General Superintendent
About the job
- Expert in the field with 15 or more years of extensive relevant experience.
- A master's degree or college/university graduation, or an equivalent combination of skills and experience, is generally required.
- Able to negotiate critical and controversial issues with top-level employees and officers.
- Able to make authoritative decisions and recommendations with significant impact across extensive and related company activities.
- Demonstrates creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing, and guiding extensive programs and activities.
- Able to manage autonomous individuals, managers, and diverse groups while providing broader direction.
- Oversee the scheduling, coordination, and supervision of crew activities.
- Supervise and coordinate onsite field operations for RK Industries and associated subcontractors and vendors.
- Provide pertinent and trade-specific information to the general contractor during development of the project schedule.
- Adhere to the project schedule and orchestrate timely project completion within budget.
- Cooperate with project management and maintain open communication regarding the project budget, productivity, change orders, quality control, and customer satisfaction.
- Practice, promote, and develop mentoring across all trades and manpower levels throughout the company.
- Document required corrective measures and ensure they are addressed and implemented.
- Develop a master-plan approach for the project.
- Execute, supervise, and maintain CPMI.
- Schedule all daily and weekly scope-of-work activities.
- Requisition, maintain, and account for tools, materials, and equipment.
- Monitor the progress, performance, and quality of work for all subcontractors and major equipment suppliers.
- Coordinate required jurisdictional inspections and maintain working relationships with inspectors.
- Review, analyze, and update labor-hours and job-cost report information with project management weekly.
- Optimize project opportunities through field and prefabrication planning, CADD, organizing, and scheduling without compromising project quality, safety, or completion date.
- Assist project management with schedule preparation and SIP, including logic and resource/budget allocation, labor resource charts, and updates as required.
- Maintain complete project documentation in accordance with RK Mechanical's standard systems and keep it available for inspection.
- Provide training, mentoring, coaching, and leadership for field personnel, and participate in company-provided training.
- Ensure accurate and complete cost coding of all time cards daily; review, sign off, and forward time cards to the corporate office as required.
- Ensure efficient project closeout, including punch-list completion, owner training and instruction, spare-parts transfer, final cleanup, demobilization, and project-record archiving.
- Take responsibility for one or more programs or functions of sufficient diversity and scope to be critical to overall company objectives.
- Play a role in company business-strategy development and execution.
About the company
RK Industries is a family-owned group delivering specialty contracting, prefabricated solutions and modular systems through seven operating divisions: RK Mechanical, RK Steel, RK Electrical, RK Mission Critical, RK Energy, RK Water and RK Service. It designs, fabricates and installs mechanical, electrical, structural and modular systems across the Mountain West from six facilities headquartered in Denver. Its service model combines on-site contracting work with off-site fabrication and modular construction to streamline projects from design to completion. The company differentiates itself through its long family history, multi-division integration, and regional focus, enabling coordinated, single-source delivery across mechanical, electrical, structural, energy, water and service needs. The goal is to provide reliable, end-to-end contracting and modular solutions that support complex projects while upholding its family legacy and regional service commitments.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Denver, Colorado
Founded
1963
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- RK won ENR Specialty Firm of the Year on September 29, 2026.
- RK says its Aurora expansion created nearly 1,200 jobs in 2026.
- RK posted active hiring on October 5, 2026 across Denver, Aurora, Henderson, and Phoenix.
What critics are saying
- Rapid 2025-2026 expansion can strain execution, quality, and cash discipline across new sites.
- Skilled-trades competition in Colorado, Arizona, and Texas threatens staffing, schedules, and margins.
- Any major safety failure or project blowup would damage RK's family-brand reputation.
What makes RK Industries unique
- RK bundles mechanical, steel, electrical, water, service, and Mission Critical under one operator.
- Its Aurora campus, opened April 2026, unifies headquarters, engineering, fabrication, and manufacturing.
- RK self-performs prefab and modular delivery across data centers, energy, healthcare, and government.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Training Programs
- Professional Development Budget