Sr Project Executive - Federal Construction (100% Travel)

Responsibilities

• Affirms overall responsibility for jobsite safety
• Affirms overall responsibility for meeting contract requirements
• Verifies the accuracy of project financial forecast, notice provisions, and billings to meet contract requirements and resolve potential claims and deviations
• Ensures team creates a project-specific quality plan aligned with the owner contract and contract documents
• Ensures a team creates a closeout plan in alignment with the contract documents
• Provides leadership in motivating the project team(s) and maintain a positive work environment
• Directs and supervises work of project administration, project superintendents, and engineers to establish operational priorities and maintain satisfactory relationships with owners, subcontractors, unions, etc.
• Affirms overall responsibility of subcontracting strategy and the integrity of the buyout process on all projects
• Negotiates all aspects of contracts, leads implementation of risk mitigation plan, final review of draft contracts, agreements, and purchase orders
• Affirms overall responsibility to ensure project compliance with the insurance and bonds
• Manages the design phase of a GMP or design build project; leads and oversees the development of GMP/lump sum submission
• Oversees schedule planning and execution of multiple projects; accountable for the management of schedule risks that lead to erosion and provides guidance in strategies and actions to prevent risk
• Develops a comprehensive understanding of the local market areas and profiles to create and lead a networking strategy
• Promotes seamless integration with sales strategies, client capture plans and account plans
• Optimizes profit levers and gross profit margin tactics to achieve performance targets on new sales
• Leads opportunities to strengthen client, partner, and industry relationships that help position Gilbane as the “Builder of Choice”
• Supports the career development and coaching of team members
• Fosters a positive and inclusive work environment to motivate and engage team members
• Interprets and translates the organizational strategy, ensuring team understanding of their role in accomplishing strategic goals
• Supports the recruiting and hiring process
• Participates in estimate reviews, supports lump sum bidding efforts for specific projects, potentially leads pursuit with support from estimating department
• Performs constructability and design reviews for projects
• Participates in monthly operational support, operational excellence, safety and quality meetings to provide guidance and leadership
• Participates in quarterly project reviews with help of Operational Excellence
• Tracks REA and Claim progress on all projects within the Business Unit, providing support and guidance as necessary
• Manages self-performance needs, strategies to supplement Trades that are underperforming
• Manages Builder’s Risk events as they come up, specifically when project team is already stretched too thin
• Drives BIM/VDC coordination efforts for consistent approach
• Evaluates talent at all project titles and succession gaps
• Provides leadership and drives consistency with Quality Managers on all project sites
• Expected travel for weekly visits to projects sites to support challenges, specific tasks critical to success, and provide BU leadership with suggested path to resolution

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or Construction Management
• 12-18+ years of experience
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong technical and communication skills are critical
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Leadership and management skills
• Knowledge of industry standard software Microsoft Office (preferred)