Project Executive

Rudolph Libbe Group; North Ridgeville (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rudolph Libbe Group in North Ridgeville, OH, is seeking a Project Executive to lead complex construction projects from pursuit through closeout, delivering safety, quality, schedule, and financial success.

This senior role partners with clients and internal teams, coaches project staff, manages contracts and risk, and drives business development while ensuring client satisfaction and long-term relationships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Construction Management.
• Minimum 10 years in construction and project management.
• Experience overseeing complex projects full lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of contracts, cost controls, scheduling, and risk management.
• Ability to lead teams and manage executive client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Maintain ultimate responsibility and decision making for projects.
• Ensure projects meet client expectations for safety, quality, schedule, and financial performance.
• Lead risk and opportunity discussions and address potential claims or performance issues.
• Serve as the senior point of contact for clients and key stakeholders.
• Review estimates, schedules, scopes, and staffing plans prior to project start.
• Coach, support, and develop project teams.
• Assist in business development, proposal strategy, and interview preparation.
• Lead owner contract review and negotiation, including key terms, schedules, and risk provisions.
• Verify project financing, insurance, bonding, and special contract conditions before execution.

Skills

Travel

Situational awareness

Problem solving

Customer win

Ownership mindset

Team building

Stakeholder influence

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Safety knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Construction Management

10+ years construction PM experience

Tools

Project management software

Scheduling software

Job description

Project Executive

• Job Location

  North Ridgeville, OH

• Job Category

  Project Execution

The Rudolph Libbe Group is a leading, full-service provider of construction and facility solutions headquartered in Walbridge, Ohio. Founded in 1955, RLG operates as a single-source partner for clients across diverse industries, offering expertise in construction management, design-build, energy solutions, and ongoing facility maintenance.

Our organization is comprised of multiple companies working together as one team. This integrated structure allows us to deliver everything from site selection and financing to construction, renovation, and long-term facility management, ensuring seamless service and exceptional results.

With regional offices in North Ridgeville, Columbus, Lima, and Livonia, and a workforce of skilled tradespeople and professionals, we serve markets including automotive, healthcare, manufacturing, education, and commercial sectors. At RLG, we pride ourselves on a safety-first culture, collaborative approach, and commitment to quality, making us one of the top contractors in the nation.

Rudolph Libbe Inc is seeking a Project Executive to support the North Ridgeville, OH operations. The Project Executive provides executive leadership and full accountability for assigned construction projects from pursuit and preconstruction through completion and closeout. The PX is ultimately responsible for project outcomes and serves as the senior leader for the client relationship, project team performance, and financial success.

The Project Executive role at Rudolph Libbe is intentionally designed to coach and support project teams, remove obstacles, hold both internal teams and clients accountable to contract obligations, and ensure successful outcomes.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain ultimate responsibility and decision making authority for assigned projects.
• Ensure projects meet client expectations for safety, quality, schedule, and financial performance.
• Lead risk and opportunity discussions and proactively address potential claims or performance issues
• Serve as the senior point of contact for clients and key stakeholders.
• Hold clients accountable to contract deliverables while ensuring RLG fulfills all obligations.
• Maintain client relationships beyond project completion to support repeat work.
• Assist in resolving client concerns and escalated issues through executive-level engagement.
• Support business development by assisting with opportunity qualification, proposal strategy, and interview preparation.
• Review and approve estimates, schedules, scopes, and staffing plans prior to project start.
• Participate in owner contract review and negotiation, including key terms, schedules, and risk provisions.
• Verify project financing, insurance, bonding, and special contract conditions before execution.
• Lead or support project kickoff meetings and early alignment with project teams and clients.
• Coach, support, and provide development input for direct reports and project team members.
• Clear roadblocks and provide executive guidance to enable team success.
• Promote interdependency and collaboration across RLG operating groups.
• Lead post-project reviews and lessons-learned discussions.

SKILLS

• Ability to travel out-of-state as needed.
• Strong situational awareness: Grasps concept of conversation even if it is an area outside their expertise and reads the dynamics of a room and modifies their behavior accordingly.
• Ability to work through problems (technical/non-technical) in a crisis, make decisions, and provide clear directions. Recognizes and asks questions to seek to understand and drive to a conclusion.
• Successfully wins over customers (internal and external).
• Understands “owning the whole before owning your piece”.
• Ability to anticipate the opportunities, implications, and consequences of situations and take appropriate action in order to create the best possible future outcomes.
• Ability to build a cohesive team that achieves extraordinary results working together. Works with team members to build the five attributes essential to a cohesive team: building trust, mastering conflict, achieving commitment, embracing accountability, and focusing on results.
• Ability to win the support of important stakeholders for ideas, proposals, projects, and solutions. Able to influence others to commit to a course of action.
• Ability to analyze and understand the organization’s competitive position and develop strategies to help the organization win.
• Ability to effectively implement strategies needed for the organization’s future success.
• Exceptional listening and communication skills (written and verbal).
• Strong and relevant computer skills.
• Knowledge of safety best practices and procedures.
• Ability to prioritize, pivot with unexpected changes, handle multiple tasks and respond quickly to requests of customers and superintendents.
• Ability to identify client needs and manage the work from conceptual stage through completion.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

• A bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Construction Management.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience working in the construction industry and project management.
• Demonstrated success overseeing complex projects through the full project lifecycle
• Strong understanding of construction contracts, cost controls, scheduling, and risk management
• Proven ability to lead teams, influence outcomes, and manage executive-level client relationships.

The Rudolph/Libbe Companies Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

Interested candidates should apply online at www.rlgbuilds.com/careers.

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