Project Manager 2 - Healthcare Construction

Best People + Right Culture drive JE Dunn’s success. By hiring inspired people, giving them interesting and challenging work, enabling them with innovative tools, and letting them share in the company’s rewards, we’ve grown sustainably for over 100 years. Our diverse teams around the country enrich lives through inspired people and places every day. This position is within our National Healthcare Division and will likely require intermittent travel (up to 50%) to project assignments across the country.

About the Role

The Project Manager 2 provides overall direction and leadership on moderately complex projects or a portion of large construction projects, fully implementing and managing project operations and administration. All activities support the strategy, vision, and values of JE Dunn.

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

Responsibilities

• Leads all aspects of the company’s safety culture, demonstrating commitment to an injury-free environment through individual actions and mentoring others. Investigates safety incidents and retrains staff as needed.
• Manages the JE Dunn prestart checklist form.
• 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. 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 to subcontractors for pricing and schedule input. Gathers and evaluates subcontractor pricing to confirm accuracy. Prepares, submits, and obtains owner/architect approval for change requests.
• 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. Gathers input from the project team and utilizes Lean principles as appropriate. Develops and updates project schedule for both preconstruction and construction activities. Manages materials, labor, and procurement logs to ensure resources are available to meet the project schedule.
• Identifies potential schedule impacts including scope, weather, manpower, and changes, and facilitates mitigation plans for these impacts.
• Provides appropriate written documentation for decisions affecting project aspects such as budget, schedule, legal, quality, and/or safety. Employs current best practices for documentation requirements.
• Provides regular reporting and analysis to project team(s) 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 the development of the project budget. Regularly reviews costs relative to the budget and highlights discrepancies to enable improved financial performance.
• Leads the overall project closeout process using best practice standards, tools, and processes such as the close-out punch list, financials, subcontracts, and warranties. Interfaces with region/company legal counsel as appropriate.
• Gains an understanding of the estimating process from conceptual phase through GMP development.
• Identifies, understands, and actively manages project risks.
• Understands and manages the project business plan to maximize financial success.
• Implements and manages components of the operation and administration of multiple or moderately complex construction projects.
• Utilizes awareness, experience, and knowledge to identify problems and recommends solutions for review and implementation by the team.
• Manages deliverables provided by internal resources and functions such as IPS, logistics, and self-perform.
• Engages in business, industry, and community activities to build and strengthen external relationships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, or related field. Equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• 7+ years of construction management experience.

Skills

• Ability to perform work accurately and completely in a timely manner.
• Intermediate communication skills, both verbal and written.
• 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

• Valid and unrestricted driver’s license required.
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds.
• May require periods of travel and/or relocation.
• Must be willing 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 the office.
• 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.