Senior Director - Construction

Kaiva Corporation; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiva Tech, LLC is seeking a Senior Director - Construction in Oklahoma. The role provides executive oversight, operational guidance, and hands-on support across the construction portfolio to enable sustainable, scalable growth.

The Senior Director will balance strategic leadership with direct project and team guidance, establish structure, drive accountability, and maintain execution quality, profitability, and customer service.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive oversight of the Construction Portfolio and lead cross-functional project teams.
• Develop an operating model that supports growth, profitability, accountability, and predictable delivery.
• Create and implement standardized best practices, templates, controls, and governance for project execution.
• Improve forecasting, budgeting, cost-to-complete tracking, and risk management across programs.
• Collaborate with the Executive Team, BU leadership, and field teams to pursue opportunities and strengthen customer relationships.

Job description

Kaiva Tech, LLC is seeking a Senior Director - Construction in Oklahoma.

Position Summary

The Senior Director of the Construction Business Unit will provide executive oversight, operational guidance, and hands-on support across the construction portfolio. The Senior Director is responsible for strengthening the organization's construction operations and positioning the business unit for sustainable, scalable growth.

The Senior Director is expected to operate as a collaborative, hands-on executive who can balance strategic leadership with direct project and team support. This individual must be comfortable establishing structure, holding teams accountable, building trusted relationships, and helping the Construction Business Unit grow without sacrificing execution quality, profitability, or customer service.

This role will develop and implement standardized best practices, tools, processes, controls, and procedures that improve project execution, financial performance, risk management, and organizational accountability. Working in close partnership with the Executive Team, Construction Business Unit leadership, and project teams, the Senior Director will identify new opportunities, strengthen customer and industry relationships, contribute to capture and proposal efforts, and facilitate the expansion of existing accounts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Business Unit Leadership and Strategy

• Partner with executive leadership to establish and execute the strategic direction of the Construction Business Unit.
• Develop an operating model that supports growth, consistent project delivery, profitability, and accountability.
• Translate organizational objectives into measurable business unit priorities, performance expectations, and execution plans.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and guidance to directors, project executives, program managers, project managers, superintendents, and support personnel.
• Promote collaboration and alignment across operations, contracts, finance, business development, human resources, and shared services.

Operational Excellence

• Develop, document, and implement construction best practices, standard operating procedures, tools, templates, and management controls.
• Establish consistent processes for project startup, planning, scheduling, budgeting, procurement, subcontract management, change management, quality control, safety, closeout, and lessons learned.
• Implement project governance practices that provide leadership with timely and accurate visibility into project status, financial performance, risks, and corrective actions.
• Strengthen forecasting, work-in-progress reporting, cost-to-complete analysis, cash-flow management, and project-level financial accountability.
• Evaluate existing systems and recommend tools or process improvements that increase efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
• Ensure project teams maintain complete, accurate, and timely documentation.

Project and Portfolio Oversight

• Provide executive oversight of assigned construction projects and strategic programs.
• Conduct regular project reviews focused on schedule, cost, quality, safety, contractual requirements, staffing, procurement, and customer satisfaction.
• Identify emerging project risks and work with project teams to establish mitigation and recovery plans.
• Support the resolution of complex operational, contractual, subcontractor, customer, and performance issues.
• Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with contract requirements, organizational standards, and established financial targets.
• Assist with resource planning and the allocation of personnel across the construction portfolio.

Business Development and Relationship Management

• Partner with business development and construction leadership to identify, qualify, capture, and secure new construction opportunities.
• Support customer engagement, opportunity shaping, capture planning, proposal development, pricing strategy, presentations, and contract negotiations.
• Develop and maintain relationships with customers, general contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, strategic partners, and other industry stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to expand existing customer relationships, increase contract value, and secure follow‑on work.
• Provide operational and technical input into bids to ensure proposed approaches, schedules, staffing plans, and pricing assumptions are executable.
• Represent the company at customer meetings, site visits, industry events, and strategic partner discussions.

Performance Management and Continuous Improvement

• Establish and monitor key performance indicators for safety, schedule performance, profitability, forecasting accuracy, change management, quality, customer satisfaction, and project closeout.
• Analyze project and business unit performance to identify trends, recurring challenges, and improvement opportunities.
• Lead post-project reviews and ensure lessons learned are incorporated into future project planning and execution.
• Develop training, mentoring, and professional‑development initiatives