Director, National Self Perform

Swinerton•Raleigh, NC

13d

About The Position

The National Director of Self-Perform provides enterprise-wide leadership for all expert trade specific operations, ensuring consistent standards, best-in-class execution, and strong alignment across regions and divisions. This role develops and implements national strategy, leads growth initiatives to drive revenue and trade expertise market expansion, influences P/L performance, ensures operational excellence, drives standardization, and advances talent development to support predictable, high-quality outcomes across the company’s trade expertise portfolio.

Requirements

20+ years in trade expertise execution, estimating, and project management.
Strong field experience required.
Knowledgeable in scheduling, productivity, cost control, and formwork systems.
Proficient and current trade expertise knowledge/certification.
Familiarity with enterprise construction technology platforms.
Strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
Ability to travel regularly to support regional needs.

Responsibilities

Define and implement a national vision for the Self-Perform trade expertise program aligned with enterprise goals.
Promote a culture focused on safety, quality, productivity, and cost discipline.
Lead integration of trade expertise operations across markets and regions while honoring local and regional differences.
Set long-term business goals and maturation milestones for the trade expertise organization.
Develop and refine the Trade Expertise Center of Excellence to support consistent execution across the enterprise.
Serve as a strategic advisor to regional leaders on trade expertise means, methods, execution, and dispute resolution.
Establish and maintain national standards for planning, estimating, execution, formwork systems, sequencing, curing, and turnover documentation.
Collaborate with regional teams to select and validate final means and methods.
Maintain and update a centralized library of tools, templates, SOPs, and best practices.
Conduct periodic site inspections and performance audits to validate implementation and identify improvement opportunities.
Drive continuous improvement to enhance productivity, reduce waste, and support predictable project outcomes.
Ensure adoption of appropriate technology platforms to improve scheduling, tracking, and cost performance.
Provide executive oversight for preconstruction, estimating, planning, engineering, safety, and field execution of trade expertise work.
Ensure accurate and reliable cost estimates, schedules, procurement strategies, and formwork system selections.
Ensure trade expertise schedules are integrated into overall project schedules and maintained by project teams.
Partner with regional leaders on operational decision-making, risk mitigation, procurement, and vendor/supplier relationships.
Support operations teams through expert guidance on complex systems, sequencing, and constructability.
Provide performance reports, data analysis, and predictive metrics.
Influence P/L through standardization, cost control strategies, forecasting support, and staffing alignment.
Partner with Operations and Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and national planning.
Identify systemic risks tied to cost, schedule, equipment, and workforce; lead mitigation planning.
Oversee standardization of estimating platforms, databases, templates, and deliverables.
Support hiring, development, and retention of trade expertise leaders and field personnel.
Partner with our Talent team on craft recruitment, training and development to build a best-in-class trade expertise craft workforce.
Lead training programs for trade expertise planning, estimating, productivity improvement, formwork systems, placement practices, curing, and documentation.
Provide mentoring and coaching for trade expertise managers, superintendents, foremen, estimators, and project teams.
Train teams on cost/value management and constructability analysis.
Support regional leaders with career development planning and performance evaluations.
Lead the National Trade Expertise Council and publish updates.
Evaluate new industry standards, codes, technologies, and innovations.
Maintain lists of third-party advisors and specialty consultants.
Represent the company at industry events and conferences.
Champion a strong safety culture.
Identify regional risks and implement preventative strategies.