Director - Los Angeles

Balfour Beatty US • Full-time • Los Angeles, CA, US • 1d ago

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As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
Health Savings Account
401(k) with company match
Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
Vacation Time
Sick Time
Holidays
Paid Volunteer time
Tuition Assistance
Employee Referral Bonus

Director, Los Angeles

California Division

Summary

The Director, Los Angeles works closely with employees at all levels, clients, design partners, and subcontractors to deliver successful projects while maintaining safety, quality, financial objectives, and contributing to the company’s regional growth. This role involves leading multiple teams, optimizing team performance and supporting development of staff members, fostering lasting client relationships, facilitating geography and market sector growth, while ensuring safety compliance. Responsibilities include business development, strategic planning, preconstruction planning, operational and financial oversight, scheduling, and crisis management.

Key Responsibilities

Support Division and Geography success and growth through strategic planning, evaluation, and implementation, along with Division Leadership and other geography leaders.
Engage in project pursuits by contributing to early-stage planning, RFP preparation, interviews, outreach, and presentations.
Build and maintain relationships with design partners, clients, and industry stakeholders, including attending industry conferences and networking events to promote business growth.
Perform and support teams in development and maintenance of project budgets, financial reports (PFR), pending matters reports (PMR), as well as prepare and forecast project and overhead projections.
Negotiate owner contracts and change orders, approve subcontractor budgets and subcontracts, support teams in change order negotiations as needed.
Ensure timely submission and receipt of payment from project requisitions from all project teams, in alignment with projections.
Support operations teams by providing oversight and input on job estimates, schedules, logistics and phasing plans, value engineering, and cost reduction strategies.
Review of legal and risk management documents along with overall risk profile management for geography, projects, and teams.
Foster a safety culture with all teams - emphasizing importance of safety, helping teams evaluate projects/jobsites, discussing challenges with trade contractors, and conduct regular safety walks.
Participate in project safety meetings and ensure team alignment on safety protocols.
Able to lead project schedule development and time impact analyses, ensuring alignment with the project team and key trades, including Pull Planning sessions to optimize project timelines.
Oversee quality control and ensure project deliverables are met on time and within budget.

Qualifications

15+ years of commercial construction industry experience with a strong understanding of financial, safety, and scheduling aspects. Depending upon the project size, scope, and complexity the years of experience may vary. Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple projects at a time.
B.S. in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field, preferred.
Demonstrates leadership skills with ability and willingness to face challenges, solve problems, and motivate others, while maintaining effective relationships with customers by meeting or exceeding their requirements and expectations.
Manages essential functions effectively by consistently driving for quality, profitable, safe, and timely results on the assigned project.
Excellent leadership, communication, and negotiation skills.
Demonstrates solid presentation skills and verbal/written skills.
Demonstrates proficiency using a personal computer (PC) and company communication tools and software, such as email, internet, Microsoft products (e.g., Word, Excel, Office, Outlook), Smartsheet, Bluebeam, Primavera P6, Procore, and digital documents.
Strong ability to build and maintain client and partner relationships.

The base compensation range for the role of Directorin Los Angeles, CA posted above is $205,000 to $230,000 annually.

About Us

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm®, we are challenging the construction industry’s assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation’s largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.