Fractional COO Services

Fractional Chief Operating Officer (COO) Services

Construction companies need strong operational leadership at the top of the organization to ensure that the project cycle is managed from start to finish and to guide their overall operating strategy. Efficient business administration, successful completion of projects, and managing growth are only a few of the tasks that construction companies need to master to successfully operate their businesses and meet the needs of their customers.

A COO will generally be responsible for three areas of a company’s success: 

Daily Operations

A COO will oversee many of the daily responsibilities of running a company and seeing that the company is managed well and that all key performance indicators (KPIs) are being met. They will oversee Project Managers, Estimators, and Sales teams to ensure that all areas of the business are operating at the highest level of profitability and efficiency.

Project Execution

A COO has overall responsibility for the construction project cycle: estimating, bidding, scheduling, budgeting, forecasting, and closing out. They implement industry best practices so that every project is delivered within the contracted scope and is completed as part of a predictable and stable process that can be replicated across the company.

Business Strategy

A COO has the experience to build and implement an operational strategy that will move the company forward. He or she will provide the leadership, management, and foresight required to secure proper levels of operational and human resources that will effectively grow the company; and if not, will act to put those measures and resources in place.

Do You Need A COO?

A talented COO can make all the difference to the long-term success of your construction business. A fractional COO can do the same thing, while giving your company the opportunity to leverage the expertise of an executive-level individual without incurring the costs or overhead associated with a full-time employee.

Your company may require a fractional COO for any of the following reasons:

  • To oversee daily responsibilities of an active project that is outside of your company’s current capacity or a specialized project that requires an additional level of operational expertise.
  • To review all current operational processes and controls for deficiencies and align them with corporate goals and objectives.
  • To evaluate current operational team members who may need additional structure and training to fully maximize the objectives of the organization 
  • To collaborate with management or ownership on 5- or 10-year corporate growth plans; to assess existing growth strategies that have stalled or have lacked implementation measures.

A fractional Chief Operational Officer provides operational, administrative, and strategic expertise to your construction company on a part-time, subscription, or short-term contract basis. Ascent Consulting is here to provide fractional COO services when your company is ready for additional operational expertise but isn’t yet ready for a full-time COO.

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Zachary Hickman

Project Coordinator

Zachary brings 10+ years of project management experience as an owners representative for clients and from the developer side of the business.

He began his career as an assistant project manager with a masonry subcontractor in Florida, before moving to Atlanta.

Daphene Koch

Consultant

Daphene’s construction experience began working in her family’s mechanical construction company.

Next, she worked for a large EPC firm on projects in Texas and Malaysia. With over 15 years of construction industry experience on commercial and industrial projects. Her roles have included project manager, safety manager, construction services leader, and pipefitters helper.

While a professor at Purdue University in the School of Construction Management, she worked as a consultant to help construction companies improve processes, project management, workforce development to name a few. She has a BS, MS, and PhD from Purdue University and resides in Indiana.

Hakeem Slaughter

Marketing Coordinator

Hakeem is a brand designer with over 10 years of experience. He has been a freelancer for about 9 years working with many different clients and industries under the following subjects: brand design, graphic design, web design, and social media marketing.

 

During that time freelancing, he also worked at many companies as a graphic and web designer. As well as taught disciplines of Art and Design to students varying from middle school age to college. As mentioned, he has a “jack of all trades” range but is quite proficient at WordPress and uses that knowledge to design cutting edge websites!

 

Hakeem specializes in branding, design, and creativity and is bringing his talents, skills, and passion to take Ascent Consulting to a new level!

Aimee Collier

Project Coordinator

Aimee joins Ascent as a Project Coordinator supporting our Senior and Procore Consultants. With construction industry experience both in-field and back-of-house (ranging from project site coordination to contract management to software administration), she brings a holistic perspective of the day-to-day challenges faced by our clients. Her varied professional roles include software implementation and training, technical content creation and design, and coordinating across teams to bring projects to successful completion. She is excited to direct her passion for people and processes toward our customers.