Subcontracts Manager (Construction)

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Are you ready to be a part of a dynamic team that values excellence, integrity, and collaboration? Join us in our mission to provide technical augmented staffing solutions that will elevate your project to success. Our dedicated team believes in honesty, integrity, performance, partnership, and trust, ensuring long-lasting customer and employee relationships built on solid principles. By upholding the highest standards of quality and performance, we aim to achieve total customer satisfaction in the various markets we serve.

OUR TEAM members are consummate professionals who are well respected by our Fortune 100 clients in the semiconductor/cleanroom, manufacturing, and mission-critical data center industries.

OUR MISSION is to DO the very best for our clients and customers with integrity, professionalism, and altruism allowing them to BE the very best in their business GLOBALLY .

Join our team as a Subcontracts Manager, and be a part of our journey towards excellence and success!

Role Overview

We are seeking a Subcontracts Manager to support a large-scale, hyperscale data center project for a leading technology client. This role plays a critical part in ensuring all subcontractor scopes are executed efficiently, aligned with project schedules, and delivered in accordance with contract requirements.

This is a high-impact, boots-on-the-ground role working alongside project leadership, field teams, and subcontractors in a fast-paced, mission-critical construction environment.

Responsibilities

The Subcontracts PM will be fully responsible for managing subcontractor scope execution from pre-award through project closeout, including:

• Manage and administer subcontract agreements across multiple trades
• Lead daily coordination with subcontractors, ensuring alignment with project goals and milestones
• Identify, track, and proactively resolve subcontractor constraints and risks
• Oversee and manage change orders, including documentation, tracking, and execution
• Support change order pricing and cost validation in coordination with project controls and commercial teams
• Maintain and drive subcontractor schedule updates, ensuring alignment with the master project schedule
• Coordinate and review weekly subcontractor progress reports
• Manage subcontractor billings and payment processes, ensuring accuracy and compliance
• Support procurement and buyout processes, including scope leveling and vendor coordination
• Assist with budget tracking and cost control efforts related to subcontracted work
• Collaborate with engineering and field teams to support BIM coordination efforts
• Support the submittal process, ensuring timely review and approval cycles
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution across design, procurement, and construction phases

• 7–12+ years of experience in construction project management, with a focus on subcontracts, commercial management, or project controls
• Strong experience in data centers, mission-critical, or large-scale industrial construction preferred
• Background working with major GCs, EPCs, or owner’s rep environments
• Strong understanding of: Subcontract administration, change management / change orders, cost control & budgeting, scheduling coordination (Primavera P6 exposure is a plus)
• Familiarity with tools such as Procore, Bluebeam, Excel, SharePoint
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail
• Strong communication skills able to coordinate across field, office, and subcontractor teams
• Proactive problem-solver in fast-paced environments
• Ability to manage multiple subcontract scopes simultaneously

• Be part of a high-growth, high-visibility build in the mission-critical space
• Join a team that is deeply embedded in execution, not just oversight
• Opportunity for long-term project pipeline and continued growth

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?If your career path isn't on track, get it OnQ! Grow your career with a global team dedicated to large-scale, complex project success. We take pride in providing a collaborative, accountable, customer-focused, fast-paced, and fun culture! OnQGlobal offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package, including:

• 100% Premium Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage for OnQ Employees
• 50% Dependent Coverage for Medical
• 401K Plan
• PTO
• Referral Bonus up to $5,000 per referral

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