Project Executive (Los Angeles)

BCCI is growing, and we’re looking for a Project Executive who wants to help shape the teams and projects behind that growth. You’ll lead project teams, support the development of the people on them, and build trusted relationships with clients and trade partners.

This role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact: guiding projects from strategy through delivery, helping teams work through challenges, and ensuring each project meets our standards for quality, financial performance, and client service. You’ll work closely with executive leadership and have a voice in how we grow, while helping create an environment where your team can do its best work.

Representative Tasks and Responsibilities

• Develop and manage relationships with potential and current clients
• Play a leading role in securing new business and negotiating contracts
• Supervise projects and ensure they are delivered on-time and on-budget with high levels of quality, safety and profitability
• Manage and oversee project team(s), which includes employees from Project Management, Preconstruction and Field Operations.
• Curate culture on the project team that aligns with overall organizational culture
• Manage staffing needs by sharing/trading with other PEx’s.Participate with other PEx’s in recommendations to Division Leaders on long term staffing needs.
• Manage workload within team to produce the targeted gross margin for projects.
• Guide team members to meet or exceed corporate financial goals specific to project delivery.
• Collaborate with other PEx’s, Department Heads, and Division Leaders to address project/client concerns and issues.
• Ensure implementation of performance improvement procedures
• Serve as a client relationship manager for specified clients.
• Maintain positive subcontractor relationships and identify new qualified subcontractor alliances for equitable work distribution. Communicate feedback of subcontractor with other PEx’s.
• Manage and ensure quality communication and collaboration amongst your team.
• Facilitate issue resolution. Seek additional help from Division Leaders, Department Heads, or Human Resources as necessary.
• Manage staff to ensure that the procedures and protocol are followed and that project closeouts are completed in a timely and accurate manner, within four weeks after project completion.
• Communicate updates on projects to Division Leaders
• Assist Department Heads to monitor and support staff in performance improvement through training, development and coaching based on their individual development plans.
• Managing for Results: Sets challenging and productive goals for team, keeps team accountable for actions, provides leadership and motivation, provides resources and support, uses checkpoints and data to track progress, sets up systems and processes to measure results.
• People Development: Provides feedback and coaching, rewards hard work and risk taking, takes mentoring role, challenges and develops employees, accepts mistakes, provides visibility/opportunity, all consistent with BCCI corporate culture and values.
• People Management: Defines roles and responsibilities, motivates and challenges employees, delegates effectively, rewards contributions, manages collaboratively.
• Participate in the marketing process, including presentations, RFP responses and attending industry events.

GENERAL SKILLS

• Leadership: Leads through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others, communicates a compelling vision to the team that builds commitment; leads by example, personally demonstrating the behavior(s) expected of staff throughout BCCI.
• Organizational Savvy: Operates within the organization's formal and informal structures, builds allies and relationships across the company, uses allies to build consensus and create results, is appropriately diplomatic, understands others' roles and perspectives, can sell projects and ideas across the organization.
• Strategic Thinking: Communicates a long-term vision set forth by Leadership Group and strategizes within team to work toward these goals, balances short and long term goals, keeps own and team's work aligned with overall goals.
• Communication Skills: Communicates effectively both verbally and in writing, creates accurate and punctual reports, shares and explains information and ideas with others, delivers presentations as needed, practices active listening on a regular basis, uses the most effective method (formal vs. informal/verbal vs. written) in which to relay information to different individuals, conveys important details in such a way as to ensure others understand purpose, goals, deliverables and timeliness.
• Relationships: Has good listening skills, is flexible/open-minded, negotiates effectively, solicits performance feedback and handles constructive criticism. Develops positive relationships with other BCCI associates and with customers, treats others with dignity and respect, manages conflict, is tactful and diplomatic. Understands and lives the fact that “relationships drive the BCCI economic engine.”

• Integrity/Ethics: Deals with others in a straightforward and honest manner, is accountable for actions, maintains confidentiality, supports company values, conveys good news and bad, willingness to seek and tell the truth, engenders trust from others and keeps promises.
• Vision and Values: Supports BCCI’s core values through daily actions and decisions, communicates personal and company vision and values to others, generates enthusiasm, incorporates vision when planning.
• Self-Development: Seeks out and accepts feedback, is a proactive learner, takes on tough assignments to improve skills, keeps knowledge and skills up-to-date, turns mistakes into learning opportunities.

Qualifications

To perform job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education

• College degree in construction management, architecture, engineering, and/or other related fields or equivalent work experience.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of construction, design, finance, management, estimating cost controls, scheduling and contract management.
• Working knowledge of blueprints and plans
• Working knowledge of software programs, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Timberline, Procore and CMiC.

Experience

• 15 years of construction management experience with a demonstrated progression of increased responsibility in project management.
• 5-7 years in managing staff.
• Current experience managing projects with 12–20 week construction schedules in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, typically four or more active projects at one time within the past year.
• Recent experience in corporate interiors / tenant improvement, including coordination of millwork, furniture integration, lighting design, and architectural finishes.
• Up to Date understanding of standard building codes, city permitting processes, and construction documentation requirements.
• Current experience working with corporate tenants, ownership groups, designers, and brokers, with a strong emphasis on communication and client relationship management.