Director, Construction Project Management

About GlobalFoundries:

GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com.

Summary of Role:

The Director, Construction Project Management is a key member of the Owner’s Project Team, responsible for providing comprehensive oversight and leadership across all construction-related activities for semiconductor fab projects, including new fab construction, facility expansions, cleanroom projects, and supporting infrastructure.

The role requires a holistic understanding of the complete project delivery lifecycle, encompassing Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, and Environmental, Health, Safety & Security (EHSS).

Acting as the Owner’s representative, the Senior Construction Manager ensures that all engineering partners, EPC/EPCM contractors, construction management firms, subcontractors, and suppliers execute their scope in accordance with the project’s safety expectations, technical requirements, quality standards, cost targets, and schedule commitments.

The position is responsible for maintaining full visibility of project execution, proactively identifying risks, challenging contractor performance, coordinating interfaces, and ensuring that all decisions support the Owner’s business objectives and successful delivery of a safe, operational, and reliable semiconductor facility.

Safety is the highest priority and a fundamental condition of project execution. The Senior Construction Manager is expected to establish a strong safety culture, demonstrate visible leadership, and ensure that EHSS requirements are integrated into every phase of project delivery.

Essential Responsibilities:

A. Owner’s Team Leadership & Project Oversight

• Act as the Owner’s primary construction representative, providing leadership and oversight across all construction-related project activities.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the overall project, including engineering development, procurement strategy, construction execution, commissioning, cost, schedule, quality, and EHSS performance.
• Ensure alignment between construction execution and the Owner’s project objectives, business requirements, operational readiness, and strategic priorities.
• Establish clear expectations, governance, reporting structures, and performance management processes for EPC/EPCM partners, construction managers, and contractors.
• Proactively challenge contractor plans, execution strategies, staffing, productivity, and performance to ensure that commitments are achieved.
• Identify emerging risks, critical decisions, and potential deviations early, driving timely corrective actions and escalation when required.
• Ensure effective collaboration among the Owner’s Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Project Controls, Quality, EHSS, Commissioning, and Operations teams.
• Provide regular, fact-based updates to project leadership on execution status, critical risks, mitigation plans, and recovery strategies.

B. Engineering Oversight & Constructability

• Maintain oversight of engineering development to ensure designs are aligned with construction sequencing, field execution requirements, safety, quality, cost, and schedule objectives.
• Ensure constructability, installation methodology, temporary works, access, logistics, and construction sequencing are adequately addressed during design development.
• Drive early identification and resolution of design gaps, interdisciplinary clashes, scope overlaps, and interface issues.
• Ensure engineering deliverables, specifications, drawings, and material requirements are released in line with the construction schedule and procurement needs.
• Challenge design solutions that create unnecessary construction complexity, excessive cost, schedule exposure, or EHSS risk.
• Ensure appropriate coordination between process, architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, piping, cleanroom, controls, and facilities engineering disciplines.
• Support design reviews, constructability reviews, risk assessments, and value engineering initiatives.
• Ensure field changes and design modifications are properly reviewed, approved, documented, and communicated to all affected stakeholders.

C. Procurement & Contract Strategy Oversight

• Maintain visibility of procurement strategies, bid packages, contract awards, long-lead equipment, critical materials, and supplier delivery commitments affecting construction.
• Work closely with Procurement, Contracts, Engineering, and Project Controls to ensure that contract scopes are complete, coordinated, and aligned with the execution strategy.
• Challenge procurement packages to ensure appropriate definition of scope, interfaces, deliverables, schedule obligations, quality requirements, and EHSS expectations.
• Ensure critical equipment, bulk materials, subcontractors, and specialist resources are identified and mobilized in line with construction needs.
• Monitor procurement progress and identify potential supply-chain constraints that could affect field productivity or critical-path milestones.
• Support bid evaluations and contractor selection by assessing execution capability, relevant semiconductor experience, safety performance, resources, and proposed methodologies.
• Ensure effective management of scope gaps, change orders, commercial risks, and contractual interfaces in coordination with the appropriate Owner’s representatives.
• Promote competitive bidding, transparency, accountability, and best-value outcomes for the Owner.

D. Construction Execution & Field Management

• Lead and oversee construction execution across the project site, ensuring activities are performed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with approved plans and specifications.
• Establish and enforce construction execution plans, sequencing strategies, work-front readiness requirements, logistics plans, and contractor coordination processes.
• Maintain an integrated view of all construction packages, including site preparation, civil and structural works, building envelope, cleanroom construction, mechanical and electrical systems, process utilities, and facility infrastructure.
• Oversee installation and integration of critical semiconductor facility systems, including HVAC, ultrapure water, wastewater, specialty gases, chemicals, bulk gases, electrical distribution, controls, and other relevant fab systems.
• Coordinate cleanroom readiness, equipment installation interfaces, automated material handling systems (AMHS), inter-fab connections, and tool-installation requirements.
• Ensure construction activities are properly planned and sequenced to support system turnover, commissioning, qualification, and operational readiness.
• Monitor contractor productivity, manpower loading, work-front availability, material readiness, installation quality, and schedule performance.
• Conduct regular site inspections, coordination meetings, executive field walks, and performance reviews.
• Drive resolution of construction constraints, field conflicts, rework, and interface issues through clear ownership and timely action.
• Ensure robust control of construction changes, permits, work authorizations, temporary facilities, and site logistics.
• Promote disciplined execution, field accountability, and continuous improvement across all contractors and construction partners.

E. EHSS Leadership – Highest Priority

• Demonstrate visible, proactive EHSS leadership and establish a culture in which every injury, incident, and unsafe condition is preventable.
• Ensure that safety is treated as the first priority in every construction decision, planning activity, contractor interaction, and execution review.
• Maintain accountability for EHSS performance across all construction contractors, subcontractors, and other site partners, working in close coordination with the dedicated EHSS organization.
• Ensure EHSS requirements are integrated into engineering reviews, procurement specifications, contractor selection, mobilization, construction planning, and field execution.
• Establish clear contractor safety expectations, leading indicators, performance targets, and accountability mechanisms.
• Ensure effective implementation of job hazard analyses, pre-task planning, daily safety briefings, permit-to-work systems, and task-specific risk assessments.
• Drive rigorous control of high-risk activities, including work at height, lifting operations, electrical work, confined-space entry, hot work, excavation, temporary works, and simultaneous operations.
• Ensure appropriate controls for chemical handling, hazardous materials, pressure systems, energized equipment, and other semiconductor-specific construction hazards.
• Conduct regular field safety walks, leadership safety engagements, targeted inspections, and unannounced site observations.
• Engage directly with workers, supervisors, contractor leadership, and EHSS professionals to identify unsafe conditions and reinforce safe behaviors.
• Ensure incidents, near misses, and high-potential events are promptly reported, investigated, and addressed through effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Intervene when work is unsafe and ensure activities are stopped when necessary until risks are adequately controlled.
• Challenge contractor leadership when safety performance or behaviors do not meet the Owner’s expectations, escalating significant deficiencies and requiring demonstrated improvement.
• Promote workforce engagement, stop-work authority, learning, and shared responsibility for site safety.
• Ensure construction activities comply with applicable legal requirements, site standards, environmental controls, and security requirements.

F. Schedule, Cost & Project Controls

• Maintain a detailed understanding of the integrated project schedule, critical path, key milestones, construction sequencing, and commissioning interfaces.
• Ensure construction plans are aligned with engineering deliverables, procurement dates, material availability, and work-front readiness.
• Identify schedule threats early and drive practical mitigation, acceleration, and recovery plans with accountable owners.
• Challenge contractor progress reporting and validate reported progress against actual field installation and measurable completion criteria.
• Coordinate with Project Controls to monitor cost performance, productivity, forecast-at-completion, change exposure, and potential schedule impacts.
• Support evaluation of contractor claims, variations, and extensions of time through documented facts and coordination with Contracts and Project Controls.
• Ensure appropriate management attention is directed toward critical-path activities, constrained work fronts, and major interfaces.
• Balance schedule and cost pressures against safety, quality, and long-term operational requirements.

G. Quality, Commissioning & Operational Readiness

• Ensure construction execution meets approved design documents, technical specifications, inspection and test plans, and applicable codes and standards.
• Establish strong expectations for installation quality, inspection discipline, documentation, testing, and defect prevention.
• Drive early identification and resolution of nonconformances, deficiencies, and rework.
• Ensure turnover packages, test records, inspection documentation, as-built drawings, and system completion records are complete and traceable.
• Coordinate with Commissioning, Facilities, Process Engineering, Equipment Installation, and Operations teams to ensure systems are delivered in a condition suitable for testing, qualification, and operational use.
• Support systemization, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, and performance verification activities.
• Ensure construction priorities are aligned with the fab ramp-up strategy, tool-installation sequence, and operational readiness milestones.
• Promote a right-first-time approach and ensure that quality deficiencies do not compromise safety, reliability, maintainability, or production readiness.

H. Interface & Stakeholder Management

• Establish effective coordination between engineering disciplines, procurement packages, construction contractors, equipment suppliers, commissioning teams, and site operations.
• Manage interfaces between base-build construction, cleanroom delivery, facility systems, process equipment, AMHS, and existing operational facilities.
• Ensure clear demarcation of responsibilities, scope boundaries, deliverables, and handover requirements across all parties.
• Lead coordination meetings to resolve critical issues and ensure decisions are translated into field actions.
• Build productive relationships with contractor executives, project leadership, functional managers, and site stakeholders.
• Ensure effective communication and escalation of issues requiring Owner decisions or executive intervention.

Other Responsibilities:

• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Typically 15+ years of relevant experience in major industrial, high-technology, pharmaceutical, data center, or semiconductor construction projects, with substantial leadership experience on complex capital projects.
• Demonstrated experience in semiconductor fab construction, cleanroom facilities, advanced manufacturing, or similarly complex industrial environments.
• Proven experience working within an Owner’s Project Team, EPC/EPCM organization, or major construction management organization.
• Strong understanding of the complete project delivery lifecycle, including engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and project controls.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple contractors and packages while maintaining an integrated view of overall project execution.
• Strong knowledge of construction methodologies, sequencing, constructability, installation planning, field coordination, and interface management.
• Demonstrated EHSS leadership in complex construction environments, including high-risk work management and contractor safety performance.
• Experience with contract management, procurement processes, change management, schedule control, cost management, and quality assurance.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor facilities infrastructure, cleanroom requirements, process utilities, and tool-installation interfaces.
• Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to challenge contractor performance constructively and influence senior stakeholders without relying solely on direct reporting authority.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project management skills - i.e., the ability to innovate and execute on solutions that matter; the ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong planning & organizational skills.

Expected Salary Range

$152,000.00 - $266,000.00

The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.