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Vice President - Large Commercial Construction Projects

$200k - $250k

CDI Engineering

Overview

The Vice President, Integrated Solutions Delivery (ISD) Projects, will lead the successful delivery critical
Energy as a Service projects. This role is accountable for driving execution excellence-ensuring projects are
delivered on time, on budget, and in line with performance targets, including measurable energy savings
targets.

As a key member of the senior leadership team, the Vice President will oversee a high-performing project
delivery organization while championing the development and deployment of consistent project
management standards and practices. This role requires close collaboration with other business leaders to
ensure our project portfolio is aligned with enterprise strategy and creates long-term value.
We are seeking a seasoned and strategic executive who brings a proven track record of leading complex,
capital-intensive projects. The ideal candidate will combine strong business acumen with exceptional
leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills-enabling them to lead through complexity,
foster cross-functional alignment, and deliver results in a dynamic environment.


Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Leadership & Stewardship of the Four Pillars
  • Serves as the accountable leader for the project, ensuring ENFRA's Four Pillars - Safety, Energy Savings, Client Experience, and Shareholder Outcomes - guide every aspect of project planning, execution, decision-making, and performance measurement.
  • Establishes a high-performing project culture rooted in safety, collaboration, transparency, and operational discipline.
Execution Planning, Readiness & Delivery
  • Leads the creation and ownership of theProject Execution Plan (PEP), ensuring scope, schedule, phasing, risk mitigation, commissioning strategy, and functional support plans are complete, integrated, and aligned with project objectives across the Four Pillars.
  • Transitions the project from Development to Delivery by validating commercial assumptions, technical requirements, energy savings pathways, and execution readiness.
  • Directs the day-to-day work of the project team to ensure adherence to schedule, cost, design intent, and performance requirements, adjusting plans proactively to maintain predictable outcomes.
Safety Leadership
  • Ensures rigorous implementation of ENFRA's safety program across all contractors, field personnel, and work fronts.
  • Oversees planning and execution of all critical lifts, shutdowns, tie-ins, commissioning activities, and Line-of-Fire work, ensuring these scopes are fully engineered, documented, rehearsed, and properly supervised.
  • Promotes a culture of safety that empowers all team members to intervene and continuously improve.
Energy Savings Delivery & Performance Assurance
  • Ensures all Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) are fully engineered, procured, sequenced, installed, and commissioned in alignment with guaranteed energy savings targets.
  • Partners with M&V and Engineering to track energy performance throughout design and construction, resolving scope, performance, or system integration issues rapidly.
Client Experience & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Serves as the project's primary client executive, ensuring exceptional responsiveness, trust, and proactive communication throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Maintains strong relationships with client leadership, facility operations teams, AHJs, and community stakeholders to support smooth execution and long-term partnership.
Financial Management & Shareholder Outcomes
  • Owns the complete project financial plan, including budget development, setup, cost management, forecasting, margin delivery, contingency stewardship, and commercial performance.
  • Ensures disciplined project controls, timely billing, cash management, revenue recognition, and comprehensive change order management.
  • Identifies financial risks early and implements mitigation strategies to protect margin and schedule.
Cross-Functional Integration & Resource Coordination
  • Coordinates and holds accountable all supporting ENFRA functions - Engineering, M&V/Energy Management, Legal, SCM, Project Controls, Safety, Accounting, HR, and Operations Services - ensuring deliverables are timely, complete, and aligned with project objectives.
  • Engages ENFRA Direct Construction Services teams and subcontractors to ensure installation quality, readiness, and predictable execution.
Commercial Management, Contract Administration & Risk Mitigation
  • Leads project-level contract negotiations, clarifications, and amendments in partnership with Pre-Construction, Legal, and SCM.
  • Manages commercial exposures, claims, and disputes at the project level, escalating issues to the SVP as appropriate.
  • Maintains the project risk register and ensures systematic mitigation of critical project risks
Team Leadership, Staffing & Culture
  • Directly leads Project Executives, Directors of Construction, Project Managers, and Construction Managers, ensuring clarity of roles, expectations, and performance standards.
  • Recruits, hires, develops, and evaluates project team members, in coordination with the SVP and HR.
  • Cultivates a project culture aligned with ENFRA's values - safety, innovation, accountability, teamwork, and inclusion.
Project Governance, Reporting & Quality Assurance
  • Leads project reviews, formal forecasting cycles, safety reviews, commissioning readiness reviews, and schedule risk assessments.
  • Ensures high-quality reporting to the SVP, including cost, schedule, energy performance, risks, procurement, staffing, and cash position.
  • Ensures QA/QC processes are rigorously followed, deficiencies are resolved promptly, and turnover to the client is executed with excellence.
Closeout, Commissioning & Performance Validation
  • Ensures complete, timely closeout of construction, commissioning, documentation, training, and turnover.
  • Confirms that systems operate as designed, ECMs achieve performance expectations, and the client has confidence in long-term operational performance.
  • Supports M&V teams in validating post-construction performance metrics.
Qualifications

IDEAL EXPERIENCE

Project Leadership and Delivery

Brings 15+ years of experience managing complex capital projects in sectors such as energy infrastructure, healthcare, higher education, industrial, and large-scale commercial construction. Successfully leads $50M+ projects across the full lifecycle, including design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Experienced in managing subcontractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary partners, and in transitioning projects from Development to Delivery while validating commercial assumptions and aligning execution plans to contractual requirements.

Technical Integration and Systems Expertise

Strong record of integrating Engineering, MEP systems, controls, commissioning, utility infrastructure, and building systems into cohesive execution strategies.

Financial and Commercial Management

Provides financial leadership in budgeting, cost control, forecasting, contingency planning, cash management, and margin delivery. Skilled in validating commercial assumptions and ensuring financial and execution alignment.

Performance, Safety, and Client Outcomes

Consistently delivers projects that meet or exceed Safety, Energy Savings, Client Experience, and Shareholder performance targets.

Education

A degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture or a related technical field is required. Professional certifications such as P.E., PMP, LEED AP, CM-Lean, or equivalent are beneficial.

CRITICAL LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES

Driving Results
  • Strives for success, seizing opportunities to extend the limits of what is possible for ENFRA
  • Sets continually higher goals for the projects team that are ambitious but achievable
  • Identifies and acts on new opportunities that enable performance targets to be exceeded
  • Seeks new challenges and is energized by exceeding targets
Collaborating and Influencing
  • Identifies all necessary stakeholders and connects with them to gain support or agreement
  • Negotiates with a genuine give-and-take approach that takes all parties' perspectives into account
  • Takes advantage of opportunities to build strategic relationships to achieve a specific outcome
  • Engages others in open dialogue and adapts own influence approach to different stakeholders in ways that address their interests or concerns
  • Anticipates emerging or potential conflicts among all stakeholders and takes steps to pre-empt them
Building Talent
  • Helps others recognize that they can do more than they think is possible
  • Develops the capabilities of under-represented team members
  • Mentors employees to support their career development
  • Gives employees access to stretch assignments to develop them
Leadership and Bheavioral Qualifications
  • Strong leadership presence with demonstrated ability to inspire, influence, and hold teams accountable in a fast-paced, high-stakes delivery environment.
  • Excellent communication skills - written, verbal, and executive-level presentation - with the ability to maintain strong client relationships and internal alignment.
  • Highly skilled in problem solving, risk mitigation, and proactive decision-making, especially under schedule or commercial pressure.
  • Strong collaboration and cross-functional coordination skills; able to lead integrated project teams and align Engineering, M&V, Legal, SCM, Safety, Project Controls, and field teams toward shared outcomes.
  • Deep commitment to building a culture grounded in Safety, quality, teamwork, ethics, client partnership, and performance excellence.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities, adapt to changing conditions, and navigate ambiguity while maintaining clarity of direction.

Travel Requirements
• 50% of time will be spent traveling to job site(s)/office location.

Physical/Work Environment Requirements
• Climbing stairs.
• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers
• Light work that includes adjusting and/or moving objects up to 20 pounds
• Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another.
• Environmental Conditions - Quiet Environment


Pay Range

USD $200,000.00 - USD $250,000.00 /Yr.
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