PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage professional staff responsible for design and project construction


• Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget


• Assist subordinate supervisors in maintaining production on budget and schedule


• Review project estimate or plan to determine schedule, estimated job cost, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project


• Understand project documents ie: completeness or inadequacies.


• Anticipate project needs with sufficient lead-time to avoid delay of production


• Establish work plan and staffing for each phase of project, work closely with Human Resources in recruitment efforts as necessary


• Oversee coordination with project staff to outline work plans, assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority


• Review status and modify schedules or plans as required and prepares project reports for management, owners, and subcontractors


• Follow-up on directives to be continuously on the alert for situations that are not progressing productively and for opportunities to improve project performance


• Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems


• Work closely with Company employees, project supervisors, owners, external teams and support people to get commitments regarding PM's managerial and supervisory requests


• Provide positive safety leadership to the project


• Review field operation and ensure that the project provides a safe workplace


• Coordinate the preparation and updating of the formal project construction schedule as required by the contract documents


• Coordinate resource use with project superintendent; for example, craft assignment, crew sizes and project layout for offices, traffic flow, and material storage

• Responsible for claims management and documentation


• Coordinate material purchases, assure that subcontractor agreements are prepared and change orders are accurate and issued to owners, subcontractors and suppliers


• Develop, maintain business relationships and manage subcontractor, client/owner, engineers, JV partner(s) and unions if applicable


• Maintain relationships with contracting agencies, executive management


• Participate in project presentations to elected officials, general public and other stake holders


• Responsible for project closeout. Secure loose ends by finishing paperwork, obtaining retainages, supporting supervisors and expediting claims


• Debriefing of project to review all positive and negative aspects after completion


• Able to confidently negotiate any & all matters on behalf of the project as they relate to cost, schedule & contract matters with Owner/Sub suppliers


• Cost management of the project


• Follow/Enforce environmental policies required by owner/agency

• Minimum of 10 years experience in project management within a construction or engineering firm


• Bachelor's Degree in a related field from an accredited four-year college or university, Civil Engineering or Construction Management preferred


• Professional Engineer License preferred


• Previous highway and bridge experience required


• Federal, State and Local knowledge and experience


• Knowledge and experience with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint


• Knowledge with Primavera P6 Scheduling Software is a plus


• Communication- excellent oral presentation and written skills