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Posted: 10/20/2026Assistant Director – Construction
General MotorsCore Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading complex construction programs, including strategy setting, project controls, and contractor performance management. Proven ability to balance safety, quality, cost, and schedule while fostering a collaborative and accountable culture.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Construction ManagementProject ControlsDesign/Build DeliveryFinancial JudgmentExecutive Communication
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Set construction strategy, priorities, governance, and operating model for the assigned portfolio
- Lead Construction Group Managers and Project Managers across concurrent projects
- Balance portfolio priorities and intervene when project performance, organizational capacity, or business needs require leadership action
- Hold portfolio leaders accountable for commitments, performance, and timely escalation
- Advise senior leaders on capital priorities, delivery strategies, organizational capacity, enterprise trade-offs, and operational risk
- Oversee design/build contractor delivery from procurement and contract award through construction, commissioning, turnover, closeout, and warranty
- Direct contractor performance, changes, claims, contingency, supplier coordination, operational interfaces, and recovery actions
- Ensure consistent project controls for scope, funding, procurement, contracting, change, risk, document control, invoicing, reporting, and closeout
- Enforce safety, regulatory compliance, budget, schedule, quality, commissioning, and turnover requirements
- Identify and mitigate risks involving safety, cost, schedule, quality, permitting, constructability, operations, compliance, and business continuity
- Partner with business leaders, facility operations, Finance, Purchasing, Legal, Audit, Environmental, and other corporate functions
- Lead relationships with contractors, consultants, equipment providers, suppliers, and external partners
- Provide senior leaders with portfolio status, material risks, decisions, forecasts, and recovery recommendations
- Coach and develop Construction Group Managers, Project Managers, and construction professionals
- Build succession depth, strengthen capability, balance workload, and deploy talent to priority needs
- Champion organizational change and use data, lessons learned, technology, and industry practices to improve delivery predictability
- Foster an inclusive, accountable, collaborative, and safety-focused culture
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, business, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered
- Fifteen or more years of progressive experience leading complex industrial, manufacturing, commercial, infrastructure, or facilities construction programs
- Experience setting strategy, operating direction, performance expectations, and resource plans through project managers, construction managers, and other technical or delivery professionals across multiple complex projects
- Experience with design/build delivery, contractor performance, project controls, change management, commissioning, turnover, closeout, and warranty
- Strong knowledge of owner requirements, safety, cost control, scheduling, quality assurance, contracts, claims, delivery models, constructability, risk management, supplier performance, and operational readiness
- Proven financial and commercial judgment, including budgeting, forecasting, contingency, contract strategy, change management, and capital stewardship
- Strong executive communication, negotiation, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and stakeholder-influence skills
- Experience operating in a complex, matrixed organization across multiple sites, regions, functions, and cultures, including cross-border or North American environments
- Demonstrated judgment balancing safety, quality, cost, schedule, compliance, operational continuity, and long-term value
- GM immigration-related sponsorship is not provided; candidates must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future
- Ability to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week, or at another frequency dictated by the manager
- Ability to travel less than 25% for the role
Benefits
Comp & perks- Benefits supporting employee well-being at work and home
- Inclusive workplace and belonging-focused culture
- Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
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Hard Skills
Construction StrategyChange ManagementRisk ManagementBudgetingForecastingContract ManagementQuality AssuranceOperational ReadinessSupplier PerformanceCommissioning
Soft Skills
NegotiationProblem-SolvingConflict ResolutionStakeholder InfluenceCoaching
Industry Keywords
Industrial ConstructionManufacturingCommercial ConstructionInfrastructureFacilities ConstructionSafety ComplianceOperational ContinuityMatrixed OrganizationCross-Border OperationsCapital Stewardship