{"id":2946157,"url":"https://alion.io/job/general-motors-assistant-director-construction","title":"Assistant Director, Construction","company":{"id":1705,"name":"General Motors","domain":"gm.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/general-motors-europe","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":87,"open_postings":66,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.727,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":13,"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Detroit, United States","United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":121000,"max_usd":242000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":588},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-20T18:46:38Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-20","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T01:41:24Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"Job Description\nOverview\nGeneral Motors Construction is responsible for planning, designing, and executing more than $2B in facility capital projects annually across manufacturing and non-manufacturing facilities. The Assistant Director, Construction is accountable for safe, predictable, and high-quality execution across this complex North American portfolio. The role leads through Construction Group Managers and Project Managers across concurrent projects, with accountability for portfolio priorities and execution performance.\nThe role owns delivery from design/build contract award through mobilization, field execution, commissioning, turnover, closeout, and warranty. Partnering closely with the Director of Planning, Design, and Engineering and other functional leaders, the Assistant Director converts approved scope and technical direction into successful construction outcomes while balancing Safety, Cost, Schedule, Quality, business continuity, and long-term value.\nNote: We are hiring for two Assistant Director, Construction positions that together oversee the North American construction portfolio. One position will have responsibility for Manufacturing and CCA/Distribution construction projects; the other will have responsibility for Non-Manufacturing, Canada, and Mexico construction projects.\nKey Responsibilities\nSet execution strategy and operating direction\nSet the construction strategy, priorities, governance, and operating model for the assigned portfolio in alignment with General Motors’ facility investment priorities.\nLead Construction Group Managers and Project Managers across concurrent projects, with clear operating rhythms, decision rights, and resource plans.\nBalance portfolio priorities and intervene when project performance, organizational capacity, or business needs require leadership action.\nHold portfolio leaders accountable for approved commitments, performance, and timely escalation.\nAdvise senior leaders on capital priorities, delivery strategies, organizational capacity, enterprise trade-offs, and operational risk.\nLead construction delivery and project controls\nOversee design/build contractor delivery from procurement and contract award through construction, commissioning, turnover, closeout, and warranty.\nEnsure contractors maintain compliant plans for execution, schedule, cost, safety, quality, risk, and commissioning.\nDirect contractor performance, changes, claims, contingency, supplier coordination, operational interfaces, and recovery actions.\nEnsure consistent application of project controls for scope, funding, procurement, contracting, change, risk, document control, invoicing, reporting, and closeout.\nMaintain accurate project records, performance dashboards, governance reviews, audit readiness, corrective actions, and transparent reporting.\nDrive Safety, Cost, Schedule, and Quality outcomes\nEnforce General Motors safety requirements, site plans, regulatory compliance, leading and lagging indicators, incident response, and corrective actions.\nControl budgets, commitments, forecasts, contingency, payments, changes, claims, and variances; provide clear explanations and recovery recommendations.\nMaintain baseline schedules, critical-path visibility, milestones, look-ahead plans, long-lead tracking, and recovery plans.\nEnforce quality plans, inspections, testing, nonconformance resolution, punch-list closure, commissioning readiness, and turnover quality.\nIdentify and mitigate risks related to safety, cost, schedule, quality, permitting, constructability, operations, compliance, and business continuity.\nManage commercial risk and stakeholder partnerships\nServe as a senior construction partner to business leaders, facility operations, Finance, Purchasing, Legal, Audit, Environmental, and other corporate functions.\nPartner with Purchasing on sourcing, contracts, supplier performance, and commercial issues; partner with Operations on continuity, shutdowns, commissioning, and readiness.\nCoordinate with Legal, Audit, Finance, and Environmental on contracts, claims, controls, funding, compliance, permits, remediation, and sustainability requirements.\nLead relationships with contractors, consultants, equipment providers, suppliers, and other external partners; align stakeholders, secure decisions, and resolve roadblocks.\nProvide senior leaders with clear portfolio status, material risks, decisions, forecasts, and recovery recommendations.\nBuild organizational capability and talent\nLead, coach, and develop Construction Group Managers, Project Managers, and construction professionals through clear expectations, feedback, performance management, and career development.\nBuild succession depth, strengthen capability, balance workload, and deploy talent to priority needs across the portfolio.\nChampion organizational change and use data, lessons learned, technology, and industry practices to improve delivery predictability and reduce rework, claims, and punch-list items.\nFoster an inclusive, accountable, collaborative, and safety-focused culture grounded in integrity, continuous learning, and ownership.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, business, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.\nFifteen or more years of progressive experience leading complex industrial, manufacturing, commercial, infrastructure, or facilities construction programs.\nDemonstrated experience setting strategy, operating direction, performance expectations, and resource plans through project managers, construction managers, and other technical or delivery professionals across multiple complex projects.\nDemonstrated experience with design/build delivery, contractor performance, project controls, change management, commissioning, turnover, closeout, and warranty.\nStrong knowledge of owner requirements, safety, cost control, scheduling, quality assurance, contracts, claims, delivery models, constructability, risk management, supplier performance, and operational readiness.\nProven financial and commercial judgment, including budgeting, forecasting, contingency, contract strategy, change management, and capital stewardship.\nStrong executive communication, negotiation, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and stakeholder-influence skills.\nExperience operating in a complex, matrixed organization across multiple sites, regions, functions, and cultures, including cross-border or North American environments.\nDemonstrated judgment balancing safety, quality, cost, schedule, compliance, operational continuity, and long-term value when priorities and risks compete.\nPreferred Qualifications\nAdvanced degree or professional credentials such as Professional Engineer, Project Management Professional, or Certified Construction Manager.\nExperience leading multi-site or multi-region construction portfolios in complex manufacturing, technology, or facilities environments.\nExperience with multiple delivery models, integrated project delivery, digital project controls, or comparable construction technologies.\nExperience leading organizational transformation, operating-model change, or capability-building initiatives.\n\nGM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).\n\nThis role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.\n\nThe selected candidate will be required to travel About GMOur vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.\nWhy Join Us\nWe believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.\nBenefits Overview\nFrom day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.\nNon-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)\nGeneral Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.\nAll employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.\nWe encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.\nAccommodations\nGeneral Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. 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