Construction Manager

Job Title: Construction Manager
Job Location: Irving-USA-75039
Work Location Type: On-Site
Salary Range: $ -

About us

Since 1942, Sky Chefs has taken culinary excellence to new heights. As a trusted partner to the nation’s leading airlines and retailers, we proudly deliver millions of meals and exceptional service experiences every year across 43 sites throughout the United States. Built on a legacy of operational excellence, culinary expertise, and continuous innovation, we are committed to setting the industry standard in aviation culinary, airline services, last-mile logistics, and retail commerce.

From the kitchen to the runway, our teams work together to deliver quality, reliability, and service at every altitude. Our people are the heart of everything we do. At Sky Chefs, a career is more than a job – it’s an opportunity to grow, lead, and make an impact in a fast-paced, team-driven environment. Join America’s first, foremost, and finest and take your career to new heights.

Role Purpose Statement

This is a newly created role reporting to the VP of Facilities & Infrastructure, created to support the continued growth, modernization, and capital investment needs of Sky Chefs' U.S. operations. The position is responsible for leading the planning, execution, and delivery of capital improvement, construction, facility expansion, and infrastructure projects across the national network.

The successful candidate will manage the full project lifecycle, including site assessments, engineering and design coordination, budgeting, procurement, permitting, contractor management, construction oversight, and project closeout. Acting as a key facilities engineering and construction subject matter expert, this role partners closely with Operations, Procurement, Asset Management, and external stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and in compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements.

This role also plays a critical part in long-range capital planning, facility maintenance strategies, equipment implementation, environmental compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring a strong combination of construction project management, facilities engineering expertise, business acumen, and stakeholder leadership to drive infrastructure investments that enhance operational performance, support future growth, and strengthen service delivery across Sky Chefs' U.S. facilities.

Location:

Americas Headquarters in Irving, TX

Main Accountabilities

Facilities Engineering

• Manage scope, schedule, and budget for physical infrastructure projects as assigned across the Sky Chefs portfolio. Communicate with senior levels on scope, schedule, budget status, major projects, and changes, regulatory and permitting issues.
• Ensure all buildings are properly maintained and projects meet United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Department of Transportation (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and all other agencies having jurisdiction codes, directives, and standards.
• Leads efforts oriented towards planning, designing, development, deployment, and implementation of construction projects, environmental systems and controls, equipment procurement and installations, facility expansions, modifications, upgrades and repairs
• Directs communication with all levels of management to incorporate environmental, FDA, Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), state, city, and local government regulations, airport and municipal standards relative to project implementation
• Conducts site assessments for engineering services, projects, emergencies, insurance requirements, and other needs. Designs and implements solutions to specific technical difficulties, to develop budgets, and to design lean and other process improvements.
• Develops and deploys training materials and trains field and external personnel regarding standards and procedures to include waste management and other specialized trainings. Leads project evaluations and capital planning including needs and risk assessment, financial (ROI), market and customer considerations,…