Development Project Manager - Houston, United States - QuikTrip

Description

This position is responsible for managing all aspects of development including entitlements, permitting, civil engineering and geotechnical design of QuikTrip sites by ensuring compliance with QuikTrip and industry standards.

Analyze risk and cost exposure to develop strategic timelines for navigating a new store through the development process to construction.

Offer solutions to our internal and external customers for permitting, civil engineering, geotechnical, and technical design expertise for site development plans, cost projections and project timelines while complying with federal, state, and local municipal requirements.

This position will report to the Director of Real Estate or Division Real Estate Manager or Engineering Manager.


The requirements for this position include:

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or similar accredited academic program.
• Five years of civil design or construction management.
• Working knowledge of Geotechnical Engineering as it relates to site development.
• Manage all aspects of large projects, excellent negotiating/supervisory and organizational skills Proficient use of MS Office and recent release of AutoCAD.
• Critical thinking and problemsolving skills.

The hours for this position are Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. but may vary according to projects and deadlines.

The minimum starting salary for this position can be up to $103,300-$129,200 per year, depending on related experience and qualifications.

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Major functions for this position:

• Manage the development process for new store construction and projects.
• Develop, implement and maintain critical path and development strategy for each project.
• Ensure speed and proficiency in obtaining zoning, variances, permits, corporate approvals, and property closing.
• Limit company exposure to dead deal expenses.
• Utilize Microsoft Project and Project Web Access as a primary communication tool.
• Develop and maintain expert development knowledge of your market areas.
• 25%
• Manage preliminary civil engineering plans and the completion of final civil engineering plans through outside consultants.
• Establish project direction with conceptual plans.
• Provide conceptual, and final plans (plus expertise) to facilitate QuikTrip's business and operational decisions.
• Utilize plans that meet with QuikTrip standards and comply with applicable municipal codes to permit and construct new stores, or to construct fuel / parking / building additions to existing stores.
• Manage outside consultants in plan production, including comprehensive sitespecific civil engineering and subsurface design to minimize cost and time through value engineering, considering geotechnical and environmental issues associated with sites.
• Utilize technical skills to provide cost effective design alternatives and enhance the customer experience on QuikTrip sites (present all options available).
• Expedite resolution of permitting issues through knowledge and use of standard QuikTrip design, civil, engineering principles, and municipal codes.
• 25%
• Manage and maintain civil, geotechnical, permit expediter and utility verification consultants.
• Prepare and manage professional service agreements.
• Evaluate quality of services and costs for consultants and hire/terminate relationships as needed.
• Conduct annual evaluations utilizing the QT consultant evaluation form and procedures.
• Negotiate and finalize engineering related professional service fees associated with QT provided scope of work and change orders.
• Facilitate training for newly hired consultants. Training is a continuous process and retrains must be provided as necessary.
• Provide QA/QC for consultants work/product to ensure it meets QT standards.
• Ensure professional services agreements and invoices are reviewed for accuracy and paid on time.
• Determine if project will utilize internal or external resources.
• 15%
• Create and maintain detailed preliminary and final cost estimates, internal approval packages and technical expertise necessary for QT to make business decisions during the store development process.
• Create and maintain detailed cost estimates and evaluate costs ensuring they are inline with market averages supporting QT's long term business plan.
• Coordinate with Environmental Project Manager to capture any environmental costs by holding environmental/geotechnical oneonone meetings.
• Coordinate with Construction Department to capture any construction concerns, alternate construction methods, or atypical costs
• Coordinate with other departments to capture any nonstandard site items that may impact costs.
• Attend and provide necessary documents and technical expertise for all development and construction meetings with the appropriate real estate and construction employees.
• 10%
• Manage completion of geotechnical engineering report on all stores for assigned markets.
• Review geote