Industrial construction job descriptions
Every role a $20M business in this industry hires for: 20 Role Blueprints, from leadership to the field. Open any role for its full template and a free Word file.
Leadership 4
Chief Executive Officer
An industrial construction CEO decides which plant, warehouse and process owners the company works for, and signs the contracts that carry the most risk.
Chief Operating Officer
An industrial construction COO runs every active site at once, from plant expansions to warehouse builds to outage work for different owners.
Chief Financial Officer
An industrial construction CFO forecasts cash across large plant and warehouse jobs, checks the money side of bids, and keeps the books ready for owner audits, sureties and lenders.
General Manager
An industrial construction general manager runs the company's projects as one business, with engineering, purchasing, safety, quality and the field reporting up through this role.
Managers 9
Field Supervisor
An industrial construction field supervisor runs the crews on a plant or warehouse job each day, from the morning safety talk to the last permit closed.
HR Manager
An industrial construction HR manager hires and keeps welders, pipefitters, millwrights and office staff.
Lead Engineer / Superintendent
An industrial construction superintendent leads the field work on plant, warehouse and process facility projects and settles the technical questions crews and the owner's engineers raise.
Marketing Manager
An industrial construction marketing manager puts your company in front of the plant engineers, maintenance leaders and buyers who hire contractors.
Office Manager
An industrial construction office manager runs billing, licenses, project files and the front office behind plant and warehouse jobs.
Operations Manager
An industrial construction operations manager builds each day's plan for crews, cranes, lifts and other equipment across several plant and warehouse jobs.
Project Manager
An industrial construction project manager runs a plant or warehouse job from contract to handover and owns its budget, schedule and owner relationship.
Sales Manager
An industrial construction sales manager leads the reps who win plant, warehouse and process facility work, and decides which owners and bids the team goes after.
Warehouse / Logistics Manager
An industrial construction logistics manager gets steel, pipe, valves, equipment and rigging gear to plant and process facility projects in the order crews will use them.
Office and sales 5
Customer Service Representative
An industrial construction customer service representative answers plant managers, maintenance planners and buyers by phone and email, books site walks and crew visits, and keeps each client posted on schedule changes.
Dispatcher
An industrial construction dispatcher assigns cranes, lifts, welders and trucks to crews, sends each crew to the right plant at the right time, and reworks the plan when a project manager shifts priorities.
Bookkeeper
An industrial construction bookkeeper posts the bills, payroll and owner payments behind plant and warehouse projects, and reconciles the bank and ledger each month.
Inventory Specialist
An industrial construction inventory specialist orders and tracks the bolts, pipe fittings, welding rod and parts that plant jobs run on.
Sales Representative
An industrial construction sales representative finds new projects at plants, warehouses and process sites, walks them with owners' engineers, and builds proposals with estimators and project managers.
In the field 2
Laborer / Helper
An industrial construction laborer helps the crafts on plant and warehouse jobs by moving and staging material, keeping work areas clean and standing fire watch while welders work.
Skilled Tradesperson
An industrial construction tradesperson helps erect structural steel and place structural concrete for plants, warehouses and process facilities.
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