LEMOINE, a Great Place to Work®-Certified company, is a recognized leader in the field of disaster recovery and reconstruction. With a commitment to excellence and a track record of successful execution, LEMOINE has earned its reputation as a trusted partner in disaster recovery efforts.

Our organization plays a pivotal role in disaster recovery and resiliency programs, including those funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR), Community Development Block Grant Mitigation (CDBG-MIT), and initiatives led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

We are seeking a Regional Construction Manager with a strong background in managing and leading long-term recovery programs, CDBG-DR housing programs, infrastructure improvements, home elevation initiatives, and other related disaster resiliency efforts.

As the Regional Construction Manager, your role will encompass strategic leadership, decision-making, results-driven execution, people management, and self-awareness within the context of these project types. Markets we are currently serving from this role: Louisiana, Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico. New markets of interest in 2024: Oklahoma, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Ohio.

What we are looking for in a leader:

Thought Leadership:

- Understanding the Business: Apply your extensive knowledge of disaster recovery and resiliency programs to advance the organization's goals, ensuring that funds are effectively allocated to disaster relief, recovery, resiliency, infrastructure improvement, and home elevation projects.

- Making Complex Decisions: Leverage your experience to manage complexity, make sound decisions, and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders within these specialized initiatives.

Results-Driven Approach:

- Taking Initiative: Demonstrate action-oriented behavior, secure and deploy resources effectively, and proactively address challenges related to these specialized programs.

- Managing Execution: Direct work, plan and align activities, and optimize work processes to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

People Management:

- Building Collaborative Relationships: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders involved in disaster recovery and resiliency efforts, fostering strong partnerships both within and outside the organization.

- Optimizing Diverse Talent: Utilize your expertise to attract top talent, develop team members, value differences, and build effective teams specifically tailored to these programs.

Personal Attributes:

- Being Authentic: Exhibit courage, instill trust, and promote honesty, integrity, and authenticity in all aspects of recovery and resiliency leadership.

- Being Open: Demonstrate self-awareness, actively seek personal development, manage ambiguity, embrace nimble learning, exhibit resiliency, and practice situational adaptability.

Job Responsibilities:

• Possesses extensive experience and expertise in Federal regulations, including but not limited to 2 CFR 200, Public Assistance Alternative Procedures, Benefit Cost Analysis, and the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. Proficient in translating these regulations into actionable project implementations.
• Offers high-level advisory and consulting services to State and local government agencies, encompassing FEMA PA programs and Community Development Block Grant programs. Addresses federal requirements, financial management, and documentation prerequisites.
• Cultivates and actively maintains strong professional relationships and credibility with planning and business executives across designated Federal, State, and local accounts.
• Remains well-informed about regulatory developments, industry dynamics, and business challenges, utilizing this knowledge to prioritize recurring client engagements.
• Utilizes a consultative selling approach to craft compelling business cases, showcasing the distinct value of LEMOINE's solutions and securing targeted business opportunities.
• Manages and nurtures essential client relationships and strategic partnerships.
• Strategically plans, oversees, and supervises proposal efforts while collaborating with capture managers, proposal staff, marketing and sales teams, and LEMOINE's FEMA and HUD subject matter experts to develop win themes.
• Develops written materials and tools for presentations, policies, procedures, program implementation, and design.
• Ensures all project estimates adhere to program requirements and actively supports their accuracy and completeness.
• Exercises oversight and direction over multiple construction projects to ensure on-time and on-budget execution.
• Provides guidance and leadership to project teams throughout the organization.
• Demonstrates proficiency in enforcing and complying with LEMOINE's LIFE Safe Work Practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited University in Disaster Recovery, Construction Management, Engineering, or related curriculum or equivalent work experience.
• 10 years of professional experience in managing and leading recovery programs, with a strong focus on disaster resiliency, housing initiatives, infrastructure improvements, home elevation, and disaster recovery efforts.
• Experience executing disaster preparedness program design or execution in support of one or more of the following: federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local Governments.
• Experience executing resiliency projects such as home elevations.
• Solid skills in the areas of math, budgeting, financial analysis, as well as excellent teamwork, communication (written and oral), and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to focus and operate in a disruptive environment. Prioritize competing issues, project needs, business needs, organizational issues, client relations and make judgments at a level consistent as a member of executive management.
• Willingness to farm / lead business development initiatives after work hours and on weekends as required to achieve market and overall business development goals.
• Willingness and ability to travel, as required.

Physical Demands:

The physical and mental demands of this position must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Section 3:

This position is a Section 3 eligible job opportunity under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968. Section 3 residents are encouraged to apply. The purpose of Section 3 of the HUD Act of 1968 is to ensure that preference for employment opportunities generated from the expenditure of HUD funds is directed to local low and very low-income persons, particularly those who receive federal housing assistance. All qualified applicants will be considered but may not necessarily receive an interview. Due to the large volume of submissions received by this office, information concerning application and/or interview status cannot be provided. Selected applicants will be contacted for next steps in the interview process. Applicants who are not selected may not receive notification. This position is subject to close at any time once a satisfactory applicant pool has been identified.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Lemoine Company, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status.