Segment Manager

DRAGADOS • Detroit, MI

68d

About The Position

The position involves managing professional staff responsible for design and project construction. The role requires directing and coordinating activities of project personnel to ensure that projects progress on schedule and within the prescribed budget. The individual will assist subordinate supervisors in maintaining production on budget and schedule, review project estimates or plans, and understand project documents for completeness or inadequacies. The position also entails anticipating project needs, establishing work plans, overseeing coordination with project staff, and preparing project reports for management and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage professional staff responsible for design and project construction
• Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget
• Assist subordinate supervisors in maintaining production on budget and schedule
• Review project estimate or plan to determine schedule, estimated job cost, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project
• Understand project documents ie: completeness or inadequacies
• Anticipate project needs with sufficient lead-time to avoid delay of production
• Establish work plan and staffing for each phase of project, work closely with Human Resources in recruitment efforts as necessary
• Oversee coordination with project staff to outline work plans, assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority
• Review status and modify schedules or plans as required and prepare project reports for management, owners, and subcontractors
• Follow-up on directives to be continuously on the alert for situations that are not progressing productively and for opportunities to improve project performance
• Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems
• Work closely with Company employees, project supervisors, owners, external teams, and support people to get commitments regarding PM's managerial and supervisory requests
• Provide positive safety leadership to the project
• Review field operation and ensure that the project provides a safe workplace
• Coordinate the preparation and updating of the formal project construction schedule as required by the contract documents
• Coordinate resource use with project superintendent; for example, craft assignment, crew sizes and project layout for offices, traffic flow, and material storage
• Responsible for claims management and documentation
• Coordinate material purchases, assure that subcontractor agreements are prepared and change orders are accurate and issued to owners, subcontractors, and suppliers
• Develop, maintain business relationships and manage subcontractor, client/owner, engineers, JV partner(s), and unions if applicable
• Maintain relationships with contracting agencies, executive management
• Participate in project presentations to elected officials, general public, and other stakeholders
• Responsible for project closeout. Secure loose ends by finishing paperwork, obtaining retainages, supporting supervisors, and expediting claims
• Debriefing of project to review all positive and negative aspects after completion
• Able to confidently negotiate any & all matters on behalf of the JV as they relate to cost, schedule, & contract matters with Owner/Sub suppliers
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Construction of Buildings
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees