Project Manager - Bahamas

Suffolk Construction • West Palm Beach, FL

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Project Manager manages and coordinates project resources and documentation throughout the project lifecycle. The role maintains project budgets and schedules and administers contracts, trade partner agreements, purchase orders, meeting minutes, and shop drawing logs. The Project Manager also oversees risk, insurance, work performance, quality, and team progress against the project plan through communication and collaboration with the owner and project team.

The position leads project start-up, purchasing and document control, meeting management, financial administration, and project closeout. It represents Suffolk in dealings with owners, architects, consultants, government authorities, vendors, and subcontractors, and works to maintain productive client and project-team relationships. The candidate will sit in Suffolk’s West Palm Beach or Tampa office and will also walk job sites. The work environment includes an office with a quiet to moderate noise level.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or an applicable discipline, and experience relative to project size and scope.
• At least 5 years of related experience.
• Excellent business judgment, demonstrated by achieving profitability objectives and successful project closeouts while maintaining client and subcontractor relationships.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, including command of applicable contract and legal provisions.
• Ability to analyze and execute financial trade-offs, including when data is incomplete or situations are ambiguous.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across business needs, organizational issues, and customer relations.
• Sound judgment about when to escalate issues.
• Strong sense of urgency and initiative.
• Ability to quickly study and respond to complex issues.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to take confident, decisive action.
• Team leadership, diplomacy, and communication skills, including the ability to resolve conflicts effectively and fairly.
• Ability to manage and embrace change, adapt to new processes, and reconsider existing approaches.
• Must possess Suffolk’s core values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

Responsibilities

• Lead and communicate with Suffolk field supervision, subcontractors, and vendors to help them work to the project schedule.
• Represent Suffolk with owners, architects, consultants, government authorities, vendors, and subcontractors.
• Administer financial aspects of the owner’s contract, subcontracts, and purchase orders.
• Build effective working relationships with clients and Suffolk project team members.
• Review the general contract and contract documents and confirm the budget setup and project milestones.
• Create a schedule of values and project logs, and plan for project safety and mobilization in coordination with team members.
• Maintain the buy schedule; write scopes of work; distribute and log subcontracts; write required contract riders and purchase orders; and confirm compliance with project insurance requirements.
• Review subcontractor references, obtain subcontractor bonds, and maintain project files.
• Manage purchase and delivery schedules, change-order processes, shop drawings, document-control logs, and correspondence with owners, architects, and subcontractors.
• Work with Purchasing to set up and execute trade buyout, define scopes of work, author Exhibit B’s, ensure scope coverage, and coordinate buy and project schedules.
• Attend schedule and management meetings needed to monitor and manage the project, and chair meetings as appropriate.
• Manage requisitions and payments, including lien releases and project payroll, and maintain cash flow while proactively communicating issues.
• Deliver required manuals to the owner and consolidate project documentation and files.
• Manage subcontractor closeout, utility transfer, owner training, and the punch-list process.
• Deliver warranties, as-builts, and training to the owner.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• Auto allowances and gas cards for certain roles.
• Medical and emotional and mental health benefits.
• Dental and vision insurance plans.
• Virtual care options for physical therapy and primary care.
• Generous paid time off.
• 401(k) plan with employer match and access to expert financial resources.
• Company-paid and voluntary life insurance.
• Tax-deferred savings accounts.
• 10 backup daycare days each year.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Commuter benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior