Construction Manager - Administrator
APSI Construction Management · Muskogee, OK · 1 mo ago
On-siteManagement$80k–$105k/yrFull-time
We need to produce HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invented details. Remove boilerplate.
We need to parse the posting.
Job Title: Construction Manager/Administrator (CM-CA) Location: Jack C. Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center located at 1011 Honor Heights Dr, Muskogee, OK 74401 Name of Project: Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) infrastructure upgrades, Muskogee, OK, VAMC Anticipated Start Date: September/Oct 2026 Pay Range: $80,000 - $105,000 Project Duration: 3 years Project Details (Size, SOW, Site Background, Etc.) SOW: ... Daily Responsibilities ... Required Qualifications ... Preferred Qualifications ...
We need sections: About the role (maybe a brief description), Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We have Pay Range: $80,000 - $105,000 => Pay section.
Schedule: Not given explicitly; we have Anticipated Start Date: September/Oct 2026 and Project Duration: 3 years. Could be considered schedule info. The instruction: include Schedule section only if posting actually states them. It does state Anticipated Start Date and Project Duration, which is schedule info. So we can include Schedule with that.
Benefits: Not mentioned. No benefits details. So we should not include Benefits section.
Skills: Could be derived from qualifications: communication, language, software skills, etc. But we need to see if there is explicit Skills section. The posting mentions "Communication, Language, and Software Skills". That's skills. So we can include Skills section.
Requirements vs Qualifications: The posting has "Required Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications". Could combine into Requirements (maybe required) and Qualifications (preferred). But we need to follow instruction: Use headings for sections like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can treat Required Qualifications as Requirements, and Preferred Qualifications as Qualifications (or maybe both under Qualifications). However we must not create thin sections. Let's decide:
- About the role: Could be a brief paragraph summarizing the role: Provide professional and technical consultative assistance related to operations, renovation, new construction supporting EHRM. We'll craft from the description.
- Responsibilities: List of duties from "Daily Responsibilities" and bullet list.
- Requirements: Required Qualifications (minimum 3 years experience, etc.)
- Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications (technical degree preferred, experience as CMa managing VA projects, medical projects)
- Skills: Communication, Language, Software Skills (maybe also ability to utilize software programs, monitor, update, produce work products, compile data and records). We'll list.
- Pay: Pay Range.
- Schedule: Anticipated Start Date and Project Duration.
We must not include fluff like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the posting, but we can rephrase? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Means we should not omit details, but we can rephrase? Probably we should keep the details as is, maybe using bullet points. We must not invent new info.
Thus we need to extract all details:
Location: Jack C. Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center located at 1011 Honor Heights Dr, Muskogee, OK 74401
Project: Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) infrastructure upgrades, Muskogee, OK, VAMC
Anticipated Start Date: September/Oct 2026
Pay Range: $80,000 - $105,000
Project Duration: 3 years
SOW: The intent of this contract is to expand the VA’s capabilities for contract management oversight of projects and project support services. The required support shall be needed to meet the Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) infrastructure upgrades across the Jack C. Montgomery VAMC located at 1011 Honor Heights Dr, Muskogee, OK 74401. All proposed personnel to perform services under this requirement must be United States citizens and obtain a favorable National Agency Check (NACI).
Daily Responsibilities: The government requires a Construction Manager/Administrator (CM-CA) that will be on-site for the duration of the Electronic Health Record Modernization Construction Project. This individual will provide professional and technical consultative assistance related to operations, renovation, and new construction programs supporting EHRM. This includes assisting the Contracting Officer and the Contracting Officer’s Representative in the areas of 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.
Then bullet list of services (CM-CA shall be required to perform services including, but not limited to, the following (in no particular order)):
- The CM-CA shall be familiar with the site operations of a General and Sub-contractor and the process of managing a building construction operation.
- The CM-CA must have a working experience in monitoring the construction for Quality Assurance.
- The CM-CA shall have experience in preparing, analyzing, and identifying incongruities and deficiencies in the Contractor’s work in relationship with the construction documents.
- In addition, they shall understand the baseline schedule and assist in determining the value of the acceptable work in place
- 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 - The CM-CA shall keep thorough records of occurrences, contracts, and others 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 -The CM-CA may be tasked to monitor the services of an independent testing agency/laboratory to perform project specific quality control testing and inspection services. The services may include, but are not limited to, testing/inspection of soils, concrete, precast concrete connections, steel, steel decking, applied fireproofing, roofing, curtain walls/glazing, and elevator installations.
- Performing Additional Construction Related Services- Services may include but not limited to; 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; 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 (Experience, Education, Certifications, Clearances, Etc.):
- The Construction Administrator (CM-CA) shall have a minimum of three (3) years of construction field experience accomplishing similar CM tasks as noted above.
- The CM-CA shall possess a working knowledge of construction practices and call upon this knowledge to assist in implementing the various plans set forth on the project including Quality Assurance; Safety, Time, Cost, Change and Information Management.
- They CM-CA shall be familiar with the site operations of a General and Sub-contractor and the process of managing a building construction operation
- The CM-CA must have working experience in monitoring the construction for Quality Assurance.
- The CM-CA shall have experience in preparing, analyzing and identifying incongruities and deficiencies in the contractors work in relationship with the construction documents.
- In addition, they shall understand the baseline schedule and assist in determining the value of the acceptable work in place.
- The CM-CA shall present three projects of the scale and difficulty at which he/she held a similar position.
- The CM-CA must possess 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A technical degree in Construction Management, Engineering or related field is preferred but not required if the candidate can show applicable construction administration experience.
- Experience as a CMa managing VA projects
- Experience as a CMa managing Medical projects
We also have mention of NACI clearance (must be US citizen and obtain favorable NACI). That is a requirement (clearance). Should be included under Requirements or Qualifications. Probably under Requirements (clearance). We'll include.
Now we need to format.
We'll produce:
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invented details. Remove boilerplate.
We need to parse the posting.
Job Title: Construction Manager/Administrator (CM-CA) Location: Jack C. Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center located at 1011 Honor Heights Dr, Muskogee, OK 74401 Name of Project: Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) infrastructure upgrades, Muskogee, OK, VAMC Anticipated Start Date: September/Oct 2026 Pay Range: $80,000 - $105,000 Project Duration: 3 years Project Details (Size, SOW, Site Background, Etc.) SOW: ... Daily Responsibilities ... Required Qualifications ... Preferred Qualifications ...
We need sections: About the role (maybe a brief description), Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We have Pay Range: $80,000 - $105,000 => Pay section.
Schedule: Not given explicitly; we have Anticipated Start Date: September/Oct 2026 and Project Duration: 3 years. Could be considered schedule info. The instruction: include Schedule section only if posting actually states them. It does state Anticipated Start Date and Project Duration, which is schedule info. So we can include Schedule with that.
Benefits: Not mentioned. No benefits details. So we should not include Benefits section.
Skills: Could be derived from qualifications: communication, language, software skills, etc. But we need to see if there is explicit Skills section. The posting mentions "Communication, Language, and Software Skills". That's skills. So we can include Skills section.
Requirements vs Qualifications: The posting has "Required Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications". Could combine into Requirements (maybe required) and Qualifications (preferred). But we need to follow instruction: Use headings for sections like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can treat Required Qualifications as Requirements, and Preferred Qualifications as Qualifications (or maybe both under Qualifications). However we must not create thin sections. Let's decide:
- About the role: Could be a brief paragraph summarizing the role: Provide professional and technical consultative assistance related to operations, renovation, new construction supporting EHRM. We'll craft from the description.
- Responsibilities: List of duties from "Daily Responsibilities" and bullet list.
- Requirements: Required Qualifications (minimum 3 years experience, etc.)
- Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications (technical degree preferred, experience as CMa managing VA projects, medical projects)
- Skills: Communication, Language, Software Skills (maybe also ability to utilize software programs, monitor, update, produce work products, compile data and records). We'll list.
- Pay: Pay Range.
- Schedule: Anticipated Start Date and Project Duration.
We must not include fluff like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the posting, but we can rephrase? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Means we should not omit details, but we can rephrase? Probably we should keep the details as is, maybe using bullet points. We must not invent new info.
Thus we need to extract all details:
Location: Jack C. Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center located at 1011 Honor Heights Dr, Muskogee, OK 74401
Project: Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) infrastructure upgrades, Muskogee, OK, VAMC
Anticipated Start Date: September/Oct 2026
Pay Range: $80,000 - $105,000
Project Duration: 3 years
SOW: The intent of this contract is to expand the VA’s capabilities for contract management oversight of projects and project support services. The required support shall be needed to meet the Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) infrastructure upgrades across the Jack C. Montgomery VAMC located at 1011 Honor Heights Dr, Muskogee, OK 74401. All proposed personnel to perform services under this requirement must be United States citizens and obtain a favorable National Agency Check (NACI).
Daily Responsibilities: The government requires a Construction Manager/Administrator (CM-CA) that will be on-site for the duration of the Electronic Health Record Modernization Construction Project. This individual will provide professional and technical consultative assistance related to operations, renovation, and new construction programs supporting EHRM. This includes assisting the Contracting Officer and the Contracting Officer’s Representative in the areas of 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.
Then bullet list of services (CM-CA shall be required to perform services including, but not limited to, the following (in no particular order)):
- The CM-CA shall be familiar with the site operations of a General and Sub-contractor and the process of managing a building construction operation.
- The CM-CA must have a working experience in monitoring the construction for Quality Assurance.
- The CM-CA shall have experience in preparing, analyzing, and identifying incongruities and deficiencies in the Contractor’s work in relationship with the construction documents.
- In addition, they shall understand the baseline schedule and assist in determining the value of the acceptable work in place
- 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 - The CM-CA shall keep thorough records of occurrences, contracts, and others 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 -The CM-CA may be tasked to monitor the services of an independent testing agency/laboratory to perform project specific quality control testing and inspection services. The services may include, but are not limited to, testing/inspection of soils, concrete, precast concrete connections, steel, steel decking, applied fireproofing, roofing, curtain walls/glazing, and elevator installations.
- Performing Additional Construction Related Services- Services may include but not limited to; 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; 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 (Experience, Education, Certifications, Clearances, Etc.):
- The Construction Administrator (CM-CA) shall have a minimum of three (3) years of construction field experience accomplishing similar CM tasks as noted above.
- The CM-CA shall possess a working knowledge of construction practices and call upon this knowledge to assist in implementing the various plans set forth on the project including Quality Assurance; Safety, Time, Cost, Change and Information Management.
- They CM-CA shall be familiar with the site operations of a General and Sub-contractor and the process of managing a building construction operation
- The CM-CA must have working experience in monitoring the construction for Quality Assurance.
- The CM-CA shall have experience in preparing, analyzing and identifying incongruities and deficiencies in the contractors work in relationship with the construction documents.
- In addition, they shall understand the baseline schedule and assist in determining the value of the acceptable work in place.
- The CM-CA shall present three projects of the scale and difficulty at which he/she held a similar position.
- The CM-CA must possess 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A technical degree in Construction Management, Engineering or related field is preferred but not required if the candidate can show applicable construction administration experience.
- Experience as a CMa managing VA projects
- Experience as a CMa managing Medical projects
We also have mention of NACI clearance (must be US citizen and obtain favorable NACI). That is a requirement (clearance). Should be included under Requirements or Qualifications. Probably under Requirements (clearance). We'll include.
Now we need to format.
We'll produce:
About the role
...
But we need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. The About the role section can contain a brief description summarizing the role. We must preserve all substantive info; we can include details in About the role like location, project name, start date, duration, clearance, etc. But those may also belong elsewhere. However we must not duplicate content? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." It doesn't forbid duplication, but better to avoid duplication. We can spread info across sections. Let's decide: - About the role: short paragraph describing the role purpose: Provide professional and technical consultative assistance related to operations, renovation, new construction supporting EHRM; on-site for duration; assist Contracting Officer etc. Could include location and project. - Responsibilities: bullet list of duties (the long list). We'll include the bullet points from the "Daily Responsibilities" and the bullet list under services. - Requirements: include required qualifications (3 years experience, working knowledge, familiarity with site ops, QA experience, experience preparing/analyzing deficiencies, baseline schedule understanding, three projects presentation, communication/language/software skills, US citizenship, favorable NACI). Also maybe mention that all personnel must be US citizens and obtain favorable NACI. - Qualifications: preferred qualifications (technical degree preferred, experience as CMa managing VA projects, experience as CMa managing Medical projects). - Skills: maybe we already included communication/language/software skills under Requirements; but we could also separate Skills section for those skills. However we might duplicate. The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we combine Skills into Requirements or Qualifications. But we have to include a Skills section only if posting has real specific content for it. The posting does mention "Communication, Language, and Software Skills". That's specific. So we could have a Skills section listing those. But we already have them under Requirements; we could move them to Skills and keep Requirements focused on experience/clearance. Let's do: Requirements: experience, clearance, etc. Skills: Communication, Language, Software Skills (ability to utilize software programs, monitor, update, produce work products, compile data and records, apply construction industry knowledge and computer literacy). Qualifications: preferred qualifications (technical degree, VA project experience, medical project experience). Pay: Pay Range. Schedule: Anticipated Start Date, Project Duration. About the role: brief description. Now we need to ensure we include all details: location, project name, start date, pay, duration, SOW (intent to expand VA capabilities, support needed for EHRM infrastructure upgrades, all personnel must be US citizens and obtain favorable NACI). The SOW content is somewhat covered in About the role and Responsibilities. We need to preserve it; we can include a paragraph under About the role that includes the SOW intent. Let's craft: About the role: