AVP, Capital Projects

At Welltower, we’re transforming how the world thinks about senior living and wellness-focused real estate. As a global leader in residential wellness and healthcare infrastructure, we create vibrant, purpose-driven communities where housing, healthcare, and hospitality converge. Our culture is fast-paced, collaborative, and endlessly ambitious—guided by our mantra: The only easy day was yesterday.  

We’re looking for bold, independent thinkers who thrive on challenge, embrace complexity, and are driven to deliver long-term value. Every team member is empowered to think like an owner, innovate fearlessly, and lead from where they stand. If you're passionate about outcomes and inspired by the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare infrastructure, we want you on our best-in-class team.   

The Assistant Vice President (AVP), Capital Projects is a senior execution leader responsible for driving project delivery, enforcing execution standards, and maintaining pricing discipline across a large geographic capital portfolio.

This role leads the advancement of capital projects and redevelopment initiatives across all phases of the project lifecycle. The AVP operates as an owner-minded leader, ensuring projects are executed with rigor, consistency, speed, and value discipline.

This is not a passive project management or reporting role. The AVP is accountable for how capital is deployed and how projects perform at both the portfolio and individual job level.

• →Ensure full alignment with company standards across scope, pricing, funding, contracting, execution, and project closeout.
• →Maintain comprehensive visibility into portfolio health, proactively identifying risks, bottlenecks, and performance gaps.
• →Lead end-to-end execution of the capital project portfolio, managing the pipeline from initial planning through final delivery.
• →Exercise disciplined control over schedules, budgets, scope, and deliverables to protect outcomes and drive consistency.
• →Uphold and enforce capital execution standards, ensuring accountability for value preservation at the project level.
• →Maintain strong command of pricing strategy, cost structures, and scope definition to support sound commercial decisions.
• →Oversee and approve contracts, funding requests, and change orders, ensuring financial commitments align with execution requirements.
• →Act as the escalation point for high-risk or complex projects, driving resolution and mitigating exposure.
• →Hold vendors and partners accountable for performance, quality, and adherence to contractual obligations.
• →Lead through regional Directors while sustaining clear visibility into execution and portfolio performance.
• →Drive alignment across teams through clear communication, structured reporting, and decisive leadership.
• →Demonstrate strong ownership, commercial discipline, deep construction expertise, and executive-level

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of this employee for this job.  Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Regular overnight travel is expected for this position.

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, Business, or a related field preferred.
• 5–10+ years of experience executing large-scale capital, redevelopment, or construction projects.
• Strong background in managing complex pipelines and delivering multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience working within a real estate, development, or capital planning environment preferred.