Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

A Senior Project Manager is responsible for the planning, coordination, and control of a construction project from its inception to completion. A Senior Project Manager ensures that the client's requirements regarding project functionality and standards are met as well as ensuring a successful conclusion of the project.

The Senior Project Manager is charged with bidding the job and distributing documents to the bidders, answering their questions during the bid processing and issuing bid addenda if needed to clarify important details. The Senior Project Manager evaluates and judges the merits of each bid when they come in. There is typically a negotiation processed with a successful bidder before a contract is signed that is managed by the Senior Project Manager.

During construction, a Senior Project Manager must have thorough knowledge of the trades, crafts, and equipment needed to complete the job, plus the ability to identify potential problems. Change orders, or contract changes in scope or quantity, can be caused by plan errors, weather conditions, and unexpected issues, such as the unavailability of a key component or material. The Senior Project Manager is charged with fairly settling contract issues that arise from changes.

A Senior Project Manager is a person who plans and ensures the coordination of construction jobs. A Senior Project Manager has the responsibility of supervising the construction project. A Senior Project Manager ensures that the quality of work and materials is upheld and that the budget is followed as planned. A Senior Project Manager is entitled with the total supervision of all the operations on the site. A Senior Project Manager ensures that the workers are implementing what is on the design plan. A Senior Project Manager monitors the workers and the progress of the project and reports to his employers as well as to the general public. A Senior Project Manager is held liable of any happenings at the construction site and sees to it that the project is complete in time and that the laid down standards are met. A Senior Project Manager's work will be on commercial projects.

Senior Project Manager Duties Include:

• Planning, directing, and coordinating the construction project.
• Overseeing the entire construction project or part of a project.
• Scheduling and coordinating all types of design during the construction process.
• Selecting, hiring, and overseeing the work done by the contractors.
• Overseeing the construction workers and their immediate supervisors.
• Ensuring that the project is completed within a specified time.
• Determine the best source of construction materials.
• Responsible for scheduling and estimating the time required to complete the project.
• Oversees the selection of trade contractors and general contractors who are ideal for the completion of a project.
• Oversees the performance of contractors.
• Ensuring that the construction work is completed on schedule.
• Monitoring and directing the progress in the construction site.
• Oversees the delivery of materials, construction tools, and equipment.
• Ensuring that the construction resources are used well.
• Ensuring that all safety precautions are adhered to by the construction workers.
• Obtaining the necessary licenses or permits.
• Monitoring the compliance with set regulations.
• Ensuring that both the health and safety projects plans are implemented.
• Being on site to oversee all the construction process.
• Ensuring that the budget is followed in terms of purchasing and wages.
• Organizing the workers and ensuring that they are performing as required.
• Recording the total costs for material bought and payments for work done.
• General inspection of the workers and their performance and safety.
• Ensuring that the stipulated safety rules and regulations are met.
• Liaises with the government inspectors on the standard requirements of the site in terms of licenses and safety.
• Follows the project construction process to ensure that it is completed in time.
• Supervises the subcontractors and ensures that they are punctual and that they deliver.
• Ensure that quality is preserved in the construction process and that the budget is maintained.
• Writing project progress records in liaison with the foreman.

Skills and Specifications:

• Supervisory Skills
• Ability to schedule and multitask
• Knowledgeable in building and construction
• Problem solving aptitude
• Computer literate
• Attentive to detail
• Possess good communication skills

Work Environment:

• This job operates in a client project environment with exposure to employee, subcontractors, and trades.

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• Ability to freely access all points of a construction site in wide-ranging climates and environment
• Ability to comprehend forms in space and understand relationships of plane and solid objects. May be used in such tasks as blueprint reading and in solving geometry problems. Frequently described as the ability to "visualize" objects of two and three dimensions, or to think visually of geometric forms.
• Ability to manipulate materials and/or equipment up to 50 lbs. The frequency of manipulation is frequently.
• Ability to move up or mount by using the hands or feet to include:
• Ladders - Step stool, 8' to 10' ladder, extension ladder
• Stairways - 3 or more flights
• To bend forward or down from the middle of the waist or the middle of the back, to bend, downwards, to lower oneself and/or to move freely on hands and knees between 20-50 times daily
• To stretch out, extend, or put forth a bodily part. To touch or grasp something, by extending or stretching. To touch, lift, hold or operate with the hands up to 50 times daily.
• To perceive or comprehend by the sense of sight.
• Characteristics are:
• Focus, Color perception or depth perception.
• The ability to operate or convey in a vehicle
• Car
• Commercial Vehicle

Education and Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED
• A degree in Construction Management or Project Management or equivalent experience.

Please note, this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.