Project Manager

ROLE SUMMARY

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Project Manager is responsible for managing the overall planning, coordination, and control of the project while focusing on the client’s requirements to produce a functionally and financially viable project.

Hours of work are Monday to Friday – 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Travel to projects is required.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBLITIES

• Plan, organize, direct, control, and evaluate major projects from start to finish according to schedule, specifications, and budget.

• Participate in the development and submission of construction project budget estimates.

• Plan and prepare construction schedules and milestones, and monitor progress against established schedules.

• Prepare contracts and negotiate revisions, changes, and additions to contractual agreements with architects, consultants, clients, suppliers, and subcontractors.

• Liaise with engineers, clients, suppliers, subcontractors, and others working on the project.

• Build an inclusive culture of high safety and production performance by establishing trust and relationships with both the team and client.

• Align construction crews and supervisors with adequate daily work instructions to direct reports.

• Coordinate manpower movement within the area of command and across multiple crafts.

• Ensure all internal processes and/or client business processes are communicated and followed by the appropriate level of supervision.

• Lead presentations to key stakeholders to ensure proper communication within the project execution team.

• Lead innovation and value engineering sessions to drive a solutions-oriented focus to Projects and Clients.

• Ensure employees follow all predetermined divisional processes and procedures set forth by the construction and planning teams to ensure all deficiencies are remediated.

• Work with the Project Leads to review and prepare needs assessments of equipment and materials and requisition required items.

• Read and interpret drawings and blueprints to determine construction plans. Identify and rectify any issues or questions about the documents.

• Evaluate/solve constructability and planning issues.

• Organize set up of site facilities.

• Implement, develop, and ensure the safety program is followed on-site.

• Ensure personnel are working according to the main project schedule.

• Work on corrective actions with the client and engineering to address any actions resulting from punch lists.

• Prepare a progress survey and report to the Project Director detailing the current project status.

• Ensure proper progress from the area of command is relayed to Project Controls.

• Lead daily planning meetings with Superintendents, Construction Planner, and Discipline Planners to ensure the plan is on target.

• Ensure quality construction standards and the use of proper construction techniques.

• Experience with the process of AWP which brings construction professionals into planning from the start to facilitate the early development of detailed CWPs (Construction Work Packages) that will ultimately guide the field activities.

REQUIREMENTS & SKILLS

• Undergraduate degree or diploma in construction management, engineering, or another relevant field

• Collaborative leader who can work within inter-divisional teams and joint venture partnerships.

• 5+ years’ construction experience in a supervisory capacity.

• Excellent budgeting, costing, and scheduling skills.

• Strong computer skills with MS Office and Project Management Systems.

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing all disciplines, internal employees, and external sub-trades.

• Ability to inspire trust in difficult situations by instilling confidence and engaging people on matters that affect them.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and meet the time demands of unpredictable activities, capable of handling pressure and challenges.

• Works within tight deadlines and prioritizes work to achieve them.

• Strong analytical, critical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, and a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills demonstrated through speaking to groups of on-site employees and communicating with various stakeholders including clients, management, and site employees.

• Demonstrates a sense of urgency and a strong commitment to achieving goals; ability to work in challenging, fast-paced environments.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Communication: Strong writing skills for proposal drafting, and effective oral communication skills to assign tasks and sections to other team members or departments for completion.

• Organization: Managing the different parts of bids and multiple proposals all at once, and organizing a cohesive document for submission.

• Experience with word processing: Experience and knowledge of word processing software to format documents, create content, and plan proposals.

• Attention to detail: Review and finalize proposals by identifying the intricacies of the client's requests and correcting errors or inconsistencies in the document.

• Creativity: Design new and captivating ways to present information to ensure proposals are appealing to prospective clients and demonstrate the abilities of the organization and the proposed team members.

• Project management: Time and project management skills to consistently meet the submission deliverables and deadlines outlined in the RFP.

• Editing skills: Review documents and revise spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure.

• Teamwork and collaboration: Must be able to collaborate effectively and efficiently with multiple contributors and conduct various levels of review before submission.