Assistant Vice President, Architecture, Engineering & Construction

Assistant Vice President, Architecture, Engineering & Construction

The University of Michigan seeks a collaborative, mission-driven executive to serve as Assistant Vice President, Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AVP) within Facilities and Operations. This is an exciting opportunity to lead one of the nation's most consequential campus planning, design, and construction portfolios and advance projects that directly enable the University of Michigan's academic, research, healthcare, athletic, and student‑life missions.

It is a top public research university with a breadth of highly specialized facilities and infrastructure research laboratories, clinical and healthcare environments, classrooms and learning spaces, residence halls, athletics venues, museums, and public spaces supported by extensive utility and distribution systems. The institution's scale and complexity require an Architecture, Engineering, and Construction leader who can translate mission needs into executable plans and successfully build outcomes.

The AVP is the University’s senior leader responsible for planning, designing, and constructing campus facilities and associated infrastructure. The AVP sets direction and drives execution across the capital program, ensuring projects deliver value through quality, safety, sustainability, schedule reliability, and fiscal discipline. Additionally, the AVP brings executive‑level leadership experience guiding multidisciplinary teams and delivering large‑scale projects within complex institutions. The role requires strong governance, sound judgment, and the ability to operate effectively with senior leadership, academic and operational partners, external consultants/contractors, and regulatory agencies.

• Bachelor’s degree. A bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or other design‑related disciplines from an accredited institution is desirable.
• 10+ years of construction management experience gained through a combination of general construction and development execution with a proven track record of providing excellent customer service to internal and external clientele.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible management experience with both projects and professional staff. Ownership mentality and management style over all aspects of a project to ensure its success, combined with successful management of multiple project teams delivering a range of capital projects (from $5 million to $500 million+).
• Minimum of five years of experience leading a comparable organization or function in a senior leadership capacity.

The successful candidate will bring senior leadership experience overseeing large, multidisciplinary design and construction organizations and capital programs of significant scale and complexity, with a proven record of delivering major new construction and renovation projects, including work in occupied and mission‑critical environments. They will offer deep expertise in project controls, governance, procurement, contracting, and risk management, along with the ability to lead through others, develop leaders, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and service.

In addition, the individual will demonstrate strong stakeholder management skills and executive presence, communicating complex technical and financial topics with clarity, and a clear commitment to safety, quality, sustainability, and operational excellence, supported by experience navigating regulatory requirements and working effectively with external agencies in complex institutional settings.

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment.

The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.