Project Manager 1

Best People + Right Culture drive JE Dunn’s success. By hiring inspired people, giving them challenging work, enabling them with innovative tools, and sharing company rewards, we’ve grown sustainably for over 100 years. Our diverse teams enrich lives through inspired people and places, and we need inspired individuals to join us in building authentic partnerships.

About the role

The Project Manager 1 provides overall direction and leadership for an entire project or a portion of a larger, more complex project in concert with the Project Superintendent. This position fully implements and manages project operations and administration while building and maintaining relationships with clients, design teams, and subcontractors. All activities support JE Dunn’s strategy, vision, and values.

Autonomy & Decision Making: Makes decisions within defined limits of authority and consults supervisor on other decisions. Career Path: Project Manager 2.

Responsibilities

• Leads all aspects of the company’s safety culture, demonstrating commitment to an injury-free environment through actions and mentoring. Investigates safety incidents and retrains staff as needed.
• Manages the JE Dunn prestart process.
• Supports the preconstruction team including quantity takeoff, trade coordination, scope of work development, scope review, bid package development, schedule development, bid list creation, and bid advertisement.
• Leads plan and implementation of buyout schedule. Verifies pricing and scope, identifies successful bidders, provides gap analysis against initial scope, and manages issuance of subcontracts.
• Manages the submittal schedule setup. Coordinates priorities with the team; reviews and approves all shop drawings and samples prior to submittal to architects or engineers.
• Ensures approved submittals are returned to subcontractors and available to the project team per the project schedule and contract.
• Coordinates with Logistics to obtain pricing on materials and equipment.
• Confers with risk management to ensure approval and/or bonding requirements for subcontractors. Reviews decisions with project leader and provides ongoing risk analysis of subcontractors throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinates various project stakeholders including subcontractors, owner, field, design team, and vendors. Disseminates change requests for pricing and schedule input, gathers and evaluates subcontractor pricing, and prepares/submits change requests for owner/architect approval.
• Leads meetings such as monthly project reviews, progress meetings, and Owner-Architect-Contractor (OAC) meetings.
• Completes monthly subcontractor and owner pay application process.
• Prepares project schedule with the Project Superintendent using input from the project team and Lean principles. Develops and updates project schedule for preconstruction and construction activities.
• Manages materials, labor, and procurement logs to ensure resources are available to meet the project schedule.
• Identifies potential schedule impacts (scope, weather, manpower, changes) and facilitates mitigation plans.
• Provides written documentation for decisions affecting budget, schedule, legal, quality, and/or safety, using current best practices.
• Provides regular reporting and analysis to communicate overall project status and profitability.
• Prepares monthly cost and margin forecast with input from the superintendent and reviews with the project team. Participates in project budget development and regularly reviews costs relative to the budget.
• Leads overall project closeout process using best practices, including close-out punch lists, financials, subcontracts, and warranties. Interfaces with region/company legal counsel as appropriate.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, or related field. Equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• 5+ years of construction management experience.
• Valid and unrestricted driver’s license.
• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds.
• Willingness to travel or relocate as needed.
• Willingness to work non-traditional hours to meet project needs.
• May be exposed to extreme conditions (hot or cold).
• Assignment location may include project sites and/or office.

Skills

• Ability to perform work accurately and completely in a timely manner.
• Intermediate verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to conduct effective presentations.
• Intermediate proficiency in MS Office.
• Ability to apply fundamentals of construction management means and methods to projects.
• Thorough knowledge of project processes and how each supports successful project completion.
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate within a team, internally and externally.
• Advanced proficiency in project management and accounting software.
• Advanced proficiency in required construction technology.
• Advanced proficiency in scheduling software.
• Intermediate ability to apply Lean process and philosophy.
• Ability to manage budgets, maximize profitability, and generate future work through relationship-building.
• Ability to build relationships with team members that transcend a project.

Working Environment

• Frequent activity: Sitting, viewing computer screen.
• Occasional activity: Standing, walking, bending, climbing, reaching above shoulder, pushing, pulling.

Benefits

The benefits package aligned to this position is Professional Non-Union. Click here for benefits details.