

SPO Manager
Turner Construction Co.
Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Posting ID: req17508
Lexington, KY
Division: SPO
Project Location(s): Lexington, KY 40502 USA
Minimum Years Experience: Travel Involved: Job Type: Regular Job Classification: Experienced Education: Job Family: Construction Compensation: Salaried Exempt
Position Description: Provide overall leadership of Self-Perform Operations (SPO) and hourly trade staff. Develop and promote operational excellence while supporting projects and clients.
Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works at construction work sites where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, fumes, or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, and risk of electrical shock. The noise in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. The employee is required to work in compliance with company safety policies, procedures, and applicable laws.
Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Project Location(s): Lexington, KY 40502 USA
Minimum Years Experience: Travel Involved: Job Type: Regular Job Classification: Experienced Education: Job Family: Construction Compensation: Salaried Exempt
Position Description: Provide overall leadership of Self-Perform Operations (SPO) and hourly trade staff. Develop and promote operational excellence while supporting projects and clients.
Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage Self-Perform Operations (SPO) unit and staff.
- Promote complete integration of Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Building L.I.F.E. principles within SPO unit to strive for zero incidents amongst SPO and all staff.
- Develop SPO business plan and contingency plan in coordination with overall business unit (BU) plan and strategy.
- Apply business plan to develop and implement annual Profit Plan in alignment with General Manager (GM) and establish evaluation process to achieve stated goals.
- Ensure strict adherence to safety, ethics, and compliance requirements throughout SPO BU and associated projects.
- Create internal network to maximize opportunities for SPO to service BU prime projects and clients.
- Bridge SPO and BU Preconstruction departments to maximize opportunities for SPO to service prime projects and contribute trade expertise for BU.
- Promote philosophy of 'One Turner' to communicate, collaborate, and support BU, clients, and company objectives.
- Collaborate with BU to share and contribute SPO information through newsletters, good news, and employee spotlights.
- Together with HR, lead strategy for progression and succession of SPO staff.
- Produce and communicate performance evaluations and career development strategies for SPO staff.
- Provide leadership in risk evaluation, contract negotiations, fee, and pricing decisions. Provide recommendations and collaborate with GM to support final decisions.
- Drive operational excellence to ensure success within each SPO opportunity.
- Establish and maintain procedures to protect financial assets in collaboration with overall BU. Oversee and approval of all financial reports, compliance with company policy and timely reporting of known risks.
- Establish and maintain procedures to protect physical assets within SPO BU. Guide capital asset processes and procedures for procuring and liquidating physical assets and ensure ethical standards with management of physical assets.
- Plan, forecast, and manage G&A for SPO business unit.
- Participate in community and professional organizations with assistance and involvement by business unit senior staff.
- Implement Turner Tools and Process in SPO BU (e.g. SAP, T4, Profit Plan, Lean, and BIM).
- Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree from accredited and credentialed degree program and 10 years of Building Construction experience or equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience
- Thorough understanding of Commercial Construction industry and participating markets
- In-depth knowledge of Self-Perform Operations (SPO) unit specific scopes of work and trades
- Drive to learn, take on additional responsibilities, and build teams
- Leadership and ability to establish and execute course or plan
- Management experience
- Interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Professional verbal and written communication skills
- Active participation in construction industry professional organizations
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works at construction work sites where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, fumes, or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, and risk of electrical shock. The noise in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. The employee is required to work in compliance with company safety policies, procedures, and applicable laws.
Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.