General Description: The Construction Project Manager is a mid-level to upper-level management position at Urban Habitat and is responsible for overseeing the overall profit/loss, scheduling, staging, process flows, closeout and overall quality assurance of landscape construction projects. Typical projects range from $10,000,000 to $35,000,000, requiring significant experience and organizational ability. The ideal candidate is highly detail-oriented, strategically minded, financially astute, and an exception communicator who can diplomatically represent the organization’s interests while maintaining productive working relationships with municipalities, consultants, contractors and community stakeholders.
Essential Job Functions
The following represent the primary roles and responsibilities performed by a Project Manager; these include but are not limited to:
- Manage the overall financial performance of the project in keeping with the project budget
- Interpret and validate plans, specifications, geotechnical reports, civil drawings and landscape architectural documents.
- Communicate diplomatically and professionally with team members, municipal officials, engineers, inspectors, contractors and consultants.
- Participating in the job hand-off process from the Sales Team to the Project Management Team
- Coordinate Job Start, identifying ways to save costs, analyze job specifics and maximize gross margin
- Manage RFI’s, submittals, material requests, project documentation, schedules, close-out documentation, project archives, etc.
- Proactively identify and manage bid discrepancies
- Along with Purchasing staff, manage material buyouts at or below budget
- Continuously monitor expenditures and forecast cost-to-complete. Identify potential overruns and implement corrective strategies.
- Perform value engineering analyses to optimize cost efficiency without compromising safety, quality or long-term durability.
- Collaborate daily with Superintendents and office staff
- Establish critical path schedules using MS Project, ensuring accurate sequencing, logic ties, tasks to SOV and resource allocation.
- Office on job sites to manage projects in a dynamic setting
- Work with Superintendents to participate in walk-throughs with municipalities, HOAs, Homebuilders, Land Developers, General Contractors, and Owners
- Negotiate subcontractor work favorably, from contract documentation through invoicing.
- Actively sell and handle Change Orders and manage the Change Order process per client and contract requirements
- Along with Superintendents, manage weekly update of revenue burn projections with detailed accuracy
- Participate in weekly operation meeting with office staff. Attend bi-weekly Foreman meeting (if needed).
- Manage labor, turnover process, and maintenance walk-throughs
- Responsible for the auditing and submission of monthly billings. Able to accurately forecast material, labor, equipment, and subcontractor costs
- Teach, train and mentor Project Engineers.
Safety
Strictly enforce all operational safety procedures and policies
Skills/Abilities Requirements
This is a fast-paced position demanding active collaboration with field supervision, purchasing, estimating, sales, divisional company leadership, and accounting staff.
- Client-first attitude for both internal and external customers
- Strong math, communication and business level writing skills
- Exceptional negotiating skills
- Understanding of job budgets and scheduling
- Robust organization skills with the capability to handle multiple & mono tasks for projects
- Familiarity with PC and Microsoft Office Suite - Excel, Word, MS Project, Procore and BlueBeam Review
- Emotional intelligence - the ability to collaborate, get along and build strong friendships with both clients as well as coworkers
- Comfortable working with clients and project managers
- Adherence to and promotion of UH’s company doctrine, values and mission statement
- Real world, extensive experience in landscape project management
- Ability to solve problems quickly and completely
- Solid understanding of the principles of UH’s operational vision and division goals
- Spanish is helpful but not required.
Education/Experience/Licenses/Certifications
- The ideal candidate holds a bachelor’s degree or has equivalent public works experience in the field of civil construction management or a similar course of study
- 5+ years’ experience actively assisting in contractual, purchasing, staging, and customer relations for large park projects
- Knowledge in the areas of mass grading, storm drain, retaining walls, hardscape, irrigation/landscape and managing multiple subcontractors.
Work Environment/Physical Requirements
Ability and willingness to travel to client events, job sites and other divisions as required
Key Performance Indicators
- Revenue on target – 15% variance
- Preconstruction Job Start process within 90 days of turnover
- RFI turn around – within 48 hours
- Billed Revenue within 10% of 1st of the month Burn estimate
- Billings accuracy - QB Revenue vs 1st Billing Sheet
- Sub savings 10% (if applicable)
- Preconstruction margin goal – 95% accurate Budget vs Actual at Job Close Out
- Preconstruction meetings - 2% increase in margin at job closing
- Change order goal:15% of revenue
- Continuous project visits
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $130,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k) 3% Match
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Education:
Experience:
- Project management: 5 years (Required)
- Contracts and Purchasing: 5 years (Preferred)
- Grading, storm drains, retaining walls: 5 years (Preferred)
- hardscape, irrigation/landscape: 5 years (Preferred)
- Managing Subcontractors: 5 years (Preferred)
Language:
Work Location: In person
