Senior Site Manager

Job Title: Senior Site Manager Job Description The Senior Site Manager provides strategic leadership, technical expertise, and hands-on oversight of multi-site shop and field operations involving the fabrication, assembly, delivery, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of electromechanical equipment. Serving as the company’s primary jobsite representative and field expert, this role oversees equipment installation, manages field crews, coordinates with customers and contractors, ensures safety, and acts as the eyes and ears of the engineering team in the field.

The Senior Site Manager directs project execution, resource allocation, scheduling, site administration, and quality assurance across multiple job sites and shop operations to ensure projects are completed safely, on time, and within budget. Responsibilities Lead shop and multi-site field operations involving the fabrication, assembly, delivery, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of electromechanical equipment.

Lead equipment installation and commissioning activities across multiple job sites, ensuring alignment with project specifications and schedules. Plan and manage staffing, resources, schedules, budgets, and project milestones to ensure work is completed safely, on time, and within budget. Set up and manage shop, warehouse, and field offices, including establishing work schedules and overseeing day-to-day operations.

Supervise, motivate, coach, and mentor employees, temporary workers, contracted labor, subcontractors, and field or warehouse crews. Manage and direct crews of 2–6 personnel, including union laborers, third-party contractors, and internal engineers, to achieve project objectives. Coordinate daily site activities, address performance issues promptly, and remove personnel from the site when necessary to maintain safety and quality standards.

Oversee fabrication and assembly processes to ensure workmanship, quality assurance, and compliance with drawings, specifications, instructions, and technical documentation. Review installation procedures and verify tolerances, fit-up, and alignment requirements, ensuring equipment integrates properly with existing structures and systems. Identify and troubleshoot field issues in collaboration with engineering teams and provide hands-on technical support as needed.

Serve as the primary field contact and company representative for owners, customers, general contractors, steel erectors, iron workers, subcontractors, vendors, local unions, and other stakeholders. Represent the company professionally in meetings and jobsite interactions, communicating effectively with both field personnel and executive leadership. Manage job site deliveries, including material receiving, inventory, storage, packaging, and shipment of parts, tools, equipment, and components between company locations, vendors, subcontractors, and job sites.

Maintain job site administration, including timesheets, daily reports, material receiving reports, electronic project documentation, and safety records. Communicate project status, field conditions, schedules, materials, and cost-related matters clearly and regularly to stakeholders and corporate leadership. Act as the primary safety leader on site, monitoring conditions and enforcing OSHA and project-specific safety requirements.

Ensure crews work safely, coordinate safety expectations across multiple labor groups, and conduct or assist with regular safety meetings. Attend project, superintendent, assembly, and coordination meetings to represent company interests and support effective project execution. Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality, efficiency, performance, installation and assembly processes, maintenance practices, and cost control.

Travel extensively to job sites and work away from the home base for extended periods as needed, with travel requirements up to 90%. Essential Skills Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and direct others, with proven exp