Senior Project Manager

Suffolk Construction • Las Vegas, NV

3d

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 the project team’s progress against the project plan. The Senior Project Manager leads financial forecasting and cash management, change orders, requisitions, purchasing, scheduling, project close-out, and maintenance of project logs. The position also builds effective relationships with owners and subcontractors, supports quality management, and leads, mentors, and develops project team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an applicable discipline.
• At least 10 years of experience relative to project size and scope.
• Strong business judgment and a record of achieving profitability objectives and successful project close-outs 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 when information is incomplete or ambiguous.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and competing priorities while balancing business needs, organizational issues, and customer relations.
• Sound judgment about when to escalate issues.
• Ability to manage and embrace change and adapt to new processes and approaches.
• Strong initiative and urgency, with the ability to quickly assess complex issues.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to take confident, decisive action.
• Team leadership, diplomatic communication, and conflict-resolution skills, using a firm but fair approach.
• Adherence to Suffolk’s Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

Responsibilities

• Prepare detailed Cost-to-Complete forecasts, analyze exposures, track field directive and back-charge costs, and follow forecasting procedures and schedules.
• Manage change orders by tracking proposed and owner changes, providing status reports, preparing monthly owner change orders, recovering legitimate general contractor costs, and monitoring allowances and field directives.
• Establish and implement project close-out plans, collect and review close-out documents, and use noncompliance, work-list, and completion-quality processes to manage completion.
• Oversee owner and subcontractor requisitions, schedules of values, payment collection, hold reports, and timely payment processing.
• Manage project cash flow, review subcontractor and vendor requisitions, maintain the owner cash model, and provide accurate percent-complete projections.
• Establish meeting schedules and procedures, and manage meetings with agendas and time limits.
• Require the project team to maintain project logs and periodically review them for accuracy, risks, and potential exposures.
• Build firm but fair relationships with subcontractors, promote professional and organized interactions, and address nonperformance promptly.
• Coordinate with project team members to develop scopes of work and administer an organized purchasing and buy-out process.
• Lead schedule development and updates with the Superintendent and Scheduling team; track impacts and changes, focus on critical-path matters, communicate schedule updates to the Owner, and take action to prevent delays.
• Manage project risks through timely buy-out, contract execution, bonds and insurance, notices, change authorizations, submittal and coordination processes, and action on nonperforming subcontractors.
• Build a trusting, professional relationship with the Owner and keep the Owner informed of important matters.
• Lead implementation of the project Quality Management Program, including first-delivery and quality benchmark inspections, nonconformance tracking, and mock-ups.
• Foster teamwork, set work-ethic expectations, organize team events and training, address conflicts, and oversee team members’ career and educational development.
• Ensure team adherence to standard operating procedures and teach project processes, including forecasting, close-out, and risk management.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Auto allowances and gas cards for certain roles
• Medical benefits
• Emotional and mental health benefits
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Virtual care options for physical therapy and primary care
• Paid time off
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Financial resources
• Company-paid and voluntary life insurance
• Tax-deferred savings accounts
• 10 backup daycare days each year
• Short- and long-term disability
• Commuter benefits

What This Job Offers

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