Overview:
CoolSys solves the most complex challenges in refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, engineering, and energy management. With over 3,700 associates nationwide, we deliver tailored solutions to help businesses cut costs, improve equipment performance, and reduce emissions.
Our services include HVAC and refrigeration equipment sourcing, installation, repair, maintenance, monitoring, and optimization. We also offer engineering design, energy resilience and consumption optimization, asset recycling, and seamless multi-site rollouts across states.
Based in Southern California since 2007, CoolSys serves over 45,000 customer locations in industries like retail, food service, commercial, data centers, industrial, and pharmaceuticals.
No wonder Newsweek named CoolSys one of America’s Greatest Workplaces!
We understand that hiring great people is the foundation of everything we do. Our employee benefits packages include:
- Competitive pay: $140-170K plus bonus
- Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription coverage.
- Paid vacation, holidays, and floating holiday.
- 401(K) with Company match.
- Company sponsored life insurance, as well as optional AD&D, short and long-term disability.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee discounts on vehicles, hotels, theme parks, select cell phone bills and so much more.
- Pet Insurance.
- Legal Plan, and ID Theft Protection.
JOB SUMMARY
The Construction Regional Director provides leadership for the Regional Construction Department. Responsible for construction services across the region through coordinating and planning refrigeration construction projects and jobs; provides estimates for sales proposals and job bids; forecasts manpower requirements; manages financial performance on projects and jobs including analysis and reporting on job status and performance; maintains positive working relationships and coordination with General Contractors and subcontractors; and ensures customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for approximately $30M revenue annually from construction projects within the region with an annual EBITDA expectation.
- Provides Construction Management support by reviewing monthly profit and loss statements, project status reports and other information to ensure organizational goals are met.
- Promotes and fosters teamwork within Regional Construction Branches by setting specific goals, monitoring and analyzing jobs as they proceed, forecasting current and future manpower requirements as needed, and appraising individual and group performance to establish highly competent teams.
- Provides excellent leadership to Regional ConstructionBranches, work teams and individual employees.
- Provides timely communication within the department and across organizational lines.
- Provides timely performance feedback, training and coaching to develop to subordinate managers and employees.
- Responsible for employee related transactions including hiring, promotions, transfers, and terminations.
- Reviews and coordinates current and upcoming jobs to ensure efficient planning, materials, labor forecasting, and coordination on jobs to ensure efficient resource allocations, financial performance and customer satisfaction.
- Works with other Regional Construction Managers and Directors to resource and deploy work teams across the company to ensure customer needs are met.
- Meets with existing and new customers, general contractors and subcontractors to coordinate jobs, bids and proposals.
- Ensures, through timely and proactive communication, positive customer and vendor relations.
- Drives and leads continuous process improvement and Lean/Operational Excellence initiatives.
- Supports and coordinates with Sales to provide accurate estimates for bids and proposals.
- Maintains accurate record keeping on trucks, parts and material inventory and resolves discrepancies on a timely basis.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Up to, but not limited to, 50% travel required
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration or other industry related to construction, preferred but not required.
- OSHA 30
Work Experience / Skills
- 5 - 7 years management experience in commercial refrigeration construction, or related industry.
- 10 years’ experience in construction, refrigeration, HVAC or related industry.
- 5-7 years’ experience in managing multiple projects and/or multiple business locations.
- Experience in commercial building construction industry required.
- Knowledge of construction industry, principles and practices related to project estimation, labor forecasting, building permits, multiple disciplines involved in area of responsibility e.g. plumbing, electrical, carpentry and fixtures construction.
- Demonstrated ability manage multiple projects, set and balance competing priorities with strong organization skills and ability to multi-task.
- Demonstrated strong customer service skills, ability to proactively address customer issues and concerns.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, ability to lead diverse and multi-discipline workforce.
- Knowledge of refrigeration equipment and piping of refrigeration equipment preferred.
- Knowledge of computer-controlled systems, preferred.
- Ability to read and understand blueprints.
- Good communication (verbal & written) and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated business and project management skills including knowledge of automated project management tools, financial reports and general knowledge of accounting principles.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multi-discipline work teams required.
- Ability to lead geographically distributed, multiple shift organization, required.
- Strong communication skills (verbal & written).
- Ability to train, coach, mentor and develop subordinates.
- Driver’s license and good driving record.
- Requires overnight travel.
- Ability to understand and follow all company policies and procedures and all applicable State and Federal laws.
- Ability to use typical business tools including E-Mail, Word, Excel, Work Order Software, etc.
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Today, there are 27 different companies that make up the CoolSys family of brands. Our valued employees are at the heart of our continued growth and success. We invite you to be part of that growth!
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CoolSys is an EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including all ages, colors, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics are encouraged to apply.
Pre-employment background screening (criminal and MVR for driving positions) and drug testing are required for all positions. CoolSys will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with federal law, state law, or local ordinance.