Regional Construction Program Operations Manager

About the Role

The purpose of this role is to ensure construction activities (with a value of $2B within the Pompano Beach region spanning from Miami-Dade County to St. Lucie County) are operationally ready, conflict-free, and customer-focused, and that construction decisions are made with full awareness of system-wide impacts, risks, and tradeoffs.

The selected candidate will translate enterprise priorities into executable construction operations and provides decision-ready recommendations to the FDOT Operations Center Program Manager and GEC Program Leadership.

Responsibilities

In the role of Regional Construction Program Operations Manager, we'll count on you to be involved with:

Construction Program Ownership

• Serve as the program-level operational lead for all construction activities within the assigned region.
• Own the construction operational picture.
• Ensure construction activities align with enterprise safety, mobility, and reliability objectives.

Operational Coordination and Integration

• Coordinate construction activities with maintenance delivery, asset performance, incident response, and other operations functions through the .
• Identify and resolve operational conflicts between construction, maintenance, permitted work, and special events before they impact customers.
• Ensure no construction activity proceeds without proper Operations Center coordination and approval.

Risk Identification and Decision Support

• Proactively identify construction-related operational risks affecting safety, mobility, schedule, or asset condition.
• Prepare completed staff work for escalations, including analysis, impacts, and recommended actions.
• Support the FDOT Operations Center Program Manager and GEC Program Leadership with timely, decision-ready information.

Incident and Emergency Coordination

• Coordinate construction impacts and contractor response during incidents, emergencies, and severe weather events.
• Adjust or suspend construction activities as required to support incident response and system recovery.
• Participate in after-action reviews to improve future operational readiness.

Stakeholder and Industry Engagement

• Serve as a primary construction operations liaison with FDOT, contractors, CEI firms, and internal stakeholders.
• Set clear expectations for construction operational performance and work zone quality.
• Support a predictable and professional operating environment for industry partners.

Performance Management and Continuous Improvement

• Monitor construction-related operational performance metrics and trends.
• Identify recurring issues, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Support refinement of procedures, standards, and operational practices within the MCOC framework.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 10 years related experience
• A minimum of 5 years of project management experience
• Familiar with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software, project management software
• Must have the ability to interact with various design teams, have excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

Preferred Qualifications

• 15 years experience
• Professional Engineer License
• Has prior FDOT or Florida Turnpike experience