Sr. Project Manager

About Bering Straits Professional Services

Bering Straits Professional Services (BSPS) is committed to world-class management of global logistics, training and procurement services for U.S. Government agencies. BSPS is certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as an 8(a) contractor. In February 2022, BSPS became an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 certified company. BSPS received the ISO 9001 quality standard certification through the Performance Review Institute (PRI).

About this position: Sr. Project Manager Location - Hanover, MD

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed for this position and are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. Other duties may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Wage/Salary Range: $160k - $200k

Applicants will be notified via phone or email within ten (10) business days of submittal.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level oversight of assigned federal construction projects from pursuit and preconstruction through final closeout.
• Supervise, mentor, and support Project Managers, Project Engineers, Superintendents, Quality Control Managers, and other project personnel.
• Establish clear accountability for project safety, quality, schedule, cost, documentation, subcontractor performance, and customer satisfaction.
• Develop accurate project revenue, cost, cash flow, and margin forecasts and take corrective action when performance deviates from plan.
• Coordinate with estimating, project controls, operations, field leadership, and corporate management to establish project budgets and execution plans.
• Lead estimating efforts for selected pursuits and vertically integrated projects to maintain an accurate and consistent bid-to-build process.
• Participate in bid reviews, bid closings, proposal development, risk reviews, and project feasibility evaluations.
• Lead project startup and turnover from estimating to operations, including scope validation, budget establishment, procurement planning, staffing, schedule development, and risk identification.
• Ensure effective communication among Project Managers, Project Engineers, Superintendents, Quality Control Managers, subcontractors, design partners, and corporate leadership.
• Ensure proper project controls are maintained for quantities, commitments, costs, revenue, change management, schedule, productivity, and forecasting.
• Manage projects to meet or exceed established profitability and performance goals.
• Establish and maintain productive relationships with owners, Contracting Officers, CORs, government Quality Assurance personnel, design partners, subcontractors, suppliers, inspectors, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure timely and accurate project reporting, documentation, forecasting, and lessons-learned activities.
• Support and enforce BSNC safety, quality, ethics, compliance, and operational requirements.

Key Responsibilities
Project and Program Leadership

• Lead all phases of assigned federal construction projects, from pre-award planning and contract award through mobilization, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Oversee multiple projects and project teams simultaneously, setting priorities and allocating management resources based on project needs and risk.
• Provide direct leadership to Project Managers and Superintendents while maintaining executive-level visibility into field execution and project performance.
• Review project staffing plans and assign or recommend appropriate personnel to support contract requirements, workload, and project complexity.
• Establish project execution strategies that support safe, efficient, profitable, and contract-compliant delivery.
• Conduct regular project reviews covering safety, quality, schedule, cost, procurement, changes, risk, staffing, subcontractor performance, and customer issues.
• Support project teams in resolving complex technical, contractual, operational, and stakeholder issues.
• Ensure lessons learned and successful practices are shared across project teams to improve future performance.

Project Controls, Financial Management, and Profitability

• Develop and maintain project budgets, cost codes, forecasts, revenue projections, cash flow expectations, and profitability targets.
• Review project cost reports, commitments, billings, subcontractor payments, earned revenue, forecast-to-complete, and margin trends.
• Ensure project teams maintain accurate cost, quantity, production, schedule, and revenue controls.
• Identify financial risks early and implement recovery plans where cost, schedule, or productivity trends threaten project goals.
• Review and approve project buyout strategies, major commitments, subcontractor scopes, change pricing, and other significant cost decisions within delegated authority.
• Monitor project billing, payment status, retainage, and closeout to support timely cash collection.
• Ensure changes are identified, documented, priced, submitted, negotiated, and incorporated into project forecasts in a timely manner.
• Support preparation and negotiation of requests for equitable adjustment, claims, time-impact analyses, and other contract entitlement matters when required.

Scheduling and Field Execution

• Oversee development and maintenance of baseline schedules, updates, recovery schedules, short-interval plans, and key milestone tracking.
• Coordinate with Project Managers, Superintendents, project controls personnel, subcontractors, and design partners to maintain achievable project schedules.
• Monitor critical and near-critical activities and direct corrective actions when schedule performance is at risk.
• Ensure field teams properly coordinate subcontractors, suppliers, equipment, material deliveries, access requirements, outages, inspections, testing, and owner activities.
• Support planning for occupied facilities, secure installations, phased construction, night or weekend work, limited laydown areas, and other operational constraints.
• Maintain senior-level oversight of field productivity, sequencing, constructability, and subcontractor performance.

Estimating and Preconstruction

• Prepare or lead detailed estimates for federal design-build and design-bid-build projects, including conceptual, schematic, design-development, and final pricing.
• Lead or support proposal development, scope reviews, subcontractor and supplier outreach, quantity takeoffs, pricing, bid leveling, and estimating strategy.
• Analyze solicitations, drawings, specifications, amendments, RFP requirements, site conditions, and contract terms to identify scope, risks, opportunities, and pricing requirements.
• Develop bid schedules, staffing assumptions, general conditions, logistics plans, phasing concepts, and indirect cost estimates.
• Evaluate subcontractor and supplier proposals for completeness, exclusions, qualifications, scope gaps, and pricing risk.
• Develop clear scopes of work and bid packages that support accurate procurement and reduce post-award scope disputes.
• Collaborate with design teams during design-build pursuits to evaluate constructability, cost, schedule, and value-engineering options.
• Support go/no-go evaluations, pursuit strategy, competitive analysis, and early project development decisions.
• Participate in final bid reviews and closings to confirm scope coverage, estimate accuracy, risk allocation, schedule feasibility, and proposed margin.
• Lead the turnover of awarded estimates to operations so assumptions, exclusions, risks, subcontractor coverage, and pricing strategy are clearly understood by the project team.

Federal Contract Administration and Compliance

• Ensure project teams understand and comply with contract requirements, FAR clauses, specifications, drawings, amendments, proposal commitments, and agency-specific requirements.
• Maintain familiarity with federal contracting methods including RFPs, RFQs, MATOCs, MACCs, IDIQs, task orders, and negotiated procurements.
• Oversee contract correspondence, RFIs, submittals, modifications, change notices, certified payroll requirements, progress payments, closeout documentation, and other required records.
• Support project teams in documenting differing site conditions, directed changes, constructive changes, delays, impacts, and other potential entitlement issues.
• Ensure required notices are submitted within contractual timeframes and supported by appropriate cost and schedule documentation.
• Coordinate with corporate leadership, contracts, legal, finance, safety, quality, and other support functions as required.

Quality Control

• Provide management oversight of project quality programs and Quality Control Managers.
• Ensure work complies with contract drawings, specifications, approved submittals, applicable codes, UFC criteria, and agency requirements.
• Confirm project teams plan and coordinate preparatory, initial, and follow-up quality control activities where required.
• Ensure required inspections, testing, special inspections, commissioning, deficiency correction, punch list work, and closeout activities are properly planned and completed.
• Promote early identification and resolution of quality issues to reduce rework, schedule impacts, and customer concerns.

Safety Leadership

• Promote and enforce a proactive safety culture across all assigned projects.
• Ensure project teams and subcontractors comply with applicable OSHA requirements, EM 385-1-1 when contractually required, Accident Prevention Plans, Activity Hazard Analyses, and project-specific safety requirements.
• Review significant safety issues, incidents, corrective actions, and recurring trends with project leadership.
• Support field leadership in addressing unsafe conditions immediately and maintaining accountability across all subcontractors and personnel.
• Lead by example through consistent compliance with BSNC safety policies and expectations.

Client and Stakeholder Relationships

• Serve as a senior BSNC representative with federal clients, including USACE, NAVFAC, DoD, USCG, GSA, and other government customers.
• Build and maintain professional relationships with Contracting Officers, CORs, government Quality Assurance personnel, facility representatives, design partners, subcontractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Communicate project status, risks, challenges, proposed solutions, and commercial issues clearly and professionally.
• Support long-term client relationships through reliable performance, responsiveness, transparency, and effective issue resolution.
• Participate in client meetings, partnering sessions, proposal interviews, project reviews, and business development activities as needed.

Team Leadership and Development

• Supervise and mentor Project Managers, Project Engineers, Superintendents, and other assigned project personnel.
• Establish performance expectations and provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and development support.
• Promote collaboration between project management, field operations, estimating, quality control, safety, and corporate support functions.
• Hold project teams and subcontractors accountable for commitments while maintaining productive working relationships.
• Assist with recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, succession planning, and development of construction personnel.
• Support a professional work environment based on integrity, accountability, teamwork, safety, quality, and customer service.

Required (Minimum Necessary) Qualifications

• Education Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in construction management, Civil Engineering, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred.
• Level of Experience Requirements:
• Equivalent relevant construction experience may be considered in place of a degree.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics

• Advanced knowledge of federal construction project delivery, estimating, procurement, project controls, scheduling, subcontract management, and closeout.
• Ability to lead through Project Managers and Superintendents while maintaining appropriate visibility into project details.
• Ability to evaluate complex project information and make timely business and operational decisions.
• Ability to identify risks before they affect safety, quality, schedule, cost, or customer relationships.
• Strong financial judgment and understanding of project profitability, cash flow, cost forecasting, and margin management.
• Strong leadership, supervisory communication, negotiation, and organizational skills.
• Ability to build effective relationships with federal customers, project teams, subcontractors, suppliers, and corporate leadership.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and multiple projects in a high-production environment.
• Commitment to quality workmanship, contract compliance, ethical conduct, safety, and accountability.

Typical Project Types

• Secure facility and SCIF construction.
• Heavy civil, roadway, site development, grading, paving, and underground utility projects.
• Design-build federal construction.
• Occupied facility renovations and tenant improvements.
• Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire alarm, and fire suppression upgrades.
• Building envelope and architectural modernization projects.
• Infrastructure modernization and utility improvements.
• Secure entry, physical security, and specialty construction.
• Mission-critical Department of Defense and other federal agency projects.

Preferred

• Experience managing heavy civil, vertical, infrastructure, occupied renovation, secure facility, and mission-critical federal construction projects.
• Experience with self-perform construction, cost modeling, constructability reviews, and design-build collaboration.
• Current or prior USACE Construction Quality Management for Contractors certification.
• OSHA 30 certification.
• Professional certification or licensure such as PMP, DBIA, PE, or equivalent.
• Experience working within an SBA 8(a) or Alaska Native Corporation federal contracting environment.
• Established relationships with subcontractors, suppliers, designers, and federal construction stakeholders in markets served by BSNC.
• Active security clearance or prior experience working in secure government facilities.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This position has supervisory

DOT Covered/Safety-Sensitive Role Requirements

• This position is not subject to federal requirements regarding Department of Transportation "safety-sensitive" functions.

Necessary 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 role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of mental alertness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment

The work environmental characteristics described here are representative of those that must be borne by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of situational awareness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Additional Qualifying Factors

As a condition of employment, you will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and have acceptable background check results. If applicable to the contract, you must also obtain and maintain the appropriate clearance levels required and must also be able to obtain access to military installations.

Shareholder Preference

BSNC gives hiring, promotion, training, and retention preference to BSNC shareholders, shareholder descendants and shareholder spouses who meet the minimum qualifications for the job.

Bering Straits Native Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by state or federal law, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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