Area Construction Manager

Area Construction Manager

Primary Role : The Area Construction Manager is responsible for recruiting, hiring, motivating, training, supervising, and managing Superintendent and Warranty personnel. They will be tasked with leading the Area field operations and processes for home construction (both single family and multifamily) and warranty, ensuring compliance with company standards and regulations. This role requires strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills to achieve desired results, maintain quality, and ensure customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

Management & Supervision

• Manages trade partners and consultants; inspects work and approves payment for acceptable work and materials. Manages contract adherence and provides input on trade partner selection.
• Manages Assistant Construction Managers; provides training and feedback to foster their growth and advancement.
• Manages safety for himself/herself; oversees UnionMain employees to ensure they work safely; evaluates safety violations and exercises judgment to take appropriate action.

Schedules & Budgets

• Manages work against benchmarks and timetables to ensure that trade partners, employees and vendors perform on schedule and on budget.
• Exercises discretion to plan and coordinate starts; modifies schedules in response to field conditions to achieve Company goals.

Project Management

• Manages the home-building process from permitting to home delivery and first-year warranty.
• Uses sound judgment to implement UnionMain’s Jobsite compliance programs and monitors trade partner compliance with scopes of work and applicable regulations such as building codes, environmental laws, SWIPP, and health and safety programs.
• Acts as UnionMain’s primary representative on the Jobsite with third parties such as trade partners, customers and government inspectors and investigators.
• Manages daily logistics of the site to ensure various contractors work harmoniously; stages the job by determining the timing and location of material deliveries, sequencing of work and option installation, and verifying prior work is completed to SP’s high standards prior to following up on work.
• Communicates with sales, purchasing, homeowners, consultants, trades, building officials, and customer care to successfully execute the homebuilding process.

Technical Skills:

• Strong knowledge of home construction.
• Ability to read understand and implement adjustments to architectural and structural blueprints, off-site improvement plans & soils reports.
• Knowledge of relevant building codes and all scopes of work.
• Expertise in BuildPro and Hyphen.
• Proficient in Microsoft applications including Outlook, Excel, Word and Project.

Education/Certification(s)/Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant construction experience.
• Minimum of 3 year of relevant construction management experience.
• Experience in multifamily required.

Physical Requirements:

Bending, stooping, reaching, lifting and balancing; frequent standing and walking, sometimes on uneven and rough terrain.

Climbing ladders; moving/carrying construction materials and supplies weighing in excess of 50 pounds.
Tolerance of moderate to very loud noise. Environmental conditions vary depending on weather, stage of production, and where work takes place. Some of the following conditions apply at various times, hot, cold, wet, dry, muddy, humid, windy, calm, bright, dark, noisy, dusty, poor lighting, poor ventilation, temperature variations, fog and rain. Airborne particles such as wood dust, drywall dusts, etc. are common in the field environment.