Every day, our team members do amazing things in pursuit of our shared purpose to build trust with our clients, partners, subcontractors, and teammates. No matter your background, education, or career path, if you share our vision to create extraordinary experiences, you belong at HITT .
Robotics Field Operations Lead - Construction
Job Description:
The Robotics Field Op eration s Lead is responsible for orchestrating the people, equipment, logistics , and processes behind robotics deployments on HITT’s job sites. This role coordinates aerial data capture, ground-robotics missions, and robotic layout operations across a growing portfolio of projects. Serving as the operational hub between P roject T eams, robotics technical leads, field engineers, vendors, and business partners, this individual will help transform successful pilot projects into scalable field capabilitie s.
This team member reports to the Robotics Head of Operations and is part of HITT’s Robotics Team, which leads research and development, pilot programs, and full-time field deployments. The Robotics Team’s mission is to support our project teams, transform our industry, and bring robots to every jobsite .
The ideal candidate is a highly organized field operations professional who thrives at the intersection of technology, construction, and op erations. They anticipate challenges, communicate early, and bring discipline to everything from deployment schedules and equipment records to budgets and stakeholder relationships. They have a d emonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-step workflows with many moving pieces while maintaining accuracy and follow-through across a large volume of concurrent tasks. They are energized by emerging technology, motivated to drive adoption, work quickly and accurately under pressure, and are comfortable learning beyond their existing expertise .
We encourage strong candidates excited by this role to apply even if they do not match every technical qualification listed.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Field Deployment Coordination
Own the coordination and execution of drone, ground-robotics, and robotic-layout deployments across a gr owing por tfolio o f projects.
Confirm deployment requirements, site readiness, access restrictions, safety r equire ment s, deliverables, r equired autho r izations , and project contacts before mobiliz ation.
Coordinate field personnel, robotics equipment, logistics , and other deployment resources.
Identify scheduling conflicts, resource constraints, and operational risks before they affect field activities.
Monitor active deployments and respond quickly to quality issues, schedule changes, equipment issues, weather delays, or changing project conditions.
Streamline and automate repetitive workflows using project management tools (e.g., Asana,) , data analytics tools (e.g., Power BI), low/ no-code platforms , and agentic AI to drive continuous improvements.
Support development of scalable operating procedures, policies, playbooks, checklists, tutorials, and training materials.
Develop systems for managing and maintaining a growing fleet of robots and supporting equipment.
Project-Team and Customer Success
Serve as a primary operational point of contact for project teams us ing robotics services.
Ensure success of deployments via s trong customer-success instincts, organizational skills, and meticulous attention to detail.
T ranslate project needs into clearly defined deployment scopes, schedules, and deliverables .
Onboard project teams, resolve service issues, and build trusted relationships with Superintendents, Project Managers, Virtual Construction teams, Trade Partners, and Vendors.
Perform quality assurance by monitoring data quality, mission completion and coverage, performance metrics, and other deliverables.
Monitor stakeholder satisfaction and coordinate the resolution of operational or service-related issues.
T urn field feedback into actionable insight s that will directly influence the…