Director Of Contracting

Company Overview

Colorado Barricade is a leading provider of safety services for the infrastructure industry in the State of Colorado, with the intent to expand throughout the Rocky Mountain west. Colorado Barricade's core services include traffic control planning and services, pavement marking, permanent sign installation and sign and safety product sales. Our valued customers include heavy civil, vertical, commercial, and residential construction companies, Departments of Transportation, municipalities, and water and utility infrastructure companies.

Company Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, which includes competitive pay, matching 401(k), excellent Health, Dental, and Vision benefits, FSA and Dependent Care, Employer Paid Short Term Disability & Life Insurance, Supplemental Life Insurance & Supplemental Accident Insurance PTO, Holiday Pay, and much more.

Colorado Barricade's Purpose

Builders of Safety, Opportunity, and Community

Mission

To be the leading safety company in America

Values:

We Are One

We Take Pride in the Win

We Figure it out for our Customers

We Keep our Ego In Check

What You Will Do

This role requires candidates who are great managers of people, processes, and projects, with a record of success in cultivating positive and productive partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, including Project Executives, Project Managers, owners, owner representatives, developers, designers, subcontractors, vendors, and representatives of government agencies. The ability to articulate the vision, communicate purpose, and outline expectations to sustain a strong safety culture, cultivate employee engagement, support professional development, and build a unified team to achieve successful project outcomes.

How You Will Make a Difference

Be a champion of our safety culture with a goal of zero injuries:

• Assume responsibility for the safe conduct of field teams to ensure a zero-accident culture

• Partner with Safety Manager to promote company safety initiatives

• Enforce safety plans to ensure no-excuse compliance with safe work practices

Double contract revenue in two years, then double it again in four:

• Develop a strategy for growth that considers geography, project type, and market segment

• Partner with Business Development to identify and pursue projects that maximize strategic and financial opportunities

• Work with HR to maintain a robust hiring pipeline and hiring first, to fit our core values, and second, based on technical experience

• Make data-driven recommendations on capital equipment investment with a focus on growth

Focus on increasing margin contribution through:

• Facilitating effective bid reviews by ensuring cost and production estimates reflect operational ability

• Leading the development of the master schedule; working with the project owners, project management, and subcontractors as required

• Finding new ways to continuously improve means and methods to improve project schedules and delivery

• Setting and monitoring goals for the overall team and tracking the financial performance of each project, monitoring key metrics such as costs versus estimate, schedule versus plan, resource allocation and resource productivity, billing and collections, cash flow and profitability

Develop and cultivate strong relationships with material suppliers

• Meet on a regular basis with supplier representatives to keep abreast of the market and to stay informed on new product offerings.

Develop and cultivate strong relationships with valued customers

• Maintain superior relationships with state and municipal Departments of Transportation and Public Works Departments

• Manage Client relations on projects, fostering a "win-win", partnering environment, while maintaining strict commercial and contractual management of the project

• Develop new business opportunities and generate future work by cultivating and maintaining long-term relationships with clients

Develop the next generation of field leaders to support our growth and geographic expansion.

• Develop and mentor team members in their career development and progress; assist, provide, and promote training and staff

• Act as a Mentor-Manager who is driving to develop the next generation of leaders in the construction industry by fostering a culture of continuous improvement, deploying robust teaching and training programs, coaching employees at every level to peak performance, and engaging in informed succession planning

What You Bring

• You have a proven record of leading teams and developing people to be leaders.

• You foster and promote a collaborative and mutually beneficial and supportive relationship between Operations, Business Development, and other company business units.

• The ability to think strategically, applying business insights to formulate and drive solutions that achieve organizational objectives.

• The ability to make informed business decisions through the use of data and analytics.

• A strong learning agility. You enjoy and excel in environments where you must tackle and solve new and increasingly complex strategic business challenges and issues-incorporating the newest ideas, technologies, and approaches to business.

• You are a systems-thinker who takes a structured approach to problem solving and is willing to align their efforts behind the biggest opportunities.

• You lead change, initiating and supporting organizational transformation, and adjusting direction when needed.

• Superior communication skills.

• Ability to work both strategically and tactically in a fast-paced high energy environment.

How You Know You'll Love It Here

• You want to be part of a mission and values-driven organization.

• You believe that every problem we face is a leadership problem, and will only be solved through leadership.

• You believe that a leader's job is to make their team great (an not themselves).

• You have a 'we over me' perspective.

• You gravitate toward a 'mission-first, people always' mindset.

• You like working with people who have a bias for action.

• You believe that our team are the most important part of our company.

• You don't like being bored and enjoy an energetic workplace.

• You like to laugh and you try not to take life too seriously.

• You don't think ego has any place in an organization.

• You enjoy being part of a team who supports one another and holds one another accountable.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management or equivalent work experience.

• 15+ years of construction operations experience with at least 5 years in a leadership capacity.

• Experience in heavy civil, vertical or commercial construction is required.

• Experience in working with public agencies (Departments of Transportation, Public Works Departments) is a plus.

Physical Activities and Requirements, Visual Acuity, and Working Conditions of the Position

This section contains supplemental information to assist Colorado Barricade in our compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Physical Activity of This Position

• Typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

Physical Requirements of This Position

• Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary; walking and standing are required only occasionally.

Visual Acuity Requirements Including Color, Depth Perception, and Field Vision

• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.

Conditions the worker will be subject to in this position

• None. The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (such as in typical office or administrative work.)

Other

• This position will require up to 20% travel.

Requirements

• Valid Driver's License and clean MVR Must maintain a valid driver's license during entire employment

• Pass pre-employment, post-accident, and reasonable suspicion drug screens.

• · Satisfactory results of pre-employment background check

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, which includes competitive salary, incentive compensation, comprehensive health benefits, 401(k).

Colorado Barricade Co. is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all future and current employees.

Applicants and current employees will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.