Director of Project Operations (York)

Job Purpose

In support of ELITE’s mission, vision, and values, the Director of Project Operations serves as the leader of Elite’s Project Management Center of Excellence (CoE), delivering best-in-class project management discipline across all of Elite’s operating divisions. This role is responsible for defining, implementing, and continuously improving the shared project management processes, standards, and systems that enable every division to achieve or exceed its targets for operational velocity, budget adherence, and profitability.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Operational Velocity & Portfolio Management: Leads the business transformation division, managing the entire construction project management cycle, focusing on cost management, quality and on time delivery to meet and surpass annual corporate goals.
• Budgeting and Earned Value Management (EVM): Plans, manages, and rigorously controls divisional and individual project budgets. Implements a system for continuous cost control and forecasting, ensuring all projects maintain the set minimum ROI through proactive variance management.
• Strategically drive business growth by maximizing project velocity within existing operational territories while simultaneously identifying, evaluating, and launching profitable expansion into new geographical markets.
• Cross-Divisional Accountability: Establishes and enforces accountability mechanisms for cross-functional work. Where divisional responsibilities intersect, ensures that roles, decision rights, and escalation paths are explicitly defined, documented, and followed
• Accountability and Quality Gates: Performs regular project audits and holds construction employees and independent contractors (GCs/trades) strictly accountable for adhering to the defined scope, schedule, and quality standards (aligned with Residential Construction).
• CoE Performance Reporting: Develops and reports on CoE-level metrics that reflect performance across all divisions served, providing executive leadership with a clear view of enterprise-wide project health.
• Collaborates with executive leadership and IT to integrate project management systems with financial reporting, ensuring real-time performance data is available for monthly Division reviews and Goal Deployment (X-Matrix) reviews.
• Plans and manages divisional budgets to meet/exceed targets.
• Effectively recruits, develops, and oversees employees (and independent contractors, to the extent allowed by law).
• Accountability and Quality Gates: Performs regular project audits and holds construction employees and independent contractors strictly accountable for adhering to defined scope, schedule, and quality standards.
• Leads the division in the execution of coordinated strategic plans, ensuring that the division meets or exceeds targets for all key performance indicators.
• Collaborates with executive leadership and IT to integrate project management systems with financial reporting, ensuring real-time performance data is available for monthly Division reviews and Goal Deployment (X-Matrix) reviews.
• Plans and manages divisional budgets to meet/exceed targets.
• Effectively recruits, develops, and oversees employees and independent contractors, to the extent allowed by law.
• Engages the team with regular training, development, and coaching opportunities, focusing on increasing engagement, productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Conducts regular staff meetings to ensure that goals and objectives are clearly communicated with the team; provides guidance and leadership to enable the team to achieve these goals and objectives.
• Holds employees and independent contractors accountable for meeting individual goals.
• Approves and manages employee time, schedules, and attendance.
• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations.
• Engages the team with regular training, development, and coaching opportunities, focusing on increasing engagement, productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Conducts regular staff meetings to ensure goals and objectives are clearly communicated; provides guidance and leadership to enable the team to achieve these goals.
• Holds employees and independent contractors accountable for meeting individual goals.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and policies within each jurisdiction of operation.
• Maintains knowledge of emerging trends and opportunities.
• Manages and oversees special projects, as needed.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or needed.

Compensation details: 120000-125000 Yearly Salary

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