WSP

Senior Construction Manager

WSP$134K — $164K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. Degree in Engineering or Construction Management, or MBA equivalent
  • Minimum of 7 years of related construction experience
  • Experience with Illinois Tollway and local Chicago transportation agencies
  • OSHA 10-hour certification or ability to obtain
  • Excellent proficiency in written and verbal English
  • Strong skills in Microsoft Office and Excel

Responsibilities

  • Maintain project files and review daily inspection reports
  • Conduct on-site visits and inspections as needed
  • Verify adherence to quality standards and project deadlines
  • Ensure contractor deliverables are met and documented
  • Mentor junior staff members
  • Review contractor reports, payroll certifications, and labor documentation
  • Perform schedule reviews in line with client requirements
  • Chair site meetings and prepare meeting minutes

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability and life insurance benefits
  • Retirement savings plan options
  • Paid sick leave and vacation time
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid time off for bereavement, voting, and naturalization proceedings
Full Job Description
Job Description

This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Full-Time Senior Construction Manager for our Chicago, IL office. Be involved in projects with our Construction Management team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our clients' objectives and solves their challenges.
Your Impact
  • The Senior Construction Engineer will work on transportation infrastructure construction projects. Responsibilities include:
  • Maintain project files, review daily inspection reports, and conduct site visits as needed.
  • This position will be on-site and requires a high level of construction engineering management experience.
  • Verifying that quality standards and project deadlines are met.
  • Driving and ensuring contractor deliverables are met.
  • Provide staff mentoring.
  • Review reports, payroll certifications and other labor documentation from the contractor.
  • Perform review of Contractor's schedules, Baseline and updates, in coordination with client requirements.
  • Maintenance quantities logs. Response to RFI's, Submittals, Review of change orders and issuance of recommendations.
  • Maintaining client satisfaction.
  • Construction contract administration, including pay requisitions, change orders, and correspondence from pre-construction through closeout.
  • Ability to chair site meetings with the contractor, client and other stakeholders, and prepare meeting minutes.
  • Direct coordination with the client's Project Representatives.
  • Providing regular status reports to Construction Services Department Manager.
    Who You Are

Required Qualifications
  • B.S. Degree in Engineering or Construction Management, or Masters in Business Administration or equivalent
  • Minimum of 7 years of related construction experience
  • Experience with Illinois Tollway, Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT), Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)
  • OSHA 10-hour certification or ability to obtain.
  • Excellent English language skills, written and verbal
  • Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office, Excel) etc.

Preferred Qualifications
  • eBuilder experience is preferred.


WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $134,550 - $164,450

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

About WSP

WSP is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that provides services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. It has approximately 54,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. WSP has offices in more than 40 countries and territories around the world.
Learn more about WSP
Size
54,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1959

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