- Senior
- Bureau à Albany
Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.
Wood is recruiting for a Senior Construction Manager to join its Operations Americas business. This opportunity is onsite in Albany, GA.
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The Role
The Senior Construction Manager will lead on-site project execution, acting as the Owner’s Representative and managing design and construction contractors. This role oversees quality, safety, schedule, and budget compliance while ensuring all technical, contractual, and regulatory requirements are met. The position is also responsible for project financial control, issue resolution, and coordination with authorities and stakeholders to ensure the successful and safe delivery of each project.
Our Clients and Projects
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
Wood’s Operations business delivers solutions to an ever-broadening range of clients across the energy and materials industries globally. We deliver operations, maintenance, modifications, brownfield engineering, asset optimization and management, supporting our clients through the asset lifecycle. We are focused on developing strategic relationships with our clients, providing solutions that deliver efficiency, integrity and reliability.
What we can offer
- Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across Operations Americas sector
- Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs, offering onsite working
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
- Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
- Flexible benefits package that can be adapted to suit your lifestyle
- Commitment to continued professional development through development plans tailored to individual needs and interests
- Global connections with leading industry experts around the world who are shaping the standards of our profession
Responsibilities
Typical responsibilities
- Establish and maintain positive working relationships with clients, partners, and local labor
- Responsible for monitoring of construction quality to ensure that all work is installed in accordance with the plans, specifications, QA/QC requirements, code requirements, contract requirements, statutory and regulatory requirements and good construction practices. Ensure site quality verification inspections are performed properly.
- Review of QA/QC documentation associated with the facilities, including but not limited to tie-ins, start-up, and testing to ensure proper turnover to operations. Participate in final project demobilization, documentation and close-out activities.
- Manage a variety of complex issues including, but not limited to, schedule delays, subcontractor claims, Owner claims and AHJ, utility, ISO coordination.
- Understand, comply and enforce Wood standards and procedures
- Responsible for project Profit and Loss, and understanding complex financial transactions
- Ensure that project leadership is informed of any project risks, particularly with respect to impacts to project finances, schedule, or any impact to an outside party (client, AHJ, etc)
- Prioritize Wood safety culture including actions that impact the project safety record
- Responsible for ensuring project quality and compliance with engineered drawings, maintaining the project schedule, as well as construction permitting / permit compliance
- Train, develop and lead a diverse team to achieve a successful project outcome
- Responsible for communicating, tracking, and maintaining project production goals, including developing recovery strategies. Work closely and collaboratively with field leadership to achieve project goals
- Responsible for ensuring commercial and technical contract compliance, and that construction complies with all applicable local, state, and federal codes
- Maintain accurate project records including financials, as-builts, etc
- Develop and implement complex commercial negotiation strategies
Qualifications
What makes you remarkable?
At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
Expected:
- B.S. in Electrical, Civil or other Engineering discipline from an accredited university.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience
- Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational teambuilding skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations.
- Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives.
- Experience preparing and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary.
- Experience in successfully leading projects and programs to on-time, on-schedule and within budget.
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) and presentation skills to convey technical information to clients and business and financial reports to management.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Ability to perform under pressure and tight deadlines
