Joining American Builders is a commercial general contractor based at One World Trade Center. We build interior fit-outs across Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs: retail spaces and corporate office renovations, most of which are in occupied buildings and on tight cycles. We just landed several new projects, and we are expanding the field team as a result.
THE JOB IN ONE PARAGRAPH
You run our job sites. You build the schedule, you drive the subcontractors to it in the right sequence, and you solve what comes up in the field before it becomes a delay. You are on-site most days, in the office rarely, and you work directly alongside ownership rather than three layers below it.
WHAT YOU WILL OWN
- Schedule. Build the project schedule and the two-week look-aheads, then hold the trades to them. Resequence when something slips.
- Subcontractor coordination. Drive subs through the work in logical order. Resolve conflicts on site rather than escalating them.
- Field execution. Daily site presence, daily reports, daily updates. Quality, safety, and progress against the schedule.
- Building systems and inspections. Fire alarm and sprinkler shutdowns, drain and refill, inspection sequencing, protecting occupied space during demo.
- Project administration. RFIs, submittals, change order documentation, agendas, meeting minutes, closeout.
- Materials and methods. Know what goes where and why. Order what the job needs before the job needs it.
WHAT YOU WILL NOT OWN
Estimating and bid leveling are handled by our estimating team. Contract negotiation, payment release, and client contract administration are handled by ownership. You are not expected to carry those.
WHAT THE WORK ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE
We would rather you knew this now than find out in month two.
- Project length: two to twenty weeks. Most land between one and four months.
- Concurrent load: eight to twelve projects moving through the company at once. You will carry several.
- Rhythm: fast. There is no eighteen-month runway on anything. If you are looking for a single, ground-up development, this is not the job.
- Where you are: field first, hybrid. On-site most days, in the office when the work calls for it.
- Who you work with: ownership directly, our senior operations lead, estimating, and the field team.
WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE
- A current 62-hour SST supervisor card, as required under NYC Local Law 196.
- At least five years supervising commercial construction as a supervisor, superintendent, or project manager.
- Direct experience running commercial interior work: retail build-outs, office renovations, or both.
- The ability to build a construction schedule yourself and coordinate trades sequentially against it.
- Working knowledge of RFIs, submittals, and change orders.
- Comfortable working in Excel and in a cloud-based project platform every day. We run Procore and will get you up to speed on it.
- Clear written and spoken English. You will be writing daily reports and running meetings.
- Working Spanish. A good portion of the trades on our sites are Spanish-speaking, and you will be giving direction and running toolbox talks directly rather than through someone else. - Legal authorization to work in the United States.
WHAT WILL SET YOU APART
- Procore experience specifically, including RFIs, daily logs, and the project directory. Useful, not required.
- Experience with fire alarm and sprinkler shutdowns and the inspection process in occupied buildings.
- A background at a New York commercial interiors general contractor. - Scheduling software beyond the basics.
- A track record of solving problems in the field without waiting for the office.
WHO DOES WELL HERE
Someone we can support rather than supervise. You take the handoff and run with it; you tell us what you need, and you do not answer a request with a job description. There is no bureaucracy here and no appetite for politics. We want someone who is still learning because this trade is moving, and someone who wants to grow beyond this seat.
WHERE THIS ROLE GOES
The next step from here is senior supervisor, where you manage multiple jobs and have supervisors reporting to you. We are growing into that structure, and we would rather promote into it than hire into it. If you want to be doing exactly this job in five years, that is a fine answer, but we should both know it's going in.
COMPENSATION
- Base salary: $90,000 to $130,000, depending on experience
- Bonus: three to five percent annually, based on performance
- Employment: full-time, W-2
- Location: New York City job sites, with office time at One World Trade Center
The salary range above is the good-faith range for this position as required under NYC Local Law 32.
Joining American Builders is an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring decisions on the requirements set out above and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy or family status, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Pay: $90,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year
Application Question(s):
- Do you currently hold a 62-hour SST supervisor card as required under NYC Local Law 196?
- How many years have you spent supervising commercial construction as a supervisor, superintendent, or project manager?
- Have you run commercial interior fit-out work — retail build-outs, office renovations, or both?
- This role requires being on New York City job sites daily. Can you do that?
- How would you describe your working Spanish on a job site?
- Briefly, what software do you use day to day to track schedules, RFIs and daily reports?
Work Location: In person
