An employer is looking for a highly skilled construction project manager to join one of our largest national clients. In this role you’ll join a growing team, and ensuring deliverables are met as it pertains to installing commercial HVAC systems, electrical and plumbing work within commercial clients such as restaurants, strip malls and high rise apartments. In order to be successful on this team you must have at least 3-5 years of construction project management experience, ad specific experience heading up commercial projects for HVAC, electrical and plumbing work within a project. This role is local to MN, so you must be available to go on site. Any previous experience working as an estimator will help you be successful on this team, but is not necessary.
Responsibilities:
– Manage $5-6M of commercial projects annually
– Responsible for all aspects of project execution (project start-up to close out) and accountable for delivering projects on-time, on budget and to high standards of quality.
– Project startup: reviews estimate and scope in detail with pre-construction (estimation team) and conducts a project kick-off meeting with field leadership (foreman and superintendents) and pre-construction.
– Purchasing: issues purchase orders for equipment, materials and subcontractors in a timely manner that does not jeopardize the project schedule.
• Scheduling: develops a plan for what is to be done, what resources are required and when; coordinates with field superintendents / the client / general contractors / subcontractors to meet timetables for completion of work. Ensures subcontractors have been scheduled to complete their activities as required by the scope of work.
– Managing change orders: works with client / general contractor to adjust new information or additional scope of work that becomes a change order. Ensure field foreman understands original scope of work so changes in scope can be addressed and brought to the attention of the project manager.
– Managing labor productivity: manages trade superintendents and foreman to ensure the correct number of workers and the level of expertise required for each project is provided. Keeps labor projection sheet updated to allow field superintendents/foreman to plan their resources and holds foreman/superintendents accountable to labor hour budgets.
– Managing quality: ensures that labor and materials meet the specifications of the client; this would include site visits, reviewing drawings and specifications as well as maintaining effective communications with the client.
– Project forecasts: updates contract amount and projected cost to complete on a monthly basis to reflect the impacts of change orders and actual/anticipated cost variances to estimates.
– Project closeout — prepares final as built-drawings, develops operation and maintenance manuals, establishes warranty dates, completes punchlist items and collects final billings.
– Managing billing — ensure timely billing in accordance with the schedule of values.
– Accounting — Submits purchase orders and subcontract agreements to accounting in a timely manner and follows up with unapproved invoices when required.
Required Skills & Experience
– 3- 5 years of successful Project Management experience in the commercial HVAC/Mechanical space.
– Strong written and verbal communication skills
– Technical knowledge and basic engineering ability with an understanding of design of Mechanical, Plumbing and HVAC systems.
– Experience performing quantity takeoff and pricing of piping and sheet metal.
– Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, and Excel).
– Knowledge of project management and estimating software programs.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
– Estimating experience is a plus
– Sheetmetal or Pipefitting foreman or superintendent experience strongly preferred.