Senior Project Manager

This position is responsible to lead a project construction team and the overall management of the project's direction, planning, completion and financial outcome. The position requires business management acumen and must demonstrate strong leadership, organizational and time management skills, as well as have strong communication and team building skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Managing the development, updating, modification (as required) and maintenance of the project schedule including a master schedule, 60-day look ahead schedules for their assigned trades, and two weeks look ahead schedules for their assigned trades.
• Assure the implementation and continuous maintenance of corporate safety program requirements in all of the day-to-day operations on the project.
• Understand and be familiar with the date by which all materials must arrive on the job and convey that information to the project superintendent for preparation of the contract items lists and shop drawing schedules.
• Understand and uphold the site safety plan.
• Understand and uphold the site logistics plan.
• Prepare and attend the weekly foreman and superintendents’ meetings. Assist in maintaining the minutes of these meetings, and ensure they are recorded and distributed.
• Prepare and manage weekly safety meetings, regular toolbox talks, and safety pre-task meetings as required.
• Prepare the daily construction reports in a thorough and timely manner.
• Understand and ensure risk controls are properly established and maintained.
• Attend weekly meetings with the project team for purposes of updates on the status of the fieldwork and communication of any issues requiring the input or action of others on the project team, and for notification to the project team of issues that may be of importance or interest to them.
• Establish and maintain a system of document control to assure work is being installed in accordance with the latest design documentation and approved shop drawings.
• Communicate any issues requiring additional information from designers in a timely fashion to the project manager for issuance of RFI’s.
• Assist in preparation of the monthly status report to be submitted to the client.
• Assure monthly job progress photographs are taken in ample quantity to accurately depict the progress of the work.
• Assure the required permits and approvals from jurisdictional agencies are secured, posted, and renewed as required prior to starting work.
• Ad hoc projects as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management with at least ten years experience in construction project management
• Thorough understanding of industry and geographic market.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills essential both within the internal project team along with key stakeholders and externally with clients, owners and subcontractors.
• Excellent time management, organizational skills and attention to detail while working in a structured corporate environment
• Strong working knowledge of MS Office suite as well as current experience using a construction management platform such as Autodesk