Granite COO Jim Radich to retire

Granite Building Chief Working Officer Jim Radich will retire on July 4 after 45 years on the Watsonville, California-based contractor, the agency introduced Might 16.  

Granite mentioned it received’t fill Radich’s function as soon as he leaves. As an alternative, it has created an Operations Govt Group the place senior vice presidents of its building and supplies divisions will report on to President and CEO Kyle Larkin. 

Senior Vice Presidents Brian Dowd, Michael Tatusko and Bradley Williams will run the development facet, whereas Bradly Estes will oversee the supplies enterprise. 

The brand new construction will present extra management alternatives for the manager staff members whereas enabling them to raise points on to Larkin as an alternative of the COO place, Erin Kuhlman, Grainte’s chief advertising and communications officer, informed Building Dive. 

The transfer is the newest change on the firm which has remodeled itself for the reason that pandemic from a geographically oriented builder and provider of street supplies to a vertically integrated construction manager/general contractor centered on smaller, extra worthwhile work packages on bigger infrastructure tasks. 

It has additionally redoubled its concentrate on its supplies enterprise, retooling a number of of its combination and asphalt plants with automation, whereas utilizing focused, bolt-on acquisitions to extend market share nationally. 

The information of Radich stepping down comes one 12 months after the agency’s former CFO, Lisa Curtis, introduced her personal retirement in 2024. She left in September, when present CFO Staci Woolsey stepped into the place. 

In a information launch, Larkin praised Radich’s lengthy service to the corporate. 

“Having joined Granite in 1980, Jim’s quite a few and significant contributions to Granite span a long time,” Larkin mentioned. 

Radich served in a lot of roles, together with venture supervisor on key heavy-civil tasks, chief estimator within the vertically built-in enterprise, vp and regional supervisor inside northern California and senior vp and California supervisor. 

As govt vp and chief working officer, Radich oversaw the day-to-day operations of the corporate and ensured acceptable reporting procedures, folks and methods have been in place to satisfy the working necessities and monetary objectives of the corporate, particularly throughout its newer restructuring. 

“Jim’s management has been instrumental as we remodeled the corporate over the past 4 years, and we’re all grateful for his service to Granite,” Larkin mentioned.