Project Manager reports to: Leadership Staff and Owner/ Client Expectations
Job Overview:
To provide oversight for projects from beginning to end. Responsible for overseeing, planning, managing, and tracking the progress of each project. As well as, estimating, bidding, and going through the contract process once awarded. The Project Manager will oversee budgets, coordinate subcontractors, and manage the construction process.
Responsibilities and Essential Functions:
- Schedule and meet with clients for potential projects to gain new business for the company.
- Work with architect and owner in a Design Build Project in order to achieve a building that meets the client’s expectations and is profitable for Clifton Construction.
- Able to read a set of plans and compile a list of subcontractors and materials needed for the project.
- Analyze quotes/bids received for best pricing on in order to be competitive and profitable.
- Prepare AIA owner and subcontractor’s contract documents to mitigate liability for Clifton Construction.
- Communicate with local authorities to verify where plans are in the permit process to begin construction in a timely manner.
- Create a pay app and Schedule of Values and necessary billing documents to ensure billings are complete by the 25th of each month.
- Conduct job meetings with Owners, Architects and all involved in the project to ensure everyone is aware of progress and educated on all areas as needed.
- Effective communication with the owner to get answers and provide resolution to problems.
- Provide direction to and resolve problems amongst 15+ subcontractors and vendors to ensure project stays on time and on/under budget.
- Limit Clifton Construction liability by documenting all conversations in a written format.
- Gather all information and pricing to provide cost to owner when changes are made to the plans/contract documents.
- Code invoices to correct cost code to ensure accuracy of Cost to Complete
- Fill in accurate information for Cost to Complete to gauge profitability on your project.
Qualifications:
- Experience in construction management for 5+ years or degree in Building Science or related field.
- Ability to read technical drawings and documents and draw conclusions to be able to price jobs and ensure field work matches the plans and specs.
- Communicate using the following tools: cell phone, email, computer, and experience with Construction Management Software.
- Endurance and ability to visit entire job site, including stairs or other elevated structures. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and must be able to lift more up to 50 pounds.
- More than 40 hours per week may be required to meet project deadlines.
- Able to travel to jobsite as assigned.
Competency:
- Managing performance: The ability to take responsibility for one’s own or one’s employees’ performance, by setting clear goals and expectations, tracking progress against the goals, ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly. Ensure that carpenters and subcontractors have clear goals and responsibilities. Supports carpenters and subcontractors in their efforts to achieve job goals. Stays informed about carpenters and subcontractors progress and performance. Provides specific performance feedback, both positive and corrective, as soon as possible after an event. Deals firmly and promptly with performance problems; lets people know what is expected of them and when.
- Persuasive Communication: The ability to plan and deliver oral and written communications that make an impact and persuade their intended audiences. Identifies and presents information or data that will have a strong effect on others. Presents several different arguments in support of a position.
- Interpersonal awareness: The ability to notice, interpret, and anticipate others’ concerns and feelings, and to communicate this awareness empathetically to others. Understands the interest and important concerns of others. Anticipates how others will react to a situation. Listens attentively to people’s ideas and concerns. Understands the unspoken meaning in a situation.
- Influencing Others: the ability to gain others’ support for ideas, proposals, projects, and solutions. Involves others in a process or decision to ensure their support. Identifies and proposes solutions that benefit all parties involved in a situation. Knows when to escalate critical issues to own or others’ management if own efforts to enlist support have not succeeded. Accurately anticipates the implications of events or decisions for various stakeholders in the organization and plans strategy accordingly.
- Analytical Thinking: The ability to tackle a problem by using a logical, systematic sequential approach. Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternatives. Notice discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information. Approaches a complex task or problem by breaking it down into its component parts and considering each part in detail. Carefully weighs the priority of things to be done.
- Initiative: Identifying what needs to be done and doing it before being asked or before the situation requires it. Identifying what needs to be done and taking action before being asked or the situation requires it. Does more than what is normally required in a situation.
- Thoroughness: Ensuring that one’s own and others’ work and information are complete and accurate; carefully preparing for meetings and presentations; following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled. Develops and uses systems to organize and keep track of information or work progress. Organizes information or materials for others.
Clifton Construction Core Competency:
- Providing Motivational Support: the ability to enhance other’s commitment to their work. Recognizes and rewards people for their achievements. Expresses pride in the group and encourages people to feel good about their accomplishment. Signals own commitment to a process by being personally present and involved at key events. Identifies and promptly tackles morale problems. Gives talks or presentations that energize groups.
- Fostering Teamwork: As a team member, the ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team. As a team leader, the ability to demonstrate interest, skill, and success in getting groups to learn to work together. Behavior for team member: Is open with other team member about his/her concerns. Expresses disagreement constructively. Provide assistance to others when they need it. Works for solutions that all team members can support. Shares his/her expertise with others. Seeks opportunities to work on teams as a means to develop experience, and knowledge. Behavior for team leaders: Enlists the active participation of everyone. Ensures that all team members are treated fairly. Recognizes and encourages the behaviors that contribute to teamwork.
- Managing Change: The ability to demonstrate support for innovation and for organizational changes needed to improve the organization’s effectiveness; initiating, sponsoring, and implementing organizational change; helping others to successfully manage organizational change. Personally develops a new method or approach. Develops better, faster, or less expensive ways to do things. Works cooperatively with others to produce innovative solutions.
- Building Collaborative Relationships: the ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships with others inside or outside the organization who can provide information assistance and support. Shows an interest in what others have to say; acknowledges their perspective and ideas. Recognizes the business concerns and perspectives of others. Expresses gratitude and appreciation to others who have provided information, assistance or support. Takes time to get to know coworkers, to build rapport and establish a common bond. Provide assistance, information, and support to others to build a basis for future reciprocity.
- Diagnostic Information Gathering: The ability to identify the information needed to clarify a situation, seek that information from appropriate sources, and use skillful questioning to draw out the information, when others are reluctant to disclose it. Identifies the specific information needed to clarify a situation or to make a decision. Gets more complete and accurate information by checking multiple sources. Probes skillfully to get at the facts, when others are reluctant to provide full, detailed information. Questions others to assess whether they have thought through a plan of action. Questions others to assess their confidence in solving a problem or tackling a situation. Seek the perspective of everyone involved in a situation.
- Integrity: Demonstrated concern that one be perceived as responsible, reliable, and trustworthy. Does what he/she commits to doing. Respects the confidentiality of information or concerns shared by others. Is honest and forthright with people. Takes responsibility for own mistakes; does not blame others.'
Competitive Bonus Program:
- We have an incredible bonus structure based on estimated profit and closing profit.
- Our project managers calculate their own bonus and management confirms it.
- There is NO CAP on bonuses!
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
Compensation Package:
Schedule:
Education:
Experience:
- Commercial Project Management: 5 years (Required)
- Commercial Construction: 5 years (Required)
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Required)
Work Location: In person
