Construction Manager - Castle Point, NY

HFS Company•Wappingers Falls, NY

6d•Onsite

About The Position

HFS Company is seeking an experienced Construction Manager (CM) to provide full-time onsite support for VA Electronic Health Record Modernization infrastructure upgrades at Castle Point Campus VAMC. This role involves coordinating with various stakeholders, monitoring daily field activities, managing schedules, budgets, and risks, providing quality oversight, and maintaining comprehensive documentation. The CM will ensure safe, compliant, and well-documented construction progress, serving in a valued contractor support role under COR coordination. The position does not perform inherently governmental functions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, or architecture from an accredited university, or 10 years of directly related experience may substitute for the degree.
At least seven years of facility construction management experience, including engineering, design, and construction oversight; scheduling; cost management; budgeting; and overall project management.
Comfortable interpreting construction documents, leading productive discussions, documenting decisions, and tracking commitments.
Knowledge of construction administration, cost estimating, quality assurance, safety compliance, testing, commissioning, changes, claims, and risk management.
Must request Autodesk Construction Cloud and ProductivityNOW access within 14 days after award.
Complete ACC training within 12 calendar days after access is granted, and submit completion certificates within two business days.
Requires VHA records training and careful protection of non-public VA information and Federal records.
Must be able to obtain and maintain required VA access credentials for the duration of assignment.
Successful completion of all required background screening, credentialing, and access requirements, including any Government-required suitability, security, or facility access determinations.

Nice To Haves

Experience with VA or VISN 2 projects
Experience with federal healthcare projects
Experience with EHRM infrastructure
Experience with Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)
Experience with occupied-facility construction
Experience with commissioning
Experience with claims

Responsibilities

Coordinate with the COR, Contracting Officer, VA and VISN 2 stakeholders, the A/E, construction contractor, testing agencies, and commissioning personnel.
Monitor daily field activities, participate in progress meetings, provide clear field-status updates, document issues, and help move action items toward resolution.
Keep the COR informed of progress, safety or quality concerns, disputes, deficiencies, and matters requiring Government attention.
Maintain daily diaries, compare field progress with construction schedules, identify slippage, and recommend practical adjustments.
Monitor budgets, obligations, payments, balances, planned expenditures, cost proposals, estimates, change documentation, and observed quantities supporting payment review.
Identify risks, recommend mitigation, and assist with claims or dispute analysis when requested.
Perform routine inspections, monitor compliance with contract documents and applicable standards, identify nonconforming work, and notify the VA when correction may be needed.
Monitor and document applicable testing for soils, concrete, structural steel, fireproofing, roofing, glazing, elevators, and related work.
Coordinate testing agencies and commissioning activities such as start-up planning, performance testing, O&M documentation, and training.
Maintain diaries, inspection reports, field notes, photographs, testing records, issue logs, deficiency lists, meeting records, schedules, cost documentation, and marked-up plans for as-builts.
Support RFIs, submittals, shutdowns, owner-furnished equipment, punch lists, change documentation, and weekly and monthly status reporting.
Provide the COR a monthly breakdown of hours by EHRM project number.
Submit required records electronically in accordance with COR direction and contract timelines while maintaining the appropriate contractor support role.