Project Superintendent Jobs in Washington
Project superintendent jobs in Washington are consistently in demand, concentrated in commercial construction, transportation infrastructure, and large-scale public works projects, with openings for candidates at every level from field coordinator to senior site superintendent. Seattle, Bellevue, and Spokane anchor most of the hiring activity, where established contractors and developers like Turner Construction, Skanska, and Lease Crutcher Lewis maintain long-term pipelines of work. The most sought-after specialties in Washington are vertical commercial builds, light rail and transit expansion, and healthcare facility construction. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Description
Who We Are
Founded in 1995, Vigor Marine Group is an established, innovative and integrated partner with a national footprint in the marine maintenance and modernization, marine fabrication and marine services. Evolving over decades from a collection of the best-in-class companies with unique and complementary capabilities on the East and West coasts, our spirit of innovation and legacy of performance make Vigor Marine Group a preferred, full-service prime contractor in the defense and maritime sectors. Today we offer advanced services and complete solutions for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, Military Sealift Command, state ferry systems, the cruise industry, the commercial fishing industry and more.
With four shipyards for maintenance and modernization and one for fabrication, including the largest floating dry dock in the western hemisphere, our more than 2,500 dedicated employees across four states – from the Pacific Northwest to San Diego to Norfolk – personify the values of our company. Vigor Marine Group takes pride in being the employer of choice for our employees, who in turn take great pride in their contributions to the communities where they live and work, and to their nation – through their living wage jobs supporting their local economies, and through the word-class maritime and industrial services they provide to further our defense readiness and national security.
Salary Range: $120,000 – 135,000
Position Summary
The Lead Ship Superintendent is responsible for leading the safe, efficient, and successful execution of complex Navy ship repair and modernization work. This position provides day-to-day production leadership across multiple work items, ship systems, trades, subcontractors, Alteration Installation Teams (AITs), and Ship’s Force activities.
The Lead Ship Superintendent works as a key business partner to the Project Manager and is responsible for converting the project plan into executable production activities while maintaining schedule, cost, quality, safety, and technical requirements.
This position requires a strong ship-repair background, the ability to lead multiple Ship Superintendents and production teams, and a thorough understanding of the sequencing and integration required to execute complex modernization availabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate Ship Superintendents, craft personnel, subcontractors, AITs, and supporting organizations across assigned work.
- Develop and drive production plans that support key project milestones, critical path activities, testing, restoration, and vessel delivery.
- Coordinate work across HM&E, structural, electrical, combat systems, and modernization activities to prevent production conflicts.
- Ensure work is properly planned, sequenced, staffed, and executed in accordance with specifications, drawings, NAVSEA Standard Items, technical requirements, and contractual requirements.
- Manage production performance against established budgets, schedules, and work-item milestones.
- Monitor labor performance, productivity, CPI/SPI, earned value, and work-item progress and take corrective action when performance falls below plan.
- Identify production constraints, emerging work, growth, material issues, access limitations, and technical conflicts early enough to minimize schedule impact.
- Coordinate compartment closeout, restoration, testing, inspections, and certification requirements.
- Support development and execution of Test and Inspection Plans, checkpoints, WAF requirements, and key event readiness.
- Maintain accountability for shipboard safety, housekeeping, temporary services, access, and production readiness within assigned areas.
- Participate in daily and weekly planning meetings and clearly communicate production status, risks, priorities, and recovery actions.
- Mentor and develop Ship Superintendents and other production leaders while establishing consistent execution standards across the project.
- Partner with Project Management, Planning, Engineering, Quality, Safety, Supply Chain, Contracts, and Production to resolve issues and maintain project momentum.
- Build and maintain professional relationships with NAVSEA, Regional Maintenance Center representatives, Ship’s Force, AITs, subcontractors, and other customer organizations.
- Capture lessons learned and implement improvements that increase predictability and performance on future modernization availabilities.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of progressively responsible ship repair, shipbuilding, Navy modernization, or heavy marine production experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex shipboard production activities and multiple trades or work packages.
- Strong understanding of ship-repair planning, sequencing, testing, restoration, and production management.
- Ability to read and interpret work specifications, drawings, technical manuals, procedures, and contractual requirements.
- Experience managing labor budgets, schedules, production milestones, and performance.
- Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to coordinate multiple organizations and competing priorities in a fast-paced shipyard environment.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and project planning/reporting tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting U.S. Navy surface-ship repair or modernization availabilities.
- DDG/CG modernization experience strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of NAVSEA Standard Items, JFMM requirements, WAF/Tag-Out processes, testing, and shipboard restoration.
- Experience coordinating AIT installations and complex HM&E/combat-system integration.
- Familiarity with Earned Value Management, CPI, SPI, Estimate at Completion, and production performance metrics.
- Previous experience as a Lead Ship Superintendent, Ship Superintendent, General Foreman, Production Manager, or similar ship-repair leadership position.
- Experience developing and mentoring shipyard production leaders.
What Success Looks Like
The successful Lead Ship Superintendent does more than manage today's production. This individual anticipates what the project will need weeks ahead, identifies constraints before they become schedule impacts, holds production teams accountable to the plan, and creates alignment between Production and Project Management.
Success is measured by safe execution, milestone performance, productivity, quality, successful testing and restoration, disciplined cost control, and ultimately delivering the vessel in accordance with contractual commitments.
CITIZENSHIP: Pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires US citizenship.
Vigor Industrial LLC and its wholly owned subsidiaries are drug, smoke and vape-free workplaces. Prospective employees must pass a drug and alcohol test and background check as pre-employment screening.
Vigor Values
Vigor expects all employees to enhance the atmosphere in which they work by living the Vigor Values every day.
Truth: We seek the truth, and we speak the truth
Responsibility: We act on what we know is right
Evolution: We seek mastery, and adapt to a changing world
Love: We care about the people we work with, and the world we live in
At Vigor we offer a generous benefits package that includes:
Medical
RX
Dental
Vision
Life
AD&D
LTD
STD
EAP
Discretionary bonus
Tuition Reimbursement
FSA (Medical, Childcare, Transportation)
10 paid holidays
PTO
401(k)
Vigor and its wholly owned subsidiaries are committed to inclusion and diversity by providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veterans, age, genetics, the presence of a physical or mental condition or disability that can be reasonably accommodated, or any other protected class under relevant laws in the locations we operate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and can be requested with Vigor’s Human Resources Department.
In addition to federal law requirements, Vigor complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination and non-retaliation in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, benefits, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Description
Who We Are
Founded in 1995, Vigor Marine Group is an established, innovative and integrated partner with a national footprint in the marine maintenance and modernization, marine fabrication and marine services. Evolving over decades from a collection of the best-in-class companies with unique and complementary capabilities on the East and West coasts, our spirit of innovation and legacy of performance make Vigor Marine Group a preferred, full-service prime contractor in the defense and maritime sectors. Today we offer advanced services and complete solutions for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, Military Sealift Command, state ferry systems, the cruise industry, the commercial fishing industry and more.
With four shipyards for maintenance and modernization and one for fabrication, including the largest floating dry dock in the western hemisphere, our more than 2,500 dedicated employees across four states – from the Pacific Northwest to San Diego to Norfolk – personify the values of our company. Vigor Marine Group takes pride in being the employer of choice for our employees, who in turn take great pride in their contributions to the communities where they live and work, and to their nation – through their living wage jobs supporting their local economies, and through the word-class maritime and industrial services they provide to further our defense readiness and national security.
Salary Range: $120,000 – 135,000
Position Summary
The Lead Ship Superintendent is responsible for leading the safe, efficient, and successful execution of complex Navy ship repair and modernization work. This position provides day-to-day production leadership across multiple work items, ship systems, trades, subcontractors, Alteration Installation Teams (AITs), and Ship’s Force activities.
The Lead Ship Superintendent works as a key business partner to the Project Manager and is responsible for converting the project plan into executable production activities while maintaining schedule, cost, quality, safety, and technical requirements.
This position requires a strong ship-repair background, the ability to lead multiple Ship Superintendents and production teams, and a thorough understanding of the sequencing and integration required to execute complex modernization availabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate Ship Superintendents, craft personnel, subcontractors, AITs, and supporting organizations across assigned work.
- Develop and drive production plans that support key project milestones, critical path activities, testing, restoration, and vessel delivery.
- Coordinate work across HM&E, structural, electrical, combat systems, and modernization activities to prevent production conflicts.
- Ensure work is properly planned, sequenced, staffed, and executed in accordance with specifications, drawings, NAVSEA Standard Items, technical requirements, and contractual requirements.
- Manage production performance against established budgets, schedules, and work-item milestones.
- Monitor labor performance, productivity, CPI/SPI, earned value, and work-item progress and take corrective action when performance falls below plan.
- Identify production constraints, emerging work, growth, material issues, access limitations, and technical conflicts early enough to minimize schedule impact.
- Coordinate compartment closeout, restoration, testing, inspections, and certification requirements.
- Support development and execution of Test and Inspection Plans, checkpoints, WAF requirements, and key event readiness.
- Maintain accountability for shipboard safety, housekeeping, temporary services, access, and production readiness within assigned areas.
- Participate in daily and weekly planning meetings and clearly communicate production status, risks, priorities, and recovery actions.
- Mentor and develop Ship Superintendents and other production leaders while establishing consistent execution standards across the project.
- Partner with Project Management, Planning, Engineering, Quality, Safety, Supply Chain, Contracts, and Production to resolve issues and maintain project momentum.
- Build and maintain professional relationships with NAVSEA, Regional Maintenance Center representatives, Ship’s Force, AITs, subcontractors, and other customer organizations.
- Capture lessons learned and implement improvements that increase predictability and performance on future modernization availabilities.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of progressively responsible ship repair, shipbuilding, Navy modernization, or heavy marine production experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex shipboard production activities and multiple trades or work packages.
- Strong understanding of ship-repair planning, sequencing, testing, restoration, and production management.
- Ability to read and interpret work specifications, drawings, technical manuals, procedures, and contractual requirements.
- Experience managing labor budgets, schedules, production milestones, and performance.
- Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to coordinate multiple organizations and competing priorities in a fast-paced shipyard environment.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and project planning/reporting tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting U.S. Navy surface-ship repair or modernization availabilities.
- DDG/CG modernization experience strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of NAVSEA Standard Items, JFMM requirements, WAF/Tag-Out processes, testing, and shipboard restoration.
- Experience coordinating AIT installations and complex HM&E/combat-system integration.
- Familiarity with Earned Value Management, CPI, SPI, Estimate at Completion, and production performance metrics.
- Previous experience as a Lead Ship Superintendent, Ship Superintendent, General Foreman, Production Manager, or similar ship-repair leadership position.
- Experience developing and mentoring shipyard production leaders.
What Success Looks Like
The successful Lead Ship Superintendent does more than manage today's production. This individual anticipates what the project will need weeks ahead, identifies constraints before they become schedule impacts, holds production teams accountable to the plan, and creates alignment between Production and Project Management.
Success is measured by safe execution, milestone performance, productivity, quality, successful testing and restoration, disciplined cost control, and ultimately delivering the vessel in accordance with contractual commitments.
CITIZENSHIP: Pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires US citizenship.
Vigor Industrial LLC and its wholly owned subsidiaries are drug, smoke and vape-free workplaces. Prospective employees must pass a drug and alcohol test and background check as pre-employment screening.
Vigor Values
Vigor expects all employees to enhance the atmosphere in which they work by living the Vigor Values every day.
Truth: We seek the truth, and we speak the truth
Responsibility: We act on what we know is right
Evolution: We seek mastery, and adapt to a changing world
Love: We care about the people we work with, and the world we live in
At Vigor we offer a generous benefits package that includes:
Medical
RX
Dental
Vision
Life
AD&D
LTD
STD
EAP
Discretionary bonus
Tuition Reimbursement
FSA (Medical, Childcare, Transportation)
10 paid holidays
PTO
401(k)
Vigor and its wholly owned subsidiaries are committed to inclusion and diversity by providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veterans, age, genetics, the presence of a physical or mental condition or disability that can be reasonably accommodated, or any other protected class under relevant laws in the locations we operate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and can be requested with Vigor’s Human Resources Department.
In addition to federal law requirements, Vigor complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination and non-retaliation in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, benefits, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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What Washington Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in project superintendent jobs across Washington.
- Active Washington contractor registration or affiliation with a licensed general contractor required
- Five or more years of field supervision experience on commercial or civil construction projects
- Demonstrated ability to manage subcontractors, schedules, and site safety programs concurrently
- Proficiency with construction management software such as Procore, Bluebeam, or Primavera P6
- OSHA 30-Hour Construction certification required or must obtain within a defined onboarding period
- Strong working knowledge of Washington State Building Code and local permit inspection processes
Project Superintendent Jobs in Washington: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a project superintendent in Washington?
Most project superintendents in Washington move into the role through a combination of field experience and a degree or certificate in construction management, civil engineering, or a related discipline. Washington does not issue a state license specific to project superintendents, but employers typically require proof that you work under or alongside a Washington-registered general contractor. Completing an apprenticeship through the Associated General Contractors of Washington or a union building trades program is one of the most reliable paths into the role.
How much do project superintendents make in Washington?
Project superintendents in Washington earn a median of about $155,070 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $105,770 for the lowest 10% to over $217,920 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire project superintendents in Washington?
Employers hiring project superintendents in Washington right now include Vigor, Sundt, and Hensel Phelps, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Washington's sustained infrastructure investment and active commercial real estate pipeline keep large regional and national contractors recruiting consistently throughout the year.
Which Washington cities have the most project superintendent jobs?
Seattle, Pasco, and Bellevue account for the greatest concentration of project superintendent openings in Washington. Seattle and Bellevue generate the most postings because of ongoing commercial tower, transit, and mixed-use development, while Spokane has seen steady growth in healthcare facility and public sector construction that keeps contractor hiring active on the eastern side of the state.
Are there remote project superintendent jobs in Washington?
Yes, but they're rare. Project superintendent work is inherently site-based, requiring daily presence to manage subcontractors, inspect work in progress, and coordinate inspections, so fully remote roles are uncommon. About 0% of project superintendent openings tied to Washington are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, and those postings typically involve pre-construction planning, estimating support, or multi-site oversight roles where some administrative work can be done off-site.
How can I get hired as a project superintendent in Washington with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is starting as an assistant superintendent or field engineer with a Washington general contractor that runs formal training programs. Firms like Turner Construction and Skanska hire associate superintendents and rotational field staff directly from construction management programs at the University of Washington and Washington State University. Completing an apprenticeship through the Associated General Contractors of Washington or a trade union, then moving into a supervisory assistant role, is another well-worn path into the position.
Where can I find and apply to project superintendent jobs in Washington?
You can find and apply to project superintendent jobs in Washington on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from contractors and developers active in the state. Search the listings, find roles that match your experience and preferred location, and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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