MEP Superintendent

Great work starts with great people. At Flintco, you’ll find respect, stability, and opportunity to grow your career. Established in 1908, Flintco maintains offices in 8 major cities and employs more than 900 talented and humble professionals. Ranked among the largest and safest contractors in the nation, we deliver projects across a wide range of market sectors, including healthcare, education, hospitality, sports, mixed-use/residential, advanced industries, and renewable energy. With self-perform capabilities in concrete, steel fabrication and erection, site work, and other critical services, we bring a distinct in-house advantage to every project. Guided by the core principles of our Ethos — Safety, Quality, Honesty, Integrity, and Innovation — our culture is rooted in accountability, collaboration, and commitment to shared success. Beyond the jobsite, we invest in the communities we call home, strengthening the places where we live, work, and build.

Job Summary    

Oversees the planning, coordination, and supervision of all mechanical, electrical, plumbing, piping, and fire protection (MEP) systems on assigned projects. Manages MEP subcontractors to ensure adherence to schedule, budget, quality, and safety standards. Serves as the on-site expert for MEP systems and supports preconstruction, commissioning, and closeout phases. May manage elements of multiple mid-sized projects or a single large, complex project. Works within an existing team of MEP Managers under the oversight of the MEP Director.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities                                                                         

All duties and responsibilities include the following, however, other duties may be assigned. To perform in this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Safety & Compliance: Enforce company and regulatory safety policies; ensure a safe work environment for all team members.
• Safety & Compliance: Monitor field activities for adherence to plans, specs, and codes.
• Coordinate MEP subcontractor work to meet schedule, budget, and quality goals.
• Lead pre-installation meetings and contribute to logistics and phasing plans.
• Maintain accurate daily field reports and document subcontractor progress.
• Provide field expertise for troubleshooting system conflicts and field issues.
• Support MEP commissioning and testing processes in collaboration with engineers and trade partners.
• Serve as technical liaison between field, design team, and project management.
• Mentor and develop Assistant Superintendents, Field Engineers, and interns.
• Provide feedback on performance and recommend development opportunities.
• Lead coordination meetings with subcontractors and internal teams.
• Participate in constructability reviews, logistics planning, and MEP-related pricing.
• Review and communicate scope changes with the Project Engineer and adjust execution plans accordingly.

Management Responsibilities

You are the MEP lead on each project that you are assigned to. When the project team needs support, you also fill the role of a Superintendent and manage other trades. You support the project in the role that it needs at that time.

Knowledge/Skills/Ability

Must have working knowledge of HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, and electrical systems. Familiarity with commissioning, cost control, schedule management, safety compliance, and technical plan review required. Ability to evaluate subcontractor performance and lead cross-disciplinary coordination is essential.

Education                   

High School diploma or GED

Experience

Minimum five years of commercial construction experience with an emphasis on MEP systems, including at least two years in a supervisory or coordination role.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

MEP-specific training, certification, licensure, or credentials are preferred but not required.

Physical Requirements                 

• Physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit and smell.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Occasionally, especially when managing multiple projects and during problematic opening and/or closing phases of projects, mental stress can be taxing.
• May be required to work long hours for extended periods of time.
• Walking/balancing and moving about on foot to perform tasks where there is rough terrain and/or impediments such as sand, mud, ice or snow.

Special Job Dimensions

The office provides a safe and healthy work environment, is adequately heated and cooled, is free from exposure and extreme conditions, has appropriate lighting and office furnishings, and is smoke-free and drug-free.  While performing the duties of this position in the fabrication shop, warehouse, maintenance shop or at a project site, the employee could be regularly exposed to any number of the following, including, but not limited to:  moving mechanical parts; moving machinery; high, precarious places (including, but not limited to, being raised several hundred feet in a bucket); close tight quarters; rough and sloped terrain; fumes or airborne particles; drilling and blasting activities; welding activities; toxic or caustic chemicals; the potential of falling rock; and outside weather conditions.  The employee may be occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock and vibration.  The noise level in the work environment is generally loud.