CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER - Austin Industrial

Responsibilities

• Provide project leadership and develop and manage teams.
• Maintain successful relationships with customers, owners, engineers, service suppliers, and vendors.
• Develop and review proposals and estimates.
• Administer contracts, including billing and change order negotiation.
• Manage job cost administration and forecasting for internal and external stakeholders.
• Steward processes to support high productivity performance and reporting.
• Set Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to support schedule development, updating, and reporting.
• Develop and administer project planning and work packaging following Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) principles.
• Develop a site logistics plan, including material management and warehousing.
• Develop and execute project-specific processes for construction equipment management.
• Mentor and provide timely, constructive feedback to subordinates, including participation in annual reviews.

Contract Administration

• Read the prime contract and ensure all reporting obligations and deliverables are identified and met.
• Hold customers, subcontractors, and vendors accountable to the performance of agreements.
• Set up and manage the document control system, including drawings, specifications, submittals, RFIs, and correspondence.
• Coordinate with IT to establish project UFS folders and access rights.
• Develop a detailed scope of work for subcontracts, including technical and contractual requirements for schedule and cost performance.
• Perform detailed reviews of subcontractor bids and issue agreements after negotiations.
• Ensure subcontractors have required bonds and insurance policies before work begins.
• Engage the Risk Management Department for non-pre-approved revisions to boilerplate agreements.
• Review and evaluate subcontractor pay applications, confirm coding, approve invoices, and sign pay requests.
• Ensure all subcontractor closeout documentation, including lien waivers, is submitted and punch list items are resolved before final retainage release.
• Review pay requests to ensure accurate and timely billing; correct delays in payment.
• Ensure change order pricing includes all related cost and schedule impacts and aligns with prime contract terms.
• Submit and negotiate proposed changes, ensuring written customer approvals before construction begins.
• Provide preconstruction services, such as defining Path of Construction (POC) and aligning WBS between engineering and construction.
• Administer tasks associated with financial completion, including vendor closeout and collection of final monies due.

Cost and Productivity Management

• Maintain project profit/loss accountability, including support of proper project controls methodologies.
• Establish a project work planning process aligned with AWP best practices and review Installation Work Packages (IWP).
• Align the project team on processes for daily time and quantity reporting.
• Review productivity and labor cost reports regularly with the project team.
• Develop innovative methods to increase efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
• Monitor budget development to ensure alignment with project WBS and Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS).
• Establish and maintain job cost reporting in CMiC according to company policy.
• Prepare and present monthly Job Status Reports for management review.
• Investigate and remedy cost variances outside established norms.
• Manage the change order process for comprehensive evaluation, submission, and execution.

Scheduling

• Ensure the project is completed on or before contract requirements.
• Schedule and coordinate all resources needed to meet project requirements.
• Fully develop the project schedule by establishing the project WBS.
• Set up and align the project team on processes for schedule updates and progress reporting (earned manhours vs. % complete).
• Establish and participate in schedule development, updating sequence, duration, and scope of IWPs.
• Submit schedule updates as required by contract documents.

Quality

• Ensure the project is completed to all applicable quality requirements.
• Review and approve the project quality plan.
• Ensure timely approval of all quality submittals to support the project schedule.
• Verify vendors and suppliers meet Austin and customer quality requirements before issuing POs or subcontracts.
• Ensure timely inspection of work in progress to confirm compliance with plans and specifications.
• Maintain high standards of quality throughout the project with the superintendent.
• Maintain accurate documentation of inspections and quality reviews, including follow-up for non-compliant work.

Relationships

• Provide leadership to the project team to promote safety, quality, teamwork, respect, and efficiency.
• Develop and maintain trust with customers, owners, and engineers.
• Foster effective working relationships with subcontractors and suppliers.

Safety and Environmental

• Lead the project team to achieve company objectives for safety performance.
• Instill a culture of a safe work environment throughout the project.
• Assist in the development, review, and approval of the project safety plan.
• Perform CARE audits and observations, ensuring correction of hazardous conditions.
• Ensure all environmental obligations required by the contract and regulatory agencies are fulfilled.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in a technical discipline.
• PMP certified or able to achieve certification within one year.
• Demonstrated collegiate-level computer skills, mathematics, communication skills, and technical writing.
• Understanding of engineering or construction principles.
• Ability to read and interpret project drawings and specifications.
• Ability to forecast cost for self-performed work and determine labor and equipment resources.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws, ordinances, and building codes.
• Management competency in Lump Sum, Unit Price, and Time & Material projects.
• Contribute to project pursuit efforts and effectively present to groups or in interviews.

Other

Perform other duties as assigned.