SR PROJECT MANAGER na Westwood Contractors Inc

Description

Job Summary:

Responsible for the overall management and financial responsibilities of multiple construction projects from buyout stage through close out, including management during the additional one-year warranty. Establishes project objectives and policies, maintains liaison with prime client contracts, and monitors construction and financial activities through administrative direction of on-site superintendent. Also provides specialty project advice to management on prospective clients.

Job Duties/Essential Functions:

· Bid Package Review: Thoroughly review owner and subcontractor bid packages, ensuring comprehensive understanding of project requirements.

· Subcontractor Management: Solicit pricing and negotiating price and scope with subcontractors, issuing subcontracts, purchase orders, and obtaining required documentation.

· Schedule Management: Develop, monitor and enforce project schedules through effective coaching, ensuring timely project completion.

· Site Visits: Conduct regular visits to construction sites, ensuring safe work practices and compliance with contract documents.

· Owner-Supplied Items: Coordinate the release of owner-supplied items and identify long lead items for timely deliveries to meet project schedules.

· Financial Oversight: Review, approve, and/or negotiate subcontractor pay requests, initiate owner and subcontractor change orders, and submit weekly reports and updates to the client.

· Closeout Package Preparation: Prepare and submit closeout packages for final payment to suppliers and subcontractors, as well as billings to the client.

· Cost Monitoring: Regularly monitor job costs, reconcile work-in-progress costs, and promptly inform management of any variances from the approved budget.

· Team Support: Coach and support the field management team in their day-to-day activities, ensuring overall project team productivity.

· Contract Administration: Oversee all contract administration of subcontractors, including documentation of substandard work or untimely performance, up to and including termination/replacement if necessary.

· Vendor Pay Requests: Review and approve all vendor pay requests, maintaining financial transparency and accuracy.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

· Good organizational, interpersonal, negotiation and customer relations skills are required. Attention to detail and mental concentration are necessary for accurately performing tasks and handling constant interruptions. Must be able to work within tight deadlines.

Requirements

Education, Certifications, Experience:  

· A bachelor's degree in construction management or any equivalent combination of education and experience. 

· Proven experience (15+ years) in construction industry with 10 years of experience overseeing projects 

· A thorough knowledge of the construction industry, terminology, and processes.

· Must understand the project plans and specifications; must be able to read and accurately interpret blueprints, construction documents, and building specifications.

· Excellent organizational, interpersonal, negotiation, and customer relations skills are required.

· Must be able to work within tight deadlines.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with a disability.

· Regularly required stand, walk, and/or sit.

· Dexterity and repetitive motion of wrists, hands, and fingers.

· Using hands and fingers to grasp, push, pull, and feel.

· Reach with hands and arms.

· Climb, balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl.

· Ability to use oral communication and the ability to hear oral communication.

· Ability to create effective clear written communications and utilize a computer keyboard. 

· Visual acuity for accuracy, neatness or to make general observations. 

· The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the employee will encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The passage of employees through the work area is average and normal.

When working in the field, the employee may also be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold and extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock and risk of vibration. The noise level in this work environment could be moderate to loud.