Construction Staffing Manager - Houston, TX

Major Responsibilities

• Owes construction staffing strategy and workforce planning—partners with project leadership to forecast staffing demand, develop manpower plans, and ensure timely placement of field professionals across all project phases.
• Ledes recruiting and selection activities—manages requisitions, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, candidate evaluation, offer development, and hiring processes for construction management, field engineering, and project support personnel.
• Drives onboarding and workforce integration—develops and manages onboarding programs, role expectations, training requirements, and deployment processes to accelerate productivity and improve retention.
• Builds talent pipelines and organizational capability—maintains succession plans, develops candidate pools for critical positions, supports career development initiatives, and identifies emerging staffing risks before they impact project execution.
• Provides staffing analytics and workforce governance—tracks hiring metrics, vacancy rates, onboarding effectiveness, staffing forecasts, and workforce trends; advises leadership on staffing strategies, organizational health, and resource allocation decisions.

Minimum Education Required

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience in lieu of degree

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

• Required Knowledge And Skills
• Strong understanding of construction organizations, project execution roles, and field staffing requirements.
• Experience managing full-cycle recruiting, interviewing, selection, and onboarding processes.
• Ability to develop workforce plans aligned with project schedules, manpower curves, and execution strategies.
• Strong relationship-building, influencing, and stakeholder management skills across multiple levels of leadership.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple staffing priorities simultaneously.
• Ability to interact with project leadership, functional managers, HR, sister GBUs and recruiting organizations.
• Critical to project startup readiness, organizational capability, and succession planning.
• Experience in balancing near-term staffing execution with long-term workforce development and talent strategy.