Project Director, Civil and Power Infrastructure - Mission Critical

Job Description:

The Project Director, Civil & Power Infrastructure is a senior, dual-discipline operational leader responsible for the end-to-end planning, team leadership, site logistics, safety, community stewardship, and field execution of all civil infrastructure packages for a multi-hundred-million-dollar, large-scale Mission Critical campus in Oklahoma.

Some things you can expect to do:

• Integrated Scheduling: Own, develop, and drive the detailed Civil & Infrastructure Master Schedule in coordination with the project controls team, ensuring seamless integration with the campus master construction schedule.
• Milestone Accountability: Establish and maintain baseline critical paths for mass grading, utility trunklines, substation/gas generation interconnects, and sequential pad releases. Ensure zero unmitigated float slippage on major milestones.
• Cross-Functional & Partner Planning: Lead collaborative pull-planning sessions with civil subcontractors, wet/dry utility contractors, engineering teams, and external infrastructure partners (e.g., gas generation power developers, local utility authorities, municipal entities).
• Look-Ahead & Risk Mitigation: Enforce disciplined 3-week and 6-week look-ahead schedules across all civil trades. Anticipate weather impacts, geotechnical deviations, and supply chain constraints, implementing recovery plans proactively.

• Trade Partner Leadership: Serve as the executive relationship manager for all civil, excavation, utility, paving, and ground improvement trade partners. Foster high-trust, high-accountability partnerships.
• Labor Harmony & Resource Leveling: Actively manage site-wide labor density, trade stacking, and jurisdictional alignment. Proactively identify and resolve trade jurisdictional disputes, labor shortages, or production bottlenecks to maintain uninterrupted site harmony.
• On-Site Coordination Meetings: Lead weekly subcontractor coordination, progress, and logistics meetings; establish transparent performance dashboards for trade partner accountability.
• Workforce Standards: Enforce strict jobsite conduct, housekeeping, safety culture, and quality workmanship standards across all tiers of trade labor.

• Budget Ownership: In close alignment with the Mission Critical cost management and preconstruction teams, develop, track, and manage the multi-million-dollar site infrastructure budget from preconstruction buyout through final closeout.
• Quality Contracting & Buyout: Partner with procurement and legal to negotiate scope packages, master subcontracts, unit pricing, allowances, and rate structures to safeguard Ryan's commercial interests.
• Change Order & Exposure Management: Enforce rigorous change order review and verification processes. Track potential changes, field directives, and geotechnical claims in real time to prevent budget creep and unresolved exposure.
• Cash Flow & Billing: Work with established program cost controls teams to ensure timely validation of percent-complete pay applications, unit rate verifications (e.g., cut/fill quantities, linear footage of utilities), invoice processing, and accounts receivable management.

• Core Civil Scopes: Provide executive field governance over:
• Mass grading, cut/fill balancing, rock excavation, and soil stabilization/ground improvement.
• Wet utilities (sanitary sewer, storm sewers, retention basins, high-pressure fire loops, domestic water distribution).
• Dry infrastructure (site electrical duct banks, fiber/telecommunications duct banks, gas mains, regulator stations).
• Structural retaining walls, sub-base preparation, concrete curbing, heavy-duty asphalt/concrete paving, and perimeter landscaping/erosion control.
• Pad-Ready Handoff Execution: Lead the systematic, certified handoff of all 14 building pads and adjacent equipment yard pads, along with dedicated on-site gas generation power yards, ensuring compaction certification, survey verification, utility stub precision, and structural engineering sign-off prior to vertical construction mobilization.

• Perimeter Control & Digital Access: Architect and execute the campus-wide Site Logistics Plan. Manage all ingress/egress gates, perimeter security, and worker credentialing/badging systems…