Project Director

Big-D Companies; Idaho Falls (ID); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & Dental premiums paid 100%

HSA with employer contribution

PTO & Holidays

401k with match

Life Insurance & Disability paid for

Supplemental Benefits available

Company vehicle

Job summary

Big-D Construction is seeking a Project Director in Idaho Falls to provide executive leadership for ground-up commercial construction. You will drive project strategy, foster client relationships, and oversee safety, quality, schedule, and financial results for complex projects from preconstruction through turnover.

The role requires guiding high-performing teams, coordinating across office and field, and ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and industry best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, architecture, or engineering or other related field.
• A minimum of 10 years in construction as a Project Manager for a general contracting firm similar to Big-D Construction.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may also be considered.

Responsibilities

• Monitors the work performance of Project Managers and their teams to ensure projects meet contract specs, budgets, quality, and schedules.
• Facilitates professional relationships between Project Managers and project owners/representatives.
• Oversees project manager allocations and ensures proper management of project scope, budget and schedule.
• Collaborates with Project Managers to plan projects and maintain owner relationships and oversight of field operations.
• Evaluates progress reports and takes corrective action on deviations from standards in cost, schedule, and client satisfaction.

Skills

Procore

Primavera P6

Bluebeam

MS Office

Coaching

Communication

Blueprint reading

Costing & analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in construction management

Tools

UBS knowledge

Job description

Big-D Construction is looking for a Project Director. The Project Director provides executive leadership and oversight for ground-up commercial construction projects, ensuring successful delivery from preconstruction through turn over. This role is responsible for driving project strategy, client relationships, operational performance, safety, quality, schedule, and financial results while leading high-performing project teams in complex, fast-paced environments.

This position is based in Idaho Falls, ID.

Position Summary:

This role ensures projects meet safety, financial, schedule, and quality objectives while maintaining strong client relationships and proactively managing risk. The Project Director serves as a key leader in advancing the organization’s market presence, guiding teams through complex technical and commercial challenges, and ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and industry best practices.

Experience/Training:

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, architecture, or engineering or other related field required.
• A minimum of 10 years in construction as a Project Manager for a general contracting firm similar to Big-D Construction.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may also be considered.

Critical Skills:

• Proficient in Procore, Primavera 6, Bluebeam, MS Office (or similar construction software)
• Ability to coach, mentor and teach team members
• Strong communication, writing, organizational, negotiating and management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with office and field personnel and establish and maintain productive client relationships. Must be able to direct the work on all levels of construction
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints to accurately prepare competitive, yet profitable bids and to effectively plan and schedule complex construction
• Ability to write, read, understand, interpret, follow, and enforce construction documents and contracts with clients and
• A working knowledge of all aspects of the construction trades (including practical applications of the Uniform Building Code—UBS).
• Ability to perform routine and complex calculations, accurate job costing, and financial data analysis to facilitate proactive
• Able to provide technical and procedural construction direction to teams
• Ability to effectively prioritize and plan workload to meet deadlines. Consistently seeks better and more efficient ways to accomplish
• Ability to identify team’s strengths/weakness and re-aligning resources as necessary or identify training
• Demonstrates sound business judgment, decision making, initiative, attendance and reliability.
• High ethical standards
• Excellent attention to detail

Duties, Responsibilities and Expectations: (other duties may be assigned to meet business needs)

• Monitors the work performance of Project Managers and their teams (including Project Administrators, Project Engineers, Foreman, Assistant Superintendents, Superintendents) to ensure all projects are completed according to contract specifications and requirements, within assigned budgets, to the quality standards, on schedule, and to the expectations of the client.
• Facilitates and ensures cordial, responsive, and professional relationships between each Project Manager and project owners and representatives.
• Coordinates Project Manager project assignment and oversees that the Project Manager manages and administers all aspects of assigned projects as required and in the best interest of the company
• Collaborates with Project Managers to establish a plan for each project and to establish a positive working relationship with the owner (and representatives) and with company Superintendents.
• Receives and critically evaluates reports and responds with immediate corrective action to any variations from the standards for the job costing, scheduling, quality, and client satisfaction levels.
• Reviews each Project Manager’s updates regarding progress, status, issues, and concerns about each project. Facilitates timely and appropriate proactive project management strategies as needed.
• Resolves client complaints or concerns promptly and productively.
• Meets or exceeds budgeted projects for assigned projects.
• Performs all directives from the Vice President / Sr. Vice President in a timely and satisfactory manner.
• Ensures Project Managers are following Risk Management protocols and standards, including enforcement of subcontractors to not work without approval.
• Ensures Project Managers are following schedule standards.
• General understanding of financial requirements to ensure successful project including:
• Understanding the contract mechanism (cost plus + fee or fixed fee, LS, TM).
• Enforcing billings due end of month verifying to contract mechanisms.
• Understanding and ability to train on Cost Reports.
• Understanding of WIP (overbilling, underbilling, no billing, profit, earned revenue)
• Understanding phase codes and tying them to contract items.
• Enforcing change order process to be approved before work.
• Enforcing proactive communication with owner of change order work notification and costs collected and submitted in a timely manner.
• 100% Medical & Dental premiums paid for
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with Employer Contribution
• PTO & Holidays
• 401k with match
• Life Insurance & Disability paid for
• Supplemental Benefits available
• Company Vehicle

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