Project Manager, Facilities Construction

BHE (Berkshire Hathaway Energy)•Reno, NV

1d•$88,000 - $111,000•Onsite

About The Position

Leads the planning and delivery of complex, multidisciplinary capital construction projects supporting NV Energy’s general office, operations center, service center, and other company facilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school in construction management, engineering, architecture, project management, or a related field and a minimum of five years of progressively responsible construction project management experience.
OR a minimum of 9 years of progressively responsible construction project management experience.
Demonstrated knowledge of Construction and project management practice including project scope development and scope control.
Demonstrated knowledge of Commercial and industrial construction methods and sequencing.
Demonstrated knowledge of Critical Path Method scheduling.
Demonstrated knowledge of Work breakdown structures, milestones, dependencies, and schedule forecasting.
Demonstrated knowledge of Capital budgeting, estimating, forecasting, cash-flow planning, contingency management, and cost control.
Demonstrated knowledge of Construction procurement and contracting methods.
Demonstrated knowledge of Contract administration, contractor performance management, change orders, claims, and dispute resolution.
Demonstrated knowledge of Local, state, and federal permitting requirements.
Demonstrated knowledge of Applicable building codes, life-safety requirements, accessibility standards, and construction requirements.
Demonstrated knowledge of Construction safety and contractor safety oversight.
Demonstrated knowledge of Quality assurance, quality control, inspections, commissioning, and project closeout.
Demonstrated knowledge of General building and office systems.
Demonstrated knowledge of Physical security and access-control systems
Demonstrated knowledge of Construction activities in occupied and operational facilities.
Demonstrated knowledge of Project governance, financial controls, document control, and executive reporting.
Demonstrated skills such as: Leading and directing multidisciplinary project teams.
Demonstrated skills such as: Managing architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
Demonstrated skills such as: Identifying scope gaps, design conflicts, schedule delays, cost pressures, procurement risks, operational impacts, and contractor-performance concerns.
Demonstrated skills such as: Developing and implementing corrective-action and recovery plans.
Demonstrated skills such as: Managing and documenting project decisions, changes, approvals, risks, and commitments.
Demonstrated skills such as: Balancing customer requirements, operational needs, project costs, time constraints, risk, safety, quality, and company standards.
Demonstrated skills such as: Building consensus among stakeholders with differing priorities.
Demonstrated skills such as: Effectively negotiating project issues and resolving conflicts.
Demonstrated skills such as: Communicating technical construction issues clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Demonstrated skills such as: Preparing concise executive summaries, project updates, dashboards, presentations, recommendations, and decision documents.
Demonstrated skills such as: Working independently while recognizing when significant risks, decisions, or changes require escalation.
Demonstrated skills such as: Managing multiple priorities, deadlines, stakeholders, and project assignments.
Demonstrated skills such as: Maintaining accurate, complete, and audit-ready project documentation.
PCs, word processing, spreadsheet and database software.

Responsibilities

Leads the development and execution of comprehensive project plans, including scope, budget, cost estimates, schedule, cash flow, procurement strategy, resource requirements, risk assessments, communication plans, and required approvals.
Manages capital construction projects through planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, occupancy, and final closeout.
Works with internal customers and stakeholders to identify business and operational requirements, translates requirements into an actionable scope of work, evaluate alternatives, and develop recommendations for approval.
Establishes project objectives, deliverables, milestones, success criteria, roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes.
Coordinates the development of architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, telecommunications, security, audiovisual, furniture, fixtures, equipment, and other project requirements.
Leads or supports requests for qualifications, requests for proposals, bid evaluations, contractor selections, procurement activities, contract negotiations, and recommendations for contract award.
Administers professional services agreements, construction contracts, purchase orders, and other project agreements.
Coordinates the acquisition of necessary resources, equipment, materials, permits, inspections, regulatory approvals, and site access.
Manages project budgets, commitments, contracts, forecasts, payment applications, changes, approvals, documentation, reporting, and other project-control processes.
Establishes and administers formal change-control processes. Evaluates proposed changes for scope, cost, schedule, operational, quality, and risk impacts before obtaining required approvals.
Identifies, evaluates, documents, and manages project risks and issues. Develops mitigation, contingency, corrective-action, and recovery plans as appropriate.
Identifies emerging cost, schedule, design, procurement, regulatory, contractor-performance, and operational risks and escalates significant concerns in a timely manner.
Measures and communicates project performance through project status reports, dashboards, forecasts, executive summaries, presentations, and project review meetings.
Provides clear, concise, and timely information to project sponsors, customers, stakeholders, and company leadership.
Facilitates project meetings, documents decisions and action items, assigns responsibilities, and follows through to ensure commitments are completed.
Manages construction activities in occupied and operational facilities while minimizing impacts to employees, customers, utility operations, security, safety, business continuity, and other ongoing activities.
Coordinates construction phasing, scheduled outages, utility interruptions, temporary facilities, site logistics, employee communications, and operational transitions.
Ensures that project work complies with applicable company policies, building codes, safety requirements, accessibility standards, environmental requirements, permit conditions, contractual requirements, and local, state, and federal regulations.
Coordinates inspections, testing, commissioning, training, building-system demonstrations, deficiency resolution, operational readiness, and turnover to Facilities Operations.
Leads project closeout, including final acceptance of deliverables, completion of outstanding work, financial reconciliation, project accounting audit and true-up, record-document turnover, warranty documentation, lessons learned, and final project reporting.
Monitors and enforces all compliance requirements for area of responsibility.
Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes, and regulations applicable to position and company.
Performs related duties as assigned.