Executive Vp Of Operations

About Our Company

Montana Construction is a family owned and operated heavy construction business that specializes in all types of Sewer, Water, Bridge, and Emergency services for the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania Municipalities, Utility Authorities as well as private entities.

Role

We are seeking an Executive VP of Operations and forward-thinking leader with experience developing, implementing, running, & leading all operations of a growing construction firm. This person will have P&L responsibility for all operations across the Company. The ideal candidate will balance day-to-day management of the construction teams executing the work, while looking to the future and building processes & capabilities to enable continued growth.

This role leads initiatives across Construction & Project Management teams to ensure a high degree of collaboration and consistency, with clear lines of communication and clear alignment of goals. Candidate will create strategy for operations and direct project management, while collaborating with executives, finance, HR, and sales teams. They will report directly to the COO and President of the company.

Candidate Can Demonstrate Experience And Abilities For The Following.

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience, including experience years in a senior management role supporting teams
• Involvement with rolling out 3rd party construction software products or relationships
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills with the ability to convey technical complexity to non-technical team members
• Leading a construction firm, personally supporting a team of 200+ people
• Balancing the coordination of fast-paced daily priorities with important, longer-term strategic efforts
• Overseeing the project management operations of Construction, supporting oversight of high number of projects
• Accountability for all operational strategies, including scheduling, process redesign, all procedures, compliance & staffing
• Coaching and giving feedback, developing employees' hard and soft skills
• Assisting HR with hiring, developing, and retaining top talent

Benefits

Responsibilities

• Project Management Oversight – Standardize processes and ensure consistency across Project Management Operations
• Analyze a variety of operational reports to identify trends in all areas of business
• Scheduling & resource management
• Reporting
• Implement cross-functional standard operating procedures (SOP)
• Senior leader overseeing a significant portion of the company from a process, operations, and people management perspective
• Develop and implement processes to monitor and track overall project and portfolio status
• Hold teams accountable for following SOPs
• Time & Budget Management - help model and train departments to identify and escalate issues to mitigate financial risk
• Provide mentorship on the governance of all projects managed by the Project Management teams (i.e., ensuring compliance with firm's standards AND client standards)
• Developing project budgets & polices
• Cross-team & department collaboration & communication
• Sets the tone for day-to-day inner workings, manages expectations of internal teams and client, and ultimately ensures a positive, productive atmosphere
• Mentoring and training for all levels, develop training programs for both hard and soft skills.
• Plan, develop, launch, and train new SOPs
• Delegation (in-house & externally)
• Define /refine operational KPls that drive bottom line growth, drive accountability of

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