EPC Field Operations Leader

About the role

The EPC Field Operations Leader is a leadership role for a team of individuals responsible for planning, executing, and optimizing field construction activities and industrialized construction initiatives across the company’s EPC portfolio. This leader guides individual site leadership personnel to ensure each project is delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and to quality standards, while scaling field teams, standardizing execution, overseeing subcontracting partners, and aligning construction operations with engineering, procurement, and project management.

Responsibilities

• Champions a zero-incident safety culture and application of FTI Safety Policies across all job sites
• Leads construction operations and a successful team of Superintendents, Field Engineers, Assistant Superintendents, Construction Managers, Quality Controls Managers, and Foreman
• Ensures seamless integration of design, manufacturing, and field execution
• Bridges operations, Excellerate, VDC, and Preconstruction teams to optimize constructability, manufacturability, and scheduling outcomes
• Maintains strong alignment with Project Management on specific project goals, challenges, finances, and quality
• Aids project teams in coordinating visits, inspections, and punch lists with customer field representatives and JHAs
• Ensures field execution aligns with projects schedules, production goals, budgets, and contractual obligations
• Establishes, supports, and enforces standardized construction methods, field procedures, best practices, and continuous improvements efforts to provide consistency across projects
• Reinforces project compliance with all federal, state, and local building codes
• Manages field personnel, including addressing staffing, performance, safety, and site-level issues
• Aids in construction estimates, assists with coordination and deployment of large field projects, identifies and coordinates in areas of risk management, assists with oversight of Field Personnel and Subcontractors, and assists with overall resource planning and scheduling over multiple projects
• Meets with Project Managers on a scheduled weekly basis to review job tracking and responsibilities (hours, materials, manpower, etc.)
• Coordinates with Project Coordinator and Workforce Manager on their daily manpower needs
• Assists site specific leadership with issue resolution as needed
• Maintains productivity and implements solutions to improve productivity in areas identified
• Attends meetings as needed to provide feedback and updates with project management, customers, and other stakeholders
• Effectively delegates to field leadership with proper control systems in place to ensure accountability and to prevent decision-making bottlenecks
• Manages the boundaries that separate units which report directly and with other parts of the business
• Maintains the flow of work between his/her unit and others in the organization; asking questions, and recommending improvements
• Understands and conveys functional strategies, business strategies, and corporate mission
• Fosters effective cross-functional collaborations to accelerate work processes
• Reviews daily superintendent and foreman reports for quality information, scheduled progress, and completeness

Requirements

• Education: High School Diploma or GED, Journeyman or Master Electrician License, Construction Management Degree, or equivalent field experience
• Experience: 15+ years of field experience, including not less than 10 years of successful experience as a project superintendent

Qualifications

• Proficient in the use of a PC and Microsoft Office Suite (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, and Word)
• Experience with ACC, Bluebeam, and preferred experience with Accubid

Skills

• Leadership
• Project Management
• Safety Compliance
• Construction Management
• Team Leadership
• Technical Proficiency

Benefits

FTI provides industry-leading benefits as an investment in the lives of team members and their families. You’re invited to review the full list of FTI benefits available to regular/full-time team members.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

This position works between the hours of 6 am and 6 pm, Monday through Friday. Schedule may vary and can include, but is not limited to nights, weekends, and holidays.