Field Operations Manager
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Austin, TX, USA
In PersonTravel as needed.
Architecture & Civil EngineeringConstruction Management
About the job
Requirements
- Strong leadership and coaching ability for managing field teams across multiple states.
- Deep knowledge of multifamily and commercial electrical systems and construction sequencing.
- Proficiency in Procore, Bluebeam, and Microsoft Office.
- Ability to make data-driven decisions and forecast and allocate manpower.
- Ability to communicate and resolve conflicts with internal teams and external partners, including general contractors, subcontractors, and vendors.
- Organizational discipline and ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
- At least 10 years of experience in electrical construction, including at least 5 years in a leadership or supervisory capacity.
- Proven track record managing large-scale multifamily and commercial projects with electrical scopes of $15 million or more.
- Strong financial acumen and labor and cost management experience.
- Experience in labor forecasting and workforce planning across multiple concurrent projects.
- Willingness to travel as needed.
Responsibilities
- Oversee day-to-day field execution across multiple multifamily projects, driving labor productivity, enforcing quality assurance and quality control standards, managing General Superintendents and specialized field roles, and aligning operations with company key performance indicators, Wildly Important Goals, and operational goals.
- Translate strategy into measurable field results and serve as the bridge between Field Operations and Executive Leadership.
- Directly manage General Superintendents, Superintendents, and support staff.
- Mentor and coach field leaders to ensure consistent execution and professional growth.
- Drive accountability across field teams using dashboards, trackers, and scoreboards.
- Hire, onboard, develop, and terminate field leadership positions in alignment with company policy and culture standards.
- Implement and monitor the Labor Plan, Labor Plan Tracker, and work-in-progress tracking across projects.
- Ensure effective use of Procore/Trimble for quality assurance and quality control, observations, and submittals, and Open Space and Bluebeam for markups.
- Oversee manpower planning and allocation across regions to meet schedule demands.
- Forecast short-term and long-term labor needs based on backlog, awarded projects, and schedule projections.
- Coordinate project startup and closeout processes, ensuring compliance with Hays Electrical standards, project specifications, and best practices.
- Identify risks, means, and methods in project kick-off meetings.
- Enforce quality assurance and quality control standards through scheduled field audits and Superintendent oversight.
- Support safety initiatives in collaboration with the Safety Department, ensuring adherence to Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Hays policies.
- Ensure projects meet contractual requirements, specifications, and local and state electrical codes.
- Monitor project key performance indicators, including productivity, labor efficiency, schedule, and cost versus budget performance, and collaborate with project managers as needed to formulate mitigation plans.
- Support stakeholders with reporting in Weekly Alignment Meetings.
- Serve as the primary liaison between Executive Leadership and field operations.
- Promote Hays Electrical’s core values and cultural initiatives: Excellence, Safety, Drive, Communication, and Client Focus.
- Drive consistent implementation of companywide initiatives, including Bootcamps, the Trailblazer program, and idea submissions.
- Meet labor performance, labor forecasting accuracy, schedule performance, project startup and closeout, quality compliance, safety, financial reporting, gross margin, retention, training, and team-improvement targets specified in the posting.
Desired Qualifications
- Master Electrician or Journeyman license (preferred, not required).
About the company
Hays Electrical Services installs electrical systems for large construction projects across the United States, from hotels and hospitals to apartment towers and data centers. Many of its jobs are renovations inside buildings that stay open, such as busy hotels, an active hospital and an airport terminal, so crews phase work around guests and patients. Building owners and general contractors hire it for a project's electrical scope, from estimating and 3D design coordination through prefabrication, installation and later service calls. Its crews also install low-voltage systems such as fire alarms, security equipment and data cabling. Hays Electrical Services was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
2007
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Hays says growth is creating jobs: it cites 146% corporate headcount growth over two years, from LinkedIn workforce data.
- One Dallas data center posting adds incentive pay: Hays lists journeymen at up to $48 an hour plus $10 hourly.
- Injuries have not cost crews workdays: Hays reports a zero lost-time injury rate for 2023 through 2025.
What critics are saying
- Some field leadership jobs mean travel: Hays posts traveling foreman and superintendent roles listed as remote or nationwide.
- Solar contracts put cash at risk: Hays' utility solar managers track contract penalties and retainage, money withheld until completion.
- Apprenticeship means night school: classes meet on set weekdays from 5 to 9 PM, about 40 weeks a year.
What makes Hays Electrical Services unique
- Power-ups have one gatekeeper: on data center jobs, Hays' Energy Marshal controls energizing and lockout of circuits.
- Hays trains its own electricians: a four-year apprenticeship it co-created, registered with the Labor Department, admits only Hays employees.
- Hays is set up for out-of-state work: the contractor reports licenses in 38 states.
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