Senior Project Manager - Bahamas

Suffolk Construction•West Palm Beach, FL

3d•Onsite

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 work performance and quality, and monitors team progress against the project plan. The position is based in Suffolk’s West Palm Beach or Tampa office and includes job-site walking. The Senior Project Manager oversees project budgets, cost forecasting, change orders, project closeout, requisitions, cash management, meetings, contract logs, subcontractor relationships, purchasing, schedules, risk, owner relationships, and quality management. The role also provides team leadership and oversees the career and educational development of project personnel, teaching standard procedures and processes as needed. Suffolk describes itself as a national construction management company that builds, innovates, and invests across the project lifecycle. It has more than $13 billion in annual revenue, 3,000 employees, and 17 offices.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an applicable discipline.
At least 10 years of experience relative to project size and scope.
Strong business judgment, demonstrated by achieving profitability objectives and successful 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.
Ability to manage and embrace change and adapt to new processes and approaches.
Strong sense of urgency and initiative; ability to quickly assess and respond to complex issues.
Excellent problem-solving skills and confidence and decisiveness in taking 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 project costs, and teach budget update procedures.
Manage change orders, track proposed and owner change orders, provide status reports to the Owner, and pursue legitimate general contractor costs related to Owner changes.
Establish and manage project closeout plans, documents, work lists, quality processes, and closeout training.
Oversee owner and subcontractor requisitions, schedules of values, payment collection, subcontractor payments, and hold reports.
Manage project cash flow, review schedules of values and requisitions, maintain the Owner cash model, and project percent complete.
Establish and manage project meetings, agendas, communication, and problem solving in accordance with standard procedures.
Require, maintain, and periodically review project logs, and hold monthly focus meetings to identify exposures and issues.
Build professional subcontractor relationships, address underperformance promptly, and protect the project from delays and impacts.
Coordinate purchasing and buyout with the project team, prepare clear scopes of work, and organize timely procurement.
Lead development and updating of the contract schedule, manage critical path matters and schedule impacts, provide Owner updates, and coordinate schedule narratives and procurement schedules.
Manage project risks, including buyout, contracts, bonds, insurance, notices, change authorizations, subcontractor performance, and timely submittal and coordination processes.
Develop a trusting, professional relationship with the Owner and keep the Owner informed of important matters.
Lead implementation of the Quality Management Program, inspections, nonconformance reporting, and mock-ups.
Build teamwork, set work ethic expectations, organize team events and training, and address personal conflicts promptly.
Oversee team members’ career and educational development and teach and reinforce standard operating procedures.