Project Manager

Thornton Construction Company • Opa-locka, FL

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About The Position

The Project Manager has bottom-line responsibility and accountability for the financial and technical success of assigned projects. The PM plans, organizes, coordinates, and controls projects according to company policies, procedures, and systems, coordinating the resources required throughout each project. The PM ensures that Owner and Thornton expectations and budget guidelines are met or exceeded, managing projects from pre-construction through completion, including budgets, costs, schedules, risk, insurance, work performance, quality, and progress against plan.

The role focuses on delivering projects on time, meeting or exceeding margin goals and quality standards, monitoring progress against the plan and budget, and providing weekly status reports to Senior Management. The PM leads and communicates with team members, subcontractors, and vendors; develops client relationships; and administers the financial aspects of Owner contracts, subcontracts, and purchase orders.

Responsibilities span pre-job planning, project execution, financial management, change-order management, closeout, and risk management. The PM reviews project documents and scope, supports estimating and vendor qualification, develops schedules and budgets, manages procurement and project records, monitors safety and quality, oversees payment and cost forecasts, processes changes, and coordinates closeout documentation and handover.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction, Engineering, or an applicable discipline, plus at least 3 years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Proficiency with computer applications, including the Microsoft Office suite.
• Understanding of construction terminology and estimating, purchasing, scheduling, and planning concepts.
• Ability to read, understand, and interpret contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work, and project schedules.
• Proven written and verbal communication abilities.
• Possess Thornton’s Core Values: Results Driven, Proactive, Safety Conscious, People Focused, Customer Oriented, and Team Oriented.
• Demonstrate sound business judgment, including achieving profitability objectives and strong project closeouts while maintaining good client and subcontractor relationships.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, including command of applicable and legal provisions.
• Ability to analyze and execute financial tradeoffs, often with incomplete data and ambiguity.
• Ability to multitask and manage competing business, organizational, and customer-relations priorities.
• Use judgment to determine when to escalate issues through the chain of command.
• Strong sense of urgency and initiative; ability to study and respond quickly to complex issues.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to take confident, decisive action.
• Team leadership, diplomacy, and communication skills, including the ability to resolve conflicts effectively in a firm but fair manner.

Responsibilities

• Accomplish project plans on time while meeting or exceeding project margin goals and specified quality standards.
• Continuously monitor project progress against the plan and budget and provide weekly status reports to Senior Management.
• Lead and communicate with team members, subcontractors, and vendors to help maintain the project schedule.
• Develop assigned client relationships and build effective working relationships with clients, architects, subcontractors, vendors, and Thornton team members.
• Administer the financial aspects of Owner contracts, subcontracts, and purchase orders.
• Assist estimating in developing and selecting qualified vendors for project bids.
• Review architectural drawings, specifications, and contract documents to determine project scope.
• Assess and prequalify vendors, address contract requirements during estimating, provide constructability assistance, identify document conflicts or deviations, and offer recommendations when applicable.
• Review and procure vendor proposals and ensure scope coverage.
• Create the project baseline schedule and validate it with team members.
• Review contract documents and estimates; prepare the startup budget and project milestones.
• Create a schedule of values and project logs, and plan safety and mobilization with team-member review and validation.
• Purchase and buy out vendors within established budget guidelines.
• Write subcontract scopes of work, exhibits, and riders, ensuring Owner contract requirements are incorporated into subcontract agreements.
• Manage and maintain project logs and records, including change management, buyout, project files, purchasing and deliveries, construction schedules, change orders, RFIs, submittals, shop drawings, as-builts, correspondence, and other document-control logs.
• Communicate issues proactively and provide solutions in Thornton’s best interest.
• Attend necessary schedule and management meetings, chair meetings as appropriate, raise relevant issues at jobsite meetings, and issue meeting minutes.
• Manage project team members and ensure compliance with Thornton policies.
• Expedite shop drawings and approvals; monitor and maintain the construction schedule weekly.
• Inform the Client of errors, discrepancies, or omissions in design drawings.
• Monitor site safety and enforce Occupational Health and Safety Act requirements.
• Ensure completion and tracking of required independent testing and inspections.
• Maintain and enforce construction standards and quality control.
• Manage requisitions and payments, including lien releases and project payroll, and maintain the best possible project cash flow.
• Issue monthly progress draws and client invoices, including final retainage.
• Prepare accurate monthly Cost to Complete forecasts, including subcontract and purchase-order audits, budget updates, and change-order logs.
• Review subcontractor initial Schedules of Values to prevent overpayment and review subcontractor/vendor requisitions to prevent payment of unsigned or unfunded change orders.
• Use project management software to track proposed change orders, including in-scope and out-of-scope items; maintain and report change-order status in a timely manner.
• Generate monthly Owner Change Orders to prevent aging of proposed change-order issues and enable timely closure with subcontractors.
• Recover legitimate general-condition costs relating to Owner changes.
• Track allowances and submit Change Order Requests when overruns are likely; track field directives and back-charges for timely processing.
• Prepare closeout documentation required by Thornton’s Project Management Manual and the Owner contract; deliver manuals and consolidate project documentation and files.
• Manage subcontractor closeout, utility transfers, Owner training, and punch-list processes.
• Deliver warranties, as-builts, and training to the client.
• Write timely notices to Owners and subcontractors and secure change-order authorization before proceeding with changes.
• Take immediate action when a non-performing subcontractor is likely to affect the project.
• Ensure submittals and shop drawings are reviewed and approved within contract-document timeframes.
• Ensure safe execution of jobs with the goal of zero accidents.

What This Job Offers

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