Head of Project Management

Palermo Rhodes•Lafayette, CO

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Our client is an ultra-high-end architectural millwork company with projects ranging from $2M to $9M in the country's most elite mountain resort markets — Aspen, Jackson Hole, Telluride, and Big Sky among them. Established for decades and based between Denver and Boulder, the company operates a large, modern facility with state-of-the-art machinery, in-house veneer and finishing departments, and dedicated installation crews. The work spans complex staircases, paneling, custom cabinetry, closets, wine rooms, doors, and specialty furniture for some of the most elite homes in the country — and in these markets, millwork is typically the single largest subcontracted scope on the project. The company is the craft flagship of a three-company manufacturing platform in a sustained growth phase. The platform runs on EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System), and its growth goal is explicitly a people goal: developing exceptional leaders is treated as the binding constraint on growth, and this role is part of that investment. The Director of Project Management owns the company's entire PM function — leading a team of client-facing PMs who each run $2M–$9M projects for sophisticated, high-net-worth clients in the most demanding mountain markets in the country. This is a working leader role, not a desk job. You'll actively manage a reduced project load of your own — smaller than a standard PM carries — so you stay inside the work you're leading, not removed from it. The rest of your capacity goes to building the leadership layer: developing and holding the PM team accountable, setting the standard for how projects run, and making the company's execution as consistent as its craft. It's also explicitly structured as the growth path to the company's General Manager seat. The leadership team deliberately chose to develop the next GM from inside the PM function rather than hire one from outside — because there is no better place to learn this business than driving its projects. Success in this role is measured with that next step in mind.

Requirements

Experience leading a PM team — or clear readiness to — in high-end architectural millwork, custom cabinetry, or comparable luxury residential or commercial construction.
Big-project fluency: you have run projects in the $3M+ range and understand the complexity of managing work at that scale. Strong commercial millwork backgrounds (hospitality, institutional, office) translate well here.
Estimating fluency, or a genuine appetite to build it — this role holds that bar for the whole team.
Strong at developing people and building cross-functional trust, not just managing projects.
Humility and curiosity. This business is highly complex, and the strongest candidates are energized by that, not intimidated by it.
Wants a real leadership seat with a clear, stated path to General Manager — and is willing to earn it from inside the work.
No degree required — real-world experience carries more weight here than credentials.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on background in the shop, engineering, or field installation is a real plus — firsthand knowledge of how the work actually gets built shows up as sharper judgment, better GC conversations, and fewer surprises on site.
Passion for the product. At this level of craft, process discipline alone isn't enough — the people who thrive here genuinely love the work itself.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and hold accountable a team of client-facing project managers — building a visible bench of PMs growing toward their own leadership paths under your mentorship.
Actively project-manage a reduced load of work, leading from inside the projects rather than above them.
Set and hold the bar the company's strongest PMs already model: own the portfolio like the CEO of a business — full ownership of outcomes, estimating fluency, and disciplined change-order review across the team.
Build real, earned relationships across Estimating, Engineering, Production, and Installation — strong enough to move projects fast without friction, and without owner-dependent troubleshooting.
Strengthen relationships with GCs, architects, and designers through consistent, high-trust delivery — including coordinating scopes with sister-company PMs when multiple platform entities share a project, so the GC has a single point of contact.
Run project scheduling and tracking in INNERGY (millwork ERP) and lead the PM team's EOS meeting and scorecard rhythms.