Operations Manager - Southeast
CornerStone General Contractors, LLC
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Job summary
Cornerstone General Contractors, Inc. seeks an Operations Manager for Southeast Alaska (Juneau, AK) to lead regional operations, drive portfolio performance, and develop project leaders. This senior role partners with PMs, superintendents, and staff to ensure safety, quality, schedule adherence, and profitable project execution.
The role requires extensive travel in Southeast Alaska and collaboration with clients, communities, and partners to support business development and growth in the region.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressively responsible commercial construction experience.
- 5+ years of experience managing complex commercial construction projects or comparable operational responsibilities.
- 3+ years of demonstrated construction leadership responsibility, including direct leadership or development of project teams.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple concurrent construction projects or project teams.
- Demonstrated responsibility for construction financial performance, forecasting, budgeting, cost management, and contract administration.
- Demonstrated experience evaluating project risk and implementing corrective or recovery actions when project performance varies from plan.
- Demonstrated experience developing client relationships and contributing to business-development or repeat-work opportunities.
- Ability to travel throughout Southeast Alaska and other locations as business needs require.
Responsibilities
- Lead overall operational performance for Southeast Alaska portfolio and establish regional priorities.
- Maintain portfolio-level visibility of project health, schedules, financial performance, forecasts, staffing, and risks.
- Conduct recurring project-health reviews with Project Managers and Superintendents and initiate corrective actions.
- Coordinate regional staffing and organizational resources across active projects for growth.
Skills
Education
Job description
Since 1993, Cornerstone General Contractors, Inc. has fostered a flexible approach to commercial construction based on cooperation, innovation, and accountability. A 100% Alaskan-owned, managed, and staffed company, our team has the experience, relationships, and resources to manage projects of all sizes throughout Alaska.
The Operations Manager - Southeast Alaska serves as Cornerstone's senior operational leader for the Southeast Alaska region and is accountable for the performance, growth, and long-term success of the regional construction portfolio.
The Operations Manager provides portfolio-level leadership across multiple concurrent projects, maintains visibility of regional financial and operational performance, develops project leaders, strengthens client and community relationships, supports business development, and ensures projects are appropriately staffed and supported to achieve Cornerstone's safety, quality, schedule, financial, and client-service expectations.
Project Managers and Superintendents remain accountable for the day-to-day management and field execution of assigned projects. The Operations Manager establishes regional priorities, evaluates portfolio and project health, aligns resources, develops leaders, and intervenes when project or regional conditions require additional leadership or organizational support.
- Lead the overall operational performance of Cornerstone's Southeast Alaska portfolio and establish regional priorities aligned with company objectives.
- Maintain portfolio-level visibility of project health, schedules, financial performance, forecasts, staffing, labor utilization, quality, safety, client relationships, and significant operational risks.
- Conduct recurring project-health reviews with Project Managers, Superintendents, and other project leaders and require appropriate corrective action when performance varies from established expectations.
- Coordinate regional staffing and organizational resources across active projects and anticipated work to support successful execution and sustainable growth.
- Consolidate and evaluate project forecasts, profitability, cash flow, labor utilization, financial exposure, and resource requirements across the Southeast Alaska portfolio.
- Review project financial performance and forecasts with Project Managers and require recovery or corrective-action plans when performance varies materially from established expectations.
- Maintain regional visibility of significant contractual, financial, schedule, staffing, quality, safety, and client risks and ensure appropriate mitigation and escalation.
- Provide leadership support for significant contract negotiations, procurement strategies, changes, claims, disputes, and other commercial matters requiring regional involvement.
- Serve as Cornerstone's senior operational representative throughout Southeast Alaska and maintain strong visibility within the regional construction market.
- Develop and maintain relationships with owners, architects, engineers, public agencies, community partners, trade partners, and other regional stakeholders.
- Support project leadership in resolving significant client concerns and strengthening long-term client relationships.
- Translate successful project delivery and strong regional relationships into repeat-business and future-work opportunities.
- Represent Cornerstone at client meetings, community engagements, industry events, and other strategic regional activities.
- Support the continued growth of Cornerstone's Southeast Alaska portfolio by connecting regional relationships, market intelligence, operational capacity, and company strategy.
- Identify potential project opportunities, emerging market conditions, client needs, and competitive developments throughout the region.
- Participate in opportunity qualification, pursuit strategy, interviews, proposal development, staffing plans, project approach, and operational risk assessment.
- Partner with Business Development and Preconstruction to evaluate opportunities against Cornerstone's capabilities, available resources, strategic priorities, and regional objectives.
- Provide operational insight that supports sustainable backlog and profitable regional growth.
- Provide portfolio-level leadership and support to Project Managers, Superintendents, Project Engineers, and other personnel assigned to Southeast Alaska projects.
- Evaluate project execution, staffing, schedule, financial performance, contractual exposure, quality, safety, and client conditions through recurring project-health reviews.
- Coach project leaders through significant operational challenges while maintaining clear accountability for project execution at the PM and Superintendent level.
- Ensure significant project issues are escalated with sufficient information for timely organizational decisions and support.
- Identify recurring project challenges and lessons learned and implement regional or company-wide operational improvements when appropriate.
- Lead, coach, evaluate, and develop Project Managers, Superintendents, Project Engineers, and emerging leaders throughout Southeast Alaska.
- Establish clear expectations for project leadership, accountability, communication, financial performance, risk management, client service, and adherence to Cornerstone standards.
- Identify regional staffing and capability requirements based on active work, backlog, pipeline, succession needs, and anticipated growth.
- Support recruiting, onboarding, retention, succession planning, and development of the talent required to sustain and grow Southeast Alaska operations.
- Develop increased leadership capacity within the region by progressively expanding responsibility and decision-making among capable project leaders.
- Provide the VP of Construction and Executive Leadership with clear reporting on regional portfolio health, financial performance, staffing, risk, client relationships, opportunities, and organizational needs.
- Recommend regional priorities, resource requirements, growth strategies, and operational improvements based on portfolio performance and market conditions.
- Collaborate with Construction, Preconstruction, Finance, Business Development, Safety, and other company functions to align regional operations with Cornerstone's broader objectives.
- Participate in company strategic planning and operational-improvement initiatives and implement applicable organizational priorities within Southeast Alaska.
- 8+ years of progressively responsible commercial construction experience.
- 5+ years of experience managing complex commercial construction projects or comparable operational responsibilities.
- 3+ years of demonstrated construction leadership responsibility, including direct leadership, supervision, or development of project teams or construction leaders.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple concurrent construction projects or project teams.
- Demonstrated responsibility for construction financial performance, forecasting, budgeting, cost management, and contract administration.
- Demonstrated experience evaluating project risk and implementing corrective or recovery actions when project performance varies from plan.
- Demonstrated experience developing client relationships and contributing to business-development or repeat-work opportunities.
- Ability to lead geographically dispersed teams and coordinate resources across multiple project locations.
- Ability to travel throughout Southeast Alaska and other locations as business needs require
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Alaska commercial construction experience, particularly in Southeast Alaska or comparable remote/logistically complex markets.
- Experience leading a portfolio of geographically dispersed commercial construction projects.
- Design-Build and negotiated project-delivery experience.
- Experience developing Project Managers, Superintendents, and emerging construction leaders.
- Established professional relationships with clients, design partners, trade partners, public agencies, or other construction-industry stakeholders in Southeast Alaska
The physical demands described here are representative of those required to perform the essential functions of this position.
This position requires the ability to perform office-based work and periodically access active construction sites, including walking over uneven surfaces, climbing stairs, and wearing required personal protective equipment.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
This position operates in both office and active construction-site environments and requires frequent travel throughout Southeast Alaska and periodic travel to other Cornerstone project or business locations. Work may include travel to remote communities and project locations with limited transportation, lodging, or other infrastructure.
Cornerstone offers a competitive salary and bonus program, full medical, vision, and dental coverage for employees and their families, a 401(k) with 3% profit share opportunity, generous PTO, and paid holidays including a full break from Christmas through New Year's. These benefits reflect our commitment to supporting employees' success, well-being, and work-life balance, making Cornerstone a top choice for a rewarding career.
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