About this role
Job Description Summary: The National Director of Self-Perform provides enterprise-wide leadership for all expert trade specific operations, ensuring consistent standards, best-in-class execution, and strong alignment across regions and divisions. This role develops and implements national strategy, leads growth initiatives to drive revenue and trade expertise market expansion, influences P/L performance, ensures operational excellence, drives standardization, and advances talent development to support predictable, high-quality outcomes across the company’s trade expertise portfolio.
Job Description:
VISION, LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY
• Define and implement a national vision for the Self-Perform trade expertise program aligned with enterprise goals. • Promote a culture focused on safety, quality, productivity, and cost discipline. • Lead integration of trade expertise operations across markets and regions while honoring local and regional differences. • Set long-term business goals and maturation milestones for the trade expertise organization. • Develop and refine the Trade Expertise Center of Excellence to support consistent execution across the enterprise. • Serve as a strategic advisor to regional leaders on trade expertise means, methods, execution, and dispute resolution.
PROGRAM LEADERSHIP, STANDARDS & BEST PRACTICES
• Establish and maintain national standards for planning, estimating, execution, formwork systems, sequencing, curing, and turnover documentation. • Collaborate with regional teams to select and validate final means and methods. • Maintain and update a centralized library of tools, templates, SOPs, and best practices. • Conduct periodic site inspections and performance audits to validate implementation and identify improvement opportunities.
• Drive continuous improvement to enhance productivity, reduce waste, and support predictable project outcomes. • Ensure adoption of appropriate technology platforms to improve scheduling, tracking, and cost performance.
OPERATIONS & BEST-IN-CLASS EXECUTION
• Provide executive oversight for preconstruction, estimating, planning, engineering, safety, and field execution of trade expertise work. • Ensure accurate and reliable cost estimates, schedules, procurement strategies, and formwork system selections. • Ensure trade expertise schedules are integrated into overall project schedules and maintained by project teams. • Partner with regional leaders on operational decision-making, risk mitigation, procurement, and vendor/supplier relationships. • Support operations teams through expert guidance on complex systems, sequencing, and constructability.
BUSINESS PERFORMANCE, P/L INFLUENCE & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
• Provide performance reports, data analysis, and predictive metrics. • Influence P/L through standardization, cost control strategies, forecasting support, and staffing alignment. • Partner with Operations and Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and national planning. • Identify systemic risks tied to cost, schedule, equipment, and workforce; lead mitigation planning. • Oversee standardization of estimating platforms, databases, templates, and deliverables.
TALENT STRATEGY, STAFFING & DEVELOPMENT
• Support hiring, development, and retention of trade expertise leaders and field personnel. • Partner with our Talent team on craft recruitment, training and development to build a best-in-class trade expertise craft workforce.
• Lead training programs for trade expertise planning, estimating, productivity improvement, formwork systems, placement practices, curing, and documentation. • Provide mentoring and coaching for trade expertise managers, superintendents, foremen, estimators, and project teams. • Train teams on cost/value management and constructability analysis. • Support regional leaders with career development planning and performance evaluations.
GOVERNANCE, COMMITTEES & INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT
• Lead the National Trade Expertise Council and publish updates. • Evaluate new industry standards, codes, technologies, and innovations. • Maintain lists of third-party advisors and specialty consultants. • Represent the company at industry events and conferences.
SAFETY & RISK MANAGEMENT
• Champion a strong safety culture. • Identify regional risks and implement preventative strategies. • 20+ years in trade expertise execution, estimating, and project management. • Strong field experience required. • Knowledgeable in scheduling, productivity, cost control, and formwork systems. • Proficient and current trade expertise knowledge/certification. • Familiarity with enterprise construction technology platforms. • Strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills. • Ability to travel regularly to support regional needs.