Construction Manager/Administrator

About the Role

This position provides construction management support for the North Texas Veterans Healthcare System (NTXVHCS), including Dallas VAMC, Bonham VAMC, Garland VAMC, and Community Based Outpatient Care (CBOC) facilities. The CM-Construction Administrator (CM-CA) will provide professional and technical consultative assistance related to operations, renovation, and new construction programs from pre-design through construction, primarily for Design-Bid-Build and Design-Build projects, expanding the VA's internal contract management oversight capabilities.

Daily Responsibilities

The CM-Construction Administrator will assist the Contracting Officer and the Contracting Officer's Representative in project management, project engineering, planning, scheduling, design reviews, code compliance, testing, record keeping, quality control, quality assurance, cost control, and general oversight of design and construction projects. Services include, but are not limited to:

Pre-Design/Design Phase

• Scheduling – Development of project schedule to effectively plan for and report on the status of the project.
• Planning – Coordination with initial planning efforts; site studies; Market Analysis, site investigations; site surveys; preparation of budgets and cost estimates; preparation of preliminary schedules; cost modeling and analysis; and cost control management.
• Value Engineering Services – Conducting/participating in value engineering workshops and analysis of value engineering proposals.
• Market Analysis – Conducting market analysis based on the size and scope of the project and provide findings of market conditions.
• Constructability and Phasing Review – Prepare a study working with the facility staff and project management to analyze the constructability of the proposed project in terms of impacts to facility operations.

Construction Period Phase

• Monitoring Project Financial Data and Budgetary Cost Accounting – Monitoring and review budgetary cost accounting; administration of construction contract change orders; maintaining spread sheets indicating project funds allowances, obligations, payments, balances, planned expenditures, etc.; assist in the documentation of the administration of construction contract change orders (preparing cost estimates, reviewing cost proposal, preparing change order packages for the Contracting Officer).
• Construction Phase Scheduling – Preparing and maintaining daily diaries for project activities noting events affecting construction. Maintain a current project schedule, coordinate with general contractor and compare project progress against Contractor (CM) schedule and general contractor's schedule. Address all schedule slippages to the Resident Engineer and make recommendations for adjustments in the project.
• Progress Meetings – Conduct or attend weekly or bi-weekly project meetings to review and monitor projects and project schedules, review of construction contractor payment requirements (including preparation of necessary forms for payment processing by VA).
• Assisting in Issue Resolution – Keep thorough records of occurrences, contracts, and other construction related matters of the project in order to assist the VA in conflict resolution. Perform scheduling, conduct and document regular progress meetings with all interested parties to review project status, discuss problems, and resolve issues accordingly.
• Testing and Inspection Services – Monitor the services of an independent testing agency/laboratory to perform project specific quality control testing and inspection services, including but not limited to testing/inspection of soils, concrete, precast concrete connections, steel, steel decking, applied fireproofing, roofing, curtain walls/glazing, and elevator installations.
• Commissioning – Provide professional and technical expertise for start-up, calibration, and/or certification of a facility or operating systems within the facility. Provide any level of commissioning need from total support to specialty services. Commissioning services may require start-up planning, forecasting start-up duration, estimating start-up costs, determining start-up objectives, organizing start-up teams and team assignments, testing building system components, conducting performance tests, obtaining O&M material, plus conducting, scheduling and/or supervising O&M training.
• Performing Additional Construction Related Services – Maintaining marked up sets of project plans and specifications for future as-built drawings; performing routine inspections of construction as work proceeds, taking action to identify work that does not conform to the contract requirement, and notifying the VA and general contractor when work requires correction; compiling, through site inspections, lists of defects and omissions related to the work performed and providing these lists to the contractor for correction; monitoring project financial data and budgetary cost accounting; assisting in relocation efforts; administration of construction contract change orders (preparing cost estimates, reviewing cost proposal); Submittal Review; Request for Information Review and Responses; Daily Logs of Activity; coordination of Owner supplied equipment; Operational and Maintenance data; Closeout Submittals and other services as may be required by the VA.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years construction related experience.
• A degree in a related technical field is preferred.
• Working knowledge of construction practices to assist in implementing various plans including Quality Assurance; Safety, Time, Cost, Change, and Information Management.
• Familiarity with site operations of a General and Sub-contractor and the process of managing a building construction operation.
• Experience in monitoring construction for Quality Assurance.
• Experience in preparing, analyzing, and identifying incongruities and deficiencies in the contractors' work in relationship with the construction documents.
• Understanding of the baseline schedule and ability to assist in determining the value of the acceptable work in place.
• Communication, Language, and Software Skills with the ability to utilize a variety of software programs to monitor, update, and produce work products by applying knowledge of computer literacy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a CM managing VA projects.
• Experience as a CM managing Medical projects.

Pay

$100-120k/year