Project Manager Civil - Dover, United States - Placers

Description

The Civil Construction Project Manager is responsible for the overall success of each project, including ensuring customer satisfaction and controlling the timelines, costs, and quality. As change is a constant in construction, a key part of this role is foreseeing possible challenges, monitoring and responding to pricing and material availability, and making constant decisions on what to charge for various changes to scope and materials in order to maintain the client relationship, while also ensuring project profitability targets are met and any potential losses are minimized.

• ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Negotiate and develop project scope change orders, including but not limited to: comparing existing project plans with most current plan changes, calculating all pricing adjustments associated with changes, calculating and determining time adjustments associated with those changes
• Maintaining a careful eye to potential impacts on other parts of the project and highlighting potential problems with the changes
• Ensure all pricing and time adjustments account for material, labor, and other asset availability
• Relationship with client
• Proactively address and resolve project issues, assessing situations to determine the importance, urgency and risks, and make clear decisions which are timely and in the best interests of the organization
• Schedule and attend weekly site meetings with client, GC and project team and attend regular internal project meetings
• Create and maintain accountability on short and long-term project schedules, including: monitoring cash flow projections and reporting actual cash flow and variance to senior management and construction team members on a regular basis, cost tracking and cost projections
• Ensure constant attention to the potential to refine the scope of the project in collaboration with senior management and reevaluating resources (time, staff and, equipment) required to complete the project
• Partner with Senior PM's and operations teams to review the quality of the work completed with the project team on a regular basis to ensure that it meets the project standards and specification, utilizing soft leadership skills to navigate needed changes or potential problems with those in charge of the day-to-day operations of the project
• Obtaining or coordinating all necessary project permits and/or licenses are processed.
• Ensuring preparation of required subcontracts and subcontract log and tracking all subcontracts to ensure proper execution and collection of subcontractor insurance certificates and bonds.

QUALIFICATIONS

Extensive knowledge of heavy civil construction from a planning perspective, including but not limited to:

• Minimum of three years' experience as a Project Manager, Superintendent, or other similar role and scope
• Thorough understanding of how each aspect of each project scope affects every other
• Ability to foresee problems many stages before they become an issue and project possible solutions, along with related changes and costs
• Demonstrated knowledge of all aspects of the construction process including technology, equipment, materials and methods
• Familiar with utility projects-sewer, water, storm drains.
• Grading and paving experience
• DelDot, PennDot, MDDot, NJDot experience a plus.