Construction Manager Night Shift - Power Construction

Position Overview

The Construction Manager – Night Shift is responsible for overseeing and coordinating construction activities during the night shift on complex power and industrial construction projects. This position provides field leadership across multiple disciplines, ensuring work is executed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with project plans, specifications, quality requirements, and schedule commitments.

The Construction Manager serves as the primary night-shift construction leader, coordinating superintendents, field engineers, craft supervision, subcontractors, and support teams. The role is also responsible for maintaining strong communication and turnover between day and night shifts to ensure continuity of work, timely resolution of field issues, and successful execution of project priorities.

District Overview

Kiewit Power Constructors (KPC) provides direct-hire construction services for Power Generation utilizing a union craft force.  Kiewit Power Constructors builds major EPC power plant and solar projects throughout North America.

Location

This position is located in Conway Springs, KS. 

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee all night-shift construction activities, providing direction to superintendents, general foremen, foremen, field engineers, subcontractors, and craft personnel.
• Coordinate execution across civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, and commissioning-related scopes as applicable to the project.
• Ensure all night-shift work is performed in compliance with project safety requirements, work plans, permits, and company procedures.
• Drive a strong safety culture by participating in pre-shift planning, job hazard analyses, observations, and resolution of field safety concerns.
• Review construction schedules, work packages, drawings, specifications, and project priorities to establish daily and weekly execution plans.
• Monitor manpower, equipment, materials, access, permits, and other constraints that could impact night-shift productivity.
• Coordinate closely with the day-shift Construction Manager and project leadership to provide detailed shift turnover, including completed work, outstanding issues, constraints, safety concerns, and upcoming priorities.
• Monitor field productivity and progress against established project milestones and communicate potential schedule impacts to project leadership.
• Identify and resolve field issues involving engineering, quality, materials, equipment, subcontractors, or constructability.
• Partner with Quality teams to ensure work meets project specifications, inspection requirements, documentation standards, and applicable codes.
• Coordinate with Safety, Engineering, Project Controls, Quality, Procurement, Commissioning, and other project functions to support field execution.
• Ensure crews have approved drawings, materials, tools, equipment, and information needed to safely perform planned work.
• Support work packaging and Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) processes to ensure construction activities are appropriately planned and released for execution.
• Coordinate subcontractor activities and monitor performance against safety, quality, schedule, and contractual expectations.
• Maintain visibility across active work areas during the night shift and proactively address issues that could create delays or operational concerns.
• Support testing, turnover, startup, and commissioning activities as the project progresses.
• Participate in construction planning meetings, schedule reviews, coordination meetings, and project leadership discussions as required.
• Document significant night-shift activities, progress, issues, and decisions to ensure effective communication with day-shift and project leadership.
• Mentor and develop field supervision while reinforcing expectations around accountability, planning, safety, productivity, and quality.
• Perform additional construction management responsibilities as required to support project execution.

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Qualifications

• Typically 15+ years of progressive construction experience, including experience leading field operations, supervision, or construction management.
• Previous experience on power generation, industrial, heavy civil, energy, or large-scale EPC construction projects strongly preferred.
• Experience managing multiple construction disciplines and coordinating work across complex project interfaces.
• Demonstrated understanding of construction sequencing, work planning, scheduling, field productivity, and craft management.
• Working knowledge of construction drawings, specifications, work packages, RFIs, quality documentation, and project controls processes.
• Experience coordinating subcontractors and direct-hire construction activities preferred.
• Knowledge of OSHA requirements and construction safety practices.
• Strong understanding of shift turnover and communication requirements for projects operating on multiple shifts.
• Ability to identify field constraints, make timely decisions, and coordinate resources to maintain construction progress.
• Effective communication and leadership skills with the ability to work across field supervision, craft, engineering, project controls, safety, quality, and project management teams.
• Ability and willingness to work a dedicated night-shift schedule, including extended hours, weekends, or schedule adjustments based on project requirements.
• Willingness to travel and/or relocate to project locations as required.