Senior Project Executive - Structural Steel Leadership

Ben's Structural Fabrication, Inc.; Saint Cloud (MN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Paid time off

Ancillary benefits

Job summary

Ben’s Structural Fabrication, Inc. in Waite Park, MN, seeks an experienced Project Executive to lead the Project Management function and oversee a portfolio of structural steel projects from award through completion.

You’ll guide and develop the Project Managers and Compliance Coordinator while ensuring safety, quality, schedule, budget, and profitability. The role is full-time, with standard hours Monday–Friday and up to 20% travel.

Qualifications

• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive project management experience in structural steel fabrication, construction, or related industry.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects from award through final completion.
• Previous experience leading, supervising, coaching, or developing Project Managers or other professional staff.
• Demonstrated experience with project financial management, including budgets, job costs, change management, billing, and project profitability.
• Experience interpreting construction drawings, specifications, contracts, and other project documentation.
• Experience working with general contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, vendors, and other construction industry stakeholders.
• Strong leadership, communication, organization, problem-solving, and relationship-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Project Management Function: Establish priorities, provide direction and oversight, balance workload and resources, support resolution of complex or escalated project matters, and promote consistent project management practices that support timely and profitable project execution.
• Lead & Develop the Team: Lead, coach, and develop Project Managers and the Project & Compliance Coordinator by establishing clear expectations, supporting professional development, evaluating performance, and fostering collaboration and accountability.
• Manage & Oversee Project Execution: Personally manage assigned structural steel projects from award through final completion while providing oversight and support across active projects to ensure safety, quality, schedule, budget, profitability, documentation, and customer expectations are achieved.
• Drive Contract & Financial Performance: Oversee project contracts, estimates, schedules of values, budgets, job costs, billing requirements, change exposure, and overall profitability while identifying risks and ensuring changes in scope, cost, or schedule are properly documented and managed.
• Maintain Strong Project Controls: Ensure schedules, drawings, approvals, RFIs, ASIs, RFPs, submittals, change requests, change orders, correspondence, tracking systems, project records, and close-out documentation are accurately maintained and effectively managed.
• Build Strong Customer & Stakeholder Relationships: Maintain effective relationships with customers, general contractors, subcontractors, vendors, architects, engineers, and other stakeholders through timely communication, expectation management, project meetings, and proactive issue resolution.
• Coordinate Across the Business: Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Detailing, Estimating, and other internal teams to coordinate drawings and approvals, material needs, fabrication priorities, freight, field measurements, delivery requirements, erection activities, and other project needs.
• Improve Department Performance: Identify project risks, trends, process gaps, and improvement opportunities while strengthening processes, communication, consistency, employee capability, and project profitability.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Ben’s Structural Fabrication, Inc. in Waite Park, MN, seeks an experienced Project Executive to lead the Project Management function and oversee a portfolio of structural steel projects from award through completion.

You’ll guide and develop the Project Managers and Compliance Coordinator while ensuring safety, quality, schedule, budget, and profitability. The role is full-time, with standard hours Monday–Friday and up to 20% travel.