Construction & Capital Projects Manager

Roush•Livonia, MI

28d

About The Position

We work alongside the best and brightest to do incredibly cool things you wouldn't believe. At Roush, you're part of building the future. Are you someone that has a passion for providing innovated solutions to complex challenges? Do you want to work someplace where creativity and new ideas are encouraged? If so, then keep reading. We fuse technology and engineering to provide product development solutions to customers in a diverse range of industries. Widely recognized for providing engineering, testing, prototype, and manufacturing services to the transportation industry, Roush also provides significant support to the aerospace, defense and theme park industries. With over 2,400 employees in facilities throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, our unique combination of creativity and tenacity activates big ideas on a global stage. Job Summary The Construction & Capital Projects Manager is responsible for ensuring the scope of a capital projects are clarified prior to ownership approval. The scope of the role includes scope and timing delineation, cost estimating related to facility upfit. Once approved, efforts include the coordination to integrate set-up of Operations Equipment, IT devices with their connectivity within facility modifications to make those systems operable. This role manages a small team and is based in Livonia, MI.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in architecture or construction
Minimum 8 years related to multiple staff supervisory experience or the combination of education and corporate industrial construction experience
Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize tasks to meet project deadlines
Ability to read, analyze architectural and engineering drawings, technical documents and procedures, equipment specifications and interpret governmental regulations
Space planning with practical design development to allow for methodical construction install
Capable to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, and diagram or schedule formats
Aptitude to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills to work with several levels of personnel; from inspectors, lawyers, management, co-workers to hourly shop employees
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Aptitude to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Proficiency to write business correspondence and procedure manuals. Aptitude to effectively present technical information and professionally respond to questions from groups of managers, customers, staff, consultants, suppliers, contractors and inspectors.
Competence using applications such as PeopleSoft, Microsoft Outlook, Word, Project, Excel and PowerPoint

Nice To Haves

Building interior specifications, finishes and system furniture exposure
Project management or accounting/finance experience or certificates
AutoCAD software
Peoplesoft software familiarity
Experience coaching, mentoring and managing a team

Responsibilities

Consult with project requestor to outline scope requirements and gather customer and new equipment specifications. Issue meeting minutes to requestors department management and finance staff to summarize to garner confirmation of project scope. Once scope is confirmed, to undertake space planning coordination and facilitation estimate in MS Excel to enter data into Peoplesoft software for project reports.
Submit project creation form to Account Receivables to generate Peoplesoft project number.
Run weekly Capital Project Reports to validate status with each department requestor in all phases: Concept, Initial, Proposed, Execute and the Close-out. track executed project scope funding such as: Cost vs Actuals, Change Orders, and Open Committed. Update Peoplesoft general page percent status and once scope met and closed the completed date.
Contact IT and Purchasing departments to notify of potential project scope and timing. Host weekly inter-department meetings to review status of the projects.
Specify and document Roush interior finishes, furniture, hardware standards on each project.
Collaborate with Facilities Operations Manager in the selection criteria of new equipment and materials installed. Ensure notification is sent to Asset Coordinator for newly installed or removed equipment and/or systems.
Publish written documentation include staff job descriptions, construction policies and standard work practices, customer and vendor business communication, project scope description, annual team accomplishments, annual staff performance and merit reviews, work instructions, as needed process forms or reference materials used for training.
Manage staff to meet goals / metrics. Identify staffing and materials for annual procurement.
Coordinate department initiatives and paperwork pertaining to Roush Quality / ISO Standards.