Director of Operations, Baton Rouge

Audubon Companies; Metairie (LA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Audubon Companies seeks a Director of Operations for Baton Rouge to develop and manage the local office serving existing clients and pursuing new opportunities. The role oversees area execution across engineering, fabrication, construction, and automation with a team that supports local effort and leverages company-wide resources.

You will drive revenue growth, forecast profitability, and ensure execution excellence while maintaining strong client relationships and delivering high-value

Qualifications

• Minimum of 15+ years of industry related experience on multi-discipline projects.
• Communicates effectively with customers to identify needs and evaluate solutions.
• Maintains lasting customer relationships to deepen engagement.
• Ensures assigned teams deliver superior solutions to customers.
• Provides senior level resolution to customer issues.

Responsibilities

• Develops and manages an office in Baton Rouge to service clients and opportunities.
• Leads and coordinates area execution across engineering, fabrication, construction and automation.
• Advocates for expansion of services in multiple areas and coordinates with PMs and engineering teams.
• Facilitates project status updates and meetings with clients.
• Supports development of project scopes for proposals and recruitment of area personnel.
• Forecasts revenue, profitability, margins, bill rates and utilization for the area; negotiates pricing when needed.

Skills

Multi-discipline projects

Customer relationships

Executive leadership

Strategic planning

Job description

The Director of Operations, Baton Rouge Operations will be accountable for developing and managing an office in Baton Rouge to service our existing clients and portfolio of work and development of new opportunities. The Director of Operations would be responsible for fostering and expanding all service lines for the company (engineering, automation, fabrication, construction). The office would include core personnel to support the local efforts, with support from other offices.

Essential Functions

• Provides leadership with customers in area
• Oversees and coordinate area execution
• Advocate for expansion of services in areas (Engineering, Fabrication, Construction, Automation, etc.)
• Coordinate with office PMs and engineering teams to resolve site-specific issues
• Facilitate regular project status updates and meetings with clients
• Support development of project scopes for proposals
• Manage, develop, and recruit additional area execution team members
• Addresses and resolves project issues with clients
• Develops and meets revenue and other financial goals for assigned area.
• Accurately forecasts revenue, profitability, margins, bill rates and utilization across assigned area.
• Manages the negotiation of contract pricing when necessary.

Qualifications

• Experience Required: Minimum of 15+ years of industry related experience on multi-discipline projects
• Communicates effectively with customers to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions and strategies.
• Continually defines ways to increase customer satisfaction and deepen customer relationships.
• Maintains lasting customer relationships.
• Ensures assigned teams deliver superior solutions to customers.
• Provides senior level resolution to customer issues.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit; climb, balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision depth perception, and ability to focus.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may regularly be required to travel to client job-sites, usually involving heavy industrial (chemical) production facilities and access all areas of the facility. Therefore, the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; and the risk of electric shock. The noise level in work place can be loud to moderate depending on assignment.

Working at Audubon

The Audubon Family of Companies provides professional consulting solutions to the energy industry. For over 25 years, our proven reputation for operational excellence and dedication to client satisfaction has helped us become a leading service provider to some of the biggest names in oil and gas. Our team of over 1,000 of the country's top professionals can deliver a full range of consulting services, from EPCM to field solutions and operational support.

At Audubon we are always growing, though we never lose sight of our commitment to excellence. Our focus on flexibility and our demand for unsurpassed quality control over continue to guide our growth as they have since our inception. We realize that service goes beyond plugging in a professional skill set. Service means flexibility. Service means understanding and solving project challenges in dynamic environments. Service means communication. We pride ourselves on providing the service of the quality which allows us to implement efficient solutions that deliver immediate value and long-term returns.

Our dedication to people requires an equal dedication to safety. Our rigorous safety program helps us maintain a safe and incident-free work environment from the desktop to the pipeline trench. Our people drive the quality and efficiency that have established Audubon as a leader in the oil and gas industry - their growth and safety are at the core of our business.

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