Project Manager

Project Manager

The Project Manager will provide leadership to the project staff and ensure quality and timely execution of design-build projects from design to completion.

Specifics of the Role

• Coordination with the project team (designers, engineers, production, assembly, site crews).
• Communication and coordination involving the customer and their project team (project managers, architects, engineers, consultants), to ascertain contract time, cost, and quality objectives, and organize project resources accordingly.
• Develop an understanding of the bid scope and contract documents (trade contract, scope drawings, specification, exhibits, bid pricing and clarifications).
• Develop, track, update, and report on the detailed project schedule for design, engineering, mockups, production, and installation activities.
• Develop, track, update, and report on the contract schedule of values and payment requisitions, ensuring the project cash flow is met and payments received in a timely manner.
• Develop and understand of the contract budget.
• Coordinate all aspects of project Quality Control; develop, track, update and report on the contract quality control and assurance system.
• Pricing and purchasing of materials, equipment, and sub-contracts, ensuring that both budgetary and specified contractual cost, time and quality requirements are met.
• Research, substantiate, present and report changes to the contract scope.
• Attend and take meeting minutes at all required external and internal meetings.
• Provide and submit all required internal and external contract reports and submissions.
• Manage maintenance and warranty work on completed projects.
• Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills.
• Ability to identify, assimilate and comprehend the critical elements of a situation to extract and interpret implications of courses of actions and address details of the problem.
• Effectiveness in planning and controlling work, motivating, and developing subordinates, improving work methods and results, encouraging, and supporting suggestions for work improvements.
• Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.
• Plans for and uses resources efficiently, always looks for ways to reduce costs, creates accurate and realistic budgets, tracks and adjusts budgets.
• Attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Prepare and monitor realistic construction schedules and achieve full cooperation of superintendents and subcontractors.
• Communicates expectations and importance of safety. Follows up and ensures safety audits are completed accurately and timely. Identifies critical issues and assists in the development of improvement procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or other related discipline.
• 6-10 years of project management experience large scale subcontracting projects, preferably.
• 2 years of experience in Glass and Glazing Project Management - Unitized Systems.
• Proficient using MS Office, Word, Excel, Project, with an aptitude to learn any required in-house software.
• Strong knowledge of construction principles and practices required.
• Excellent critical thinking skills, with an adaptable and flexible style in working with all types of individuals.
• Project set up, budget planning, buy out, and cost reporting experience is necessary.
• Experience with scheduling, dealing with subcontracts, subcontractors and/or self-perform work.
• Experience leading successful project teams, including development of employees, and maintaining relationships with external entities.
• Creative and results-oriented, with a strong sense of urgency.
• Successfully project managed projects of at least 10 million dollars (design-build preferred).
• Highly entrepreneurial and self-motivated, with the ability to work equally well on own as well as in a team environment.
• Ability to walk the job site, climb ladders, and multi floor scaffolding.
• Ability to lift objects at least 50lbs.

Some Things You Should Know

• Our clients and projects are nationwide – Travel will be required.
• No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
• We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
• The pace is fast!
• This position is classified as a safety-sensitive role in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Candidates selected for this position will be subject to a comprehensive background check, which includes mandatory drug testing.

Why Clayco and Ventana?

• 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
• 2025 ENR Top 400 – Top Data Center Contractor (Top 3).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors – Green Contractor (Top 3).

Benefits

• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!

Compensation

• The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.