EPC Industrial Project Director

About Yates Construction

Ranked among the top commercial and industrial construction companies in the country by Engineering News-Record
, Yates Construction is family-owned. It provides a wide range of construction and building services. Incorporated in 1964 by William G. Yates Jr., we have steadily grown to become one of the nation's top commercial and industrial construction companies. We are financially sound, with a significant bonding capacity and vast personnel and equipment resources.

Our portfolio includes commercial and industrial projects from various sectors, including arts and culture, civil, commercial, education, entertainment and gaming, federal, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, municipal, retail, and technology. We work hard to understand our clients' business needs and continually look for opportunities to add value to them and their projects.

Our client relationships are the foundation of our success, and our primary goal is to help each of our clients achieve their vision. We do this by carefully managing the details and complexities of each project and constantly communicating with all team members.

Yates Construction provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal and state law requirements.

Yates complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities.

Responsible for providing overall management for large projects, leading the project team, and ensuring successful customer relations. Will be able to interact with various staff at all levels in an ever-changing environment, remaining flexible, resourceful, proactive, and efficient with a high level of professionalism and confidentiality. This position will provide overall leadership for project performance, contract negotiations, client relations, budget, and schedule.

The Project Director will also lead and maintain compliance with corporate safety and quality standards and will serve as the direct point of contact for clients.

• Developing and administering the safety program for the project and is tasked with achieving incremental improvements
• Provides oversight of projects from beginning to end, including budget, costs, unexpected events, general performance, and overall progress against the plan
• Performing and overseeing project-specific QA/QC practices to ensure the project delivered to project specifications and Yates’ standards of quality
• Completing walk-throughs of the site to ensure safety, cleanliness, and standards are maintained
• Identifying and resolving field and design issues
• Representing the site team in owners’ meetings
• Providing oversight of the development of the overall CPM schedule with the project team before construction and communicating updates to the schedule throughout the duration of the project
• Developing and maintaining the site logistics plan for the project
• Performing constructability reviews
• Arranging and leading preconstruction meetings with all subcontractors before beginning each phase of work
• Scheduling and leading the project close-out process
• Participating in the development of strategic plans, including VDC
• Participating in preparations of bid packages and procurement
• Performing estimating take-offs
• Tracking field progress against the “plan,” developing recovery plans if necessary
• Managing the project schedule, including each task associated with project completion
• Monitoring each trade’s work progress concerning each project phase and tracking against prescribed milestones
• Assisting in the development of the overall CPM schedule with the project team before construction and communicating updates to schedule throughout the duration of the project
• Working with the construction management team to ensure accurate unit tracking for subcontractors/vendors as it applies
• Managing the payment application process and tracking receivables
• Compiling and validating…