About this opportunity
Kiewit lists this Grading Superintendent - South Central District opportunity in westlake, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
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Location: Westlake, TX, US El Paso, TX, US Little Rock, AR, US Baton Rouge, LA, US Jackson, MS, US Houston, TX, US Port Arthur, TX, US New Orleans, LA, US Monroe, LA, US Abilene, TX, US Oklahoma City, OK, US Fort Worth, TX, US Brownsville, TX, US Beaumont, TX, US
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Job Level: Mid Level
Home District/Group: South Central District
Department: Field Supervision
Market: Transportation
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Overview
As a Grading Superintendent, you serve as Kiewit’s on-site representative and primary point of contact for construction activities. You are responsible for managing communication between the client’s on-site representatives, inspectors, subcontractors, craft employees, and Kiewit personnel. Your role includes planning, coordinating, and supervising onsite functions such as scheduling, material control, and the day-to-day direction of field personnel to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality grading operations.
This position supports major infrastructure initiatives across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, where our teams are advancing projects that enable AI data centers, improve energy reliability, and strengthen community resilience. These efforts are driven by close collaboration between our Infrastructure and Power groups, with a shared focus on utility infrastructure development.
Your leadership ensures that grading operations are executed with precision and coordination, contributing to the successful delivery of reliable, future-ready infrastructure across the South Central region.
District Overview
Kiewit's South Central District is one of Kiewit's leading infrastructure districts specializing in heavy civil, transportation, and water resource markets. Projects you could be working on could include mass grading, drainage, paving, utility and more. Although most of our work is regionally based in the south-central region of the United States, we also pursue various projects stretching across the United States. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about infrastructure and committed to the construction industry as opposed to design.
Location
One of the many things that makes Kiewit’s culture unique is that we go where the work is, which exposes your career to abundant opportunities. We relocate our teams based on the work that is available, combined with the development plans, skill sets and career goals of each team member. This means your Kiewit adventure is custom-designed to meet our shared needs.
Responsibilities
Assists the project team by providing input to identify key success factors, timing of design and procurement deliverables, and establishing common work breakdown.
Provides leadership to cause the creation of organizational structure and processes required to fully execute the requirements of services and is responsible for the execution of the work, quality, subcontractor performance, and construction cost.
Evaluates execution for compliance to contract, design data, schedule, cost budgets, and quality, advising the project team of status, issues, impacts, risk, and cost influence factors on "to go" scope.
Monitors the implementation of safety orientations, safety indoctrinations, provides coaching for improvement.
Monitors crews for organizational structure, sizing, crew mix ratios, and wage compliance.
Reviews and monitors cost and man-hour budget for installation process and develops a staff,
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Who can apply
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