Construction Manager

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary onsite authority representing ownership during all phases of construction, upholding high standards of excellence for site safety and work completion.
• Maintain daily field presence, driving execution across General Contractors (GCs), subcontractors, and vendors.
• Hold contractors accountable to schedule, manpower, sequencing, and quality commitments.
• Identify issues early and resolve them decisively to avoid schedule or cost impact.
• Review and manage Request for Information (RFIs), submittals, pay applications, and change orders with a bias toward speed and clarity.

Schedule-Driven Delivery

• Own day-to-day schedule awareness and near-term lookahead planning.
• Leverage first principles and creative problem solving to recover lost time and protect critical path activities.
• Support cost tracking and change management with a strong understanding of trade-offs between schedule, scope, and cost.
• Ensure inspections, testing, and commissioning activities are sequenced to avoid delays.

Design Interface & Future Phases

• Actively participate in design discussions for future construction phases, expansions, or follow-on facilities.
• Provide constructability, sequencing, and operational feedback to design teams based on real-world field conditions.
• Translate lessons learned from active construction into improved designs, scopes, and execution strategies for future phases.
• Support early planning for utilities, equipment layouts, access, maintenance, and operational flow.

Regulatory & Stakeholder Coordination

• Interface directly with local AHJs, inspectors, and third-party reviewers.
• Carefully coordinate with internal Engineering, Facilities, Operations, EHS, Security, and Regulatory teams to ensure alignment between design intent and field execution.
• Support documentation, turnover, and readiness activities required for a regulated manufacturing environment.

Transition To Operations (Optional Path)

• Drive facility turnover, commissioning, and startup readiness.
• Depending on business needs and candidate strengths, transition into a Facilities or Site Operations role owning:
• Preventive maintenance and service contracts,
• Contractor oversight,
• Building systems and utilities,
• Continuous improvement and future expansions.

Qualifications & Skills

• 7+ years of experience in construction management, owner’s representation, or capital project execution for industrial or manufacturing facilities.
• Demonstrated success in onsite, field-driven roles with direct GC oversight.
• Strong command of construction sequencing, schedule control, and change management.
• Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with limited precedent.
• Willingness to be fully onsite in Oak Ridge, TN, including weekends during active construction.

Additional Requirements

• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to accomplish our mission.
• Must work 100% onsite at El Segundo HQ.