Job Details

Position Overview:

The Vice President, Construction & Operations Integration is responsible for ensuring that building design, construction methods, and material selections for affordable housing developments directly support long-term property sustainability, maintenance efficiency, resident safety, and operating cost control. This role serves as the bridge between development, construction, and property management, ensuring that decisions made during planning and construction reduce lifecycle costs, minimize maintenance burden, and improve resident outcomes once units are occupied. This position plays a critical role in protecting the financial and operational viability of affordable housing assets by embedding property-management realities into every phase of development.

Key Responsibilities (Essential Duties and Functions):

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may expand to include other duties and responsibilities based on business need.

Pre-Construction & Design Phase:

• Review architectural and engineering plans to ensure materials, systems, and layouts align with long-term durability, maintainability, and resident use
• Evaluate building components (roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, flooring, appliances, finishes, site work, etc.) for:


• Lifecycle cost
• Repair frequency
• Replacement complexity
• Tenant wear-and-tear patterns
• Provide guidance on unit layouts that reduce maintenance issues (e.g., moisture control, plumbing access, trash flow, ADA durability, storage, etc.).
• Influence value-engineering decisions to avoid false cost savings that create long-term operating expense.

Construction Oversight:

• Participate in contractor and vendor selection to ensure experience with affordable housing and high-occupancy residential environments.
• Monitor construction quality with a focus on:


• Code compliance
• System accessibility for future maintenance
• Workmanship that impacts long-term performance
• Identify design or installation issues that will increase future work orders, turnover costs, or resident dissatisfaction and require correction before completion.

Lease-Up & Turnover Readiness:

• Ensure buildings are delivered “property-management ready,” including:


• Clear labeling of mechanical systems
• Access points for maintenance
• Warranties, manuals, and as-built documentation
• Coordinate with property management teams to prepare maintenance staffing, preventative maintenance schedules, and vendor plans.

Post-Occupancy Performance:

• Track maintenance trends, warranty claims, system failures, and turnover costs to identify root causes tied to construction or design.
• Create and maintain feedback loops into future developments to improve building standards and specifications.
• Partner with development, finance, and asset management to reduce operating expense volatility and extend capital replacement cycles.
• Perform facility assessments of development(s) every 2 years and create reports

Required Knowledge & Experience:

• Lifecycle Cost Thinking, demonstrating the ability to evaluate total cost of ownership, not just initial build cost.
• Cross-Functional Leadership, demonstrated ability to work seamlessly with developers, architects, contractors, and property managers.
• Risk & Cost Control: demonstrated ability to anticipate failures before they occur.
• Resident-Centered Design Awareness: understands how tenants actually use and stress a building.
• Operational Foresight: partners with the design team to ensure designs today support maintenance of future realities.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Facility or Construction Management or 5 years of progressive leadership experience in facility or construction management
• Deep understanding of:
  
  • Multifamily construction methods
  • Affordable housing design constraints
  • High-density residential building systems
• Proven experience in one or more of the following:
  
  • Affordable housing development
  • Construction management
  • Facilities or property maintenance leadership
• Strong working knowledge of:
  
  • HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, envelope systems
  • Unit interiors and finishes that affect durability and turnover costs
  • Ability to read construction plans and understand how documents are coordinated
• Experience translating construction decisions into long-term operating impacts
• Certification as a facility manager will be considered favorably

Work Environment/Physical Demands:

• This role routinely utilizes standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers/printers, and filing cabinets.
• This position requires sitting, bending, stooping, or standing as necessary. This role requires travel to construction sites.
• This position requires manual dexterity, the ability to lift and open depending on the task.

MBS is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer.

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