Progress Residential

Construction Director

Progress Residential$100K — $130K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School diploma required; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience in senior construction management roles; director level experience preferred.
  • Experience overseeing multiple teams across various locations.
  • Extensive knowledge of home building systems like Plumbing, Electrical, and HVAC.
  • Strong familiarity with UBC building codes and health/safety regulations.
  • Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal.
  • Demonstrated ability to multitask and work independently with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

  • Manage daily operations to ensure home quality and customer satisfaction.
  • Monitor construction financial performance to meet budget and profitability targets.
  • Oversee inspections, project management, and estimating activities in the market.
  • Collaborate with central operations to align with corporate goals.
  • Lead local teams, fostering engagement and accountability with company standards.
  • Supervise hiring and training of construction staff, setting targets for performance.
  • Identify best practices to enhance policies, driving innovation and performance.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with performance-based bonuses.
  • Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Generous PTO including holidays and floating holiday based on tenure.
  • Ongoing training and development opportunities like quarterly summits.
  • A collaborative culture that values recognition and enjoyment in the work.
Full Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Construction Director provides operational analysis, guidance, subject matter expertise,

Training, and follow-up needed to achieve market and company goals. This position ensures accountability to and execution of policies, processes, procedures, and standards for Turns and Renovations. This position provides leadership for construction teams within their defined market area(s) and works with leadership to execute the strategic direction of company goals, initiatives, and processes. The position also ensures that appropriate and consistent business requirements are established and met within the group. The Construction Director will supervise the construction group, set goals, and assist in holding both team members and vendors accountable for results.

ESSENTIALFUNCTIONS
  • Manage daily construction operations, ensuring home quality, lowest point of resolution, compliance, and customer satisfaction across all properties

  • Manage market-level construction financial performance, monitoring expenses, and KPIs to achieve budget and profitability targets

  • Manage construction activities in market: Inspections, estimating & project management (including vended metrics)

  • Work closely with central operations to ensure corporate goals and initiatives are met and executed

  • Lead and develop local teams, driving engagement, accountability, and alignment with company standards and operational goals

  • Supervise, hire, train, set goals, and hold construction teams accountable in assigned area to drive performance

  • Ensure adherence to company standards and drive consistency & performance of heavy and light construction projects

  • Oversee construction execution and drive performance

  • Lead partnership with vendor management, procurement, market operations, and central departments identifying vendor needs and cost control measures/initiatives

  • Identify Best Practices and promote a culture of innovation to improve policies and procedures, while recognizing and rewarding top performance

  • Improve staffing ratios and monitor to produce maximum/optimal performance staffing level

  • Understand, review, monitor and lead improvement of KPI’s, margin point, fleet utilization, move-in surveys

  • Oversee quality control of completed product to company standards and review control process to ensure company standards are achieved

  • Provide guidance on scope creation and bid reviews for complex issues and major incident and disaster repairs

  • Drive performance, maintaining turn days within budget and national turn initiatives

  • Work with leadership to enhance program value and reduce costs driving market teams to achieve budgeted and desired annualized Capex & R&M costs

  • Understand and possess the ability to train team on fiduciary duty. Ensures team in assigned market makes decisions based on the best interests of the business.

  • Human Resource Management

    • Recruit, hire, and train qualified, dynamic, high performance construction managers and frontline team members

    • Supervises staff, sets goals, and holds people accountable for results and provides timely feedback

    • Ensure that all training requirements are completed on time

    • Ensures that employees all have goals and receive regular feedback on their performance

    • Performance management of personnel including, performance reviews, corrective action, mentoring, development plans and performance improvement plans

    • Ensure that the policies, procedures, and safety guidelines are followed

  • Carry out other duties as assigned that are in the best interests of the company

QUALIFICATIONS
  • High School diploma required; Bachelor’s degree preferred

  • 10 or more years of experience as a senior superintendent, regional construction manager, or production home manager; director level experience preferred

  • Experience in managing multiple staff members over a geographic region

  • Extensive knowledge of Plumbing, Electrical, HVAC, Flooring, Appliances, Landscaping, and Irrigation Systems as they relate to single family residential homes

  • Mastery of general UBC building codes and rental property health and safety regulations

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

  • Ability to work efficiently and to multi-task

  • Proven record of working independently and with minor supervision

  • An effective team player with a positive attitude

  • Must have a valid Driver’s License

  • Ability to Travel (up to 25%)

  • Ability to work flexible hours which may include some weekends

  • Bilingual a plus

  • Basic computer skills with experience in Excel, Word, Outlook, and Yardi Voyager preferred

  • Physical Demands:

    • Sitting for extended periods of time using office equipment and computers

    • Moderate stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing

    • May entail light lifting of supplies and materials occasionally, up to and including 25lbs

    • Ability to talk, hear, compare, compute, compile, copy, analyze, coordinate, synthesize, negotiate and communicate

    • Walking for extended periods of time

    • Sustains substantially recurring movements to fingers, hands, wrist, legs and feet

    • Ability to judge distances and spatial relationships

    • Ability to identify and distinguish color

    • Ability to distinguish the differences and similarities in odors

What you can expect from us:

  • Competitive Compensation - Including performance-based bonuses that reward your contributions.

  • Comprehensive Benefits Package - Medical, dental, vision, parental leave, 401(k) with company match and more.

  • Generous Time Off – Enjoy PTO based on tenure, 13 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday.

  • Ongoing Learning and Development - Quarterly summits, town hall meetings and continuous training to support your professional growth.

  • A Culture that Celebrates You - We believe in collaboration, recognition and having fun while doing important work.

This summary is not an all-inclusive description of job duties. Other job duties and responsibilities may also be assigned by the incumbent’s supervisor at any time based upon Company need.

About Progress Residential

Progress Residential is a real estate investment trust that owns and manages single-family rental homes. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Progress Residential's portfolio includes over 40,000 homes in 20 markets across the United States. The company's mission is to provide high-quality rental homes and exceptional customer service to its tenants. Progress Residential offers a variety of amenities and services, including online rent payments, maintenance requests, and 24/7 customer support.
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