---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001402829-22-000050"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ORN"
cik: "0001402829"
company_name: "Orion Group Holdings Inc"
filed_at: "2022-08-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T18:30:42.924169+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Orion Group Holdings appoints Gordon Scott Thanisch as CFO effective Sept 12, 2022

## Summary
- Thanisch receives $425k base salary, eligible for annual target bonus of up to 75% of base.
- Stub bonus of $100k if 2022 EBITDA reaches $25M and progress on replacing credit facility.
- Equity awards: $360k in restricted stock and $240k in performance units, three-year vesting.
- Severance: one year's base pay if terminated without cause or for good reason; 2.5x base + bonus during change of control protection period.
- Thanisch previously CFO of a Texas commercial construction services company and a transport services firm.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001402829-22-000050
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ORN
- cik: 0001402829
- company_name: Orion Group Holdings Inc
- filed_at: 2022-08-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1402829/000140282922000050/0001402829-22-000050-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1402829/000140282922000050/orn-20220829x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001402829-22-000050
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001402829-22-000050.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001402829-22-000050.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gordon Scott Thanisch was appointed as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Orion Group Holdings Inc.
  - Action: accepted offer of employment as
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
  source text: Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Mr. Gordon Scott Thanisch has accepted the Company’s offer of employment as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1402829/000140282922000050/0001402829-22-000050-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.