President

Situation Overview:

ZRG has been engaged to recruit a President for Norlee Group, a privately held, fast growing group of companies in the southern U.S.

About Norlee Group:

Norlee Group (NLG), based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a rapidly growing company specializing in comprehensive MEP design and turnkey installation of electrical and mechanical services for Commercial, Industrial, Manufacturing, Educational, Hospitality, Healthcare, Mixed-Use, and Multi-Family sectors across the United States. Established in 2021, NLG has expanded its capabilities through strategic acquisitions of leading firms, including Adkins Electric (AEI), AEC Electrical Contractors (AEC), Colwill Enterprises (CEI), Millennium Electric (MEI), and Tietjen CET Technologies (TTI). Each company in the NLG portfolio has a unique skillset providing the ability to cross-sell services while continuing to strengthen client relationships.

Our Client: Norlee Group

Role: President

Location: Jacksonville, FL

Reports To: Chief Executive Officer, Wally Budgell

Website: www.norleegroup.com

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NLG’s Strategy:

NLG’s end-to-end services allows them to bid on all phases of potential projects and to be involved from the very beginning to the very end, reducing the overall risk of jobs. The ability to be a “one stop shop” for all their clients makes them a valuable resource for longstanding relationships and to showcase their ability to deliver quality work across a project’s life cycle.

NLG’s Future:

Long-term industry relationships have organically led to consistent wins and continued profitable growth in addition to strategic acquisitions. Their team is committed to the business development plan they have established and are always looking for new ways to expand their service market.

Position Summary:

This is an executive leadership role responsible for maximizing revenue opportunities, organizational growth, and profitability by directing, implementing, and profitably executing the business plan. An executive in this role is accountable for the organization’s financial performance and ensures both current and future relevance, credibility, and viability of the corporation. An executive in this role assists in the development of/and directs the organization’s strategic plan to advance the company's mission and objectives and to promote revenue, profitability, and growth. This leader oversees all company operations ensuring efficiency, quality, service, cost-effective management of resources, and overall safety of our operations. The President leads the company with a clear sense of business direction and purpose, serving as a role model for the company’s mission, vision, and values, fostering a culture of integrity across the entire organization.

Position Mandate:

A leader in this role is responsible for the bottom-line financial success of the entire organization, with a focus on repeated annual financial success. This will be accomplished by driving profitable annual double-digit revenue growth and executing development strategies for prospective and key accounts and market segments. The leader creates and cultivates a culture of safety, innovation, and continuous improvement to ensure the Norlee Group of company’s future profitability and growth.

Key Accountabilities / Measurables:

▪ Establishing and ensuring the successful execution of the annual business plan.

▪ Corporate attainment of revenue and profitability goals and objectives.

▪ Profitable execution of work secured and performed.

▪ Successful integration of future acquisitions.

▪ Establishing and maintaining a culture of safety first.

Strategic Planning:

▪ Develops strategic plans to advance the company's mission, vision, values, and objectives and to promote safety, revenue, profitability, and growth as an organization.

▪ In conjunction with the CEO, Identify acquisition and merger opportunities and direct implementation activities.

▪ Ensures a solid structure of governance, procedures, policies, and standards is established and maintained in alignment with the mission, vision, and values.

▪ Assesses organizational performance and directs timely changes in strategy, structure, and resources.

Leadership:

▪ Evaluates the performance of operational executives for compliance with established organizational objectives and policies, and contribution in attaining objectives.

▪ Provides advice, guidance, and direction to subordinate managers with respect to their professional development.

▪ Identifies and develops senior managers, ensuring applicable programs are in place to aid in attracting, retaining, and motivating a class leading management team.

▪ Oversees organizational operations to insure efficiency, quality, service, and the cost-effective management of resources.

▪ Models and communicates the organization’s mission, vision and values to all employees.

Financial Results:

▪ Primary profit and loss responsibility for the organization.

▪ Reviews activity reports and financial statements to determine progress and status in attaining objectives, identifying timely revisions to goals, objectives, and plans in accordance with current and anticipated market conditions.

▪ Provides accurate and timely pipeline, potential and secured business status reports as well as projected execution updates to the senior management team.

▪ Continually evaluates both operating and financial performance of all business units and the organization overall.

Innovation & Technology:

▪ Drive the adoption of innovative technologies and practices within the industry.

▪ Stay informed on industry trends and advancements, applying relevant innovations to improve efficiency and competitiveness.

Relations:

▪ Builds and maintains relationships with potential and existing key clients.

▪ Endorses the company through written articles and personal appearances at conferences and other industry events and formal functions.

▪ Promotes the organization to local, regional, national, and international constituencies.

▪ Presents the company report at quarterly Board of Director meetings.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

▪ An individual in this role is responsible for the direct leadership, management, and supervision of the operational executive management team.

Health & Safety Responsibilities:

▪ An individual in this role is responsible with ensuring that all staff within the organization work within the established policies, procedures, and guidelines of the organization.

Competencies:

▪ Strategic Mindset

▪ Anticipates future trends and implications accurately.

▪ Readily poses future scenarios.

▪ Articulate credible pictures and visions of possibilities that will create sustainable value.

▪ Creates competitive and breakthrough strategies that show a clear connection between vision and action.

▪ Drives Vision & Purpose

▪ Talks about future possibilities in a positive way.

▪ Creates milestones and symbols to rally support behind the vision.

▪ Articulates the vision in a way everyone can relate to.

▪ Creates organization-wide energy and optimism for the future.

▪ Shows personal commitment to the vision.

▪ Business Insight

▪ Knows how businesses work and how organizations make money.

▪ Keeps up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends in the organization, with the competition, and in the marketplace.

▪ Uses knowledge of business drivers and how strategies and tactics play out in the market to guide actions.

▪ Decision Quality

▪ Makes sound decisions, even in the absence of complete information.

▪ Relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement when making decisions.

▪ Considers all relevant factors and uses appropriate decision-making criteria and principles.

▪ Recognizes when a quick 80% solution will suffice.

▪ Ensures Accountability

▪ Follows through on commitments and makes sure others do the same.

▪ Acts with a clear sense of ownership.

▪ Takes personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and failures.

▪ Establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results.

▪ Designs feedback loops into work.

Qualifications:

Education and / or Experience:

▪ A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or related major or equivalent combination of education and experience required;

▪ A minimum of 10 years in a senior leadership role for a division of large corporation or

company.

Software Skills:

▪ In-depth knowledge of the MS-Office Suite, AutoCAD, Accubid, Bluebeam and BIM software platforms.

Location:

Located in Northeast Florida along the banks of the St. Johns River, Jacksonville, FL.

About ZRG Partners:

ZRG is a global talent advisory firm that is changing the way companies hire and manage talent. ZRG’s data-driven approach to executive and professional search has been changing the way clients think about how to find top talent. The company’s digital Zi platform combines talent intelligence, candidate insights, and process improvement to dramatically deliver executive searches quicker and with proven better results.

Lee Grandovic

Managing Director

Helbling Division

leeg@helblingsearch.com

Nick Nixon, Esq.

Senior Associate

Helbling Division

nickn@helblingsearch.com

Please submit your resume directly to Nick Nixon at NickN@helblingsearch.com.