Senior Superintendent, Commercial Construction

TruelineNew Orleans, Louisiana, United StatesOnsite

Trueline is seeking a Senior Superintendent in New Orleans to oversee and deliver high-quality projects across the region. This is a hands-on leadership role managing flagship jobs while coaching and supporting a talented field team, offering the opportunity to join a stable, close-knit company on an upward trajectory.

What You’ll Do as the Senior Superintendent:

Lead all on-site construction activities for commercial projects ranging from $3M to $10M, ensuring quality, safety, and schedule adherence
Act as the field leader and right hand to ownership, helping shape project strategies and mentoring junior superintendents
Coordinate subcontractors, suppliers, inspections, and site logistics for smooth project execution
Manage daily logs, punch lists, closeout processes, and weekly subcontractor meetings
Interpret drawings, layout dimensions, and elevations, and oversee all building processes from ground-up to historical renovations
Create and maintain 3-week look-ahead schedules, collaborating with the project manager to ensure proper sequencing
Promote a strong safety culture on site and maintain compliance with all safety protocols

Must-Haves as the Senior Superintendent:

Minimum 7 years’ experience in commercial construction supervision, ideally in projects $3M–$15M
Strong background in renovations, some ground -up builds and structural work (concrete and steel)
Ability to interpret contracts, drawings, and scopes of work with precision
Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and scheduling tools
Proven leadership skills with the ability to mentor and develop field teams
High emotional intelligence and excellent relationship-building skills with owners, architects, and stakeholders

Nice-to-Haves as the Senior Superintendent:

Experience with Procore construction management software
Historical renovation project experience
Background with larger general contractors seeking a transition to a more nimble, team-focused environment
Survey layout skills and long-lead item coordination experience

Trueline Offers:

Competitive base salary and bonus structure
Comprehensive benefits including 401(k) with match, health insurance, paid time off, and a company laptop
Auto allowance and performance-based bonuses
A supportive, small-team culture with less bureaucracy and long-term stability
Significant growth opportunities, including a path to General Superintendent

Trueline and its clients are unabashed equal-opportunity employers committed to a diverse workforce. We welcome smart and ambitious applicants and recruit, refer, hire, place, and promote without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.

Life at Trueline

Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do? Everything we do revolves around ROI–improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business. Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management. Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements. Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports. Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges–like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity–it’s a good look on you. Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships. Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.