Associate Director - Healthcare

The role

You will oversee a portfolio of healthcare construction projects and lead a team of project managers. This player-coach role involves managing client relationships and ensuring project quality, schedule, and budget performance.

What you will do

• Oversee delivery of multiple concurrent hospital construction, medical office buildings, ambulatory care centers, clinical renovations, and healthcare campus expansions.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of project managers and assistant PMs.
• Serve as the primary relationship owner for key health system executives, hospital administrators, and healthcare facility directors.
• Support business development efforts through proposals and interviews.
• Ensure projects comply with state healthcare facility licensing, CMS Conditions of Participation, Joint Commission standards, and local AHJ compliance.
• Collaborate with firm leadership on resource allocation, hiring, and operational improvements.
• Step in as senior project leadership on complex or high-visibility engagements.
• Travel to project sites and client locations as needed.

Required qualifications

• 12-18 years in construction project management, program management, or owner's representation.
• Demonstrated track record managing $50M+ healthcare construction projects or portfolios of multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience supervising and developing project managers or junior staff.
• Strong working relationships with health system executives, hospital administrators, and healthcare facility directors.
• Excellent communication skills—written, verbal, and presentation.
• Willingness to travel to project sites and client locations as needed.
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field.

Nice to have

• Owner's representative or program management consulting background.
• Extensive experience in hospitals, medical centers, and healthcare facilities.
• Experience with infection control risk assessments (ICRA), interim life safety measures (ILSM), and healthcare-specific commissioning requirements
• CCM, PMP, PE, RA, or LEED AP certification.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation plus performance-based incentives.
• Equity participation opportunity as you grow with the firm.
• A technology-forward platform.
• A path to Director as the firm expands.
• Flexibility to work remotely while traveling to project sites as needed.

About the company

Brookwood Group has been protecting owner interests in construction since 1989. The firm manages construction programs across healthcare, education, government, and commercial sectors.