Field Office Manager/Project Accountant (North Texas Area) - Austin Bridge & Road

Austin-Bridge-; Coppell (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Matching 401K

Job summary

Austin Bridge & Road, a unit of Austin Industries, seeks a Field Office Manager/Project Accountant for North Texas heavy civil projects. You will oversee site accounting, administrative tasks, and support project staff and corporate accounting.

This on-site role reports to Coppell, Texas or to a project site. Key duties include managing accounts payable workflow, ensuring proper backup documentation, supervising field payroll, reviewing cost adjustments, and preparing reports for management.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years accounting experience with 2 years in construction preferred.
• Associate’s degree encouraged.
• Experience with AP, payroll, subcontractor coordination and change orders.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates understanding of AP workflow and resolves vendor issues.
• Ensure backup docs are on file before approving invoices.
• Monitor invoice system for timely payments to subs and suppliers.
• Oversee field payroll for hourly and salaried staff with proper coding.
• Review cost adjustments for accuracy per standards.

Skills

Accounts payable

Payroll processing

Cost tracking

Subcontractor coordination

Change order management

Communication

Documentation

multitasking

Education

Associate's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Field Office Manager/Project Accountant (North Texas Area) - Austin Bridge & Road

Job Category: Field Accounting

Requisition Number: FIELD033044

• Posted : September 1, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site

Locations

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Description

Austin Industries is one of the nation’s largest, most diversified U.S.-based construction companies. With more than 8,000 employee-owners, Austin Industries provides nearly every type of civil, commercial and industrial construction services through the expertise of our operating companies: Austin Bridge & Road, Austin Commercial and Austin Industrial.

Austin Bridge & Road has an outstanding opportunity for a Field Office Manager/Project Accountant for heavy civil projects in the North Texas Area. Their responsibilities are to provide overall direction and control over the jobs site accounting, personal functions and other administrative support function required to support both the project staff and accounting. This role will report to either our corporate headquarters in Coppell, Texas or one of the project sites.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates understanding of the accounts payable process workflow and is able troubleshoot payment or vendor issues
• Ensure the necessary back-up documentation is on file before approving invoices for payment
• Monitor the entire invoice system to ensure that subcontractors and suppliers are paid in a timely manner
• Oversee field payroll functions for both hourly and salaried employees; ensuring that all hours worked are properly documented, coded, and reported
• Ensures that all cost and cost adjustments are reviewed for accuracy to meet company standards and accounting rules
• Perform a wide variety of related administrative support tasks at project field offices
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of accounting experience with 2 years in construction is preferred
• Associate’s degree is preferred
• Experience in accounts payable, payroll processing, subcontractor coordination, and change order management
• Experience handling jobsite personnel functions, including hiring, onboarding, and safety compliance
• Experience maintaining project filing systems and preparing reports for management
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Dependable and capable of working efficiently and independently in a professional setting
• Be an effective communicator with strong customer service skills
• Strong organization skills and attention to detail and accuracy while managing multiple priorities under stress
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment and meet deadlines

Requirements:

• High School Diploma/GED or higher
• 3+ years of experience managing payroll, invoicing, and project cost tracking in the construction industry
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
• Valid driver’s license
• Must be able to work on call as needed
• Travel to various North Texas project sites as needed
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Bridge & Road is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Benefits & Compensation

We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan.We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)!To learn more about our employee-ownership structure, please go tohttps://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/100-employee-owned .

Austin Bridge & Road is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

A leader in the heavy highway and transportation industry for more than 100 years, Austin Bridge & Road delivers asphalt and concrete services, and builds landmark projects such as complex highway interchanges, tollways, runways, bridges, rail projects, and water/wastewater facilities.

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy.The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement ).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

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