Marcon Engineering and Bilbro Constructions

Job Classification: Chief Operations Office -

Location: Escondido, CA

Travel Involved: 10 % - 20%

Job Type: Full Time

Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, Architecture, or Business Administration

Experience: 10 + Years of experience in Construction – Federal Industry Experience is desirable

Compensation: Competitive salary depending on experience $180,000 - $250,000

Company Information

Exciting career opportunity for a Chief Operations Officer to join a rapidly growing company. Marcon Engineering has comprehensive construction and engineering services for new construction, repair, retrofit, and renovations of existing structures, and general engineering construction. Our projects and services encompass industrial and commercial building, including the design and development of all aspects of construction.

Description

The Chief Operating Officer of Marcon Engineering Inc. plays a pivotal role in overseeing and optimizing all operational aspects of our General Construction company. This senior leadership position requires a strategic mindset, exceptional managerial skills, and deep industry knowledge to navigate challenges and ensure operational excellence, customer satisfaction, financial success, and business growth.

Job Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement strategic initiatives to enhance operational efficiency, profitability, and market competitiveness. Collaborate closely with executive team members to align operations with overall business objectives.

Operational Oversight: Direct and manage daily operations, including production planning, scheduling, quality control, and logistics. Ensure adherence to safety standards, regulatory requirements, and environmental policies.

Team Management: Lead and mentor a diverse team of managers and staff across various functions such as production, maintenance, procurement, and distribution. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and teamwork.

Financial Management: Drive financial performance through effective budgeting, cost control measures, and resource allocation. Analyze financial data and key performance indicators (KPIs) to make informed decisions and achieve operational targets.

Customer Focus: Maintain strong relationships with key customers, suppliers, and stakeholders. Address client inquiries and concerns promptly, striving to deliver exceptional service and meet client expectations.

Technology and Innovation: Identify and implement innovative technologies and best practices to optimize processes, reduce waste, and improve productivity. Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements.

Compliance and Safety: Ensure compliance with industry regulations, safety standards, and environmental policies. Promote a culture of safety awareness and responsibility throughout the organization.

Reporting and Communication: Prepare regular reports for executive management, highlighting operational performance, challenges, and opportunities. Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.

Required Competencies

Adaptability & Strategic Flexibility: Works best when working on a variety of goals or tasks. Is a "quick study"

for new tasks or roles. Has taken or is currently enrolled in outside business classes to advance his or her career.

Revisits strategies and plans when obstacles come up. Adapts to new information when conducting a job.

Articulate: Capable of speaking the language of business and trade. Intuit's meaning of new words or phrases from

context.

Customer Focus: Establishes “partner relationships” with customers. Dedicated to meeting customers

needs.

Delegation Skills: Clearly and comfortably delegates both routine and important tasks and decisions. Excellent

at follow through.

Leadership: This individual is a champion of sound management principles, including those of the Management Action Program (MAP), and is relentless in the pursuit of consistent implementation. Demonstrates the ability to adapt, including leading without authority. While possessing the ability to quickly analyze problems, find root causes and offer solutions is clear, this individual "leads" employees to the correct solutions providing a growth opportunity.

Managing Conflict: Actively searches for win/win solutions when confronted by conflict. Uses conflict as a

growth tool.

Personal Computer Skills: Uses personal computer as a performance tool. Uses several programs to

improve effectiveness.

Problem Solving/Negotiating: This individual must be strategic as it relates to this competency. A genuine concern for the needs of all stakeholders is demonstrated in every negotiation. While the ability to be direct and forceful is present, this individual is always diplomatic and fair and always treats people with respect. Problems are analyzed to expose core issues, solutions are researched as a result, and issues are resolved conclusively. This position requires great communication.

Stress Management: Not one-dimensional and helps keep others calm in the storm. Cool under stress and

pressure.

Team Player: Earns a reputation for leading peers towards support of what is best for the company. Reaches

out to peers to tear walls down.

Time Management/Organization: This individual prioritizes and organizes work to achieve results before deadlines.

He/she sets realistic goals to achieve deadlines. Uses time productively, delegates

effectively, and organizes in advance while integrating goals.

Trustworthiness: Without close oversight, this individual can be given overall responsibility for the division and is completely trustworthy to ensure that high levels of performance are maintained. This individual can be trusted with sensitive information, resources, or money with the confidence that it is secure.

Duties

Leadership: Provide mental and emotional stability, good direction, and clear goals within operations.

Team Building: Ensure each team member’s talents and abilities match up to their job duties and responsibilities by ensuring the necessary training and tools for success.

Financial: Develop, implement, and oversee budgets, Ownership of “Profit and Loss” Accountability of annual operations goals, Review, interpret, and discuss monthly JPR with CEO, Review and discuss monthly overhead with CEO, Prepare, review, and discuss monthly WiPs with CEO.

Sales: Strategize with the CEO for new business opportunities, strategize with the Director of BD sales forecast, sales goals, and sales force requirements, and meet weekly with the Director of BD and Business developers to review the current market and trends to develop action steps for project capture Coordinate with Director of BD/PM/Ops Manager the WIP (Work in Progress) schedule for bidding purposes, Review ALL RFPs with Chief Estimator, Coordinate ALL technical proposals, Strategize with the Director/estimating team on ALL bids, Create an in-house design-build team

Execution

Strong oral, written, and presentation communication skills including the ability to write reports, business correspondence, procedure manuals, and schedules. Run weekly “job status meeting”, review and approve weekly payroll, and review subcontractor status, labor, and material “budgets versus actuals” for each project weekly, monthly, or as required with PMs to ensure cost control and margins. Review ALL Sure track schedules weekly with PMs, review all subcontracts before sending for execution Oversee ALL subcontractor negotiations

Collection

Review and approve monthly billings, Review and approve COR and C/Os, Review and approve weekly AP, Review and approve “quick pays”, and Assist office manager with AR to ensure payments are received promptly

Benefits

• Health / Dental, 401K, PTO, Paid holidays after 90 days of employment, Bonus plan based on project performance, Job Type: Full-time, Pay: $180,000.00 - $250,000.00 per year

Disclaimer

Pay Range:

This job posting contains a pay range, which represents the range of salaries or hourly rates that the company believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting that it might be willing to pay for the posted job. The company expects to hire for this position near the middle of the compensation range. Only in truly rare and exceptional circumstances, where an external candidate has vast experience, credentials, or expertise that far exceed those required or expected for the position, would the company consider paying a salary or hourly rate near the higher end of the compensation range.

Position Terms / Expected Hours of Work:

Marcon Eng. salaried employees are expected to work a minimum of 40 hours per week During a busy season in some cases this position will require work on evenings, weekends, and holidays. This position is FLSA-exempt. Marcon Eng. is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment that reflects our incredibly diverse fan base. We provide an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants without regard to status as protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Travel: Occasional travel may be required in this role to job sites, off-site meetings, and or internal local events.