Project Executive – Power

Role Summary

The Project Executive provides overall executive leadership for project acquisition, contract negotiations, client relations, budget management, and trade partner strategy across Simple Cycle, Combined Cycle (CCGT), Air-Cooled Condenser (ACC), Cogeneration (CHP), and Balance of Plant (BOP) installations. This role oversees managers and technical staff across multiple departments, driving business growth and major project execution excellence. The Project Executive serves as the direct executive point of contact for energy clients, power plant owners, and EPC partners while leading compliance with NERC/OSHA standards and Yates safety and quality protocols.

Autonomy & Decision-Making

Operates with executive-level autonomy, leading strategic EPC contract negotiations, complex power market project acquisitions, financial P&L oversight, and resource allocation across major power plant installation divisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Executive Leadership & Team Recruitment: Recruits, assembles, and builds high-performing project teams skilled in heavy civil, mechanical, structural, and electrical power plant delivery. Supervises managers and multi-departmental staff to exceed project milestones.
• Project Acquisition & Business Growth: Generates leads across power plant developers, energy clients, and industrial facilities, leads complex EPC/Design-Build RFP processes, and participates in executive contract negotiations.
• Pre-Construction & Project Start-Up: Works with pre-construction teams to establish interconnect timelines, long-lead equipment procurement strategies (turbines, boilers, transformers), and baseline schedules, leading key turnover meetings.
• Operations & P&L Governance: Maintains full accountability for Accounts Receivable, cash flow forecasting, and P&L across power generation portfolios. Regularly visits site locations during Simple Cycle, CCGT, ACC, CHP, and BOP installations to monitor production, environmental compliance, and safety.
• Client & Executive Relationship Management: Serves as the direct executive point of contact for plant owners, power executives, and engineering partners, building long-term alliances to capture future energy projects.
• Lean & Safety Strategy: Champions high-voltage and heavy industrial safety programs and leads implementation of Lean construction principles, off-site pre-assembly, and baseline schedule maintenance across remote and complex site footprints.

Qualifications & Experience

Experience: Minimum 15+ years of overall general construction experience, 10+ years in construction management leadership with direct oversight of multiple medium-to-large power generation projects ($100M+), specifically including Simple Cycle, Combined Cycle (CCGT), Air-Cooled Condensers (ACC), Cogeneration (CHP), or Balance of Plant (BOP) scope.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering.

Skills & Alignment: Proficient in project control and management software including Primavera P6, MS Project, and Project Sight. Strong operational knowledge of EPC delivery models, legal provisions affecting profitability, alignment with Yates core values, and advanced analytical problem-solving skills.

About Yates Construction

Ranked among the top commercial and industrial construction companies in the country by Engineering News-Record, Yates Construction is family-owned. It provides a wide range of construction and building services. Incorporated in 1964 by William G. Yates Jr., we have steadily grown to become one of the nation's top commercial and industrial construction companies. We are financially sound, with a significant bonding capacity and vast personnel and equipment resources. Our portfolio includes commercial and industrial projects from various sectors, including arts and culture, civil, commercial, education, entertainment and gaming, federal, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, municipal, retail, and technology. We work hard to understand our clients' business needs and continually look for opportunities to add value to them and their projects. Our client relationships are the foundation of our success, and our primary goal is to help each of our clients achieve their vision. We do this by carefully managing the details and complexities of each project and communicating constantly with all team members.

Yates Construction provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal and state law requirements. Yates complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities.