Regional Construction Manager (Advanced Electronics)

Location: Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America; hybrid workplace with approximately 75% travel to U.S. sites and potential future international travel.

Company

hirify.global develops materials and solutions for advanced electronics and high-tech industries.

What you will do

• Lead owner-side construction execution across capital projects from FEL and preconstruction through field execution, commissioning, startup, turnover, and closeout.
• Develop execution plans covering constructability, work packaging, site logistics, sequencing, resource loading, outages, risk mitigation, and high-risk work controls.
• Select, mobilize, administer, and manage contractors and construction service partners against safety, quality, productivity, cost, schedule, and scope expectations.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, operations, maintenance, vendors, EPC firms, authorities, and site teams to maintain work-front, permit, material, and documentation readiness.
• Manage schedules, workforce plans, cost forecasts, change control, quality plans, completion systems, turnover packages, and performance dashboards.
• Lead shutdowns, turnarounds, mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning, startup, performance testing, PSSR, operational-readiness reviews, and handoff to operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related discipline, or demonstrated equivalent competency through significant construction leadership experience.
• 8+ years of direct construction management experience on major, complex capital projects, including project leadership, construction management, and contract administration.
• Experience planning and executing industrial shutdowns and turnarounds, including work packages, readiness reviews, scheduling, resource coordination, execution, and closeout.
• Experience with construction completion, mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning, startup, performance testing, and turnover to operations.
• Broad knowledge of civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, controls, and process construction, including safe execution of high-risk work.
• Mastery of construction contracting strategies, bid evaluation, contract administration, change management, claims avoidance, and contractor performance management; knowledge of EPC, EPCM, design-build, construction management at risk, and multi-prime delivery.
• Strong construction planning and project-controls knowledge, including cost forecasting, critical-path and look-ahead schedules, progress measurement, productivity analysis, and risk management.
• Proficiency or working familiarity with platforms such as Procore for drawings, document control, RFIs, submittals, daily logs, inspections, punch lists, cost and change workflows, dashboards, and schedule coordination.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, contracts, estimates, schedules, and technical documentation; understanding of safety, environmental, quality, building-code, permitting, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience leading critical-lift reviews and developing safety plans, construction hazard analyses, and mitigation plans.
• Experience managing projects of approximately $60 million to $200 million.
• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams, site leadership, contractors, and stakeholders across multiple sites and regions while managing multiple projects in active operating environments.
• Strong leadership, decision-making, problem-solving, negotiation, communication, planning, organization, conflict-resolution, and change-management skills.
• Commitment to an inclusive workplace and effective collaboration with diverse teams.
• Ability to travel up to approximately 75% domestically, with some international travel as business needs require.

Nice to have

• Professional credentials such as CCM, PMP, OSHA 30, or equivalent construction safety training.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace with extensive travel to U.S. project sites.
• Comprehensive pay and benefits package.
• Inclusive workplace with equal employment opportunity for qualified applicants.
• Reasonable accommodation is available during the application process.
• Artificial intelligence is used to enhance the recruitment process.

Hiring process

• Applicants may join hirify.global’s Talent Community to stay connected.