Dirt Superintendent

The seat

Russ Hadick Associates, Inc. has partnered with a Bridge Builder that operates from 4 states with West Virginia as the Hub. It self-performs its excavation, pile driving, steel erection and concrete, and it needs a Dirt Superintendent to run the earthwork side of its Kentucky work — the single most urgent seat on the client's list right now.

This is a field seat that owns production: grade, mass excavation, embankment, drainage and the equipment spread that goes with them, on heavy-highway and bridge projects.

What you'll actually do

• Run the dirt operation day to day — crews, operators, equipment, haul cycles, production tracking against the estimate.
• Build and hold the three-week look-ahead; coordinate with the bridge superintendent and the project manager so structures and earthwork don't fight for the same ground.
• Own grade control and GPS machine-control setups; verify against survey.
• Manage subcontracted trucking, aggregate and erosion control where it isn't self-performed.
• Enforce the safety program on your spread — toolbox talks, JHAs, incident response — and keep MSHA/OSHA and DOT compliance current.
• Report quantities and daily production so the job cost is real, not reconstructed at month-end.

What we need to see

Required

• Superintendent-level experience running heavy earthwork on highway, bridge or site-development work.
• Comfort reading grade plans and running GPS-guided equipment fleets.
• A track record of hitting production numbers on unit-price work.

Strongly preferred

• KYTC / state DOT project exposure; Kentucky or Appalachian terrain experience.
• Experience on projects with a self-performing bridge crew alongside your dirt crew.

Why the seat is worth a conversation

• Employee-owned through an ESOP. You would be an owner, not just an employee.
• A growing contractor. Over $160M of new work awarded in July 2026 alone; roughly $415M in disclosed awards since 2022.
• The company self-performs, so the superintendent runs the work — not a subcontractor manager watching someone else's crew.
• Compensation is set by your credentials and the market, not a fixed band.