Regional Manager - Construction - OH

About the role

Spicer Group is seeking an experienced construction leader to serve as Regional Manager for Ohio. This role is designed for a hands-on civil and construction professional with strong field experience delivering municipal, utility, and transportation infrastructure construction projects and a proven ability to lead a technical Construction Engineering and Inspection (CEI) team. The Regional Manager is responsible for leading construction operations across Ohio—ensuring safe, high-quality project delivery, effective contract administration, and strong performance against schedule and budget. This role drives profitability and regional growth through client engagement, business development, and collaboration across service lines, while developing and supporting field staff, inspectors, and construction engineering professionals. This position plays a key role in strengthening client relationships, expanding market presence, and ensuring technical and operational excellence in construction services, while upholding Spicer Group’s core values and commitment to service quality.

Spicer Group is a multi-disciplinary engineering, surveying, and planning company. With offices in Ohio, Michigan, and Georgia, Spicer Group continues to expand its geographic footprint. We are committed to providing our teams with technical support throughout these offices to continually build upon our success year after year. Spicer Group is committed to maintaining its tightly held private ownership, with no interest in selling to larger AEC firms. This commitment provides significant ownership opportunities for high performers and people that uphold our core values and build successful teams. Spicer Group was given the prestigious Firm of the Year Award for 2025, recognized by ACEC. Spicer Group prides itself on our core values of commitment to growth, great client relationships, excellent services and solutions, maintaining a team environment, and having integrity in all we do. We are seeking a candidate who will strive to uphold these values.

Responsibilities

• Lead Ohio Construction Engineering and Inspection (CEI) project delivery for municipal, utility, and transportation infrastructure construction—driving performance across safety, quality, schedule, budget, and public impact
• Provide day-to-day oversight of field inspection and construction engineering staff; assign coverage, verify staffing levels, and ensure the right technical expertise is available for each phase of construction
• Direct contract administration activities including submittals, RFIs, field clarifications, change orders, claims support, and documentation in accordance with owner requirements and project specifications
• Ensure consistent field documentation and reporting (daily reports, quantities, test results, photos, and correspondence) and maintain organized project records to support pay items and dispute resolution
• Oversee measurement and payment processes, including pay estimates and quantity tracking, to support accurate invoicing and timely collection of accounts receivable
• Establish and enforce QA/QC practices for CEI services, including inspection checklists, materials testing coordination, nonconformance tracking, and corrective action follow-through
• Manage project financial performance for CEI work in Ohio—monitoring budgets, labor utilization, scope changes, and profitability; escalating risks and variances as needed
• Serve as Project Manager and/or Construction Manager on complex construction assignments, coordinating with designers, owners, contractors, and agencies to resolve issues quickly and keep work moving
• Align Ohio CEI operations with regional leadership goals, emphasizing field execution, inspector coverage, safety culture, and consistent delivery standards
• Participate in Regional Strategic Planning to identify Ohio construction/CEI market opportunities, delivery gaps, and staffing needs (inspection, materials testing, construction engineering) to meet future demand
• Establish clear, responsive communication between field staff, project management, design teams, and clients to resolve constructability issues quickly and document decisions
• Hold regular operations meetings to coordinate CEI staffing, inspector schedules, workload balancing, and rapid support for field issues, documentation needs, and owner requests
• Execute regional business development focused on Ohio construction/CEI services—coordinating with design teams to pursue work where strong construction oversight improves outcomes and reduces owner risk
• Understand owner and agency construction-phase challenges (safety, schedule constraints, traffic control,