Project Executive

Become Part of Our Team

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

Summary

Balfour Beatty Construction is seeking a Project Executive to join our team in Scottsdale, AZ. This individual needs to be experienced with mission critical and/or healthcare projects.

The primary role of the Project Executive is to be the project leader ultimately responsible for all aspects of the project’s success including a positive referral from the Clients. The Project Executive ensures project success through monitoring the processes, progress and results of the following: Client satisfaction, team effectiveness, employee development, financial goals, quality and schedule. Serving as the liaison between the jobsite, the Business Unit Leader (BUL) and the main office, the Project Executive provides the support and resources that are needed by the Project Manager and Superintendent to perform their duties.

Essential Functions

Participate in Business Development

• Participate in development, execution and presentations of proposals.
• Secure a positive referral.

Lead the Preconstruction Process

• Participate in preconstruction meetings.
• Oversee the buy-out of the project.
• Verify accurate financial forecasting.

Oversee Project Operations

• Supervise the process of project start-up.
• Oversee the development of the initial project schedule.
• Manage the strategic account process.
• Evaluate monthly project financial performance.
• Manage risk in accordance with company guidelines.
• Review and approve deliverables.
• Monitor budget, schedule, and quality.

Manage Human Resources

• Encourage employee growth by mentoring and managing development plans.
• Inform Business Unit Leader (BUL) overseeing project of issues and status.

Perpetuate Corporate Culture

• Assure that Company policies and procedures are implemented on the project.
• Monitor enforcement of project safety policies and procedures.

Maintain Client Relationships

• Oversee the finalization of any outstanding issues with Owner, Subcontractors, and Vendors at project closeout.

Promote Customer Relations

• Builds effective relationships with customers, design team, subcontractors, suppliers, and user groups that reflect and support company core values and meets or exceeds the customer’s expectations.
• Actively participates in industry, client, and community relations to enhance company image.

Culture, Leadership and Employee Development

• Promotes our Creed. Communicates our vision and purpose through Service, Talent, and Choices.
• Serves as a role model and promotes professional behavior.
• Participates in personal career development through on-the-job training, attends operations classroom training programs and assists in the development of interns / co-ops.

Minimum Requirements

• B.S. in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field position.
• Experience involving mission critical and/or healthcare projects.
• New hires are required to sign up for OSHA courses and complete them within the first six months of employment.
• Minimum 8-10 years of progressive construction related trade experience.
• Organizes people, tools, and equipment and plan/manage multiple activities to accomplish desired results.
• Makes decisions under tight deadlines, sometimes with incomplete information.
• Demonstrates experience with project management systems and software as well as supervisory experience of projects with multiple Subcontractors, trades and equipment provisions is required.
• Exhibits commitment to quality by evaluating project-related processes and making necessary changes, using customer input to make improvements, and meeting/exceeding internal and external customer expectations.
• Acts in a manner of integrity that demonstrates support for the company values and the employees, while maintaining constant focus on meeting/exceeding customer requirements and expectations.
• Demonstrates proficiency using a personal computer (PC) and company communication tools, such as email, internet, and Microsoft products (e.g., Word, Excel, Office, Outlook).

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).