Senior General Superintendent - Data Centers

Overview

The Role

The Senior General Superintendent is the highest-level field operations leader responsible for the successful execution of a region, large-scale campus, or portfolio of complex construction projects. This role provides strategic field leadership across multiple projects, buildings, or geographic markets, with total construction value that may reach or exceed several billion dollars.

While a General Superintendent may lead field execution across several buildings, phases, or projects, the Senior General Superintendent is responsible for the broader operational system that enables those projects to succeed. The Senior General Superintendent serves as a senior field executive and trusted operational partner to regional leadership, project executives, operations executives, clients, and trade partners. This individual is expected to drive consistency, accountability, and high performance across all assigned work while developing the next generation of field leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead field operations across multiple complex construction projects, campuses, or regional programs.
• Provide strategic direction, coaching, and accountability to General Superintendents, Senior Superintendents, and field leadership teams.
• Establish consistent standards for safety, quality, planning, logistics, scheduling, workforce coordination, and field execution.
• Serve as the senior field resource for complex construction planning, operational sequencing, logistics strategy, issue resolution, and schedule recovery.
• Evaluate field leadership coverage and performance, identify capability gaps, and support staffing, recruiting, promotions, training, and succession planning.
• Build a high-performance culture grounded in ownership, collaboration, planning discipline, professional development, and accountability.
• Champion a proactive safety culture and ensure compliance with company policies, regulatory requirements, client standards, and project-specific safety plans.
• Review safety trends, incidents, near misses, leading indicators, corrective actions, and high-risk activities with safety leadership.
• Provide senior oversight of master schedules, short-interval planning, pull planning, constraint management, sequencing, and field execution milestones.
• Identify schedule and production risks early and lead field-driven mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Coordinate project management, field leadership, trade partners, design teams, commissioning teams, and client stakeholders around execution priorities.
• Lead logistics strategies for dense, occupied, high-security, and multi-project construction environments, including access, laydown, cranes, vertical transportation, deliveries, material flow, workforce movement, temporary facilities, parking, and emergency access.
• Coordinate campus-wide and regional logistics to minimize conflicts, improve productivity, and support safety, quality, schedule, and client operations.
• Establish expectations for quality planning, inspections, mockups, first-in-place reviews, deficiency management, commissioning, punch list completion, turnover, and client acceptance.
• Drive continuous improvement by sharing lessons learned, implementing best practices, and preventing recurring deficiencies.
• Build strong relationships with trade partners, labor leaders, vendors, and field resources.
• Evaluate trade partner performance and support labor forecasting, workforce planning, procurement, buyout, sequencing, and resource allocation.
• Improve labor productivity, reduce rework and delays, and identify field-related risks affecting cost, schedule, margin, or client satisfaction.
• Provide field input into forecasting, manpower planning, general conditions, logistics costs, and schedule recovery efforts.
• Represent the organization in client meetings, executive reviews, business development pursuits, operational planning sessions, and critical issue resolution.
• Build client confidence through proactive communication, reliable execution, and strong field leadership.
• Provide executive visibility into field performance, risks, opportunities, staffing needs, and operational priorities.
• Develop current and future field leaders through coaching, mentoring, feedback, career planning, onboarding, and leadership development.
• Build a strong bench of field talent capable of supporting organizational growth and increasingly complex work.

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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Construction Management and/or experience relative to size/scope of projects
• Minimum of 15 years of Data Center GC experience
• Each project has specific characteristics regarding size, complexity, sector etc, which dictate the precise years of experience and industry knowledge necessary for success, above and beyond generic construction knowledge and experience
• Applicable area licenses
• The ability to constantly multi-task and handle competing priorities between Suffolk business needs, organizational issues, and sound customer relations
• Business judgment to negotiate the critical balance between budget and construction processes
• Excellent organizational skills to manage the many details necessary for successful construction
• Judgment to know when to appropriately escalate issues up the chain of command
• A strong sense of urgency and initiative, and the ability to quickly study complex issues
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to confidently and decisively take action
• Excellent diplomatic and communication skills, able to interact effectively with senior management, and the ability to handle and resolve conflict effectively in a firm but fair manner
• Demonstrated experience communicating broad strategic initiatives to both key stakeholders and diverse internal teams.
• Candidate must possess Suffolk’s Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand and finger skills in the use of a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stands; walk; and reach with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will spend their time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level. Job site walking.

EEO Statement

Suffolk provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, national origin, citizenship, genetic information, disability, protected veteran, gender identity, age or any other status protected by law.  This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, transfers, promotions, terminations, compensation, benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment.  Suffolk will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination toward, or harassment of, applicants or employees by anyone at Suffolk, or anyone working on behalf of Suffolk.

Compensation Information

Where required by law, pay ranges can be found in Suffolk's job postings. Base Salary for this position is just one component of Suffolk’s total rewards package for employees. Actual salaries may be based on several factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's skill set, experience, education and other qualifications. Suffolk offers a comprehensive benefits package as part of its overall total rewards strategy. Salary ranges are reviewed regularly to reflect market trends.

About Suffolk

About Suffolk  

Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates, and invests. We provide value across the entire project lifecycle through our core construction management services and complementary business lines in real estate investment, design, self-perform construction, and technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies). By integrating data, artificial intelligence, and advanced technology through our Seamless Platform, we connect design, construction, and operations to deliver smarter, more predictable results and redefine how America builds. 

Suffolk – America’s Contractor – is a national company with more than $9 billion in annual revenue, 3,000 employees, and 17 offices, including Boston (headquarters), New York City, Miami, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Estero, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Herndon, U.S. Virgin Islands, and other key markets. Suffolk manages some of the most complex and transformative projects in the country, serving clients across healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, aviation, transportation, government, mission critical, and commercial sectors. Suffolk is privately held and is led by founder, chairman and CEO John Fish. Suffolk is ranked #8 on ENR’s list of “Top CM-at-Risk Contractors.” For more information, visit www.suffolk.com and follow Suffolk on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram. 

At Suffolk, we believe that our total rewards program should offer you and your family the support you need when it matters most. That’s why we have created a program that provides employees with access to a wide variety of options that can be personalized to support you and your loved ones physically, emotionally, and financially. 

Benefits include, competitive salaries, auto allowances and gas cards for certain roles, access to market leading medical and emotional and mental health benefits, dental, and vision insurance plans, virtual care options for physical therapy and primary care, generous paid time off, 401k plan with employer match and access to expert financial resources, company paid and voluntary life insurance, tax deferred savings accounts, 10 backup daycare days each year, short- and long-term disability, commuter benefits and more.  For more information, click here.