Senior Project Manager

Role Summary

The Senior Project Manager will provide overall direction and leadership, owning project outcomes for significantly complex projects and/or multiple projects. This position will fully implement and manage the operation, profitability, and administration of projects. All activities will be performed in support of JE Dunn’s strategy, vision, and values.

Key Role Responsibilities - Core

PROJECT MANAGEMENT FAMILY – CORE

• Leads all aspects of the company’s safety culture and creates awareness by demonstrating a commitment to an injury‑free environment through individual actions and mentoring others.
• Investigates safety incidents and retrains staff as needed.
• Manages the JE Dunn pre‑start checklist form.
• Supports the pre‑construction team including quantity take‑off, trade coordination, and scope of work development, scope review, bid package development, schedule development, bid list creation, and bid advertisement.
• Leads plan and implementation of buyout schedule, verifies pricing and scope, identifies successful bidders, provides gap analysis against initial scope, and manages issuance of subcontracts.
• Manages the submittal schedule setup, coordinates priorities with the team, reviews and approves all shop drawings and samples prior to submittal to architects or engineers.
• Ensures approved submittals are returned to subcontractors and available to the project team per the project schedule and the contract.
• Coordinates with Logistics to obtain pricing on materials and equipment.
• Confers with risk management to ensure approval and/or bonding requirements for subcontractors, reviews decisions with project leader, and provides ongoing risk analysis throughout project lifecycle.
• Coordinates the various stakeholders of the project including subcontractors, owner, field, design team, vendors, etc.
• Disseminates change requests to subcontractors for pricing and schedule input, gathers and evaluates subcontractor pricing to confirm accuracy.
• Prepares, submits, and obtains owner/architect approval for change requests.
• Leads various meetings such as monthly project reviews, progress meetings, and OAC (Owner Architect) meetings.
• Completes monthly subcontractor and owner pay application process.
• Prepares project schedule with the Project Superintendent, gathers input from the project team, utilizes Lean principles as appropriate, develops and updates project schedule for both pre‑construction and construction activities, and manages materials, labor and procurement logs to ensure resources are available to meet the project schedule.
• Identifies potential schedule impacts including scope, weather, manpower and changes, and facilitates mitigation plans.
• Provides written documentation for decisions affecting aspects such as budget, schedule, legal, quality, and safety, employing best practices for documentation requirements.
• Provides regular reporting and analysis to the project team to communicate overall project status and profitability.
• Prepares monthly cost and margin forecast with input from superintendent, reviews with the project team, participates in project budget development, and regularly reviews costs relative to the budget to highlight discrepancies and improve financial performance.
• Leads overall project closeout process using best‑practice standards, tools, and processes, including the close‑out punch list, financials, sub‑contracts, warranties, etc.
• Interfaces with region/company legal counsel as appropriate.

Key Role Responsibilities - Additional Core

• Leads and participates in all aspects of the project‑specific safety plan, creating a culture of safety awareness by demonstrating commitment to an injury‑free environment.
• Understands the pre‑construction process from conceptual phase through GMP development.
• Completes estimating and productivity analysis.
• Leads or supports senior management for pre‑construction discussions with clients.
• Oversees project team during development of pre‑construction estimates.
• Identifies, understands, and actively manages project risks.
• Assists with the development and management of the project business plan to maximize financial success.
• Implements and manages components of the operation and administration of complex and/or multiple construction projects.
• Utilizes experience to identify problems and recommends solutions for review and implementation by the team.
• Manages deliverables from internal resources and functions such as IPS, logistics, self‑perform, etc.
• Engages in business, industry, and community activities to build and strengthen external relationships.
• Reviews and approves expense reports.
• Negotiates project issues, including change orders, contingency expenditures, and appropriate fee enhancements.
• Completes scope review and bid analysis, including award of subcontracts.
• Collaborates with marketing team on related presentations and marketing activities.
• Leads, supports, and promotes a culture of diversity and inclusion within JE Dunn, ensuring proactive implementation of non‑discrimination policy.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to perform work accurately, completely, and in a timely manner.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced presentation skills.
• Intermediate proficiency in MS Office.
• Ability to apply fundamentals of construction management to projects.
• Thorough knowledge of project processes and their impact on successful completion.
• Ability to build relationships with team members.
• Intermediate proficiency in project management and accounting software such as CMiC.
• Intermediate proficiency in required construction technology.
• Intermediate proficiency in scheduling software.
• Intermediate proficiency in BIM (Building Information Modeling).
• Intermediate ability to apply Lean process and philosophy.
• Intermediate ability to manage budgets, maximize profitability, and generate future work through relationship building.
• Ability to construct a project from start to finish.
• Ability to prepare the project budget, GMP or hard bid.
• Ability to complete range estimates.
• Ability to assist marketing team with presentation and marketing activities.
• Ability to develop and manage a project team.
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate within a team, internally and externally.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, or related field.
• Equivalent relevant experience will be considered if the above are not met.

Experience

• 10+ years construction management experience.
• Valid and unrestricted driver’s license required.
• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds.
• May require periods of travel and/or relocation.
• Willingness to work non‑traditional hours to meet project needs.
• May be exposed to extreme conditions (hot or cold).
• Assignment location may include project sites and/or the office.
• Frequent activity: sitting, viewing computer screen.
• Occasional activity: standing, walking, bending, climbing, reaching above shoulder, pushing, pulling.

Benefits Information

The benefits package aligned to this position is Professional Non‑Union. Please click the link below for more details.

Equal Opportunity Statement

JE Dunn Construction is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and provide equal opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected category. JE Dunn Construction is a background‑screening, drug‑free workplace.

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