Superintendent, Industrial Construction

Superintendent, Industrial Construction | Tesla

Location: Corpus Christi, Texas | Req ID: 278208 | Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

As a Superintendent on Tesla’s industrial construction team, you will own day-to-day field execution across some of the most ambitious materials refining and process plants being built in America. You will lead craft and contractors in your assigned discipline or area, driving productivity, clearing constraints, and holding the line on safety, quality, and schedule from workface planning through completion.

Whether your background is civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, or process construction, you will be the on-the-ground leader who turns transforms a plan and a target into real installed work. If you lead from the field, solve problems in real time, and take pride in building high performing field teams who build the infrastructure that powers America, this role was built for you.

What You'll Do

• Own day-to-day field supervision for an assigned discipline or process area, directing craft and contractor crews from workfront release through installation, inspection, and completion
• Drive crew productivity and work packaging execution, ensuring labor, materials, equipment, and information are ready at the workface before production starts
• Identify and remove constraints in real time, design clashes, material gaps, access conflicts, quality holds, and sequencing issues, and work directly with foremen and project managers to generate clever solutions that gets the job done safely
• Enforce zero-compromise safety and quality standards appropriate to hazardous industrial process construction environments, correcting issues immediately and setting the standard for the crew
• Coordinate across adjacent disciplines and area teams to sequence work, protect interfaces, and keep construction aligned with commissioning and startup priorities
• Partner with Construction Managers, Field Engineers, Quality, and Procurement to maintain accurate look-ahead plans, progress reporting, and recovery actions when output slips
• Lead and develop foremen and craft leadership, building accountability, urgency, and consistent execution across shifts and workfronts

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of superintendent or senior field supervision experience on major capital projects in refinery, chemical, metals, battery, semiconductor, or heavy industrial process facility environments
• Demonstrated ability to lead large craft and/or contractor crews and sustain production under aggressive delivery schedules
• Strong working knowledge of industrial construction methods in one or more core disciplines, civil/structural, mechanical/piping, electrical/instrumentation, or process equipment installation, with the ability to coordinate effectively across multiple
• Proven ability to read drawings and specs, run effective look-ahead planning, and clear workface constraints quickly
• Decisive, field-present leader who sets the pace, communicates clearly, and holds crews accountable for safety, quality, and output
• Experience with hazardous process environments and construction quality/ITP requirements is a strong asset
• High energy, decisive, and extreme ownership; you solve the problem in front of you and keep the work moving

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program
• Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)