Project Manager - Advanced Manufacturing

Suffolk Construction•Dallas, TX

About The Position

The Project Manager manages and coordinates the resources and documentation needed throughout the project lifecycle, including budgets, schedules, contractual requirements, trade partner agreements, purchase orders, meeting minutes, and shop drawing logs. The role also oversees project risk, insurance, work performance, quality, and progress against the project plan through regular communication and collaboration with the owner and project team. The Project Manager leads project start-up, scheduling, purchasing and document control, meeting management, financial administration, and project closeout. The position represents Suffolk with owners and other project stakeholders, administers contract and purchasing matters, and helps ensure project delivery, financial objectives, and strong client and subcontractor relationships.

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 in Advanced Manufacturing Projects.
Strong business judgment, demonstrated by achieving profitability objectives and successful project closeouts while maintaining good client and subcontractor relationships.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, including command of applicable contract and legal provisions.
Ability to analyze and execute financial trade-offs, including when information is incomplete or ambiguous.
Ability to multitask and manage competing business, organizational, and customer-relations priorities.
Good 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 confidence in taking decisive action.
Team leadership, diplomacy, and communication skills, including the ability to handle and resolve conflicts firmly and fairly.
Ability to manage and embrace change and adapt to new processes and approaches.
Possess Suffolk’s Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

Responsibilities

Lead and communicate with 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 budget setup and project milestones.
Create a schedule of values and project logs, and plan for project safety and mobilization with team members.
Maintain the buy schedule; write scopes of work; distribute and log subcontracts; write 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 orders, shop drawings, document-control logs, and correspondence with owners, architects, and subcontractors.
Work with Purchasing on trade buyout, including defining scopes of work, authoring Exhibit B’s, ensuring scope coverage, and coordinating buy and project schedules.
Attend necessary schedule and management meetings and chair them as appropriate.
Manage requisitions and payments, including lien releases and project payroll, and maintain project cash flow while proactively communicating issues.
Deliver required manuals to the owner and consolidate project documentation and files.
Manage subcontractor closeout, utility transfers, owner training, and the punch-list process.
Deliver warranties, as-builts, and training to the owner.