Position Summary: The Land Development Project Manager is an integral part of the home-building team. They will lean on fellow Land Team members, external relationships, and their own creative problem-solving to deliver complete subdivision infrastructure and company masterplans to the vertical team.
It is a highly collaborative job where the professionals around us are our partners in this land development goal and will be treated as such.
Duties / Responsibilities:
- Clearly and professionally communicate with all stakeholders, including internal departments, business partners, attorneys, engineers, surveyors, city/county staff, sellers, neighbors, consultants and residents.
- Build and maintain positive and last relationships with all company partners, including engineers, contractors, attorneys, architects, landscape architects, and environmental consultants.
- Engage with management in creating, updating and following the company business plan.
- Take ownership and responsibility for your projects and tasks
- Work with internal and external teams to prioritize tasks and responsibilities to entitle and deliver lots in a timely manner on schedule
- Build and maintain development budgets and schedules.
- Manage the preliminary plan, final plat and construction plan process to gain approvals in time for lots to be developed in accordance with the company business plan
- Become a focal point of the company and build relationships with all levels of governmental agencies, including plan reviewers, their managers, inspectors, maintenance and operations, and administration.
- Review and analyze engineering reports, construction plans, architectural plans, proposals, pay applications, invoices, and change orders.
- Support and correspond with land development field operations team to ensure issues encountered are addressed, responded to and fixed quickly to keep projects on schedule
- Stay updated on municipal permitting requirements, fee schedules, close-out procedures and accepted practices.
- HOA creation, funding, management selection, and budget-building throughout the declarant cycle until resident hand-off.
- Request and track the bonds and bond releases that are required throughout the life of a project.
- Flag industry-wide changes that can affect the way the company does business in the area. This requires you to be active in local organizations and have an understanding of trends or organizational changes in the companies we interact with.
- Work with home-building to address site development issues during the life of construction, after lot hand-off.
- Conduct site visits to keep vendors honest and to be able to communicate firsthand accounts of field activity.
Qualifications:
- Four-year degree or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in land development and construction/engineering
- Minimum of 1 year of experience with a national homebuilding company
- Experience with Microsoft Office Products, especially Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Experience in CAD is a plus.
- Ability to read and understand engineering and architectural plans at a high level of proficiency
- Good oral and written communications
- Must be detail-oriented and a problem-solver able to deal with complex situations
- Ability to plan and organize.
- Ability to exercise excellent judgment.
- Ability to collaborate with immediate team members and across departments.
- Ability to convey information to internal and external customers in a clear, focused and concise manner.
- Ability to function effectively and positively within a team environment.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Must be team-oriented and motivated.
Supervisory Responsibility: This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and move up to [10] pounds and occasionally lift and move objects up to [25] pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: This is a full-time, exempt position. Under the Regulations, Part 541, an exempt employee is one who is not entitled to the minimum wage or overtime pay protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Days and hours of work are [Monday through Friday, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.] This position may work outside of normal business hours to include evenings and weekends as needed.
Travel: Less than 10% of travel is expected for this position.
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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Brohn Homes
