Regional Construction Operations Manager

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We believe construction services are more than project delivery, they’re about safeguarding quality, safety, and trust at every step. As part of HDR’s Field Services team, you’ll be on the front lines of infrastructure development, making sure that what’s designed is built to the highest standards. From highways and bridges to water treatment plants, transit systems, and power facilities, your work ensures that our clients’ visions become reality, with precision, integrity, and excellence. Our construction professionals; Construction Managers, Inspectors, Resident Engineers, and field specialists bring deep technical knowledge, hands-on experience, and a commitment to quality that sets industry benchmarks. Your contributions are critical to delivering successful, resilient infrastructure. This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to lead in the field, uphold the highest standards, and leave a legacy of quality that communities can rely on for generations. We are all employee-owners at HDR, which is the foundation of our collaborative culture that connects employees around the world.
 

HDR serves as the General Engineering Management Consultant (GEMC) to Florida's Turnpike Enterprise, supporting a multi-billion-dollar statewide transportation program across one of the nation's largest and most active toll highway systems. Working as an extension of Transportation Operations, our multidisciplinary team helps deliver major capital improvements while strengthening program delivery, operational performance, organizational effectiveness, and long-term workforce readiness. Our team offers opportunities to work alongside industry leaders on high-profile transportation projects while helping shape the future of one of Florida's premier transportation agencies.

We are currently seeking a Regional Constrution Operations Manager to join our team for this exciting program.

The purpose of this role is to ensure construction activities (with a value of $2B within the Pompano Beach region spanning from Miami-Dade County to St. Lucie County) are operationally ready, conflict-free, and customer-focused, and that construction decisions are made with full awareness of system-wide impacts, risks, and tradeoffs.

The selected candidate will translate enterprise priorities into executable construction operations and provides decision-ready recommendations to the FDOT Operations Center Program Manager and GEC Program Leadership.

In the role of Regional Construction Program Operations Manager, we'll count on you to be involved with:

Construction Program Ownership

• Serve as the program-level operational lead for all construction activities within the assigned region.
• Own the construction operational picture.
• Ensure construction activities align with enterprise safety, mobility, and reliability objectives.

Operational Coordination and Integration

• Coordinate construction activities with maintenance delivery, asset performance, incident response, and other operations functions through the .
• Identify and resolve operational conflicts between construction, maintenance, permitted work, and special events before they impact customers.
• Ensure no construction activity proceeds without proper Operations Center coordination and approval.

Risk Identification and Decision Support

• Proactively identify construction-related operational risks affecting safety, mobility, schedule, or asset condition.
• Prepare completed staff work for escalations, including analysis, impacts, and recommended actions.
• Support the FDOT Operations Center Program Manager and GEC Program Leadership with timely, decision-ready information.

Incident and Emergency Coordination

• Coordinate construction impacts and contractor response during incidents, emergencies, and severe weather events.
• Adjust or suspend construction activities as required to support incident response and system recovery.

• Participate in after-action reviews to improve future operational readiness.

   

Stakeholder and Industry Engagement

• Serve as a primary construction operations liaison with FDOT, contractors, CEI firms, and internal stakeholders.
• Set clear expectations for construction operational performance and work zone quality.
• Support a predictable and professional operating environment for industry partners.

 Performance Management and Continuous Improvement

• Monitor construction-related operational performance metrics and trends.
• Identify recurring issues, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Support refinement of procedures, standards, and operational practices within the MCOC framework.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15 years experience
• Professional Engineer License
• Has prior FDOT or Florida Turnpike experience

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