Mainline Plumbing is seeking an experienced Commercial Plumbing Field Supervisor with at least 7-10 years of commercial trade experience to lead on-site crews across installations, tenant upfits, maintenance, and service repairs. This hands-on leadership role manages daily field operations, coordinates with GCs, enforces code and safety standards, and ensures projects are delivered on schedule and within scope.
- Crew Leadership: Direct and schedule journeymen, apprentices, and subcontractors across concurrent commercial jobsites.
- System Installations & Repairs: Supervise and execute commercial drain, waste and ventilation systems, domestic water, gas, heater installation, grease traps, backflow assemblies, and pump systems.
- Inspections & Quality Control: Perform pre-inspection audits, conduct hydrostatic/air tests, coordinate municipal sign-offs, and maintain photo verification logs before backfills.
- Jobsite Coordination: Manage on-site material logistics, enforce OSHA safety standards (trenching, shoring, PPE), and identify field change orders.
Qualifications:
- Experience: 7+ years in commercial plumbing with proven experience leading field crews or serving as foreman/lead technician.
- Technical Skills: Mastery of commercial piping (copper press/sweat, PVC/CPVC, cast iron no-hub, threaded iron) and diagnostic equipment to but not limited to sewer camera, GPR locate, jetting, excavating, towing and confined space as a minimum requirement.
- Credentials:
- NC Journeyman or Master Plumbing License (preferred).
- Valid Backflow Tester Certification (or ability to obtain within 90 days).
- OSHA 10/30 certification and valid driver’s license with a clean driving record.
- Digital & Soft Skills: Comfortable with digital field logs/tablet plan viewing and professional communication with general contractors and owners.