Project Executive

Are you an experienced mechanical construction leader who knows how to guide project teams, anticipate risk, and drive projects to successful completion? Do you thrive on developing people, solving complex project challenges, and creating alignment between office, field, and client teams?

As a Project Executive
, you will have the opportunity to lead a portfolio of mechanical construction projects and the teams responsible for delivering them across SVM’s Nevada operations. Leveraging your technical expertise in HVAC, plumbing, piping, and design-build construction, you will play a crucial role in developing high-performing teams and providing executive oversight throughout the project lifecycle. By ensuring teams have the direction, resources, and support needed to achieve project goals, you will help deliver safe, high-quality work, build lasting client relationships, and reinforce SVM’s reputation as the contractor of choice.

• Lead a portfolio of mechanical construction projects of varying size, scope, complexity, and value from preconstruction through closeout.
• Ensure assigned projects meet established deadlines and schedule commitments, remain compliant with contractual obligations, and achieve safety, quality, financial, and client-service expectations.
• Maintain visibility into project progress, staffing, labor performance, procurement, schedules, financial results, contractual requirements, and emerging risks.
• Ensure effective project startup, turnover, commissioning, closeout, and lessons-learned processes.
• Lead, coach, and develop a project management team of 5–10 or more employees, including Project Administrators, Project Engineers, Project Managers, and Senior Project Managers.
• Evaluate team capacity and individual strengths, assign projects and responsibilities, establish clear expectations, coach performance, and create meaningful development opportunities.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and open communication across project teams.

• Lead recurring project and portfolio reviews focused on cost forecasts, labor and material performance, cash flow, billings, collections, change management, margin, schedule, and project risk.
• Partner with Project Managers, field leadership, and Accounting to identify performance concerns and implement timely corrective actions and recovery plans.
• Review project contracts, estimates, scopes of work, schedules, procurement plans, subcontractor commitments, and change orders to identify risk and confirm contractual requirements.
• Oversee contract compliance, change management, claims, disputes, and other escalated project matters in partnership with the appropriate internal stakeholders.

• Maintain regular communication with field leadership to evaluate manpower requirements, labor productivity, project constraints, installation sequencing, and field feedback.
• Champion SVM’s safety culture and hold project teams accountable for compliance with company, client, and regulatory safety requirements.
• Provide leadership for design-build project delivery by coordinating with Engineering, Detailing, Fabrication, Procurement, Construction, Accounting, and other internal teams.
• Ensure project commitments, scope requirements, and execution plans are clearly communicated to project and field teams.
• Monitor subcontractor, vendor, and trade-partner performance and support project teams in addressing issues that may affect cost, quality, schedule, or project delivery.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with General Contractors, clients, owners, design partners, trade partners, and other key stakeholders.
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