Project Manager - Construction - UIC Nappairit, LLC

About the Role

UIC Nappairit is seeking a Project Manager with extensive vertical construction experience for remote Alaska construction projects. The Project Manager will oversee the overall direction, coordination, implementation, safety, quality, execution, control, and completion of specific projects, ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals. Specific knowledge and experience running vertical projects in remote Alaska is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Prepare contracts and negotiate revisions, changes, and additions to contractual agreements with architects, consultants, clients, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Lead the planning and implementation of multiple projects.
• Prepare and submit budget estimates, progress reports, or cost tracking reports.
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Define project tasks and resource requirements.
• Develop full-scale project plans.
• Manage project budget and resource allocations.
• Plan and schedule project timelines.
• Track project deliverables using appropriate tools.
• Provide direction and support to project team.
• Ensure quality assurance and jobsite safety and compliance.
• Monitor and report on project progress to appropriate parties.
• Present reports defining project progress, problems, and solutions.
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.
• Conduct project evaluations and assessment of results.
• Inspect or review projects to monitor compliance with building and safety codes, or other regulations.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience working as a Project Manager.
• Experience overseeing multiple, diverse projects.
• Experience working in a multi-cultural environment.
• Thorough knowledge of construction materials and practices.
• Extensive knowledge of OSHA construction regulations.
• 2 years of experience in remote construction and rural logistics.

Skills

• Excellent planning and organizing skills.
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Ability to execute projects according to the project plan.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ensure project deliverables are on time, within budget, and at the required level of quality.
• Proficiency in CPM Scheduling, Time Management, Quality Control, Cost Control, Submittal review, Purchase Orders, Change Orders, and Subcontracts.
• Advanced computer literacy, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and MS Projects or similar scheduling programs, with the ability to learn new programs.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering, architectural, and other construction drawings and specifications.
• Implementation of corporate safety programs and applicable safety regulations.
• Interpretation of building codes and standards.
• Implementation and completion of quality and inspection procedures.
• Excellent mathematical skills, including the ability to perform quantity and material takeoffs from construction documents.
• Ability to complete project financial projections and interpret project costs.
• Flexibility to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ethical conduct, professional presentation, and cultural awareness.

Physical Demands

• Frequently required to read text on a computer screen and in hard copy, stand or sit, talk, and hear.
• Frequently required to enter information into computers via a keyboard or other peripheral device.
• Exposure to moderate levels of noise in a well-lit, well-ventilated, and moderately paced environment.
• Continuously required to sit, hear and/or respond to verbal/audio cues, perform repetitive motions of hands and wrists, and read a computer screen.
• Occasionally required to stand or walk.
• Rarely required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, twist, bend, or reach with hands and arms.
• Rarely required to push, pull, and/or carry objects up to 10 pounds.

Environmental Conditions

• Work environment is primarily a typical office setting in a large building in an urban area.
• May occasionally be on a construction site.
• May occasionally travel to rural areas.