Job Title: General Superintendent (Soft Craft)
Company: Loenbro, LLC
Business Unit/Department: South
Location: Houston, TX / On-site
Reports to: Project Manager
Employment Type: Full-Time
FLSA Classification: Non-Exempt
About Loenbro
Loenbro is a trusted, long-term construction lifecycle partner to thousands of customers across the U.S. Our market spans all industries, and our service offerings include Critical Electrical, Mechanical & Structural, Soft Crafts, Inspection, Underground Maintenance and Installation, and Fabrication. Our expertise lies in simplifying the complex and establishing long-standing relationships with our partners. We have a national presence but a local approach—every customer benefits from our capabilities and our care.
At Loenbro, we don’t just offer jobs—we build careers grounded in integrity, teamwork, excellence, and purpose. Join a team where your expertise is valued, your growth is supported, and your work helps maintain and enhance the critical infrastructure that powers communities across the nation.
Job Summary
The General Superintendent, Soft Crafts (Coatings) is responsible for directing and overseeing large-scale industrial coatings and surface preparation projects while providing leadership to field management teams across multiple job sites.
Essential Job Responsibilities
Provide leadership and oversight for large-scale coatings and soft craft projects, managing superintendents, foremen, and crews while ensuring projects are properly staffed, equipped, and executed across multiple locations.
Manage project execution in accordance with contract requirements, coating specifications, and customer expectations, ensuring compliance with project scope, production schedules, quality standards, and budget objectives.
Serve as the technical authority for coatings and surface preparation activities, interpreting coating specifications, inspection requirements, manufacturer recommendations, SSPC/AMPP standards, project drawings, and customer quality requirements.
Lead project planning and controls, including manpower forecasting, production planning, equipment allocation, material procurement coordination, scheduling, budgeting, cost control, and weekly look-ahead planning.
Champion safety, quality, and operational excellence by enforcing company safety programs, overseeing quality control processes, ensuring regulatory compliance, and promoting best practices for abrasive blasting, coating application, containment, and environmental controls.
Collaborate with clients, project managers, inspectors, engineers, subcontractors, and trade partners to resolve project challenges, manage changing priorities, and ensure successful project delivery.
Oversee coating inspection and quality assurance programs, ensuring surface preparation standards, environmental conditions, coating application procedures, dry film thickness requirements, and inspection documentation meet project specifications.
Monitor project performance and productivity metrics, identifying opportunities to improve safety, quality, production efficiency, labor utilization, and overall project profitability.
Demonstrate strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while developing field leadership and maintaining positive customer relationships.
Skills
Ability to review and interpret project specifications, coating data sheets, inspection reports, quality documentation, drawings, contract documents, and project schedules.
Strong knowledge of industrial coating systems, abrasive blasting methods, protective coatings, fireproofing systems, coating inspection processes, and surface preparation requirements.
Qualifications
Required:
Minimum 7+ years of industrial coatings, surface preparation, painting, fireproofing, insulation, or related soft craft experience, with at least 5 years in a superintendent or senior field leadership role.
Proven experience managing…