Regional Construction Operations Manager

The purpose of this role is to ensure construction activities (with a value of $2B within the Pompano Beach region spanning from Miami-Dade County to St. Lucie County) are operationally ready, conflict-free, and customer-focused, and that construction decisions are made with full awareness of system-wide impacts, risks, and tradeoffs.

The selected candidate will translate enterprise priorities into executable construction operations and provide decision-ready recommendations to the FDOT Operations Center Program Manager and GEC Program Leadership.

In the role of Regional Construction Program Operations Manager, we'll count on you to be involved with:

• Serve as the program-level operational lead for all construction activities within the assigned region.
• Own the construction operational picture.
• Ensure construction activities align with enterprise safety, mobility, and reliability objectives.

• Coordinate construction activities with maintenance delivery, asset performance, incident response, and other operations functions.
• Identify and resolve operational conflicts between construction, maintenance, permitted work, and special events before they impact customers.
• Ensure no construction activity proceeds without proper Operations Center coordination and approval.

• Proactively identify construction-related operational risks affecting safety, mobility, schedule, or asset condition.
• Prepare completed staff work for escalations, including analysis, impacts, and recommended actions.
• Support the FDOT Operations Center Program Manager and GEC Program Leadership with timely, decision-ready information.

• Coordinate construction impacts and contractor response during incidents, emergencies, and severe weather events.
• Adjust or suspend construction activities as required to support incident response and system recovery.
• Participate in after-action reviews to improve future operational readiness.

• Serve as a primary construction operations liaison with FDOT, contractors, CEI firms, and internal stakeholders.
• Set clear expectations for construction operational performance and work zone quality.
• Support a predictable and professional operating environment for industry partners.

• Monitor construction-related operational performance metrics and trends.
• Identify recurring issues, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Support refinement of procedures, standards, and operational practices within the MCOC framework.

• 15 years experience
• Professional Engineer License
• Has prior FDOT or Florida Turnpike experience

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 10 years related experience
• A minimum of 5 years of project management experience
• Familiar with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software, project management software
• Must have the ability to interact with various design teams, have excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must