Project Manager I, Heavy Industrial Construction

At Graycor

We provide construction and industrial maintenance services to steel mills and other metal producers.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all safety compliance and quality programs are being executed on the project site.
• Actively participate in bidding and pre-construction services.
• Represent Graycor as the client’s contact. Communicate openly and confidently with all other parties involved with the project, establishing trust and rapport with owners, engineers, subcontractors, and local union officials.
• Manage the performance of the professional support personnel on the project site. This typically includes Project Engineers, Field Superintendents, and administrative staff.
• Maintain strict control over the budget and keep project on schedule, ensuring ongoing profitability.
• Execute subcontracts and purchase orders, and approve subcontractor invoices and change requests. Negotiate contract changes with the client. Complete close-out requirements for projects.
• Mentor and train Project Engineers to ensure their ongoing career growth and development.
• Implement new ideas. Participate in committees, make recommendations for new initiatives, and embrace new policies related to Safety, Quality, Continuous Improvement Programs, and Lean Construction.

Requirements

• A minimum of seven (7) years of relevant heavy industrial construction operations experience within the steel and metal producing industries.
• Strong leadership skills with the desire to succeed. Self-starters who drive excellence and meet high standards with the ability to inspire commitment, monitor performance, coach and develop people, negotiate positive outcomes, create a collaborative environment, reduce liability, solve problems and issues.
• Effective communication skills to motivate your team, delegate tasks, and present proposals to clients with competence and confidence. Ability to communicate with highly technical individuals.
• The fortitude to juggle competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Multi-tasking with a sense of urgency while maintaining strong attention to detail and accuracy is crucial.
• Must be familiar with a “self-perform” project environment and be used to working in a unionized labor environment.
• Must be familiar with lump sum, competitive bid environment.