General Superintendent - Mission Critical

About the Company

RNGD is a rapidly scaling organization emerging as a nationally recognized leader in construction through our unique Renegade mindset focused on innovation, creativity, and culture. The team is made up of a highly engaged group of seasoned professionals and emerging leaders. We are creators who believe that what we build drives the growth of our cities and that to fulfill our mission, we must constantly challenge the old way of doing things. Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, we thrive on building communities, building teams, building leaders, and growing the business throughout the Southeast region with offices in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama.

About the Role

We’re looking for a General Superintendent, Mission Critical to provide portfolio-wide field leadership across RNGD’s data center, critical infrastructure, and power sector work. This is a senior field leadership and sector wide position rather than a single-project assignment. The role establishes one Mission Critical field operating system, builds the superintendent bench that growth depends on, and gives sector leadership a field partner capable of carrying execution as the portfolio expands geographically. The General Superintendent is expected to spend most of the week in the field, coaching field leaders and verifying readiness on jobsites, rather than directing from an office.

Purpose of the Role

The General Superintendent, Mission Critical is the leader accountable for how work is executed in the field across data centers, critical infrastructure, power, and other technically intensive projects. The position exists to establish one field operating system where individual projects currently operate in different ways, to develop the next generation of superintendents and field leaders, and to give the Sector Leader a field partner capable of carrying execution across a growing and geographically expanding portfolio.

The role is a leadership and operating position. It leads integrated field execution; it does not replace the technical authority of design engineers, trade experts, commissioning authorities, qualified vendors, or client operations teams. This position brings field credibility sufficient to lead those experts, the discipline to install and hold standards, and the presence to coach in the field every week.

Scope and Reporting

Reports to the Sector Leader, Mission Critical.

Scope includes field execution across data centers, critical infrastructure, high-availability facilities, central utility plants, network and technology facilities, and other technically intensive projects, including work performed adjacent to or within live and operating environments.

Project superintendents and area superintendents report to this position for field execution, planning, staffing, development, and performance. They maintain a dotted-line relationship to the project executives and operations leaders accountable for project P&L, contracts, and client commitments.

The General Superintendent partners with project management, safety, quality, scheduling, and preconstruction, and coordinates with the Trades and Manufacturing sectors wherever self-perform scope, prefabrication, and multi-trade Components are installed. Those sectors are supported by this role, not directed by it.

The General Superintendent, Mission Critical, the General Superintendent, Commercial Construction, and the General Superintendent, Trades carry equal enterprise influence within their respective sectors and are expected to operate as one field leadership team.

Core Accountabilities

Portfolio Mission Critical Field Operating Standards

Define, publish, and enforce common Mission Critical field expectations, beginning with daily reports, daily plans, short-interval planning, constraint logs, production tracking, and weekly staffing plans.

Hold the standards consistently while adapting execution models to project type, client program, delivery method, and market.

Keep standards simple enough to execute, visible enough to inspect, and supported by coaching in the field rather than by reporting alone.

Align field standards with client program requirements, standardized designs, and repeatable build sequences across a multi-site program.

Superintendent Staffing, Deployment, Development, and Succession

Own the assignment and deployment of project and area, across the portfolio, matching capability and technical complexity.

Maintain a field-staffing forecast reconciled to backlog, award timing, and milestone dates, and flag recruiting, training, or supplemental needs early.

Assist to coach and build advancement pathways from field engineer through area superintendent, MEP superintendent, superintendent, senior superintendent, and general superintendent.

Maintain named succession and development plans for every critical field-leadership seat, and track retention, turnover, and bench readiness by project and region.

Advanced Planning, Work Packaging, and Constraint Management

Require detailed advanced planning before mobilization, including work packages tied to areas and systems, sequencing, logistics, material, equipment, access, information, and readiness conditions.

Verify readiness before each phase, area, and system release, and withhold release when readiness conditions are not credible.

Own the field portion of schedule recovery, including resequencing, staffing, shift strategy, and constraint removal.

Multi-Discipline and Systems Integration

Lead the integration systems into one field sequence.

Drive coordination and installation sequencing, so field conflicts are resolved before installation.

Manage owner-furnished and vendor-furnished equipment interfaces, including delivery windows, storage, protection, and installation readiness.

Coordinate long-lead equipment, utility interfaces, and permanent power milestones with the project and client teams.

Area-Based and System-Based Completion

Install an area-based and system-based completion structure so the field plans, tracks, and completes work by area and by system rather than by trade alone.

Sequence trade work, inspections, and verification so each area and system reaches completion in the order the startup plan requires.

Align field completion structure with the commissioning and turnover plan from the beginning of the project.

Equipment Setting, Startup, Energization, and Commissioning Readiness

Own field readiness for equipment setting, alignment, terminations, point-to-point checks, and pre-functional testing.

Ensure the field delivers complete, clean, documented, and ready, with deficiencies closed before handoff.

High-Risk Work and Operational Interfaces

Set field expectations for high-risk work including energized systems, lockout/tagout, stored energy, boundaries, confined space, critical lifts, and work at height.

Govern field interfaces with live and operating environments, including tie-ins, shutdowns, and methods of procedure.

Stop field work when safety, supervision, information, material, access, isolation, or readiness conditions are not credible.

Progressive Quality Completion and Deficiency Management

Establish progressive quality completion so inspections, verifications, and sign-offs occur as work is installed rather than at the end of the project.

Own first-work reviews, mockups, benchmark installations, inspection readiness, and rework accountability across the portfolio.

Run a deficiency and punch process by area and system, with owners, dates, and closure evidence.

Ensure quality problems are visible, corrected at the source, and learned from across projects and programs.

Vendor, Trade Partner, Utility, and Client Coordination

Set the field expectations trade partners are held to, including manpower commitments, planning participation, quality, safety, documentation, and cleanup.

Coordinate equipment vendors, fa