Kent Homes
Construction Project Manager
Location: Wilmington, NC/Southeastern North Carolina
Build Luxury Homes. Lead the Field. Protect the Customer Experience.
Kent Homes is a second-generation, female-owned luxury home builder serving Southeastern North Carolina. Since 1989, we have built our reputation on craftsmanship, quality, integrity, personalized attention, and a smarter way to build a luxury home. We believe our customers are a blessing, not a burden, and we are committed to delivering one of the most satisfying homebuilding experiences possible.
Our team is built around doing the right thing, following through, working proactively, supporting one another, and continually improving our people, processes, systems, and customer experience. We believe in protecting the brand, defending the bottom line, maintaining a positive and professional work environment, and keeping family first while still finishing strong for our clients and team.
We are hiring a Project Manager to join our production team. This is a highly field-based role responsible for planning, organizing, managing, implementing, and coordinating the building process for each assigned home. The Project Manager plays a critical role in customer satisfaction, construction quality, schedule performance, budget control, trade coordination, and protecting the Kent Homes brand.
This role is ideal for someone who is equal parts builder, communicator, organizer, problem-solver, and customer advocate. The right person has strong construction knowledge, can lead trade partners effectively, communicates professionally with homeowners, inspectors, vendors, and internal team members, and takes pride in doing things right the first time.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the day-to-day trade contractor labor, materials, scheduling, and field coordination for assigned job sites.
- Visit assigned job sites daily and conduct thorough job walks to monitor progress, quality, cleanliness, safety, and readiness for the next phase of work.
- Maintain clean, safe, professional job sites, including silt fencing, permit boxes, signage, marketing materials, and overall jobsite presentation.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for homeowners from job start through homeowner orientation, providing clear communication and a professional customer experience.
- Conduct pre-construction meetings with customers and sales staff to transition each project from the sales and selections process into construction.
- Review plans, specifications, selections, estimates, schedules, and job details before construction begins.
- Coordinate trade contractors, vendors, inspections, materials, and just-in-time deliveries to avoid delays, dry runs, and unnecessary costs.
- Use the formal scheduling system to maintain accurate job schedules, proper sequencing, and timely completion of each home.
- Process purchase order approvals, variance purchase orders, work authorizations, and other job-related documentation accurately and on time.
- Identify, diagnose, and resolve field problems, schedule conflicts, trade issues, material concerns, customer requests, and quality concerns with urgency and professionalism.
- Train and guide trade partners on Kent Homes' construction methods, quality standards, safety expectations, and field problem resolution.
- Communicate job status clearly with trades, production, customers, inspectors, and internal team members.
- Ensure safe work practices are followed on all jobs and support compliance with OSHA and Kent Homes safety standards.
- Attend and participate in production meetings, training sessions, trade meetings, and ongoing process improvement efforts.
- Support successful home completions, customer satisfaction, quality assurance, budget performance, and overall production goals.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of residential construction project management or superintendent experience preferred.
- Strong residential construction knowledge and the ability to manage construction resources, schedules, quality, and field problem resolution.
- Experience working with trade contractors, vendors, inspectors, homeowners, plans, schedules, scopes of work, purchase orders, and jobsite documentation.
- Excellent people skills with the ability to communicate clearly, professionally, and calmly with customers, inspectors, trades, and internal team members.
- Ability to handle conflict, clarify miscommunication, resolve misunderstandings, and keep projects moving forward.
- Strong organization, time management, follow-through, and attention to detail.
- A proactive, self-starting mindset with the ability to anticipate issues, take charge, and follow through until the job is complete.
- Patience, professionalism, dependability, and a positive attitude.
- Ability to follow established systems, procedures, quality standards, and company processes.
- Ability to read and review plans, drawings, schedules, scopes of work, and construction documents.
- Comfort using construction software, email, digital schedules, tablets, customer portals, shared files, and mobile communication tools.
- Valid North Carolina driver's license and a good driving record.
- Ability to work in the field, walk active job sites, lift construction materials when needed, use small hand and power tools, and access roofs or elevated areas of homes under construction when necessary.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule, including occasional evenings or weekends when project demands require.
- A professional appearance and the understanding that, as a field representative, you represent Kent Homes every day.
Pay and Benefits:
- Full-time, W-2 Employment
- Base salary range: $75,000-$90,000 annually.
- Eligible for performance-based bonuses. High-performing Project Managers may earn total annual compensation of approximately $95,000-$120,000+, depending on results and company performance.
- Performance-based bonus opportunities. Bonus potential is tied to home completions, customer satisfaction, schedule performance, budget performance, teamwork, quality, and overall results.
- Medical insurance
- Retirement plan
- Vacation/sick leave
- Company vehicle or vehicle allowance
- Gas card
- Mobile phone/tablet support
- Training and growth opportunities.
Why Kent Homes
At Kent Homes, Project Managers are trusted to protect the brand, the budget, the schedule, the quality of construction, and the customer experience. This is not a desk job. It is a hands-on, field leadership role for someone who takes ownership, communicates well, leads trades with confidence, and understands the importance of building homes the right way. If you are a proactive construction professional who can manage the details, lead in the field, communicate with homeowners, and finish strong, Kent Homes may be the right place for you.
Kent Homes encourages applications from qualified candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.
