Operations Center Construction Manager

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We believe construction services are more than project delivery, they’re about safeguarding quality, safety, and trust at every step. As part of HDR’s Field Services team, you’ll be on the front lines of infrastructure development, making sure that what’s designed is built to the highest standards. From highways and bridges to water treatment plants, transit systems, and power facilities, your work ensures that our clients’ visions become reality, with precision, integrity, and excellence.

Our construction professionals;
Construction Managers, Inspectors, Resident Engineers, and field specialists bring deep technical knowledge, hands-on experience, and a commitment to quality that sets industry benchmarks. Your contributions are critical to delivering successful, resilient infrastructure.

The purpose of this role is to ensure construction activities (with a value of $2B within the Turkey Lake region) are operationally ready, conflict-free, and customer-focused, and that construction decisions are made with full awareness of system-wide impacts, risks, and tradeoffs.

The selected candidate will translate enterprise priorities into executable construction operations and provides decision-ready recommendations to the MCOC Operations Leader and FDOT Operations leadership.

In the role of Operations Center Construction Manager, we’ll count on you to be involved with:
Construction Program Ownership

• Serve as the program-level operational lead for all construction activities within the assigned region.
• Own the construction operational picture.
• Ensure construction activities align with enterprise safety, mobility, and reliability objectives.

Operational Coordination and Integration

• Coordinate construction activities with maintenance delivery, asset performance, incident response, and other operations functions through the MCOC.
• Identify and resolve operational conflicts between construction, maintenance, permitted work, and special events before they impact customers.
• Ensure no construction activity proceeds without proper Operations Center coordination and approval.

Risk Identification and Decision Support

• Proactively identify construction-related operational risks affecting safety, mobility, schedule, or asset condition.
• Prepare completed staff work for escalations, including analysis, impacts, and recommended actions.
• Support the MCOC FDOT Operations Manager and GEC Program Leadership with timely, decision-ready information.

Incident and Emergency Coordination

• Coordinate construction impacts and contractor response during incidents, emergencies, and severe weather events.
• Adjust or suspend construction activities as required to support incident response and system recovery.
• Participate in after-action reviews to improve future operational readiness.

Stakeholder and Industry Engagement

• Serve as a primary construction operations liaison with FDOT, contractors, CEI firms, and internal partners.
• Set clear expectations for construction operational performance and work zone quality.
• Support a predictable and professional operating environment for industry partners.

Performance Management and Continuous Improvement

• Monitor construction-related operational performance metrics and trends.
• Identify recurring issues, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Support refinement of procedures, standards, and operational practices within the MCOC framework.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer License
• Has prior experience in a Florida public agency

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 10 years related experience
• A minimum of 5 years of project management experience
• Familiar with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software, project management software
• Must have the ability to interact with various design teams,…