Director of Construction Services

Responsibilities

• Oversee contract execution and monitor performance to ensure contract overall financial tracking and execution and health
• Report funding needs and challenges to client
• Responsible for deliverables being met, on time, and within budget
• Work with leadership to set strategic goals and objectives for programs
• Facilitate goal-level creation for the broader function and working with senior managers to ensure the goals cascade to staff
• Report detailed status updates to leadership and executive team
• Serve as a knowledgeable resource that provides leadership and direction
• Intimately involved in the interviewing process for projects
• Supervise team for projects
• Course correction in behavior or performance, mentoring, and facilitating professional growth
• Foster a spirit of teamwork and unity among team
• Resolve problems between teams and other internal stakeholders
• Cook up detailed implementation plans
• Create detailed implementation plans
• Provide processes for monitoring performance and collaborating with teams to determine ways to improve
• Ensure all members of team are at 100% utilization and monitor own performance to ensure 75% utilization
• Business Development, Revenue Preservation
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert for the company business development
• Participate in the development of annual and long-range strategic business plans
• Contact prospective customers using networking, referrals from current customers, POC listings from advance RFP postings, and professional organization meetings, conferences, and workshops
• Identify new project opportunities and potential areas for impact leveraging insights from government trends and customer knowledge-base
• Perform initial analysis of proposed or actual request of capabilities, and RFP’s to determine technical, schedule, and content reasonableness, and profitability
• Review and interpret acquisition policy and guidance
• Ensure proposal business deals and pricing are presented to leadership in detail, framed for executive-level decision making
• Lead decision gate reviews and develop competitive assessments, pricing strategies, and win themes

Qualifications

• Twenty plus (20+) years related experience, with progressive responsibility in program and project management
• Master’s degree in relevant area
• PMP certification
• Track record of applying change, risk, and resource management principles when needed
• Experience leading and managing staff and budgets
• Strong problem-solving, negotiation, and communication skills
• Outstanding interpersonal relationship building and employee coaching and development skills
• Strong working relationships with clients and colleagues
• Strong understanding of strategic planning
• Demonstrates knowledge of basic accounting principles and practices
• Experience managing budgets for multiple projects
• Track record of practicing a high level of confidentiality
• Demonstrates the ability to develop standards, such as Standard Operating Procedures and Delivery Frameworks
• 15+ years of experience coordinating multiple commercial projects simultaneously, handling new builds, renovations, relocation and maintenance projects
• Served as client-facing construction specialist
• Subject matter expert in construction methods and technologies and ability to interpret technical drawings and contracts
• Expertise in 2 or more lines in their portfolio in each of the 4 categories (Planning and Project Controls, Architecture, Engineering, & Design, Construction Management & Sustainability, and Furniture Procurement & Installation)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience leveraging data for decision-making
• Must be able to pass a government background check
• Lives in the United States and is authorized to work in the United States