Senior Manager, Construction Projects

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Company Overview

For more than 70 years, TBC Corporation has been a leader in the mobility industry and one of North America’s largest marketers and distributors of automotive replacement tires through wholesale operations. Additionally, TBC responds to the needs of consumers in search of total car care at nearly 470 franchised tire and automotive service centers under the award-winning Big O Tires® brand. TBC is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

With $5 billion in revenue and more than 3,000 employees in the U.S. and Mexico, TBC markets on a wholesale basis to regional tire chains and distributors serving independent tire dealers and with proprietary brands of tires specializing in passenger, commercial, farm and specialty tires. In 2005, TBC Corp. was purchased by Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA). SCOA is the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan’s major integrated trading and investment business enterprises. In 2018, Michelin, the largest tire manufacturer in Europe, invested in the company which is now a 50:50, privately held joint venture between Sumitomo and Michelin.

Our values are the foundation of our work, how we interact with each other, and the strategies we employ to fulfill our purpose. These are the practices we use every day – in everything we do:

• Integrity - We act honestly because nothing is more important than our reputation.

• Teamwork - We are better together.
• People-Focused - We put people first – our Associates, customers, franchisees, and partners – and cultivate a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive culture, top to bottom, inside and out.
• Accountability - We own our actions and decisions; we do what we say we are going to do.
• Leave Everything Better - We innovate to improve everything we touch, and we take actions now to protect the future.   

Description

The Senior Manager, Construction Projects serves as a senior leader within the Real Estate organization, responsible for the strategic planning, financial oversight, and execution construction initiatives across a nationwide portfolio of approximately 104 warehouse and distribution facilities.

This role plays a critical part in leading facility relocations, site transitions, expansions, and capital improvement programs driven by real estate strategy. The Senior Project Manager partners closely with Real Estate Transactions, Facility Teams, Finance, Legal, and Operations.

With full ownership of construction governance, the Senior Project Manager oversees capital budgeting, asset retirement estimates, forecasting, funding requests, ensuring rigorous financial discipline and transparency. The role also provides leadership on lease related construction matters, including tenant improvement execution, tenant allowance compliance and collection, and review of construction related legal documentation.

In addition, the Senior Project Manager is responsible for designing and implementing a best-in-class project process, creating standardized frameworks that improve predictability, reduce risk.  Through strong cross functional leadership and disciplined capital stewardship, this role ensures the company’s real estate assets are efficiently built, optimized, and positioned to support long term business strategy.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage complete life cycle construction and relocation projects, consolidations, expansions, from feasibility through close out, with a strong focus on cost control and schedule adherence.
• Coordinate with Real Estate, Finance, Operations to implement approved capital and network plans with minimal operational disruption.
• Manage architects, engineers, contractors, and consultants, including competitive bidding, contract administration and performance monitoring.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Review and approve scope of work, schedules, budgets, and change orders, ensuring alignment with approved funding. 
• Conduct site visits and progress reviews to monitor cost, quality, schedule and safety.
• Enforce compliance with building codes, safety standards, environmental regulations, and company policies.

Continued Responsibilities

• Identify and implement cost-reduction opportunities without compromising safety or operational requirements.
• Manage execution of tenant improvements , including documentation, compliance, and tenant allowance tracking and collection.
• Coordinate with Real Estate and Finance to ensure accurate recovery of landlord funded improvements.

Added Responsibilities

• Review lease provisions related to construction, maintenance, and asset restoration obligations.
• Partner with Legal to review construction contracts, AIA agreements, work letters, amendments, and change orders.
• Support resolution of construction disputes and contractor performance issues.
• Up to 10% travel, including site visits, project reviews, and relocation support.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture or related field.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in construction, or project management
• Proven experience managing large-sale industrial or distribution portfolios.
• Strong expertise in:  (i) CapEx budgeting and forecasting; (ii) Construction-in-Progress (CIP) accounting; (iii) Lease and tenant improvement coordination; (iv) Vendor and contractor management
• Excellent financial, analytical, and executive communication skills.
• Experience in distribution, logistics, or supply chain environments.
• Professional certifications (PMP, CCM, LEED, Six Sigma or similar).
• Experience leading enterprise-wide process transformation initiatives.
• Bilingual in Spanish /English is a plus

Benefits

• Market competitive compensation
• 401(k) and Roth with company match. Immediate 100% vesting
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental and vision
• Company paid short term disability and employer subsidized long term disability
• Company paid life insurance
• Discounted tire purchasing
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Generous paid vacation and paid time off
• Customizable voluntary benefits
• and More!!!

Mission Critical Competencies

TBC seeks team members who excel in demonstrating our critical competencies to drive organizational capability. In this spirit we view the following as mission critical for this role:

• Strategic Mindset: seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.
• Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Change Management: effective Sponsorship, Change Agent and influencing skills. Adaptive, agile, flexible, open minded. Proven ability to build cross-functional commitment, lead, simplify and scale complex dynamic organizations through transformational change.