Vice President Project Management

**Job Summary** The Vice President of Project Management is responsible for allocating resources and developing strategies to ensure the timely completion of all assigned Dant Clayton projects while adhering to contractual obligations with customers regarding safety, schedule, scope, quality, and administrative responsibilities. This position provides leadership, management, and direction to all employees in the Project Management Department while ensuring a best-in-class customer experience (Cx). In addition, the Vice President of Project Management has full P&L responsibility for Dant Clayton custom stadia and railing projects, meeting or exceeding project selling margins that support the company's operating income goals. This is a key executive position reporting to the President & CEO and will be a member of the Dant Clayton Strategic Leadership Team (SLT). **Duties & Responsibilities:** • Responsible for the oversight and execution of all assigned Dant Clayton custom stadia and railing projects. • Provides leadership, management, and direction to project management resources. • Manages the construction health and safety program in collaboration with the Dant Clayton safety task force team. • Proactively manages risk in project delivery and collaborates with project management and cross-functional leaders to mitigate. • Owns construction dispute resolution and legal process in collaboration with outside counsel representing Dant Clayton. • Manages the contract review, negotiation, and execution process for Dant Clayton, including the successful resolution of customer contract disputes. • Collaborates with Finance Team (AR) and Project Management resources to ensure positive cash flow for the business and resolving payment matters with customers timely. • Responsible for ensuring that the desired financial margins are achieved on all assigned projects. • Responsible for the vetting and building of a pipeline of qualified subcontractor base to support construction demand, including hosting an annual subcontractor summit • Responsible for ensuring the proper labor is in place to meet and exceed project deadlines, quality assurance requirements, and overall customer demands. • Responsible for ensuring that open and consistent communication is occurring internally and externally regarding project updates, milestones, and timelines. • Creates and executes customer experience (Cx) strategies and tactics pertaining to project delivery and completion. • Manages the team’s efforts in the customer contract negotiation process, adhering to established completion timelines. • Responsible for ensuring that all Dant Clayton’s subcontractors on assigned projects have the skills and abilities to perform the work up to company standards. • Establish and maintain departmental KPIs/metrics to measure performance • Timely assignment of Project Management resources, ensuring an efficient and quality hand-off process from Sales to Operations • Involvement in the company budgeting and forecasting process, including the creation and management of the Project Management Team. • Responsible for problem-solving and conflict resolution in customer-escalated matters on an as-needed basis for assigned projects and staff. • Partners with human resources to create succession plans and employee development strategies. • Partners with human resources to proactively address employee matters such as performance, behavioral, and organizational changes, etc. • Must deliver annual performance evaluations to all assigned employees in accordance with company policies. • Collaborates with other Dant Clayton departments as needed to ensure projects are completed on time and within scope. • Explores and implements (in collaboration with IT) new and evolving technology in Project Management to ensure Dant Clayton is always continually improving. • Travels to project sites when necessary to observe, analyze, and ensure all aspects are on track, safe, and up to quality…