[Hiring] Director of Operations @Baron Contracting

Role Description

We're looking for our future Director of Operations — someone we'll personally mentor into running day-to-day operations across a growing contracting and specialty utilities business. This isn't a conventional hire. We're not looking for someone who already has 15 years in construction operations; we're looking for someone with the raw intelligence, drive, and communication skills to be developed into one of the most important people in the company.

You'll work directly with ownership, learning the business from the ground up:

• Field operations
• Project management
• Sales
• Client relationships
• People management and strategic decision-making

Construction and regulatory knowledge can be taught. What can't be taught is judgment, reliability, and the ability to communicate well with everyone from a crew foreman to a commercial client.

Qualifications

• Intelligence and quick learning — you pick up technical and regulatory material fast, even material you've never encountered before
• Exceptional communication skills — clear, confident, and adaptable across very different audiences (field crews, executives, homeowners)
• Reliability — you show up, you follow through, and people can build plans around you
• A natural aptitude for sales and relationship-building, even without formal sales experience
• Comfort with ambiguity — this role will be defined and redefined as you grow into it
• Genuine interest in construction, operations, or business-building — prior experience is a plus, not a requirement

Requirements

• Experience in a role demonstrating critical thinking, deadlines, cross-functional communication, and high consequence decision making
• 4-year degree and 3+ years in the workforce or 10+ years of professional experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication