General Manager (Residential Construction)

General Manager (Residential Construction)

Washington DC-Baltimore Area (On-site)

About our client

Our client is a growing custom home builder in the greater Washington, DC area. The company is in a period of rapid growth, expanding from its early projects to a larger pipeline, and is building the systems to scale: clear accountability, a production schedule people can predict and plan around, and job costs that hold against budget. The team runs on a structured operating system (EOS.)

The Role

The General Manager delivers every home from build-ready land through Certificate of Occupancy on the committed schedule, at or under budget, and to the company's quality standard. You lead four functions: land development, estimating, purchasing, and vertical construction. The job is to run them through the people who own them, not to do their work. When a direct report is behind, the response is a conversation, a deadline, and follow-up.

What you will own

1. One production schedule the company can trust: A master schedule across all active jobs, land development and vertical, kept current in the company's construction management software every week. Variances are raised with a recovery plan before the date, not found after it.
2. Leading the production team: Clear written expectations and weekly metrics for each direct report, weekly 1:1s that happen, and performance problems addressed early and directly.
3. Job cost: Actual cost against the approved budget on every job. Variances are identified, explained, and recovered or re-forecast honestly.
4. Estimating and purchasing: Budgets that are buildable at the approved schedule, buyout complete before start, and materials ordered against need-by dates. Actual cost by cost code goes back to estimating every month so each bid is better than the last.
5. Land development delivery: Through the Land Development Manager, entitlements, permits, site work, and utilities sequenced so lots are build-ready before the vertical start date.
6. Quality and safety: Written quality checkpoints signed at each phase before the next trade starts, punch and warranty counts falling job over job, and safe job sites.
7. Trade partners: Clear scopes, adequate notice, performance tracked on a scorecard, and underperformers corrected or replaced.
8. Documented process: Core production processes written, owned by name, and followed, including a post-completion review of every home with its actions closed out.
9. Building the team: Hire, develop, and assess superintendents and other production staff as volume grows.

What you bring

• 8+ years in residential construction, including 4+ years leading superintendents or project managers at a builder delivering roughly 10-50 homes a year.
• Direct ownership of schedule and job cost, with results you can show.
• A record of holding people to standards: setting expectations, measuring them, and acting when they are missed.
• Working knowledge of land development sequencing, estimating, and purchasing.
• Fluency in a cloud-based construction management platform.
• Northern Virginia jurisdiction experience preferred. Virginia Class A contractor license preferred, not required.
• Demonstrated sense of urgency and strong attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.