Sr EPC Project Director - Advanced Power Generation

Location: Overland Park, KS; Houston, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Ann Arbor, MI; Atlanta, GA; Cary, NC; Greenwood Village, CO

Relocation eligible. Full-time position. Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment. Anticipated travel exceeds 50%.

About the role

At Black & Veatch, you’ll be part of work that matters—designing, creating, and building the infrastructure communities rely on every day, from concept through execution. We care about how the work gets done as much as what we build. Safety is built into every decision, and people look out for each other—speaking up, collaborating, and doing the right thing because it affects real lives. You’ll work alongside teams solving complex challenges and turning ideas into solutions that perform in the real world—gaining hands-on experience across projects, technologies, and disciplines.

As a 100% employee-owned company, employees share in the long-term success we build together. With flexible ways of working and meaningful development opportunities, you’ll build a career you can be proud to stand behind.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will direct all aspects of the largest and most complex Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) projects, including risk to safety, quality, cost, and schedule, with senior accountability for:

• Safety, quality, and construction execution
• Field leadership and labor productivity
• Subcontractor and labor strategy
• Project controls and commercial risk
• Startup/commissioning integration

You will lead the day-to-day successful execution of contracted engineering, procurement, and construction scope in the areas of safety, quality, performance, financial metrics, planning, schedule, contractual compliance, and client satisfaction. Responsibilities include:

• Providing for the successful staffing of the project
• Directing and leading large teams of multi-discipline professionals, including project managers, site/construction leaders, and integrated EPC project teams across one or more major projects
• Coordinating and integrating the activities associated with the engineering, procurement, construction, and startup elements of the project team, including the activities of all third-party companies contributing to the initiative

Responsibilities

• Direct the largest, most complex EPC projects or groups of EPC projects, with senior accountability for safe construction execution, quality, client outcomes, schedule, financial performance, commercial risk, and project recovery
• Provide senior direction to project managers, project directors, construction leaders, and integrated EPC teams across engineering, procurement, construction, startup/commissioning, project controls, commercial, quality, and safety
• Resolve the highest-risk construction, labor, subcontractor, schedule, cost, commercial, client, and execution issues on major EPC work
• Manage multiple clients and/or accountable for implementing expanded new business objectives
• Oversee and deliver opportunities for new/repeat business, finalizing key contract negotiations with client executives and project managers
• Manage broad and varied complex risk profile, including enterprise-level EPC execution, construction productivity, labor strategy, subcontractor performance, site execution, and recovery risk

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Typically 18 years of experience
• Senior leadership of the largest and most complex EPC projects or groups of projects
• Construction execution leadership; field and site leadership
• Labor strategy and subcontractor performance management
• Labor productivity and project recovery
• Project controls and commercial risk management
• Executive client engagement
• Leadership of project managers/project directors on complex EPC work

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurances
• Disability and a robust wellness program
• Flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time
• Company-matched 401k plan
• Adoption reimbursement and tuition reimbursement
• Vendor discounts and an employment referral program
• AD&D insurance and pre-taxed accounts
• Voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union
• Performance-based bonus program (eligibility applies)
• 100% ESOP-owned company: employees share in the long-term success through stock ownership