Core Responsibilities
Project Delivery Leadership — Own the full lifecycle of industrial construction projects from initiation through closeout, ensuring schedule, cost, quality, and safety targets are met.
Portfolio Oversight — Manage the company’s project portfolio, balancing resource allocation, risk exposure, and strategic priorities.
PMO Governance — Establish and enforce project management standards, templates, KPIs, and reporting structures.
Team Management — Recruit, mentor, and evaluate project managers, superintendents, and project engineers; build a high‑performance culture.
Client & Stakeholder Engagement — Serve as the executive point of contact for key clients, ensuring alignment, satisfaction, and repeat business.
Risk & Change Control — Oversee risk registers, change orders, claims, and contractual compliance.
Financial Performance — Drive margin protection through cost control, forecasting, earned value analysis, and commercial management.
Cross‑Functional Coordination — Align project execution with engineering, procurement, safety, quality, and operations.
Continuous Improvement — Lead initiatives to improve productivity, reduce waste, and strengthen project delivery systems.
Detailed Duties
Safety Leadership — Partner with HSE leadership to enforce safety culture and ensure compliance with OSHA and client requirements.
Strategic Planning — Develop annual project execution strategies, staffing plans, and capability roadmaps.
Project Controls Coordination — Ensure accurate cost tracking, schedule updates, progress measurement, and reporting.
Contract Administration — Review and negotiate major contracts, subcontracts, and amendments.
Quality Assurance — Oversee quality plans, inspections, NCR resolution, and commissioning readiness.
Resource Management — Assign project managers and key staff based on workload, skillset, and project complexity.
Executive Reporting — Provide monthly portfolio dashboards, risk summaries, and financial forecasts to senior leadership.
Dispute Resolution — Lead resolution of claims, schedule delays, and commercial conflicts.
Vendor & Subcontractor Management — Evaluate subcontractor performance, approve major awards, and ensure alignment with project goals.
Operational Readiness — Ensure projects transition smoothly into commissioning, startup, and turnover.
Austin Industries provides nearly every type of civil, commercial and industrial construction services, capitalizing on the depth of expertise in our three operating companies – Austin Bridge & Road, Austin Commercial and Austin Industrial. Austin Industries is one of the 10 largest general contractors based in the southern half of the U.S. and is the third largest merit shop contractor in America. The company is consistently ranked in the top 50 of Engineering News Record (ENR) magazine’s Top 400 contractors.
