Regional Construction Manager

Qnity Electronics•Wimington, DE

About The Position

The Regional Construction Manager reports to the Qnity Global Construction Manager and is accountable for owner-side construction management across assigned Qnity capital projects. As the construction subject matter expert, the role develops execution strategies and leads construction activities from front-end loading and preconstruction through field execution, commissioning, startup, turnover, and closeout. The manager works with regional capital execution leaders, site engineering leaders, project team leaders, operations, engineering partners, and contractors to establish the resources, plans, controls, and governance needed for safe, predictable, high-quality project delivery. Performance is measured by safety, cost and schedule predictability, quality, productivity, operational readiness, and stakeholder engagement. The position manages multiple projects with support from leveraged resources and requires approximately 75% travel to U.S. sites, with potential future international travel. Qnity describes itself as a global leader in materials and solutions for advanced electronics and high-tech industries. The company offers a comprehensive pay and benefits package; details are available on its Compensation and Benefits page.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related discipline, or demonstrated equivalent competency through significant construction leadership experience.
At least 8 years of direct construction management experience on major, complex capital projects, including project leadership, construction management, and contract administration assignments.
Demonstrated experience with industrial shutdowns and turnarounds, including planning, work-package development, readiness reviews, schedule and resource coordination, execution, and closeout.
Demonstrated experience coordinating construction completion, mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning, startup, performance testing, and turnover to operations.
Broad knowledge of civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, controls, and process-related construction, including safe execution of high-risk work.
Mastery of construction contracting strategies, bid evaluation, contract administration, change management, claims avoidance, and contractor performance management.
Knowledge of value engineering and project-delivery approaches including EPC, EPCM, design-build, construction management at risk, and multi-prime contracting.
Strong knowledge of construction planning and controls, including cost forecasting, critical-path schedules, short-interval and look-ahead planning, progress measurement, productivity analysis, and risk management.
Proficiency or working familiarity with construction job-planning and project management platforms such as Procore, including mobile field adoption and document, field, cost, change, reporting, and schedule workflows.
Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, contracts, estimates, schedules, and technical documentation and translate them into executable field plans.
Demonstrated understanding of applicable safety, environmental, quality, building-code, permitting, and regulatory requirements.
Experience leading critical-lift reviews and developing project safety plans, construction hazard analyses, and mitigation plans.
Experience managing projects ranging from approximately $60 million to $200 million.
Ability to lead, direct, and influence cross-functional teams, site leadership, contractors, and stakeholders across multiple sites and regions.
Strong leadership, decision-making, problem-solving, negotiation, communication, planning, organization, conflict-resolution, and change-management skills.
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously in active operating environments.
Demonstrated commitment to an inclusive workplace and effective collaboration with diverse teams.
Ability to travel approximately up to 75% domestically, with some international travel as business needs require.

Nice To Haves

Professional credentials such as CCM, PMP, OSHA 30, or equivalent construction safety training.

Responsibilities

Provide owner-side construction leadership in the field and ensure safe, efficient, and compliant project delivery.
Develop and implement construction execution plans during front-end loading and preconstruction, covering constructability, work packaging, logistics, temporary facilities, resources, sequencing, outages, and risk mitigation.
Establish project safety plans, construction hazard reviews, permit-to-work expectations, critical-lift governance, and controls for other high-risk work.
Lead selection, onboarding, mobilization, performance management, and demobilization of contractors and construction management service partners.
Administer construction contracts and monitor contractor performance against scope, safety, quality, productivity, cost, schedule, and company values.
Coordinate with engineering, procurement, operations, maintenance, vendors, EPC firms, and site personnel to ensure drawings, specifications, materials, equipment, permits, and work fronts are available when needed.
Oversee construction material and equipment controls, including status tracking, owner-furnished equipment, receiving, warehousing, preservation, vendor documentation, startup spares, first fills, and special tools.
Coordinate construction permits, required inspections, regulatory approvals, and interfaces with authorities having jurisdiction.
Review engineering deliverables for constructability, completeness, quality, and readiness for gate reviews and field execution; manage RFIs, submittals, field changes, technical queries, and as-built documentation.
Develop, validate, and monitor baseline schedules, look-ahead plans, progress measurement, workforce forecasts, productivity indicators, and recovery plans.
Develop workforce and labor plans covering craft availability, staffing forecasts, labor relations, site access and badging, training, mobilization timing, and productivity improvement.
Manage construction cost performance, forecasts, commitments, change control, claims avoidance, and supporting documentation with project controls and commercial teams.
Develop and implement project quality plans, inspection and test plans, turnover packages, punch-list processes, and construction-work and deliverable audits.
Plan and lead shutdown and turnaround construction, including scope validation, work-package readiness, contractor coordination, isolation and permit interfaces, schedule integration, contingency planning, and safe execution.
Coordinate construction completion, mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning, startup, performance testing, system turnover, and operational handoff.
Lead operational-readiness reviews and Pre-Startup Safety Reviews to verify system, procedure, training, safeguard, documentation, and action readiness before introducing energy or process materials.
Manage systems completion, including system and subsystem boundaries, completion databases, acceptance criteria, deficiency tracking, turnover dossiers, and punch-list prioritization based on commissioning and startup criticality.
Maintain daily reports, meeting records, decision logs, risk and issue registers, progress updates, and lessons learned.
Implement construction execution metrics, targets, dashboards, and improvement actions to support predictable performance and continuous improvement.
Protect company intellectual property and trade secrets in accordance with corporate and business requirements.
Communicate with project sponsors, project team leaders, site leadership, plant personnel, contractors, and other stakeholders, and promptly escalate emerging risks and decisions.