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Construction Manager
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- 20D AGO
About the role
Construction Manager
Location: San Marcos, TX
Shift: Normal standard business hours | Monday - Friday
Noveon Magnetics, established in 2016, is a sintered neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnet manufacturer headquartered in San Marcos, Texas. We are the first company in more than two decades to produce and deliver sintered NdFeB magnets at commercial scale on American soil.
Our 100-acre campus provides room to scale production beyond 2,000 metric tons annually. Noveon conducts every step of the manufacturing process in Texas, including research and development, powder metallurgy, sintering, machining, plating, assembly, and delivery, making our EcoFlux™ magnets 100% Made in America. Noveon's EcoFlux™ magnets power the electric motors behind robotics, hybrid and electric vehicles, aerospace systems, industrial equipment, and energy infrastructure. These high-performance magnets play a critical role in the technologies that drive electrification and innovation around the world.
Our goal is to build the best magnets in the world and change how the world electrifies. We're looking for exceptional people who want to learn, build, and help lay the foundation for this company and for their own careers in the years ahead.
Position Summary
Noveon is building and scaling first-of-a-kind (FOAK) rare earth magnet manufacturing facilities in the US and abroad. The Construction Manager is Noveon's senior field leader and single point of accountability for what gets built. This role owns day-to-day execution from site mobilization through civil, structural, building MEP, process utilities, equipment installation and hook-up, mechanical completion, and turnover commissioning and ramp. It is a hands-on, boots-on-the-ground role backed by real authority to direct general contractors, self-perform and specialty trades, OEM installation crews, and integrators.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintaining Safety & Site Leadership: Owning site safety performance, leading daily trade coordination, directing contractors/OEMs, enforcing site security, and protecting Noveon process technology.
- Overseeing Pre-Construction & Logistics: Leading constructability reviews, developing site logistics (laydown, crane/rigging paths, temp power), driving permitting/utility interconnections, and building Level 3/4 schedules.
- Managing Construction Execution & Quality: Directing field execution across civil, structural, MEP, and process piping; managing RFIs, submittals, field changes, and executing brownfield retrofits adjacent to live production lines.
- Performing Equipment & Utility Integration: Leading rigging, setting, leveling, and hook-ups for furnaces, presses, mills, and vacuum systems; managing high purity/specialty gas systems, bulk gas yards, and process cooling.
- Managing Cost, Contracts & Change Control: Owning field budgets, quantity/earned-value reporting, contractor pay applications and managing change orders.
- Overseeing Turnover & Commissioning: Driving systems-based mechanical completion, system boundary definitions, walkdowns, punch lists, and delivering turnover packages to commissioning teams.
- Working with Engineering Deliverables: Reading, interpreting, and redlining process, mechanical, piping, electrical, and control engineering deliverables.
- Maintaining Uptime & Shutdowns: Driving maintainability into designs, planning hour-by-hour tie-in schedules and outages, verifying utility redundancy, and delivering maintenance-ready asset data.
- Reporting & Governance: Standardizing Noveon’s construction playbook, maintaining risk registers, and updating executive leadership through daily/weekly reports.
- Has 10+ years of progressive field construction leadership on industrial, process, or advanced manufacturing projects.
- Possesses direct experience with process equipment installation and industrial utility systems (piping, electrical, instrumentation/controls) beyond basic shell and core.
- Is knowledgeable in managing tie-ins, shutdowns, outages, or turnarounds against live operating plants without unplanned production loss.
- Can demonstrate fluency reading and redlining full engineering deliverable sets (P&IDs, single line diagrams, 3D models, loop drawings, I/O lists).
- Can prove ownership of at least one project taken from greenfield/expansion through mechanical completion and commissioning (ideally $100M+ TIC/TDC range).
- Can display fluency in Primavera P6/MS Project, Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Bluebeam.
- Can utilize their knowledge in directing general contractors, self-perform trades, specialty subcontractors, and OEM installers concurrently on a live site.
- Can demonstrate a track record of delivering safely, on schedule, and on budget under real schedule pressure and evolving scope.
- Exhibits a strong background in FOAK Industrialization (Owner-Side) and/or Major Capital Project Delivery (EPC/Constructor).
- Is comfortable with high-purity or controlled-environment execution (semiconductor fab, cleanrooms, orbital welding, bulk/specialty gas).
- Is familiar with metallurgical, thermal, or chemical process plant construction (furnaces, kilns, vacuum systems, hazardous materials handling).
- Is savvy with self-perform craft supervision and understanding crew productivity and craft labor markets.
- Is acquainted with CMMS/EAM asset data build (SAP PM, Maximo) and reliability concepts (RCM, FMEA, MTBF, MTTR).
- Can work across both owner and contractor/EPC sides under various delivery models (EPCM, Design-Build, IPD, Multi-Prime).
- Is willing to travel domestically and internationally or take temporary site assignments for project needs.
- Possesses a BS in Construction Management, Civil, Mechanical, Industrial, or Chemical Engineering (or equivalent field-proven experience).
- Holds professional certifications such as OSHA 30, CHST/CSP, PMP, CCM, or PE.
- Role is site-based at active offices, construction sites, and manufacturing facilities.
- Ability to move up to 50 lbs.
- Possesses manual dexterity to put parts or pieces together quickly and accurately.
- Can wear required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Comfortable standing for long periods of time, up to and exceeding 60 minutes.
- Can make repetitive movements, including, but not limited to, sitting, squatting, and walking up and down stairs.
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer during planning and review phases.
- Competitive pay
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance starting Day 1
- HSA with employer contributions
- EAP
- 401(k) with company match
- Employer-paid Long-Term and Short-Term Disability
- PTO after 90 days
- Sick Leave
- Company-paid Holidays
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