Project Manager - Marine ConstructionSUMMARY: Provide overall management direction for project and provide assistance to estimating department on new projects.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Organizes and directs crewing on field project assignments.
- Analyze proper equipment necessary for project and assists in obtaining, outfitting, and maintaining equipment.
- Understands scope of work and identifies differing site conditions or other changes to the scope.
- Documents daily resources utilized in performance of work. Work with project staff to send out required tracking reports daily.
- Identifies and implements alternative production methodologies.
- Reviews project proposal or plan to determine time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.
- Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of project and arranges for recruitment or assignment of project personnel. Confers with project staff to outline work plan and to assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority.
- Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.
- Reviews status reports prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required. Prepares project reports for management, client, or others.
- Initiate and maintain liaison with prime client and contacts, to facilitate construction activities.
COMPETENCIES: To perform the job successfully, an individual should possess and demonstrate the following competencies:
- Business Literacy: ability to understand the line of business, to take the business vision and translate it into the project vision.
- Corporate Procedures and Tools: ability to understand and apply established policies and procedures, corporate tools and requirements to the project.
- Communications: ability to produce clear status reports, writes clearly, communicates tactfully and candidly, exhibits clear verbal skills and an excellent listener.
- Financial Acumen: ability to understand how decisions affect the bottom line; know about general financial and accounting principles and practices that affect operations; and know about the links between operations and the department's financial performance, which is essential to create value for all the organization's stakeholders.
- Leadership: ability to motivate project members, set achievable objectives, maintains a positive outlook, take responsibility, make decisions, and provide constructive feedback.
- Time Management: ability to manage competing priorities effectively, to be resourceful and to use time as a resource.
- Environmental, Health and Safety Management: Understand and know how to comply with all regulations; implement a positive attitude toward health and safety in the design and execution of the project; ensure safe deliverables and incorporate sustainable development practices.
QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree (B. A. or B.S.) from four-year college or university in Engineering or Construction Management and at least eight years' experience with project management in Marine Construction or Heavy Civil Construction; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Language Ability: ability to communicate clearly and effectively in order to manage and motivate staff individually and as a team.
- Reasoning Ability: must have a record of impartial, objective analysis, approaching issues with an open mind; be able to identify possible solutions that are technically and conceptually sound.
- Computer Skills: to perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of and experience with HCSS, Primavera, Excel and CAD. Vista experience preferred but not required.
- Physical Presence: Regular and predictable physical presence at assigned work location is an essential qualification for this position due to the importance of the team-related aspects of the essential duties, the aggressive timeframes under which the employee will operate, and the need for face-to-face interaction with employees in order to properly perform job-related functions.
- Current valid Driver's License required.
- Ability to travel when required for project assignment.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Supervises construction work and employees at a project location.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to frequently inspect the project and may be exposed to ongoing construction and various weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment may range from moderate to loud.
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
- The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle or feel.
- The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
- The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch and/or crawl.
The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.
Pay Range: $120,000 - $140,000 per year
