Manager of Project Management

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and evaluate Project Managers, fostering strong communication practices and relationship-building skills.
• Establish, standardize, and enforce project management processes, procedures, and controls.
• Support training, professional development, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Assign projects based on complexity, workload, and team capabilities.
• Provide leadership for project kickoff meetings, progress reviews, and key coordination discussions.
• Serve as a senior point of contact for general contractors, construction managers, and owners.
• Resolve escalated issues related to scope, schedule, quality, and cost.
• Provide technical guidance on metals scope, including architectural steel, ornamental metals, stairs, railings, ladders, embeds, and miscellaneous steel.
• Ensure effective coordination between Project Management and Estimating during project handoff to maintain scope clarity.
• Ensure collaboration between Project Management and Detailing to resolve constructability, sequencing, and tolerance challenges.
• Ensure alignment between Project Management and shop and field leadership on fabrication and installation plans.
• Ensure coordination with Purchasing and Logistics to support timely delivery of materials and equipment.
• Promote and uphold company quality standards across detailing, fabrication, and installation.
• Monitor and report on project costs, forecasts, and margin performance; proactively address risks and variances.
• Ensure project schedules are aligned with detailing, procurement, fabrication, and field installation workloads.
• Ensure Project Managers maintain compliance with contract documents, drawings, specifications, and applicable codes.
• Ensure Project Managers support project closeout, including as-builts, warranties, and final billing.
• Personally oversee complex and multiple concurrent fabrication and installation projects from handoff through closeout.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field or equivalent industry experience.
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in structural, architectural, or miscellaneous metals project management.
  • Minimum of 3 years in a supervisory or management role.
  • Proven ability to manage complex, fast-track construction projects.
• Job Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Comprehensive understanding of construction methods, contracts, and codes.
  • Proficiency with construction project management software (e.g., Procore, Autodesk Build, Viewpoint, or similar).
  • Strong scheduling skills (MS Project or equivalent).
  • Able to read and interpret architectural and structural drawings.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Ability to lead under pressure and resolve conflicts professionally.
  • Results driven with a focus on team accountability and continuous improvement.
  • Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Physical Demands / Work Environment:
  • Frequent presence on project or office sites to provide managerial oversight.
  • The work is primarily performed in an office or professional environment and involves regular sitting, standing, walking, speaking, and listening.
  • The employee may occasionally be required to bend, stoop, balance, or move throughout facilities or job sites.
  • The employee may occasionally lift, carry, or move objects such as documents, equipment, or materials weighing up to 30 pounds.