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xPL Trades Manager

Turner Construction Company
United States, Alabama, Decatur
Jan 10, 2026
Division: xPL Offsite Manufacturing Facility
Project Location(s): Decatur, AL 35601 USA
Minimum Years Experience:
Travel Involved:
Job Type: Regular
Job Classification: Experienced
Education:
Job Family: Construction
Compensation: Salaried Non-Exempt

Position Description:
Manage workforce planning and utilization of Trade employees for xPL manufacturing projects, including hiring and professional development.

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with jobsite Supervisors, Superintendents, Project Managers, HR and Project Executives to coordinate workforce planning and immediate project needs.
  • Collaborate with Preconstruction and Business Development teams to support workforce planning for manufacturing facilities.
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  • Determine manufacturing facility needs, communicate assignments to Trade employees, and maintain assignment records in designated tracking system.
  • Collaborate with Human Resources (HR) and Talent Acquisition (TA) teams to support external workforce development activities with educational facilities and other related groups to promote xPL and Trade career opportunities.
  • Communicate open positions for manufacturing facility with Human Resources and post xPL Trade employee positions.
  • Drive recruitment process, review applications and resumes to assess applicant qualifications, interview qualified candidates, provide disposition updates for applicant tracking, and extend conditional offers of employment to qualified applicants, conduct background screening and candidate offers.
  • Coordinate first day of work and orientation for Trade new hires, in collaboration with HR, support staff, and/or manufacturing facility staff.
  • Adhere to and manage Trade employee annual performance evaluation process. Collaborate with facility supervisors to collect feedback on Trade employees and partner with local HR team to review evaluation content for compliance. Mentor supervisors to deliver performance evaluations to Trade employees, ensure timely completion of annual performance reviews.
  • Manage Trade employee development activities to advance skills, knowledge, and abilities aligned with assignments. Maintain training records within designated tracking system.
  • Identify high potential Trade employees to support management decision-making for career progression.
  • Partner with HR to manage and document Trade employee discipline issues and termination processes.
  • Collaborate with xPL management and HR to determine compensation adjustments for Trade employees, including wage adjustments, merit increases, and incentive programs.
  • Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree from accredited and credentialed degree program and 10 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
  • Construction or manufacturing experience, preferred
  • Good understanding of business and manufacturing operations
  • Management experience and ability to direct others that are not direct reports
  • Able to exercise independent judgment in decisions related to Trade employees and facility assignment execution
  • Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills; ability to communicate effectively at all levels within organization
  • Strong verbal communication skills with ability to work cross-functionally and client facing with ability to clearly present information to non-technical audiences
  • Professional written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficient computer skills, and Microsoft Office suite of applications, , SharePoint, Human Capital Management (HCM) systems, and collaborative tools
  • Travel required

    Physical Demands:
    The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Performance of the required duties require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs, passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands, talk, and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee is regularly required to be mobile, and the employee occasionally travels both short and long distances via a variety of conveyances. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

    Work Environment:
    The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works at manufacturing facility where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, fumes, or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, and risk of electrical shock. The noise in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. The employee is required to work in compliance with company safety policies, procedures, and applicable laws.


Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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