Senior Project Delivery Services Manager

Who we are:

Build your career with Boldt. As a member of the Boldt team, you’ll collaborate with some of the most knowledgeable professionals in the construction industry. You’ll have the chance to learn new skills and seek greater responsibilities with a team that builds real value in the world around you. You’ll succeed in a workplace culture that recognizes, respects, and values differences. Boldt’s focus on innovation, collaboration, and employee development provides an opportunity for all our employees to Build Boldly.

How your role fits into Boldt:

As a Senior Project Delivery Services Manager for The Boldt Company, you will provide regional leadership to implement and create organizational capability for Boldt’s Integrated Lean Project Delivery® methods on all Boldt projects. The Manager provides leadership and support for the subject matter experts responsible for directly developing and implementing ILPD methods, including the Project Start-up Planner (PSP), Boldt Production System (BPS), Production Tracking and Earned Value Management, Built-in Quality (BiQ), Target Value Design (TVD), and others. This role will also provide leadership to those individuals providing frontline coaching to teams implementing these methods. This role also seeks to continuously improve existing parts of the ILPD approach, innovates and develops new methods, and ensures that the ILPD approach is connected with innovative technology, equipment, tools, and work methods. This role will report directly to the Corporate Operations Project Delivery Services Leader and support and be aligned with the Regional Operations Manager(s).

What you get to do:

• Collaborate with other leaders and subject matter experts to support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Boldt’s ILPD approach to delivering projects.
• Build capability in our project delivery professionals to lead and sustain ongoing development and implementation of ILPD methods to assure that processes are delivering and improving business results across all value indicators (safety, people, quality, schedule and cost).
• In coordination with the Operations & Op Ex Team, collaborate to shape Boldt’s Project Delivery approach (e.g., Kaizen/ PDCA, problem solving, A3 deployment, value stream mapping, daily management systems, standardized work, coaching kata, metrics, visual displays). Mentor and develop team members on these topics.
• Provide leadership in the advancement of processes, principles, behaviors and practices that support the Boldt’s ILPD Delivery Methods.
• Improve and deliver lean project delivery education and development programs to build the lean culture and ILPD capabilities of project personnel.
• Cultivate a sense of ownership and accountability among Operations teams for implementing and improving ILPD processes and methods.
• Lead and coach operations to develop, implement and improve ILPD processes in service of improved project results.
• Help guide the development of processes, requirements and guidelines for supply chain and production plans in terms of flow and pull through the value stream.
• Build capability in Boldt teams to conduct Gemba Walks and field observations to work together to analyze current state operations and to build capability to identify challenges, obstacles or problems and develop improvement plans to improve standard processes.
• Collaborate to develop our approach for removing structural constraints to Lean implementation and innovation by our field leaders.
• Develop strategies to enable project staff to implement approaches that improve our field crew’s ability to create a lean culture of continuous improvement.
• Ensure proper application of the Integrated Production Planning and Financial Forecasting efforts for Boldt self-perform work and trade partner work (when applicable). Ensure updating of visual and other project control systems to promote continuous improvement and the growth and development of our field operations team.
• Support development and training of the Target Value Design process for design and construction.
• Provide lean facilitator coaching to Boldt staff.

What we expect from you:

• Four-year Bachelor’s degree in management, construction, engineering, business, or equivalent area of study. Advanced degree or training is preferred.

• Ten years of business experience with a minimum of five years in Lean Implementation or Lean Project Delivery, or equivalent combinations of instruction and related experience.

• Experience with continuous improvement tools such as Kaizen/ PDCA, problem solving, A3 deployment, value stream mapping, daily management systems, standardized work, coaching kata metric