Construction Director

**Your career has a home here.** Ready to make an impact with a dynamic, forward-thinking company? As a leading property manager of single-family rental homes nationwide, we take great pride in creating an enjoyable living experience for our residents – and an empowering, people-first culture for our team members. That’s why, for two years in a row, our employees have voted Progress a certified Great Place to Work®. **Why join Progress?** As the demand for professionally managed rental homes continues to grow, so do the opportunities at Progress. We’re looking for passionate professionals who are ready to grow with us, make a difference and be part of something meaningful. **Want to learn more?** Text “ProgressJobs” to 25000 to chat with Kate, our AI Recruiting Assistant. She can help you explore open roles, apply, and answer your questions in real time. 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. ## ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS - 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 tha…