Senior Director, Construction - Remote Leadership

Kaiva Tech, LLC

Washington (District of Columbia)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Kaiva Tech, LLC seeks a Senior Director - Construction in the DMV Area (DC/VA/MD) to provide executive oversight across the construction portfolio and guide growth while ensuring safe, profitable project delivery. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on support to establish standardized practices, governance, and high-performance teams.

The Senior Director will lead multiple project teams, set performance targets, manage risk, and partner with the executive team to pursue new

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree; equivalent construction leadership experience may be considered.
10+ years of progressively responsible experience in construction operations or related leadership roles.
Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple construction projects or a significant project portfolio.
Strong knowledge of construction project controls, scheduling, estimating, procurement, subcontract management, forecasting, and financial reporting.
Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage organizational change, and improve operational performance.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.
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 that strengthen the capabilities of construction personnel.
Promote a culture of ownership, transparency, continuous improvement, collaboration, and high performance.
Ensure construction activities comply with contractual requirements, applicable laws and regulations, company policies, safety requirements, and quality standards.
Partner with Contracts, Legal, Finance, and Compliance teams to identify and manage contractual, financial, operational, and regulatory risks.
Support compliance with federal contracting requirements when applicable, including subcontracting, documentation, reporting, and project-specific requirements.
Maintain appropriate management controls to protect the company’s financial, contractual, and reputational interests.