Operations Field Manager

Description

Take on a leadership role where your decisions directly influence field performance, project outcomes, and business success. As an Operations Field Manager, you will lead daily operations for assigned business units and field teams, ensuring work is executed safely, efficiently, and within budget while maintaining strong relationships with clients, vendors, and internal partners. You will own project planning, materials, billing, and cost control, while coaching and developing field personnel to build a high-performing team. Working closely with estimating, preconstruction, and leadership, you will apply sound judgment and independent decision-making to solve complex challenges, drive operational improvements, and contribute to company strategy. This role is ideal for a proven leader who thrives in autonomy, brings deep field expertise, and wants to make a measurable impact on both people and performance.

Self. Made. at RK

At RK, Self. Made. isn’t a tagline, it’s how work gets done. People here build more than projects; they build capability, confidence, and careers they can be proud of. With so much work designed and fabricated in-house, ideas move quickly from concept to shop floor to job site. Teams collaborate across disciplines, solve real-world challenges, and grow through hands-on work that truly matters.

RK Company Overview

RK Industries is a second-generation family-owned company led by brothers Rick and Jon Kinning. With seven specialized business units working together, we deliver construction, fabrication, manufacturing, and building services with a focus on safety, quality, and craftsmanship.

People join RK for the craftsmanship, complexity, and the ability to make a real impact. Our in-house capabilities mean employees see their ideas become real solutions, creating meaningful collaboration and clear visibility into how work gets built. Growth happens through challenging projects, mentorship from experienced builders, and opportunities that stretch your skill set.

With RK University, accredited apprenticeships, competitive benefits, and deep community investment, RK offers the stability of a family-owned company with the opportunity and momentum of an industry leader.

Position Summary

The Operations Field Manager oversees daily operations of assigned business units and field teams, ensuring projects are completed safely, efficiently, and within budget. This role manages staffing, project planning, materials, billing, and cost control while maintaining strong client and vendor relationships.

They provide leadership, training, and performance management for field personnel and coordinate closely with estimating, pre-construction, and other departments to support project success. The Operations Field Manager also contributes to business strategy and operational improvements through independent decision-making and sound judgment.

Role Responsibilities

• Company Leader. Independent decision making.

• Responsible for a single department or functional area either as a manager or functional expert.

• Initiates and maintains relationships with key staff and other departments.

• Plays a role in company business strategy development and execution.

• Makes authoritative decisions and recommendations having important impact on activities of the company with the direction of RK Electrical President and General Manager.

• Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight and mature judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented complexities.

• Determines program objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects and developing standards and guidelines for diverse activities.

• Proven specialist expertise, typically 7-10 years of experience, including fiscal responsibilities.

• College/university graduate or equivalent combination of skills or equivalent combination and experience generally expected for specified technical roles.

• Indirect supervision.

• Requires the use of advanced techniques and knowledge within his/her function.

• Applies diversified knowledge of applicable principles and practices to a broad variety of assignments.

• Makes decisions independently regarding complexities and methods.

• Supervision and guidance related largely to overall objectives, critical issues, new concepts and policy matters.

• Liaison to groups within and outside of his/her organization with responsibility to act independently regarding matters pertaining to his/her function.

• College/University graduate with 7 years relevant experience or equivalent combination of skills and experience generally expected for specified technical roles.

What Sets RK Industries Apart

• Safety: Our unmatched culture of safety is our foremost core value, guiding everything we do each day: Health, Safety, & Environmental

• Awards: Whether in Construction, Manufacturing, Fabrication, or Service, RK Industries is highly recognized and accredited throughout the industry: Accreditations & Recognition

• Benefits: RK Industries offers competitive benefits to support your growth and well-being: Benefits & Rewards

• Philanthropy: RK Industries not only builds our community through our projects, but also invests in it by supporting local services for over a decade through the RK Foundation: RK Foundation

• Development: Through RK University, we provide hands-on training and development opportunities that empower employees to advance their careers and grow within the company, to include leadership and technical learning opportunities, we well as our accredited apprentice program: RK University& RK Apprenticeship Program

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

RK Industries, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law