VP of Operations (Finance)
Are you a visionary leader with a passion for transforming construction projects into reality? Join our team as Vice President of Operations and drive excellence in all that we do!
Headquartered in the Twin Cities, RJM Construction has more than 150 staff members and an annual construction volume of $256 million. We specialize in community, healthcare, corporate, and multifamily projects, serving clients throughout Minnesota and neighboring states. Our expertise includes general contracting, construction management, design-build, and preconstruction services. RJM is adding a new position, VP of Operations. This role is responsible for ensuring construction operations remain profitable and perform in line with productivity expectations, aligned with company values. Duties include direct management of teams and individual team members – including field teams, financial oversight, contracts, determining business goals and initiatives, and interpreting operational data insight to draw conclusions about organizational success.
RJM Construction was founded on a simple principle: to serve the client. We deliver extraordinary spaces driven by our client's vision, made possible by our people. At RJM Construction, our employees are the heart of our company. We are committed to providing our team with a supportive and inclusive work environment that nurtures their growth and development while ensuring they possess the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver exceptional results. We also like to play. And support and engage in company-sponsored and individually-driven community volunteerism. If you want to make a difference and see the results of your work (and play), we'd love to hear from you!
Role and Responsibilities
This role requires extensive commercial construction industry knowledge and experience. Strong construction financial acumen, contract and blueprint reading, high level project management understanding, employee supervision, effective training methods, human resource insights, and the ability to create and communicate a strategic outlook are key requirements for this role.
• As a key member of the RJM Senior Leadership team, provide oversight of Operations, field, office, project management and service departments, developing strong working relationships and an accountability culture.
• Oversees all Operations-related department personnel hiring, orientation, development and employee life cycle events (recognition, discipline, training, and exits) of department personnel in collaboration with human resources and RJM policy and procedures. Engages in career fairs and representation of RJM.
• Lead teams to ensure strategic initiatives are communicated, assigned and completed.
• Recommends and monitors key performance indicators for departments managed.
• Responsible for primary profit/loss for Operations-related departments.
• Ultimate responsibility for Operations budgets, productivity tracking and ensuring profitability in self-perform work and the service department.
• Oversee construction budgets and overall development of the Operations department, including financial outcomes. Including, but not limited to, revenue projections for future projects.
• Create and maintain strong working relationships with entities involved in the construction process, both external and internal to RJM.
• Provide overall leadership of self-perform work and field teams to ensure success, cooperatively with other RJM departments. This includes a variety of meetings involving self-perform productivity tracking, labor report review, project scheduling, manpower forecasting, capital expense forecast, etc.
• With appropriate internal personnel, manage equipment, shop, and yard operations to support project and RJM's goals.
• Leadership in identifying and implementing new tools/technology and their ROI, in collaboration with the appropriate internal personnel.
• Develop a curriculum framework and facilitate operations training across multiple departments.
• Provide leadership in working through claims as required to protect RJM assets.
• Ensure the process flow is maintained on all large projects, in collaboration with the Director of Project Management and General Superintendents. Lead key internal meetings relative to field operations workload and workforce.
• As Sponsor of the Procedures and Best Practices Committee, oversee that Committee work is aligned with strategic plans and company goals.
• Promote culture of positive client relations throughout organization.
• Ensure appropriate levels of involvement from Operations-related personnel are present throughout preconstruction and construction phases of each project.
• Monitor the competitive landscape and attend industry events to stay abreast of new initiatives and ways to stay ahead of our competition.
• Leads continuous improvement (CI) efforts and oversight of RJM processes.
• Leads discussion with operations staff in collaboration with IT to make decisions on RJM's software use to promote accuracy and efficiency throughout the operations process.
• Remains relevant with project management best practices and ensures information is shared with team members.
• This role should dedicate at least 50% of its time to activities eligible for job costing.
• Other duties as assigned.
Salary and Benefits
- $225-$325,000k per annum
Benefits:
- RJM provides medical and wellness benefits, including health, dental, and vision benefits.
- We provide a retirement plan, with matching employer contributions.
- RJM provides voluntary plans including STD, LTD, voluntary life, pet insurance and others plans available to eligible team members.
- Hired candidates may be eligible to receive additional compensation in the form of bonuses or deferred compensation.
- RJM offers open PTO to salaried employees.
Education:
• BS Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field. Proven experience may be substituted for degree.
Work Experience:
• 10 plus years of project management experience preferred. Experience in commercial general construction or construction management relatable to RJM's project complexities.
• 5+ years supervising large teams
• 5+ years of developing training programs/curriculum
Demonstrated Technical Competencies to include:
• Microsoft –Excel, Word, and Outlook, Project
• Sage Estimating Software
• Viewpoint Software
• Demonstrated ability to read, understand and make adjustments to blueprints and contracts.
• Demonstrated knowledge of field and collective bargaining employee oversight
• Demonstrated ability to calculate labor costs
• Working knowledge of building codes and ADA laws
• Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, and achieve strategic goals and initiatives that support the organization's growth
Competencies:
Budgets/Cost Control: Plans for and uses resources efficiently, always looks for ways to reduce costs, creates accurate and realistic budgets, tracks and adjusts budgets, contributes to budget planning.
Creativity/Innovation: Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, takes risks, supports change, encourages innovation, solves problems creatively.
Decision Making/Judgement: Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues seeking input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, communicates decisions to others.
Integrity/Ethics: Deals with others in a straightforward and honest manner, is accountable for actions, maintains confidentiality, supports company values, conveys good news and bad.
Leadership: Leads through change and adversity, builds strong relationships, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others. Defines roles and responsibilities, motivates and challenges employees, delegates effectively, rewards contributions, manages collaboratively and builds strong relationships.
Manages for Results: Sets challenging and productive goals for team, uses checkpoints and data to track progress, sets up systems and processes to measure results. Values both experience and potential, builds teams with complementary skills, promotes diversity in hiring.
Negotiation Skills: Conducts positive negotiations, ability to compromise, handles conflict, seeks common ground, articulates own and other's goals, stays focused on positive outcome.
Organizational Savvy: Operates within the organization's formal and informal structures, builds allies and relationships across departments, uses allies to build consensus and create results, is appropriately diplomatic, understands others' roles and perspectives, can sell projects and ideas across the organization.
Strategic Thinking: Creates and communicates a long-term vision, balances short and long term goals, keeps own and team's work aligned with overall goals, understands the market and can predict change, understands the industry and the competition, creates and adjusts strategic plans.
