Construction Manager, GES Southwest Design & Construction

Responsibilities

• Overseeing construction engineering, planning, and design for the North American facility network infrastructure and other new or expansion projects
• Responsible for project support on new fulfillment network buildings and additional capacity requirements within existing North America Fulfillment Centers, Deliver Stations, or Sort Centers
• Lead construction scope review and development with internal operational customers, and facilitate engineering and design efforts on new and remodel projects
• Oversee and facilitate execution of expansion, tenant improvement (TI), and engineering deployment for new facilities within the fulfillment network
• Provide technical direction in accordance to North American Customer Fulfillment (NACF) design parameters
• Negotiate terms of contracts with General Contractors and trade contractors
• Ensure that contracts are fit for purpose, cost effective and incorporate appropriate Service Level Agreements
• Provide overall site management, coordination, planning, and coordination of subcontractors
• Facilitate and team with other internal stakeholders regarding engineering buildouts, IT readiness, and turnover to operational groups
• Partner with teams tasked with transition of base building management and oversight of all turnover documentation
• Coach and guide all project teams (developers, design engineers, general contractors, sub-contractors, internal stakeholders) throughout the full project lifecycle
• Ensure that contracted resources deliver work to meet duration and quality targets, addressing and ensuring the correction of under-performance issues
• Audit contractors to check that the skills and competences of contract labor are appropriate to need and they are fit to undertake the work on which they will be deployed
• Inform contractors of projected changes in resource or work demand so that they can take appropriate action
• Learn and utilize the information systems necessary for effective scheduling and recording of contract work
• Support contractors’ work and help them to achieve higher performance level
• Oversee more than one project in various locations simultaneously
• Review of designs for conformance to current building specifications
• Comprehensive budget tracking, forecasting, and management of assigned expansion, remodel, and new build projects
• Receipt, review, and analysis of all proposed cost and time change requests as presented by external project teams
• Review and guide internally requested changes for validity, impact, and ensure timely and cost sensitive incorporation once approved
• Lead and/or assist in negotiations with appropriate authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) entities as required
• Positive, clear, concise, and transparent cross team communication for all aspects of project delivery

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Structural, Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• 5+ years of construction or project management experience
• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• 4+ years of multi-million dollar contract negotiation experience