Director, Project Operations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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AI Fire

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

📚 Education

📱 Media

Education • Media

AI Fire is a content platform and community focused on practical guides for using AI to boost productivity. AI Fire publishes articles, tutorials, reviews, courses, and newsletters (AI Academy) targeting professionals. It hosts a community of 75,000+ professionals from major tech companies and offers an AI Academy with courses, prompts, workflows, and premium deals. Content covers prompt engineering, AI agents, LLM reviews, AI tools, AI case studies, and hands-on guides for building agents and dashboards. The site also runs promotional offers and paid tiers such as "Spark" and Black Friday sales.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic leadership for a large, fast-growing fire protection project business covering fire sprinkler, fire alarm, suppression, and special hazards system installations • Oversee multi-branch fire protection project operations and align execution with corporate and regional goals • Implement standardized estimating, design, installation, commissioning, and closeout processes across branches • Collabor with regional and local leadership to align project capacity with pipeline and backlog growth • Partner with operations and finance on P&L oversight, budgeting, WIP reviews, cost-to-complete accuracy, and forecasting • Strengthen cost controls, change order processes, field productivity metrics, and material management • Ensure projects meet NFPA code requirements and Authority Having Jurisdiction expectations • Provide hands-on guidance on engineering coordination, fabrication logistics, and field execution challenges • Establish quality control checkpoints at kickoff, mid-project, and closeout • Serve as an operational link between project teams, finance, branch leaders, and regional leadership • Support integration of newly acquired companies and alignment of operational processes • Partner with design and engineering teams on submittals, permitting workflows, and installation planning • Develop and mentor project managers, estimators, coordinators, and design staff across multiple branches • Support recruiting and evaluation of project-related talent • Promote accountability, safety, continuous improvement, and operational excellence • Improve project execution and estimating effectiveness to support organic growth • Lead scalability planning for new geographic territories or service line expansions • Champion safety culture and ensure compliance with OSHA requirements, NFPA standards, and AHJ mandates • Partner with safety leadership on training, audits, and jobsite practices • Conduct acquisition-target job walks and assess installation quality, project management, safety, field execution, backlog, estimating, engineering, procurement, and operational maturity • Participate in M&A due diligence and develop written recommendations for senior leadership • Assist with operational onboarding and process alignment for acquired project businesses

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in fire protection, life safety, mechanical contracting, or construction project management • 5+ years leading multi-location project operations in the fire protection industry • Strong knowledge of NFPA codes, Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) requirements, and fire protection system installation standards • Proven experience managing project P&Ls, forecasting, WIP reviews, and job costing • Experience supporting or participating in M&A operational due diligence is preferred • Bachelor's degree in engineering, fire protection, construction management, or related discipline preferred • Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills • Ability to travel regularly for branch visits, project reviews, and acquisition evaluations