Director of Field Operations

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Director of Field Operations  to provide enterprise leadership for field construction operations across a portfolio of complex EPCM-led and owner-led projects. This senior leader will build and manage a high-performing field organization, establish execution standards, deploy qualified resources, monitor project performance, and strengthen the company’s overall construction capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise Field Operations organization and establish clear performance expectations.
• Establish consistent construction execution standards, processes, and governance across projects.
• Forecast, allocate, and deploy field leadership resources across multiple concurrent projects.
• Provide operational oversight and support to Project Directors, Construction Managers, General Superintendents, Superintendents, and field teams.
• Review construction execution plans, staffing strategies, site logistics, work packaging, and project readiness.
• Monitor safety, quality, productivity, schedule, staffing, and overall operational performance.
• Conduct project start-up, operational health, and recovery reviews, and intervene when projects are operationally at risk.
• Coordinate field execution with owners, engineering, procurement, project controls, vendors, subcontractors, and trade partners.
• Promote constructability, work readiness, short-interval planning, proactive constraint removal, and effective turnover planning.
• Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain senior field leaders while strengthening succession readiness.
• Advance digital field systems, lessons learned, process standardization, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 20 years of progressive construction and field operations experience.
• Extensive experience in complex industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, energy, power, data center, life sciences, commercial, or similar construction environments.
• Significant experience in EPC, EPCM, construction management, or owner-led project delivery models.
• Demonstrated success leading large field organizations and multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong experience in craft labor management, workforce planning, construction planning, field productivity, safety, quality, and project mobilization.
• Experience coordinating owner, engineering, procurement, subcontractor, vendor, and trade partner interfaces.
• Experience developing field operating systems, governance processes, and organizational capability.
• Proven ability to assess operational risks and support project recovery.
• Strong executive communication, leadership, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to travel to active project sites and company locations as required.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Construction Engineering, or a related field is preferred. An equivalent combination of extensive field leadership, technical training, trade experience, and construction experience may be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience establishing or significantly improving an enterprise field operations function.
• Experience with large-scale greenfield, brownfield, shutdown, turnaround, or operating-site projects.
• Familiarity with advanced work packaging, BIM-enabled execution, digital field reporting, and construction productivity systems.
• Professional certification in construction management, project management, safety, quality, or a related discipline.

Core Competencies

• Strategic and operational leadership

• Construction execution expertise

• Enterprise resource management

• Safety and quality leadership

• Workforce and succession planning

• Productivity and performance management

• Project recovery leadership

• Executive communication

• Cross-functional collaboration

• Continuous improvement