Overview:
Construction company is seeking a Project Manager / Estimator.
Responsibilities:
- Champion and enforce site safety through best practices, regular monitoring, and comprehensive training.
- Drive a culture of safety excellence, ensuring compliance and accurate documentation.
- Champion project quality from bid to closeout, maintaining a thorough understanding of plans and specifications.
- Proactively identify and resolve challenges, leveraging your working knowledge of construction means and methods.
- Skilled in various project delivery systems (design-build, CM-GMP, lump sum, unit price, etc.), ensuring optimal project outcomes.
- Deliver exceptional results by communicating quality goals, documenting changes, and conducting post-job reviews for continuous improvement.
- Proactively identify and resolve project challenges, and escalate issues as needed.
- Conduct post-job reviews to capture lessons learned and celebrate successes.
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including as-builts, meticulous change order management and communication, and visual progress logs.
- Drive project profitability through accurate and competitive cost estimation, from individual components to full project scopes.
- Cultivate strong subcontractor relationships, actively recruiting to broaden bid participation and ensure fair pricing.
- Negotiate favorable terms with owners, creatively securing projects while safeguarding profitability.
- Oversee dynamic change order management and facilitate seamless material and subcontractor buy-outs.
- Lead pre-job planning sessions and conduct thorough design revision reviews to maintain cost and schedule integrity.
- Develop and manage comprehensive project schedules from initial bid to final closeout, including accurate self-perform labor, equipment, and supervision cost projections.
- Ensure smooth project transitions by collaborating with operations to align on costs, schedules, and scopes post-award.
- Maintain and update CPM schedules weekly, clearly communicating progress, productivity goals, milestones, and critical path to all stakeholders.
- Oversee all project management procedures, including submittals, RFIs, change orders, and close-out documentation, ensuring timely execution and issue reporting to owners and leadership.
- Cultivate strong relationships with owners, design teams, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders.
- Serve as the primary liaison, facilitating open communication and proactively resolving issues and disputes in a timely manner.
- Foster a positive and productive work environment through effective team interaction, collaboration, and mentorship.
- Actively engage with all project stakeholders (internal teams, vendors, subs, architects, engineers, owners) to drive common goals.
- Swiftly resolve conflicts and challenges, promoting a collaborative and efficient project environment.
Requirements:
- Undergraduate degree Civil Engineering or Construction Management, or combination of education and related experience.
- 5+ years’ of direct experience managing civil contracts.
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills to build a high-performance team.
- Professional integrity and accountability.
- Ability to prioritize and maintain a high-volume, high-demand schedule.
- Excellent attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy.
- Proficient with HCSS Heavy Bid or B2W estimating software.
- Proficient with MS Project or equivalent with experience developing project schedules.
- Proficient with Microsoft Excel and Word.
For additional information:
Stephen S. Stauffer
Phone: 610-421-1225
Email: S.Stauffer@UnitedEmployment.com
