Construction Manager/Administrator

Daily Responsibilities

• Provide professional and technical consultative assistance related to operations, renovation, and new construction programs supporting EHRM.
• Aid the Contracting Officer and Contracting Officer’s Representative in areas such as project management, project engineering, planning, scheduling, design reviews, code compliance, testing, record keeping, quality control, quality assurance, cost control, and general oversight of EHRM design and construction projects.
• Familiarize with the site operations of a General and Sub-contractor and the process of managing a building construction operation.
• Monitor the construction for Quality Assurance.
• Prepare, analyze, and identify incongruities and deficiencies in the Contractor’s work in relationship with the construction documents.
• Understand the baseline schedule and assist in determining the value of the acceptable work in place.
• Conduct or attend weekly or bi-weekly project meetings to review and monitor projects and project schedules.
• Review and monitor construction contractor payment requirements (including preparation of necessary forms for payment processing by VA).
• Assist in issue resolution by keeping thorough records of occurrences, contracts, and others construction related matters of the project.
• Perform scheduling, conduct and document regular progress meetings with all interested parties to review project status, discuss problems, and resolve issues accordingly.
• Monitor the services of an independent testing agency/laboratory to perform project specific quality control testing and inspection services.
• Test and inspect 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.
• Perform additional construction related services such as 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 thorough 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; administering 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

• A minimum of three (3) years of construction field experience accomplishing similar CM tasks as noted above.
• A working knowledge of construction practices and the ability to implement the various plans set forth on the project including Quality Assurance; Safety, Time, Cost, Change and Information Management.
• Familiarity with the site operations of a General and Sub-contractor and the process of managing a building construction operation.
• Working experience in monitoring the construction for Quality Assurance.
• Experience in preparing, analyzing, and identifying incongruities and deficiencies in the Contractor’s work in relationship with the construction documents.
• Understanding of the baseline schedule and assistance in determining the value of the acceptable work in place.
• Presentation of three projects of the scale and difficulty at which he/she held a similar position.
• Communication, language, and software skills with the ability to utilize a variety of software programs to monitor, update, and produce work products and compile data and records by applying both knowledge of the construction industry and computer literacy.