Senior Project Manager - Heavy Highway Construction

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Project Manager, Heavy Highway Construction

Location: Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Salary: $140,000–$150,000 per year

Lead major highway, airport, and civil infrastructure projects from preconstruction through closeout. You’ll own project delivery, financial performance, contract administration, and scheduling while coordinating field leaders and developing the next generation of project management talent.

Join an established Chicagoland heavy civil contractor with more than 60 years of infrastructure experience. The company works on major transportation and civil projects and emphasizes safety, integrity, teamwork, and long-term employee growth. You’ll have the opportunity to lead complex work, collaborate closely with field and executive leadership, and help develop project engineers and project managers.

What You’ll Do

• Lead large heavy highway, airport, and civil infrastructure projects from planning through closeout.

• Manage budgets, cost forecasts, profitability, cash flow, progress billing, and financial reporting.

• Develop and maintain construction schedules, including Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules.

• Oversee contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, change orders, claims, and project documentation.

• Coordinate project execution with superintendents, estimators, owners, government agencies, engineers, and subcontractors.

• Identify cost and schedule risks, negotiate changes and extensions, and implement recovery plans.

• Lead project teams and develop project engineers and project managers.

• Maintain contractual, safety, quality, schedule, and financial standards.

What You’ll Need

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or equivalent related experience.

• Strong knowledge of heavy civil, highway, airport, or infrastructure construction.

• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects, including budgets, schedules, contracts, subcontractors, and project teams.

• Experience managing multiple projects, forecasting costs, and monitoring financial performance.

• Experience developing and managing CPM construction schedules.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6 or equivalent scheduling software, and construction project management or cost-control systems.

• Strong contract negotiation, problem-solving, communication, and team leadership skills.

• A record of delivering projects on schedule and within budget.

Preferred

• 10+ years of heavy highway or airport construction experience, or equivalent relevant training.

• Extensive experience managing large-scale infrastructure projects.

• Advanced Primavera P6, cost forecasting, and project financial management skills.

• Experience with construction claims, change orders, and schedule extensions.