Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Richardson, TX
Type: Direct Hire
Work Model: Onsite - onsite
System One is seeking an experienced
Project Manager to support our client's commercial construction operations. This individual will be responsible for managing the full lifecycle of construction projects from preconstruction through closeout and warranty while ensuring successful project execution, financial performance, client satisfaction, quality, and safety. The Project Manager will develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, consultants, trade partners, and project teams while providing leadership, communication, and oversight throughout all phases of the construction process.
The Project Manager is an expert in managing the full gamut of the construction process while demonstrating integrity through principled leadership and sound business ethics. This individual understands how to develop and maintain positive relationships that result in long-term partnerships with clients, trade partners, and consultants.
The Project Manager excels at consistent and accurate communication with all parties involved in the project process. The individual will lead a team with a project focus that includes how the project fits with the clients' goals while adhering to schedule and budget, as well as the ability to identify project value and maximize the project's financial performance.
The Project Manager reports to the Sr. Project Manager or Director of Operations and has direct supervisory responsibilities over Assistant Project Managers.
Key Responsibilities Project Management - Promote positive relationships between Superintendents and the Project Team.
- Professionally and ethically represent the company at all times, including work and social functions.
- Foster relationships with Owners, Owner Representatives, Architects, Engineers, Trade Partners, and Consultants.
- Engage in team building.
- Use approved processes and tools to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Assist in the development of training, coaching, and mentoring programs.
- Hold project teams accountable for behaviors that deliver results.
- Lead and facilitate O.A.C. meetings.
- Work with project teams regarding profitability while driving repeat business through project quality and performance under various contracting methods.
- Support the preconstruction process by creating value for clients in scope, proposal, and schedule review.
- Develop construction strategy and obtain buy-in from Superintendents and Trade Partners.
- Act as a proactive liaison between Owners, Consultants, Trade Partners, and Project Teams.
- Proactively identify opportunities to use resources to solve client problems.
- Ensure all aspects of company obligations are met and exceeded.
- Act as an advocate for clients in managing the building process.
- Hold internal teams, trade partners, and clients accountable in a professional and collaborative manner.
- Serve as a resource for Assistant Project Managers, Project Managers, and Field Staff.
- Oversee project delivery from start through warranty, including financial performance and delivery of client goals and objectives.
- Maintain effective communication with all parties involved in the construction process.
- Proactively identify and resolve obstacles affecting schedule, budget, trade partners, staffing, changes, means and methods, and client satisfaction.
- Champion quality management and quality control processes.
- Champion safety on jobsites, ensuring 100% compliance and exercising authority to stop unsafe activities or behaviors.
- Resolve conflicts effectively.
- Adapt to changing circumstances and drive timely resolution of critical issues.
- Communicate effectively with all internal and external project stakeholders.
- Identify and share opportunities for process improvement.
- Demonstrate a "can do" attitude and appropriate urgency to complete projects on time.
Scheduling - Engage with Pre-Construction to ensure initial schedules are developed in accordance with client and internal expectations.
- Ensure schedules are maintained and/or accelerated to comply with prime contract requirements.
- Hold project teams accountable for using schedules as management tools and ensuring accurate updates.
- Maintain accountability for scheduling results.
- Utilize scheduling tools proficiently.
- Understand and implement lean building processes.
Buy Out - Lead project handoff meetings from Estimating to Operations.
- Oversee preparation of complete scopes of work for each trade.
- Ensure all project exposures are identified and addressed during buyout.
- Oversee preparation of comprehensive schedules agreed upon by the Project Manager and Superintendent.
- Oversee ethical buyout of each trade with a positive outcome for both the company and trade partners.
- Train and mentor team members in the buyout process.
Documentation, Subcontracts, and Purchase Orders - Review and approve subcontract drafts with a complete understanding of notes and comments within bid tab documentation.
- Foster strong trade partner relationships.
- Oversee and participate in trade partner dispute resolution as needed.
- Track and manage all required project documentation.
- Supervise document communication to all internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure field superintendents have current plans, specifications, updates, and changes.
Finance / Risk Management - Understand that financial success is necessary for business growth and sustainability.
- Understand business terms and owner contracts and how they affect project outcomes.
- Read and understand project contracts and manage associated risks.
- Oversee trade partner contract negotiations and execution.
- Review requested changes to trade partner contract language related to scope and contract value.
- Understand owner and trade partner insurance and bonding requirements.
- Oversee project budgets, cost expenditures, change management, forecasting, draw submissions, client payments, and trade partner payments.
- Drive consistency and effectiveness of monthly project review meetings.
- Provide accurate and transparent forecasting of project finances, client relationships, and project status during monthly profit meetings.
Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field preferred; or 8 years of equivalent construction experience in lieu of a degree.
- 5+ years of commercial, industrial, mission critical, or technically complex construction experience.
- Previous experience as a Project Manager, Assistant Project Manager, Project Engineer, or in a similar project management role with increasing responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience managing subcontractors, project controls, and multiple project stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of construction drawings, specifications, contracts, RFIs, submittals, change orders, procurement, and project closeout.
- Working knowledge of construction scheduling and Critical Path Method (CPM) principles.
- Strong understanding of project financial management and cost forecasting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with standard construction management software and Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to travel to and work from project sites as required.
