Project Manager - Building Maintenance

City of Gastonia•Gastonia, NC

23d•Onsite

About The Position

The Project Manager performs professional and administrative work managing building maintenance, repair, renovation, and capital improvement projects from planning through completion. The role develops project scopes, budgets, and schedules; coordinates procurement, contractors, consultants, and stakeholders; monitors construction, costs, quality, and regulatory compliance; and ensures that projects meet City standards and operational needs. The position assesses facility conditions, evaluates and prioritizes project needs, and helps develop annual and long-term capital and maintenance plans. It manages projects from authorization through closeout, including coordinating project activities and stakeholders, monitoring budgets and site work, communicating status and impacts, maintaining records, and coordinating inspections, acceptance, documentation, and warranty follow-up. Other duties may be assigned as needed. The role may require work at night, on weekends, on holidays, or during emergencies to meet City business needs. The position requires an associate’s degree in construction management or a related field and 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing public infrastructure, building construction, renovation, or facility-maintenance projects, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. A valid state driver’s license must be possessed and maintained. This is a physically demanding role involving movement between work sites and climbing ladders, stairs, scaffolding, and ramps; maintaining balance on narrow, slippery, or uneven surfaces; and frequent standing or walking. It also requires physical abilities such as stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, grasping, and repetitive hand use, as well as specified communication and vision capabilities. Work may involve routine and frequent exposure to bright or dim light, dust and pollen, extreme temperatures, wet or humid conditions, noise, animals or wildlife, vibration, fumes or noxious odors, traffic, and moving machinery. Employees must follow safety procedures, training, and instructions, use required personal protective equipment, and report unsafe conditions and work-related injuries or illnesses. The City of Gastonia is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes qualified applicants and is committed to a professional, respectful, and supportive workplace. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified persons with disabilities. Final candidates may be subject to reference checks, and offers are contingent on satisfactory criminal background checks and drug screening consistent with City policy and applicable law.

Requirements

Associate’s degree in construction management or a related field.
10 years of progressively responsible experience managing public infrastructure, building construction, renovation, or facility-maintenance projects, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Must possess and maintain a valid state driver’s license.
Ability to climb ladders, stairs, scaffolding, and ramps; maintain balance on narrow, slippery, or uneven surfaces; and frequently stand or walk between work sites.
Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, grasp, and use hands and fingers for typing, handling objects, and repetitive motions.
Ability to communicate clearly, hear and understand spoken instructions, and distinguish sounds at normal levels, with or without correction.
Vision sufficient for close and distance work, color vision, depth perception, and field of vision, including data and figure analysis, computer-terminal work, extensive reading, visual inspection, use of measurement devices, and close assembly or fabrication tasks.
Follow safety training and instructions and properly wear and maintain required personal protective equipment.
May be required to work nights, weekends, holidays, and emergencies to meet City business needs.
Final candidates may be required to participate in reference checks; employment offers are contingent upon satisfactory criminal background checks and drug screening, consistent with City policy and applicable law.

Responsibilities

Assess facility conditions, evaluate and prioritize project needs, and assist in developing annual and long-term capital and maintenance plans.
Define project scopes, budgets, schedules, and cost estimates; coordinate consultants and construction documents; and review plans for feasibility and compliance with City standards.
Coordinate permits, plan reviews, inspections, and approvals, while monitoring compliance with applicable codes, accessibility standards, environmental and historic-preservation requirements, and other regulations.
Coordinate procurement and contract administration, including solicitation documents, pre-bid meetings, evaluations, negotiations, award recommendations, and compliance with applicable policies and requirements.
Manage building projects from authorization through completion, coordinating stakeholders, schedules, resources, construction activities, operational impacts, project meetings, and issue resolution.
Monitor project sites for compliance with plans, schedules, quality, contract, and safety requirements; maintain documentation; and coordinate inspections, testing, and corrective actions.
Develop and monitor project budgets, expenditures, forecasts, and funding documentation.
Review payment requests, change proposals, contract amendments, and schedule impacts; identify project risks; and recommend corrective action within delegated authority.
Serve as the primary contact for assigned projects, communicating scope, schedule, costs, risks, disruptions, and status to stakeholders.
Prepare project reports and correspondence and maintain records in accordance with City retention and public-record requirements.
Coordinate project closeout, including final inspections, testing, punch-list completion, acceptance, payment, required documentation, staff training, record updates, and warranty follow-up.
Perform related work as assigned.
Comply with established safety policies, procedures, and safe work practices; use required personal protective equipment; and report unsafe practices, unsafe conditions, and on-the-job injuries or illnesses.