Director, Construction Management & Field Execution

Basic Function Leads enterprise construction strategy, standards, and execution governance for capital projects, turnarounds, outages, and complex industrial work. Strengthens owner-side construction management, contractor performance, construction readiness, safety, cost, schedule, quality, and closeout discipline across a multi-site industrial organization.

Job Duties Lead Enterprise Construction Management Establish enterprise construction standards, field execution expectations, governance, and owner accountabilities across sites and business units.

Provide oversight for capital projects, turnaround-integrated work, and high-risk field execution.

Align Projects, Operations, Maintenance, Turnarounds, Project Controls, Engineering, Procurement, EHS, Quality, and Contractors.

Develop construction management capability through site leaders, project managers, and contractor oversight resources.

Drive Safe, Compliant Field Execution Champion a field-first safety culture emphasizing critical controls, permit-to-work, energy isolation, critical lifts, confined space entry, SIMOPS, and stop-work authority.

Ensure construction plans address applicable environmental and regulatory requirements.

Drive incident learning, field observations, corrective actions, and safe work practices that protect people, assets, and the environment.

Improve Construction Readiness and Planning Lead readiness reviews covering constructability, work packaging, logistics, materials, access, sequencing, contractor strategy, and turnover requirements.

Influence planning, schedules, estimates, contracting strategy, productivity assumptions, and execution risk before project sanction.

Integrate capital projects, turnarounds, maintenance, operations, reliability, inspection, and commissioning plans.

Challenge resource loading, site congestion, execution sequencing, and staffing assumptions to improve delivery certainty.

Strengthen Execution Governance and Performance Lead execution governance, progress reviews, risk escalation, contractor performance reviews, milestone assurance, and executive reporting.

Ensure accurate reporting of progress, productivity, schedule performance, costs, change exposure, and forecast-to-complete.

Integrate field execution data with project controls to support timely business decisions.

Resolve complex execution issues involving contracts, quality, safety, productivity, performance, rework, and nonconformance.

Cost, Change, and Commercial Stewardship Oversee construction cost performance, earned value, change management, claims resolution, contingency usage, and forecast accuracy.

Challenge inefficient spending, scope growth, productivity losses, and weak commercial controls.

Partner with Project Management, Project Controls, and Supply Chain on contract strategy, bid evaluations, labor planning, contractor performance, and cost predictability.

Contractor Strategy, Quality, and Field Assurance Establish expectations for contractor selection, mobilization, supervision, productivity, safety, quality, and demobilization.

Oversee inspection and testing, turnover documentation, punch-list closure, preservation, and mechanical completion.

Lead field audits, readiness assessments, contractor scorecards, health checks, and lessons learned across the enterprise.

Special assignments or tasks assigned to the employee by their manager, as determined from time to time in their sole and complete discretion

ExperienceA minimum of 15 years of progressive construction management, capital project, turnaround, outage, maintenance execution, or field leadership experience in refining, petrochemical, chemical, renewable fuels, midstream, terminals, tanks, power, mining, or similar heavy industry.

Preferred Experience:

5+ years leading managers, construction organizations, contractors, or multi-discipline teams with accountability for safety, cost, schedule, quality, and productivity.

Experience governing EPC, EPCM, construction management, and contractor execution models within operating industrial facilities.

Strong knowledge of construction readiness, constructability, Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), Work Face Planning, commissioning, mechanical completion, turnover, and project closeout.

Demonstrated expertise in project controls, including scheduling, earned value, progress measurement, productivity analysis, forecasting, contingency management, and change control.

Experience supporting large capital portfolios, turnarounds, outages, brownfield projects, and…