About this role
Superintendent - Millwright
Play an integral role in delivering safe, efficient, and high-quality construction execution as a Superintendent - Millwright. In this leadership position, you will oversee millwright craft operations on complex industrial construction projects, driving productivity, workforce development, and operational excellence while ensuring work is executed to the highest standards of safety and quality.
As a key member of the site leadership team, you will coordinate field execution activities, manage large groups of forepeople and craft professionals, and help ensure critical mechanical installations, equipment setting, alignment, maintenance, and commissioning support activities are completed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with project schedules and customer expectations.
Purpose of the role
The Superintendent - Millwright is responsible for leading and directing all millwright construction activities within an assigned area of a project site. This role provides leadership for scheduling, workface planning, workforce management, craft supervision, apprentice development, safety performance, productivity improvement, and quality assurance.
You will work closely with project management, construction leadership, engineering, quality, and customer teams to ensure millwright work is executed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with project objectives. Through strong field leadership, you will create a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
You will be responsible for
- Leading millwright field operations and directing forepeople, supervisors, and craft personnel to achieve project objectives.
- Promoting and maintaining a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with all health, safety, environmental, and quality requirements.
- Planning, scheduling, and coordinating millwright work activities to support overall project execution and milestone achievement.
- Developing and implementing workface planning strategies that maximize workforce effectiveness and productivity.
- Monitoring manpower requirements, workforce utilization, labor productivity, and crew performance throughout all phases of construction.
- Allocating resources effectively to maintain manpower balance and support construction priorities.
- Providing technical guidance and leadership for equipment installation, alignment, maintenance, mechanical assembly, and related millwright activities.
- Ensuring work is completed in accordance with engineering requirements, project specifications, quality standards, and customer expectations.
- Monitoring construction costs and productivity metrics while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce waste.
- Supporting apprentice development and workforce training initiatives to build capability and strengthen craft excellence.
- Coordinating closely with other construction disciplines to ensure efficient execution and minimize schedule disruptions.
- Participating in constructability reviews, planning meetings, risk assessments, and execution strategy discussions.
- Resolving field challenges, productivity barriers, and workforce issues in a timely and effective manner.
- Applying company labor relations practices and fostering positive workforce engagement.
- Preparing reports, forecasts, progress updates, and workforce planning information for construction leadership.
- Supporting commissioning, startup, and turnover activities as required to achieve successful project completion.
About us
Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.
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What you’ll bring to the role
You are an experienced construction leader with deep millwright expertise and a proven ability to lead large craft workforces on complex industrial projects. You understand how to balance safety, quality, productivity, and schedule performance while motivating teams to achieve exceptional results.
Key qualifications include:
- Typically 12+ years of millwright, mechanical construction, industrial maintenance, or related construction experience.
- Journey-level Millwright certification where required by local regulations or project requirements.
- Demonstrated experience supervising large millwright crews on industrial construction, energy, chemicals, manufacturing, mining, infrastructure, power, or major capital projects.
- Strong knowledge of equipment installation, mechanical systems, rigging practices, precision alignments, rotating equipment, heavy industrial construction, and maintenance activities.
- Proven ability to develop work plans, manage labor resources, and drive field productivity improvements.
- Experience leading forepeople, supervisors, apprentices, and craft personnel in fast-paced project environments.
- Strong understanding of construction scheduling, workface planning, workforce forecasting, and execution methodologies.
- Knowledge of labor relations practices and workforce management principles.
- Advanced understanding of systems, tools, processes, and technologies used within millwright and industrial construction environments.
- Excellent communication, team leadership, stakeholder engagement, and conflict resolution skills.
- Strong problem-solving capabilities with the ability to make sound decisions in dynamic field environments.
- Commitment to safety leadership, workforce development, quality execution, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
Feel the energy at Worley with access to a range of benefits including: paid-time off, holiday pay (usually 8 per year in the US), and eligibility to participate in the medical, life, dental, and vision insurance plans, as well as 401K plan.
Apply today
If you are ready to lead high-performing millwright teams and help deliver some of the industry's most important industrial and energy projects, we encourage you to apply. Join a global organization where your leadership, technical expertise, and commitment to excellence will contribute to safe, successful, and sustainable project delivery.
Moving forward together
We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation. We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.
And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here.
And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.
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