(Contract) Operations Transformation Consultant

Location: Remote (Houston, TX Preferred)

Travel: Approximately 25–40% to project sites and corporate offices
Employment Type: Contract (6–12 Months)

About the role

Our client is seeking a Construction Operations Transformation Consultant to support a large-scale operational improvement initiative focused on standardizing business processes, improving project execution, and enhancing operational reporting across a national construction organization. Working closely with operations, project management, finance, project controls, field leadership, and technology teams, this consultant will document current business processes, facilitate future-state design, develop business requirements, and support enterprise transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate combines strong consulting and process improvement experience with an understanding of construction or project-based operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead business process discovery sessions with office and field stakeholders.
• Document current-state and future-state operational workflows.
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews and cross-functional workshops.
• Identify operational inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.
• Develop business, functional, and reporting requirements.
• Support evaluation of business processes and technology solutions.
• Prepare executive presentations, recommendations, and implementation roadmaps.
• Partner with project teams to improve operational consistency and organizational effectiveness.
• Support process standardization and change management initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Construction Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in business consulting, operational excellence, process improvement, digital transformation, or project management.
• Experience documenting complex business processes and facilitating stakeholder workshops.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating across multiple functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting construction, EPC, infrastructure, industrial, manufacturing, or engineering organizations.
• Familiarity with project controls, field operations, production reporting, materials management, or project lifecycle processes.
• Experience supporting enterprise software implementations or operational transformation initiatives.
• Experience with Power BI, Procore, Viewpoint Vista (Trimble), Microsoft Power Platform, or similar enterprise technologies is a plus.
• Lean, Six Sigma, PMP, or comparable process improvement certification is preferred.