Superintendent - Mechanical Piping

Superintendent - Mechanical Piping Duration: Initially 1-year Location: Quintana, TX Position Overview The Superintendent - Mechanical Piping is a senior site-based construction opportunity focused on technical assurance and oversight of mechanical piping systems work during construction and pre-commissioning activities. This position offers the chance to play a key role in ensuring safe delivery, quality execution, and alignment with drawings, specifications, codes, and standards. The Superintendent - Mechanical Piping will work in a major project environment, supporting progress across site-based activities while helping drive schedule, quality, and safety performance. This Superintendent - Mechanical Piping opportunity is well suited to candidates with strong inspection, welding, and mechanical piping knowledge who are looking to make an impact in a technically demanding project setting. Role Context This role sits within a large-scale construction project in the LNG sector and is focused on mechanical piping installations across site. The Superintendent - Mechanical Piping will operate in a construction and pre-commissioning environment, working closely with construction leadership and technical assurance personnel. The position interfaces with project management, terminal operations, and contractor supervision and engineering teams. This opportunity also includes leadership of site inspection and construction support personnel within the mechanical piping scope. Key Responsibilities Provide site-based technical oversight of mechanical piping systems work to ensure compliance with drawings, specifications, applicable codes, and quality requirements. Support safe execution of construction activities by promoting approved safety plans, participating in site safety meetings, and identifying unsafe practices and hazards. Monitor daily progress of mechanical piping installations and record observations on work quality and installed quantities. Review contractor work progress, inspections, and testing activities, and support effective coordination of technical assurance inspections. Assist in resolving construction quality issues and initiate corrective action where deficiencies are identified through inspections or audits. Maintain close coordination with construction management and discipline supervision during construction and pre-commissioning phases. Prepare punch lists and help expedite completion of rework and corrective actions. Perform visual examinations, review welding inspection reports, and support planning and scheduling of nondestructive examination activities. Verify implementation of inspection and evaluation methods and support investigation of quality inspection issues. Carry out quality audits and surveillance activities, including oversight of weld consumable control requirements and daily audit planning. Support project risk identification and mitigation activities related to the mechanical piping scope. Provide leadership to the site mechanical piping team to help achieve quality, safety, and schedule objectives. Qualifications & Experience Essential: Strong experience in mechanical piping installations on major construction projects. Essential: Knowledge of welding processes including SMAW, SAW, GTAW, FCAW, GMAW, PAW, ESW, soldering, brazing, and thermal or mechanical cutting methods. Essential: Understanding of inspection and testing methods including VT, MT, UT, PT, RT, and related quality procedures, audits, and surveillance activities. Essential: Ability to interpret welding symbols, drawings, and technical documentation. Essential: Knowledge of welding metallurgy and practical application within construction quality activities. Essential: Experience supporting safety compliance, quality assurance, inspections, and contractor oversight in a site construction environment. Desirable: Experience working within US Gulf Coast construction practices. Desirable: Previous leadership experience overseeing inspectors, coordinators, or general foremen within a mechanical piping scope. About the Company This company operates within the LNG sector and is delivering major construction work in a technically complex industrial environment. The company’s project focus includes construction quality, safe execution, and successful delivery through construction and pre-commissioning phases. About Airswift Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure, and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled. If you would li