Construction Manager

Construction Manager

Freese and Nichols is seeking a Construction Manager in Fort Worth or Dallas, Texas. As Construction Manager, you will oversee construction projects from pre-construction through closeout, ensuring quality, compliance, and alignment with client objectives while serving as a key liaison between owners, contractors, and design teams.

What You'll Do

• Manage the observation and inspection of ongoing construction work including material sampling and testing as well as measuring quantities.
• Review contractor's work for compliance with contract documents and clarify contract documents for the contractor.
• Lead the development and management of change/field orders, updates to construction schedule, submittals, request for Information (RFI), claims, pay requests, construction meetings and closeout processes
• Communicate with contactor about non-conforming work
• Correspond with client, contractors, and other employees
• Collaborate with design teams to facilitate responses to RFIs and submittals and/or construction issues
• Read plan and specifications to be able to ensure construction is in accordance with plans and specifications
• Communicate with owner to understand owner's needs and clarify owner's objectives and relay information to Freese and Nichols and contractor
• Support bid phase services
• Conduct pre-bid and pre-construction conferences
• Support the design phase process as assigned
• Oversee field staff and the execution of their daily work
• Support sales and marketing efforts

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Associates degree in related field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years relevant experience in the construction field serving as a construction representative or inspector
• Fully proficient and ability to mentor others using project management information system
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, etc.)

Preferred:

• EIT
• CMIT