Senior Project Director: Heavy Industrial Construction

Kimmel Associates; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 185,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary $185,000–$235,000

Lucrative bonus program

Profit sharing

Approximately 25% travel

Lead projects ranging from $20M–$200M

Job summary

Kimmel Associates is partnering with a privately held design-build contractor to recruit a Project Director for North America. The role oversees major heavy industrial projects from award through completion, ensuring safety, schedule, budget, and client satisfaction while coordinating engineering, procurement, and field teams.

The Project Director will lead multi‑discipline teams, manage costs and change orders, and drive risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading large-scale heavy industrial construction projects.
• Proven ability to manage projects with multiple contractors, trades, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of industrial construction methods, sequencing, scheduling, and project controls.
• Demonstrated experience managing budgets, costs, change orders, and financial performance.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to build accountability and team respect.
• Excellent communication and client relationship skills.
• Ability to make timely decisions and take ownership of project challenges.
• Experience in food & beverage, agriculture, industrial processing, or related heavy industrial construction is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall project execution from award through completion and closeout.
• Direct project teams and establish clear goals, schedules, budgets, and expectations.
• Build strong client relationships and proactively resolve issues.
• Lead planning for manpower, equipment, materials, subcontractors, logistics, and scheduling.
• Manage project costs, financial performance, and change orders.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
• Identify project risks and develop practical solutions.
• Lead Project Managers, Superintendents, Estimators, Engineers, and other project personnel.
• Monitor subcontractor and vendor performance.
• Manage RFIs, submittals, claims, changes, and other commercial matters.
• Maintain strong safety and quality standards.
• Communicate project performance, risks, financials, and major issues to company leadership.
• Support estimating and business development with constructability, execution, manpower, schedule, and risk input.
• Ensure project documentation, turnover, punch lists, and closeout are completed properly.

Skills

Project leadership

Budget management

Team leadership

Client relationship

Decision making

Communication skills

Job description

Kimmel Associates is partnering with a privately held design-build contractor to recruit a Project Director for North America. The role oversees major heavy industrial projects from award through completion, ensuring safety, schedule, budget, and client satisfaction while coordinating engineering, procurement, and field teams.

The Project Director will lead multi‑discipline teams, manage costs and change orders, and drive risk mitigation.