Granite COO Jim Radich to retire

Granite Development 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 a substitute, 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 workforce members whereas enabling them to raise points on to Larkin as an alternative of the COO place, Erin Kuhlman, Grainte’s chief advertising and marketing and communications officer, informed Development Dive. 

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

It has additionally redoubled its give attention to 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 variety of roles, together with undertaking 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 applicable reporting procedures, folks and programs had been in place to fulfill the working necessities and monetary targets of the corporate, particularly throughout its more moderen 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.