Construction Project Manager

Company Overview:

Shell Mobility & Convenience proudly operates over 200 Timewise convenience stores and Shell gas stations in Texas and New Mexico. Our friendly team provides great customer service while supporting our employees with growth opportunities. Shell Mobility & Convenience is based in Houston, Texas and became part of the Shell Group in 2022. Join our friendly and hard-working Timewise family!

Position Summary:

The Construction Project Manager leads assigned capital projects for Shell Mobility and Convenience (SMC) gasoline stations and convenience retail stores. This role is accountable for project leadership, general contractor performance, risk management, and successful turnover from pre-construction through closeout. This role manages outcomes, communication, documentation, risk, cost, schedule, safety, and quality requirements. The Construction Project Manager coordinates owner-side resources and relies on Owner's Representatives and Senior Owner's Representatives for field visibility, QA/QC observations, schedule validation, punch tracking, and contractor performance feedback. The ideal candidate brings strong commercial construction leadership, retail fuel experience, and the ability to manage multiple complex builds across diverse geographies while protecting the owner's cost, schedule, safety, quality, compliance, and operational interests.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Leadership: Lead assigned construction projects from pre-construction planning through turnover and closeout, with primary focus on complex New-To-Industry (NTI), Knockdown-Rebuild (KDR), major remodel, fuel system, and multi-scope capital projects.
• General Contractor Governance: Manage the GC through contract requirements, milestone controls, meeting cadence, performance scorecards, review Submittals/RFIs, escalating as necessary, schedule updates, pay application validation, change orders, safety expectations, and closeout deliverables. Hold contractors accountable to scope, cost, schedule, quality, and compliance.
• Project Controls: Own project budgets, schedules, forecasts, change orders, and maintain disciplined controls routines that identify variance early, support timely escalation, and preserve an auditable record of decisions, assumptions, approvals, and recovery plans.
• Field Oversight: Coordinate Owner's Representatives and Senior Owner's Representatives who provide field-level observation, QA/QC validation, schedule visibility, punch tracking, site readiness assessment, and contractor performance feedback.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate across multiple internal teams' vendors, permitting authorities, and regulatory stakeholders to ensure projects are properly scoped, funded, permitted, executed, commissioned, and turned over to operations.
• Supply Chain and Owner-Provided Materials: Manage owner-provided and owner-furnished/contractor-installed material, delivery windows, site readiness, storage requirements, contractor installation sequencing, and risk escalation for shortages, substitutions, or late deliveries.
• Works closely with Contracts and Procurement to develop high quality contract management plans for execution of services on site as well as owner supplied equipment strategies.
• Works in collaboration with the Engineering Manager on site plans and the development strategy. Contributes feedback and assurance into the Front-End Engineering process for continuous improvement in the delivery process through improved design standards and execution from previous builds.
• Compliance, Safety, and Quality Assurance: Ensure projects comply with applicable safety, environmental, permitting, regulatory, brand, engineering, and operational requirements. Require task-specific safety planning, job hazard analysis, permit-to-work coordination, inspection readiness, quality checklists, commissioning evidence, testing documentation, deficiency tracking, and closeout packages before operational handover.
• Change Management and Claims Avoidance: Operate a proactive change control process that captures potential changes early, validates entitlement, quantifies cost and schedule impact, secures required approvals before work proceeds where practical, and maintains clear documentation to reduce disputes, delay claims, scope gaps, and uncontrolled field commitments.
• Risk and Issue Management: Maintain risk registers, issue logs, decision records, permit trackers, utility trackers, long-lead material trackers, and escalation routines. Anticipate schedule, cost, permitting, utility, contractor, supply chain, environmental, regulatory, and quality risks before they become delay events, claims, rework, or operational disruptions.
• Reporting and Communication: Provide concise, fact-based reporting to the Director of Construction and leadership on project status, milestone performance, budget position, risks, decisions required, and recovery plans. Maintain accurate records in Procore and related systems.
• Continuous Improvement and Team Development: Partner with Owner's Representatives to improve delivery standards, contractor accountability, field documentation, closeout quality, and repeatable construction processes across the portfolio.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, Civil Engineering, Engineering, Business, or related field preferred; equivalent industry experience will be considered. PMP, CCM, or related project management certification preferred.
• 2-5+ years of construction project management experience, including demonstrated experience managing complex commercial, retail fuel, convenience store, petroleum, civil, or multi-trade construction projects.
• Understanding of contractor management, contract administration, change order control, pay application validation, schedule management, project forecasting, and claims avoidance.
• Working knowledge of fuel system installations, underground utilities, environmental compliance, permitting, inspections, commissioning, and turnover requirements.
• Proven ability to lead multiple concurrent projects across different regions while maintaining cost, schedule, quality, safety, and stakeholder alignment.
• Ability to work through field-based Owner's Representatives and Senior Owner's Representatives to obtain accurate field visibility, validate progress, and escalate contractor performance issues.
• Communication, negotiation, facilitation, and leadership skills with the ability to influence contractors and internal stakeholders
• Proficiency in project management and construction management software, including Procore, Microsoft Project, Excel, Teams, and related reporting tools.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with DOT, EPA, state environmental agencies, local permitting authorities, utility providers, and retail fuel regulatory Including API RP 1646 and OSHA
• Experience with LEED, energy efficiency, sustainability, EV charging, car wash, food service, or other convenience retail growth initiatives.
• Ability to travel as needed to project sites, contractor meetings, permitting meetings, and critical construction milestones.