Sponsor- Kiewit Water Facilities South District

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Location:

Westlake, TX, US

Requisition :182990

Job Level:Director

Home District/Group:Kiewit Water Facilities South

Department:Field Operations

Market:Water/Wastewater

Employment Type:Full Time

The Sponsor has overall accountability for one or more major water and wastewater construction projects within Kiewit Water Facilities South District. This senior leader provides executive direction, protects the business case, and ensures each project is safely delivered in alignment with contractual commitments, client expectations, quality standards, schedule, and financial objectives.

The Sponsor serves as the primary connection between the project team, district leadership, clients, partners, and key decision‑makers. The role supports the Project Manager while retaining authority for strategic decisions, issue escalation, resource alignment, and overall project outcomes.

Kiewit Water Facilities South District delivers complex water and wastewater treatment, conveyance, pumping, and related infrastructure projects to include data centers. Team members are given meaningful responsibility, opportunities to work on high-impact projects, and access to training and career development across Kiewit.

Westlake, TX

• Champion the project across the organization and communicate its business purpose, value, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Provide executive leadership, business expertise , and guidance to the Project Manager and broader project leadership team.
• Serve as the link between project execution, district leadership, the client, joint-venture or teaming partners, and management decision‑making groups.
• Maintain overall accountability for project safety, quality, financial performance, schedule, client satisfaction, and contractual compliance.
• Ensure the business need remains valid, appropriately prioritized, properly launched, and financially viable throughout the project life cycle.
• Approve the project organization, governance model, key roles, reporting structure, execution strategy, and major deliverables.
• Oversee project controls, forecasting, risk and opportunity management, change management, commercial strategy, and executive reporting.
• Make or elevate decisions that exceed the Project Manager’s authority, including decisions involving resources, priorities, risk, and contractual matters.
• Lead or support executive project reviews and require timely recovery plans when performance deviates from established targets.
• Resolve conflicts, remove organizational barriers, and address competing priorities that could affect safe and successful delivery.
• Build trusted relationships with owners, engineers, subcontractors, suppliers, community stakeholders, and internal business partners.
• Ensure project teams follow all applicable safety policies, quality requirements, environmental commitments, ethics standards, and company procedures.
• Recognize and respond to changing business conditions, owner priorities, regulatory requirements, market conditions, or other circumstances that may affect project execution.
• Develop project leaders and support succession planning, talent development, and a high-performance team culture.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related discipline from an accredited four‑year college or university.
• 15 or more years of progressive experience in heavy civil construction, including significant leadership responsibility on large, complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading multi‑million‑dollar contracts with accountability for operations, project administration, safety, quality, financial…