Project Executive - Marine Construction

Orion – Project Executive

Location:

Pacific Region Travel:
Extensive regional travel required Position Type:
Full-Time | Exempt

Reports To:

Area Manager

Orion is a leading specialty construction company delivering complex marine, heavy civil, and infrastructure projects throughout the United States and beyond. With nearly a century of construction experience, Orion provides innovative solutions for some of the nation's most challenging waterfront and infrastructure projects.

Our teams specialize in self-perform construction involving ports and marine terminals, piers, wharves, bridges, marine foundations, pile driving, dredging support, coastal infrastructure, industrial marine facilities, and other complex heavy civil projects.

At Orion, Safety is at the heart of everything we do. Through our Target Zero commitment, we strive for zero injuries and incidents while delivering every project to the highest standards of safety, quality, performance, and integrity.

We are seeking an experienced Project Executive to provide senior operational and project leadership across Orion's Pacific Region.

The Project Executive is accountable for the overall leadership, management, and successful execution of complex self-perform marine construction and heavy civil infrastructure projects throughout the Pacific Region.

This senior leadership position has primary responsibility for the financial performance, operational execution, schedule, quality, safety, client satisfaction, and profitability of assigned projects and project portfolios.

The Project Executive provides leadership and executive oversight to Project Managers, Superintendents, Estimators, Project Engineers, and field leadership, ensuring projects are executed safely, efficiently, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with contractual requirements.

The position works closely with Regional Leadership to coordinate staffing, marine equipment, barges, cranes, pile-driving spreads, subcontractors, suppliers, and construction means and methods to maximize operational performance.

Projects may include:

• Ports and marine terminals
• Piers, wharves, docks, and waterfront structures
• Bridges and heavy civil infrastructure
• Marine foundations and pile driving
• Dredging and dredging support
• Coastal protection and waterfront infrastructure
• Industrial marine facilities
• Federal, municipal, transportation, and port infrastructure

The successful candidate will support Orion's guiding beliefs and core values centered on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Teamwork, and Integrity.

• Provide executive leadership and operational oversight for complex marine construction and heavy civil infrastructure projects throughout the assigned region.
• Lead, mentor, and develop Project Managers, Superintendents, Project Engineers, Estimators, and other operations personnel.
• Establish project execution strategies that support operational excellence, profitability, client satisfaction, and long-term company growth.
• Monitor project performance to ensure achievement of safety, financial, quality, schedule, productivity, and client objectives.
• Partner with the Regional Vice President, Area Manager, Operations, Business Development, Estimating, Equipment, and Engineering teams to execute regional business objectives.
• Ensure projects are executed safely and in accordance with contract requirements, budgets, schedules, quality standards, and design specifications.
• Review and manage project forecasts, budgets, labor productivity, equipment utilization, cash flow, cost performance, and overall profitability.
• Provide executive oversight of project billing, forecasting, procurement, and financial reporting.
• Coordinate project staffing and the deployment of marine equipment, barges, cranes, pile-driving spreads, subcontractors, suppliers, and specialty marine resources.
• Oversee project planning, scheduling, critical-path milestones, procurement, project reviews, change orders, contract administration, risk management, and project closeout.
• Identify project risks and opportunities and work with project leadership to develop appropriate mitigation and execution strategies.
• Support estimating,…