Director Of Construction - Solar Construction

The Director of Construction leads the Field Operations and works in partnership with our Project Management team to build a safe, high quality, on schedule, profitable projects throughout their region. The Director of Construction role is key to fostering great client relations and developing our employees.

CS Energy project sites are located nationally, and the Director of Construction must be open to travel and working 100% at our project sites.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Passionately builds the team by attracting, interviewing, assessing, mentoring, and retaining Top Performers
• Develop Career paths for Foreman, Superintendents, and General Superintendents with relation to training and career plans to advance internally, review employee performance and assignments on as needed basis
• Provides on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
• Leads and enforces the safety policies and procedures and addresses non-compliance among all employees, subcontractors, and vendors
• Leads and enforces the Quality Management System. Recognizes any potential patterns of rework, and develops solutions to eliminate it
• Performs or oversees fundamental project management practices such as construction progress tracking, progress & financial forecasting, document management, problem solving, dispute resolution, design troubleshooting, and value engineering
• Leads the development of the project schedule with the Project Manager and ensures the team is executing to the plan; develops a derivative four-week lookahead schedules that facilitates the project's daily progress, communicates it to all and balances resources to make sure the schedule is met
• Summarize regions status for regional executive managers who report to board of directors on a weekly/monthly basis
• Works labor strategies for the region including maintaining dialogue with union leaders to maximize efficiency and margin
• Works to beat the project cost budget; Implements effective cost controls over subcontractors, material, equipment, and other related expenditures
• Ensures the Project Team is trained on planning, surveying, plan reading, productivity, efficiency, economical crew size, quality workmanship, and safety to ensure projects are constructed expeditiously and profitably
• Utilizes daily huddles to promote communication, resolve issues and share ideas, so the projects are constructed expeditiously and profitably
• Knows the key terms and conditions of the Prime Contract with the Owner; identifies and communicates deviations accordingly
• Knows the key operational details of the subcontract and holds the subcontractors accountable to their agreement and the company's standards
• Contribute to project estimates as needed throughout entire lifecycle of the regions projects
• This position is field based and includes traversing between our project construction sites