Head of Projects

Keller Executive Search is partnering with a global manufacturer of specialty, specification-driven building products for behavioral health and life-safety-regulated facilities to appoint a hands-on Head of Projects. Our client designs and manufactures the products it installs, and its fastest-growing region is now scaling toward becoming the largest in the group. This is a rare opportunity to stand up and personally run a disciplined project delivery function in a highly technical, mission-led business where getting delivery right protects patient safety, not just a project timeline.

Reporting to the Global Managing Director, you will own every project from purchase order through detailing and customer acceptance, production, delivery, installation, commissioning and handover. You will build and coach a distributed team of project managers and coordinators, implement a standardized project-execution methodology with clear stage gates and portfolio-level reporting, and act as the credible, escalation-level face of the company to hospitals, architects and general contractors. This is a builder's mandate: the structure, tooling and standards are yours to create, not inherit.

This role suits an operator who thrives on-site and in the field rather than behind a governance dashboard. You will sequence in-house manufacturing schedules against jobsite readiness, hold the line on specification and compliance before product is fabricated, and keep concurrent, geographic