Construction Lead

Construction Lead

Owner-Side Construction & Site Management Oversight
Location: Huntsville, Alabama Project: Lilly Huntsville Project Workstream: Construction & Site Management Oversight

We are seeking an experienced Construction Lead to provide Owner-side field leadership for a major greenfield pharmaceutical manufacturing project in Huntsville, Alabama. The Construction Lead will serve as a key member of the Owner’s Representative / Project Management Contractor (OR/PMC) team and act as an extension of Lilly’s organization, providing independent oversight, technical expertise, and proactive management through construction and handover.

This is a highly visible, field-focused leadership position responsible for maintaining an active site presence, independently verifying construction progress, providing quality-control assurance, and overseeing HSE performance across all construction contractors
. Workstream 5 specifically requires the OR/PMC to provide construction and site management oversight.

The Construction Lead will represent Lilly’s interests in the field while working collaboratively with construction contractors to resolve issues, remove bottlenecks, and promote safe, high-quality, predictable project execution.

• Provide day-to-day Owner-side construction leadership across the project site.
• Maintain a strong and active field presence, monitoring construction activities, contractor performance, site conditions, quality, safety, sequencing, and execution.
• Coordinate construction oversight across multiple contractors, work packages, facilities, and site areas.
• Develop productive working relationships with construction contractors while maintaining the independence required of the Owner’s Representative.
• Identify construction issues, constraints, interfaces, and bottlenecks and work with appropriate parties to drive timely resolution.
• Provide Lilly leadership with objective assessments of actual field conditions, emerging risks, contractor performance, and recommended corrective actions.
• Support construction sequencing, site logistics, temporary facilities, access, laydown, material flow, and constructability coordination.
• Ensure construction execution remains aligned with project objectives, schedule milestones, operational constraints, and commissioning requirements.
• Coordinate closely with Project Controls, Engineering, Quality, HSE, Procurement, and Commissioning & Qualification teams.

The scope expressly establishes that the OR/PMC acts in an advisory and oversight capacity and does not assume responsibility for contractors' means, methods, techniques, sequences, procedures, or safety programs.

A major responsibility of the Construction Lead is providing Lilly with an independent and accurate view of physical construction progress
, rather than relying solely on contractor-reported information.

Responsibilities include:

• Independently verify and quantify construction progress reported by contractors.
• Validate progress associated with contractor applications for payment.
• Perform or coordinate physical verification of installed equipment, materials, and completed construction quantities.
• Use physical measurements, agreed rules of credit, contractor manpower, equipment utilization, and other indicators to validate reported progress.
• Support advanced reality-capture techniques such as 3D laser scanning/LiDAR, drone mapping, and photographic time capture where appropriate.
• Compare independently verified progress against contractor reports and identify material discrepancies.
• Challenge contractor-reported progress or payment applications when physical field conditions do not substantiate reported completion.
• Provide verified field…