirements.
• Build productive working relationships with subcontractors, craft supervisors, and project partners.
• Support extra work authorization requests and assist with contractor information requests.
• Administer work package execution and equipment installation activities.
• Develop and distribute Job Hazard Analyses for major erection packages within assigned scope.
• Identify potential back charges, out-of-scope items, and commercial recovery opportunities, and escalate as appropriate.
• Provide work direction, coaching, training, and performance support to assigned team members.
• Champion safety, quality, continuous improvement, and change management practices across assigned work.
• Provide day-to-day supervision and work direction to subcontractors, craft professionals, and field engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

Ideal candidates will bring a degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field, along with training or experience in safety, cost, quality, schedule reporting, construction management, and contract administration.

Preferred skills and experience include:

• Experience with battery storage and/or civil construction projects.
• GPS experience.
• Site development, trenching and bulldozer experience.
• Knowledge of construction guides, standards, manuals, and company procedures.
• Understanding of union agreements, jurisdictional issues, and craft workforce dynamics.
• Strong safety awareness and commitment to quality execution.
• Ability to manage priorities, organize work, and support multiple activities at once.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify, analyze, research, evaluate, and resolve issues.
• Project management, risk management, and cost/labor productivity tracking experience.
• Strong communication, collaboration, conflict management, and supervisory skills.
• Constructability knowledge within the assigned discipline and across related disciplines.
• Familiarity with time reporting policies, construction systems, and basic computer tools.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years experience of construction field leadership on equivalent projects. Valid Drivers License. All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Certifications

OSHA 10 certification.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

Physical Demands:

• Lift and carry heavy items weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Stand, Kneel, Bend, Stoop, Move, and Walk long distances in and around confined, cluttered places, and uneven areas.
• See and hear naturally or with correction.
• Full range of motion and flexibility consistent with requirements of the job duties.
• Requires using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls according to a set procedure.
• Requires repetitive movement.
• May require work above 5 feet in height.
• Climb and maintain balance on steel framework, stairs, ladders and scaffolds.
• Work up to a 12 hour shift doing hard physical labor in varying temperature extremes and other outside conditions.

Work Environment:

• Typical construction site environment:
• Requires working in cramped work spaces and getting into awkward positions.
• Requires working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32F degrees) temperatures and exposure to inclement weather such as dust, wind, snow, rain, etc.
• Requires working in extremely bright or low lighting conditions
• Includes exposure to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable.
• Work around hazardous equipment.
• Typical office environment.
• This position is considered a safety sensitive position.

Salary Plan

CNS: Construction Services

Job Grade

016

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