Senior Project Manager

Suffolk Construction•Estero, FL

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for project administration, including contractual requirements, trade partner agreements, purchase orders, and risk management. The role manages overall work performance and quality, and tracks team progress against the project plan. The Senior Project Manager leads project financial management, change orders, closeout, requisitions, cash flow, meetings, project logs, purchasing, scheduling, quality, and team development. The position also develops professional relationships with owners and subcontractors, manages project risks, and mentors project personnel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an applicable discipline.
At least 10 years of experience relative to project size and scope.
Excellent business judgment, including a record of achieving profitability objectives and strong project closeouts while maintaining 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 with incomplete data and ambiguity.
Ability to multitask and manage competing business, organizational, and customer-relations priorities.
Judgment to know when to escalate issues through the chain of command.
Ability to manage and embrace change and adapt to new processes and approaches.
Strong sense of urgency and initiative, with the ability to quickly assess and respond to complex issues.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to take confident, decisive action.
Team leadership, diplomatic and communication skills, and the ability to resolve conflicts effectively in a firm-but-fair manner.
Possess Suffolk’s core values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

Responsibilities

Produce detailed cost-to-complete forecasts, identify exposures, track field directives and back charges, and ensure forecasts are completed on schedule.
Manage change orders by tracking proposed and owner changes, providing status reports, processing requests, and pursuing legitimate general contractor costs.
Establish and execute a project closeout plan, manage closeout documentation and deficiency processes, and train others in closeout procedures.
Oversee owner and subcontractor requisitions, schedules of values, payment collection, hold reports, and timely subcontractor/vendor payments.
Manage project cash flow, review schedules of values and requisitions, maintain the owner cash model, and prepare percent-complete projections.
Establish and manage project meetings using agendas, focused discussion, and time limits.
Ensure project logs are maintained and reviewed regularly to identify exposures and issues.
Build professional, firm-but-fair relationships with subcontractors and address performance issues promptly.
Coordinate purchasing with the project team, develop clear scopes of work, and manage buyout and procurement timing.
Lead schedule development and updates, monitor impacts and critical path items, communicate schedule updates to the owner, and address subcontractor-caused delays.
Manage project risk through timely buyout, contract execution, bonds and insurance, notices, change authorizations, and timely submittal and coordination processes.
Build a trusting and professional relationship with the owner and keep the owner informed of important matters.
Lead implementation of quality expectations, inspections, nonconformance tracking, and mock-ups.
Foster teamwork, establish work ethic expectations, organize team events and training, and address conflicts promptly.
Oversee team members’ career and educational development and teach standard operating procedures.
Demonstrate Suffolk’s core values of Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.