Senior Project Director – General Contractor, Major Urban Mixed-Use Developments

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the execution of significant urban mixed-use developments from the contractor's perspective.

• Organize and manage work, field teams, and project teams effectively.

• Supervise trade partners, suppliers, subcontractors, and procurement processes.

• Coordinate site operations, logistics, deliveries, lifting, and access on complex multi-tower sites.

• Formulate execution strategies, sequencing, and project schedules.

• Manage project controls, including costs, completion estimates, changes, notifications, and forecasts.

• Direct safety and quality assurance in collaboration with appointed specialists and field leaders.

• Oversee quality management, testing, project completion, handover, and defect rectification.

• Maintain communication with the owner's representative and the design team.

• Mentor and develop project managers, superintendents, and commercial personnel.

• Provide accurate reports to contractor leadership and the owner's team.

• Manage commercial risks, package awards, recovery strategies, and commercial standings within authorized limits.

• Identify issues and clarify accountable work, collaborative decisions, and influenced outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as a project director or project executive leading contractor-side delivery, or credible potential for such responsibility.

• Relevant backgrounds in construction management, commercial operations, infrastructure, industrial, or owner-side roles may apply.

• Demonstrated ability or recognized potential to lead contractor-side delivery within an appropriate mandate.

• Experience in developing execution strategies, sequencing, logistics, and project schedules.

• Familiarity with trade packaging, procurement, and management of subcontractors and suppliers.

• Knowledge of project controls including cost management, completion estimates, change notifications, and forecasting.

• Experience in safety leadership and assurance practices.

• Background in quality management, testing, completion, and defect resolution.

• Proven experience in communicating with owner's representatives and design teams.

• Experience in leading and developing project managers, superintendents, and commercial staff.

• Professional qualifications will be considered alongside demonstrated capabilities.

• No fixed minimum experience, project value, or specific contract model is required for application.

• A current résumé is mandatory; a LinkedIn profile is optional.

• Must answer three brief written questions regarding contractor-side delivery decisions.

• Confidential information should not be included.

🏝️ Benefits

• Long-term career relationship through the Rutherford Talent Guild™.

• Curator-led Career Thesis development for selected members.

• Exclusive introductions to organizations for specific roles, where there is a suitable match and under applicable arrangements.

• Access to private talent pipelines and retained searches by Rutherford & Company.

• Assessment results interpreted by a Rutherford curator in conjunction with experience, achievements, and objectives.

• LinkedIn profile is optional during the registration process.

• No Career Thesis is necessary at the time of registration.