General Superintendent — Heavy Civil — Houston, TX
Environmental Allies is a $100M+ heavy civil contractor in Houston. We self-perform storm drainage, concrete paving, asphalt paving, and earthwork on public infrastructure across the region — TxDOT, the City of Houston, Fort Bend County, Harris County, and municipal utility districts throughout the metro. We own our concrete batch plant, our equipment, and our crews.
We are hiring a General Superintendent to be the top field authority in this company. This is a new seat, created because a field organization at our scale needs a leader dedicated to it — which means you would be building it rather than inheriting somebody else’s version of it.
The package is $200,000 to $225,000 base, an annual bonus of up to $100,000, and a truck allowance. We are paying at the top of this market because we intend to hire at the top of it.
The Job, Stated Plainly
You go where the work needs you and you fix what is wrong. A job that is behind. A crew that is not producing. A sequencing call that has three jobs waiting on it. An inspector who has decided to make your week difficult. You carry full field authority on every job you set foot on, delegated by ownership — including jobs that already have a superintendent running them.
You will also close the loop with the office, which is the part most field leaders never learn to do well. Field problems create paperwork consequences: quantities, time and material tickets, delay documentation, change order backup. You will work directly with our project managers so the fix you make in the dirt is the fix that survives the pay application and the audit. Solving it is half the job. Making it stick is the other half.
This role is built to grow. As you earn it, our superintendents report to you and field operations becomes yours to run. We are direct about that sequence because the candidate we want will read it as the reason to take the job rather than as a hedge.
The First Year
First 14 days
You walk every active job. You learn the crews, the superintendents, the foremen, the owners, and the inspectors, and you learn how we build. You start taking the calls.
Months 0 - 6
You are the first call on field problems across the whole portfolio. You resolve them, you document them, you coordinate with project management on the paperwork consequences, and you set the production standards we run on.
Months 6+
Field operations are yours to run, with our superintendents reporting to you and your standards governing how we build.
What You Will Do
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Run the field across every active job — production, sequencing, manpower, equipment, and subcontractor performance.
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Deploy to whichever jobsite needs you and take ownership of the problem until it is closed.
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Make decisions in the dirt with full authority and stand behind them.
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Set and enforce production standards across superintendents, foremen, and crews.
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Own field safety performance alongside the Safety Manager, including compliance with all company and OSHA requirements.
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Allocate equipment and manpower across concurrent jobs and keep the fleet working.
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Coordinate directly with project managers so field decisions are documented correctly: quantities, T&M tickets, delay and impact records, and change order backup that holds up in a pay application and an audit.
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Develop superintendents and foremen. Build the bench rather than just managing it.
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Work directly with ownership on operational strategy and long-range field planning.
What You Bring
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Fifteen or more years in heavy civil, underground utility, or site work construction, with substantial time as a Superintendent, General Superintendent, or Area Superintendent.
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A record of running multiple concurrent jobs and being accountable for their production, not only their supervision.
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The presence to walk onto a job you have never seen and be taken seriously by the people already running it. This seat has no direct reports on day one and still has to be followed.
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Real command of heavy civil production: crew rates, equipment utilization, sequencing, and where a job actually loses money.
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Experience with Texas public work — TxDOT, City of Houston, Fort Bend County, county precinct, or municipal utility district projects — and the documentation discipline public work demands.
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Fluency in the paperwork consequences of field decisions: quantities, T&M, delay documentation, and change order substantiation.
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The judgment to know which problems you solve yourself and which ones ownership needs to hear about the same day.
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Authorization to work in the United States, and the ability to pass a pre-employment background check and drug screen.
Preferred
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Self-perform contractor background — owned crews, owned equipment.
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Storm drainage, detention, and underground utility depth.
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Concrete and asphalt paving production experience.
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Experience building or restructuring a field operations function — standing up structure and accountability where little existed before.
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Construction ERP and field technology experience — Acumatica, HCSS, B2W, Viewpoint, or comparable.
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Bilingual English/Spanish.
Compensation & Benefits
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Base salary of $200,000 – $225,000 per year, based on experience.
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Annual performance bonus of up to $100,000, tied to field productivity, safety, and project margin — total compensation potential above $300,000.
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Monthly truck allowance.
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401(k) retirement plan.
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Health, dental, and vision insurance.
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Health savings account (HSA) and flexible spending account (FSA) options.
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Company-paid life insurance.
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Paid time off and paid holidays.
Why This One Is Different
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You report to the CEO. Not to a regional vice president, not into a matrix. One person, direct.
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You are the top field authority in the company. Nobody above you in the dirt.
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We self-perform. Drainage, paving, earthwork, and our own concrete batch plant. When you make a call in the field, it is our people and our iron that execute it.
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Public infrastructure backlog. State, city, county, and district capital programs that keep moving through market cycles.
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Decisions take days, not committees. That is the whole reason a person at your level would take a job at a company our size.
Schedule & Work Environment
Full-time and on-site, based out of our Northwest Houston office at 9730 Windfern Road, with daily travel to active jobsites across the Houston region. This is a field job — expect to spend most of your week on jobs rather than behind a desk. Heavy civil is a deadline business, and extended hours or weekend coverage come with the territory during critical operations. On jobsites, all company and OSHA safety requirements apply, including required personal protective equipment.
How to Apply
Apply through this posting with your resume. Our process is a confidential phone conversation, an in-person interview with the CEO and ownership, and a jobsite visit where you will see our work and meet the people you would be leading. We move quickly for the right person, and we treat every conversation at this level as confidential.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Environmental Allies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process should contact Human Resources.
