Regional Director of Field Operations - Northern Virginia

Core Responsibilities

• Lead all on-site construction activities across Northern Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic region, ensuring consistent execution, schedule discipline, and adherence to budgets.
• Oversee Senior Superintendents, Superintendents, foremen, and field crews, holding teams accountable for executing standard operating procedures.
• Serve as a recognized operational leader for B&S in NOVA’s mission-critical ecosystem, strengthening relationships with major GCs and hyperscale clients.
• Represent B&S as the preferred site development partner for mission-critical GCs operating in Loudoun County, Prince William County, Ashburn, Manassas, and the broader Mid-Atlantic.
• Partner with the VP/GM – Northern Virginia, Business Development, and Estimating on pursuits, providing constructability reviews, means/methods evaluations, crew/equipment planning, and phasing recommendations.
• Participate in intake and pre-bid reviews, validating productivity assumptions, staffing plans, sequencing, and operational feasibility.
• Support preconstruction efforts with field-based credibility that helps win work and reduce execution risk.
• Drive schedule discipline, track the critical path, and coordinate trade sequencing across all active jobsites.
• Establish and enforce realistic, defensible production rates by activity, depth, and site conditions.
• Direct labor, equipment, and resource allocation across projects to maximize productivity and utilization.
• Lead recovery planning and corrective action efforts when performance falls below expectations.
• Champion a safety-first culture in partnership with the Safety organization.
• Establish, enforce, and maintain corporate safety policies, including OSHA standards.
• Conduct regular safety inspections and enforce risk-management protocols.
• Maintain accountability for regional TRIR and overall safety performance.
• Recruit, hire, develop, and retain B&S’s self-perform workforce across Northern Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic.
• Build strong local labor pools to reduce reliance on traveling labor, especially in high-demand data-center markets.
• Mentor and develop superintendents and foremen, strengthening organizational bench strength.
• Partner with HR on workforce planning, recruiting strategies, onboarding, certifications, training, and retention.
• Foster a culture of accountability, operational excellence, safety, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee workforce scheduling, material logistics, and equipment allocation to maximize productivity and eliminate bottlenecks.
• Minimize unnecessary rental, standby, downtime, and overtime costs while maintaining operational readiness.
• Monitor and analyze production metrics to identify trends, diagnose root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Manage subcontractor performance, negotiate field issues, and expand the subcontractor base.
• Ensure subcontractors meet B&S’s standards for safety, quality, and schedule adherence.
• Partner with Project Managers on operational budgets, labor planning, equipment forecasting, change order development, and cost-code discipline.
• Support development of baseline schedules, phasing plans, and recovery strategies.
• Ensure consistent field documentation, production tracking, reporting, and performance measurement through company systems and processes.
• Champion adoption of technologies and tools that improve field performance and operational visibility.
• Partner with the VP/GM – Northern Virginia to develop annual operating plans, workforce forecasts, equipment-capital strategies, and regional growth initiatives.
• Provide operational insight on project selection, market expansion opportunities, staffing requirements, and resource capacity planning.
• Drive consistency in operational processes, reporting, and field standards across all Northern Virginia and Mid-Atlantic projects.
• Identify project delays, cost overruns, or quality deviations early, implementing corrective actions to ensure successful turnover.
• Serve as an early-warning system for leadership by escalating risks and recommending practical solutions.
• Maintain accountability for quality assurance and reduction of punch-list items at turnover.

Key Qualifications

• 20+ years of progressive heavy-civil, self-perform construction leadership, including oversight of multiple concurrent projects and teams.
• Deep expertise in earthwork, mass grading, and wet utilities (storm, sanitary, water).
• Proven success representing a construction organization with GCs, developers, and owners throughout pursuits, preconstruction, and execution.
• Experience leading regional operations through periods of growth, including workforce planning, resource forecasting, process standardization, and organizational development.
• Strong conflict resolution, negotiation, and change-management skills required to influence large, diverse teams.
• Deep understanding of construction documents, phasing plans, permitting, and modern field documentation systems such as Procore.
• Strong safety leadership record; OSHA 30/500 preferred.
• Proficiency with construction scheduling software and ability to interpret civil plans, profiles, and phasing plans.
• Northern Virginia-based and willing to travel throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
• Mission-critical, data center, or large-scale industrial site development experience strongly preferred.