Chief Executive Officer
$175,000–$200,000 year
On-siteHarmans, Maryland, United States
Job Summary
Lead multi-site operations for construction, recurring service, maintenance, and 24/7 emergency response across five locations in Maryland and Virginia. Own divisional and job-level financial results, including gross margin, budgets, forecasts, working capital, and cost control. Build consistent operating systems using job-cost reviews, branch scorecards, and clear management accountability. Oversee business development, estimating, capture strategy, pricing, bonding, and key customer relationships for both government and commercial growth. Develop managers and supervisors while evaluating organic expansion, new locations, and potential acquisitions. Maintain strong safety and compliance performance around OSHA, DOT, traffic control, and contractual requirements. Report directly to the CEO with substantial travel among locations in the first 90 days.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in construction management, business, finance, or a related discipline.
- Operating leadership in a multi-site business with at least $50 million in annual revenue, including direct P&L responsibility.
- Experience leading field service, construction, industrial services, infrastructure, or another skilled-trades operation in which company crews perform work at customer sites.
- A documented record of developing technical or field-based employees into effective managers and making sound accountability and staffing decisions.
- Substantive public-sector or institutional contracting experience, including competitive bids, IDIQ or term contracts, bonding, prequalification, compliance, claims, and change orders.
- Strong financial and commercial judgment, including job costing, WIP, budgets, forecasts, margin analysis, working capital, capital planning, and cash-flow management.
- Executive presence and the ability to represent the company with customers, agencies, sureties, lenders, insurers, attorneys, architects, engineers, and other stakeholders.
- Willingness to work primarily on-site and travel regularly among LMI locations in Maryland and Virginia.
Desired Qualifications
- Electrical, utility, roadway lighting, telecommunications, heavy-highway, mechanical, HVAC, or comparable specialty-contracting experience.
- Experience with state DOT, municipal, federal, GSA Schedule, IDIQ, NAVFAC, USACE, prevailing-wage, or certified-payroll work.
- M&A, due diligence, integration, greenfield branch development, or geographic expansion experience.
- MBA, PE, CPA, or another relevant advanced credential; experience with contractor ERP, project-management, fleet, and business-intelligence systems.
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