Senior Construction Manager and Owner's Representative

About the role

The Senior Construction Manager and Owner's Representative will serve as the owner's senior, full-time representative for a multi-location program of approximately 230,000 square feet involving both new construction and major renovation in Southwest Florida and Orlando, Florida. This individual will lead the work from design development and permitting through procurement, field execution, commissioning, turnover, and warranty closeout. The successful candidate must combine executive-level judgment with hands-on field leadership. The role requires mastery of water-cooled chiller HVAC systems, metal building construction, site redevelopment, electrical design coordination, and plumbing design coordination. The candidate will protect the owner's interests by controlling scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, constructability, and long-term operating performance.

This is a full-time position requiring substantial on-site presence, regular travel between project locations, and availability during critical installations, shutdowns, inspections, testing, commissioning, and schedule-recovery activities. The role requires the ability to safely access active construction sites, climb stairs and ladders, walk large project areas, and work in typical Florida heat, rain, and construction conditions.

The ideal candidate is decisive, technically strong, highly organized, and comfortable moving between executive decisions and detailed field verification. The candidate must act with integrity, protect the owner's capital, insist on complete documentation, and maintain a strong sense of urgency without sacrificing safety, quality, or long-term value.

Responsibilities

• Owner representation: Act as the owner's principal day-to-day construction representative and maintain a complete, current understanding of project scope, contract requirements, budget, schedule, risks, and field conditions.
• Project leadership: Direct the overall planning and execution of new-build and renovation work across multiple active locations, including occupied or operating facilities where disruption must be tightly controlled.
• Design management: Coordinate architects, civil engineers, structural engineers, MEP engineers, equipment vendors, commissioning providers, and contractors. Review drawings and specifications for completeness, constructability, maintainability, code compliance, and alignment with the owner's standards.
• Procurement and contracting: Develop bid packages, qualify bidders, lead scope reviews, identify exclusions and gaps, level proposals, support contract negotiations, and recommend awards based on value, capability, schedule, and risk.
• Field supervision: Maintain a strong daily presence in the field; coordinate trades; verify manpower, sequencing, layout, and workmanship; resolve conflicts promptly; and drive completion of near-term commitments.
• Cost control: Establish and maintain project budgets, commitments, forecasts, contingency tracking, cash-flow projections, and change-order logs. Validate quantities, pricing, labor, equipment, and schedule impact before recommending approval.
• Schedule control: Develop and enforce master and detailed look-ahead schedules, identify critical-path threats, require recovery plans when needed, and coordinate milestones across design, permitting, long-lead procurement, construction, startup, and turnover.
• Quality management: Implement inspection and documentation procedures, verify materials and installations against approved documents, manage mockups and testing, reject nonconforming work, and ensure deficiencies are corrected before concealment or acceptance.
• Safety and compliance: Monitor contractor compliance with applicable safety programs, permits, inspections, codes, environmental requirements, and contract obligations. Immediately escalate unsafe or noncompliant conditions.