Sponsor- Kiewit Water Facilities South District

Requisition ID: 182990

Job Level: Director

Home District/Group: Kiewit Water Facilities South

Department: Field Operations

Market: Water/Wastewater

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Overview

The Sponsor has overall accountability for one or more major water and wastewater construction projects within Kiewit Water Facilities South District. This senior leader provides executive direction, protects the business case, and ensures each project is safely delivered in alignment with contractual commitments, client expectations, quality standards, schedule, and financial objectives.

The Sponsor serves as the primary connection between the project team, district leadership, clients, partners, and key decision-makers. The role supports the Project Manager while retaining authority for strategic decisions, issue escalation, resource alignment, and overall project outcomes.

District Overview

Kiewit Water Facilities South District delivers complex water and wastewater treatment, conveyance, pumping, and related infrastructure projects to include data centers. Team members are given meaningful responsibility, opportunities to work on high-impact projects, and access to training and career development across Kiewit.

Location

Westlake, TX

Responsibilities

• Champion the project across the organization and communicate its business purpose, value, priorities, and performance expectations.

• Provide executive leadership, business expertise, and guidance to the Project Manager and broader project leadership team.

• Serve as the link between project execution, district leadership, the client, joint-venture or teaming partners, and management decision-making groups.

• Maintain overall accountability for project safety, quality, financial performance, schedule, client satisfaction, and contractual compliance.

• Ensure the business need remains valid, appropriately prioritized, properly launched, and financially viable throughout the project life cycle.

• Approve the project organization, governance model, key roles, reporting structure, execution strategy, and major deliverables.

• Oversee project controls, forecasting, risk and opportunity management, change management, commercial strategy, and executive reporting.

• Make or elevate decisions that exceed the Project Manager’s authority, including decisions involving resources, priorities, risk, and contractual matters.

• Lead or support executive project reviews and require timely recovery plans when performance deviates from established targets.

• Resolve conflicts, remove organizational barriers, and address competing priorities that could affect safe and successful delivery.

• Build trusted relationships with owners, engineers, subcontractors, suppliers, community stakeholders, and internal business partners.

• Ensure project teams follow all applicable safety policies, quality requirements, environmental commitments, ethics standards, and company procedures.

• Recognize and respond to changing business conditions, owner priorities, regulatory requirements, market conditions, or other circumstances that may affect project execution.

• Develop project leaders and support succession planning, talent development, and a high-performance team culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related discipline from an accredited four-year college or university.

• 15 or more years of progressive experience in heavy civil construction, including significant leadership responsibility on large, complex projects.

• Demonstrated experience leading multi-million-dollar contracts with accountability for operations, project administration, safety, quality, financial performance, client relations, and project delivery.

• Experience with water or wastewater treatment facilities, pump stations, conveyance systems, process mechanical scopes, or comparable self-perform heavy civil work.

• Strong knowledge of construction contracts, project controls, cost forecasting, scheduling, risk management, change management, and claims avoidance.

• Ability to communicate effectively with craft professionals, project teams, executive leadership, clients, designers, and external partners.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and project control or administration systems.

Other Requirements:

• Regular, reliable attendance

• Work productively and meet deadlines timely

• Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment.

• Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.

• Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.

• May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.

We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

Company: Kiewit