Construction Director - PMO

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Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Construction Director to join our team! In this role you will get to serve as a senior PMO leader responsible for program-wide construction integration, assurance, governance, and performance management across multiple zones and work packages. Operating at Project Director level capability, the role will provide strategic leadership across PMCMs, contractors, consultants, and client stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.

The role requires influencing delivery outcomes without direct contractual authority, ensuring alignment with program objectives, construction standards, safety requirements, and client expectations.

• Lead program-wide construction integration across multiple zones/packages, acting as the senior interface between PMO, PMCMs, contractors, and client stakeholders
  o Drive construction governance frameworks, execution strategies, and performance control systems in alignment with PMO mandates
  o Provide executive oversight of contractor performance, progress, and recovery strategies, ensuring alignment with approved program baselines
  o Take ownership of program-level construction risk identification, escalation, and mitigation, particularly across interfaces and dependencies
  o Lead multi-party coordination across PMCMs, designers, contractors, and stakeholders to resolve integration delivery issues and constraints
  o Oversee and validate construction reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and executive-level updates to support informed client decision-making
  o Ensure consistency of construction delivery approaches across all packages, including logistics strategies, sequencing, and phasing
  o Provide strategic direction on delay mitigation and recovery planning, challenging contractor methodologies where required
  o Champion QA/QC, HSE, and compliance assurance at program level, ensuring systems-not just outputs-are robust and auditable
  o Act as a senior escalation point for non-performance, non-conformances, and systemic delivery failures across the program
  o Support procurement and tender evaluation strategies from a constructability, phasing, and delivery risk perspective
  o Contribute to value engineering and buildability optimization, ensuring alignment with cost, schedule, and design intent

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or related field (Master's preferred).
• Minimum 20 years of experience in delivering buildings and infrastructure construction.
• Proven track record in delivering complex theatres, large public venues
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent knowledge of construction methodologies, contract management, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience working in high-profile or government-led development programs is a plus.
• PMP or similar certification is advantageous.

• Must demonstrate Project Director-level leadership, managing large multidisciplinary teams across multiple zones/packages
• Must demonstrate experience operating in a PMO / client-side integrator role, managing performance and outcomes without direct contractual control
• Proven ability to drive program delivery, commercial outcomes, and stakeholder alignment
• Strong background in strategic planning, sequencing, and risk mitigation on mega projects
• Experience interfacing directly with senior client stakeholders and executive leadership
• Ability to establish and lead integrated site delivery strategies across civils, infrastructure, and landscape works
• Extensive experience delivering mega-scale urban development, public realm, or landscape-led infrastructure projects
• Proven track record in complex, multi-package construction environments with significant interface management (civils, utilities, infrastructure, landscape, and vertical elements)
• Strong background in civil engineering and infrastructure works (roads, utilities, earthworks, drainage, etc.)
• Demonstrated expertise in hard and soft landscaping delivery at scale, including integration with wider urban infrastructure
• Experience working within…