Senior Project Manager – Healthcare

Knutson Construction•Minneapolis, MN

About The Position

Knutson Construction is hiring a Senior Project Manager to join its team in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The role oversees construction projects from preconstruction through closeout, ensuring safety, quality, and client satisfaction. The Senior Project Manager leads project teams, manages budgets and schedules, develops stakeholder relationships, and helps deliver the company’s “Knutson Experience.” The role also participates in and leads new and existing client project pursuits. The position includes overseeing preconstruction, construction, commissioning, and closeout; developing and implementing schedules; managing cost, procurement, and quality control; and coordinating project reporting and meetings. The Senior Project Manager works with estimating, marketing, business development, and project teams, manages self-perform trade scopes, and contributes to employee performance feedback and development. The role also promotes the company’s safety culture, participates in safety training, and builds professional networks through community and industry activities. The successful candidate will demonstrate integrity, strong leadership and communication, the ability to manage multiple projects and teams, and experience managing complex healthcare construction projects. A bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience—is required. The posting specifies 10 to 15 years of responsibility for total execution of large healthcare construction projects.

Requirements

Exemplary commitment to personal integrity and ethical standards.
Ability to manage multiple projects, teams, and direct reports simultaneously.
Consistent ethical decision-making that reflects Knutson’s core values.
Ability to foster collaboration internally and externally and maintain the company’s reputation.
Ability to motivate, collaborate with, and lead teams to produce results.
Ability to build and maintain strong relationships.
Demonstrated expertise leading high-performing teams and managing the complete lifecycle of large-scale, complex healthcare construction projects from preconstruction through closeout.
Demonstrated ability to manage a dispute resolution process with support from leadership.
Excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal, and computer skills.
Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
10 to 15 years of responsibility for the total execution of large healthcare construction projects.
Experience managing and collaborating with Superintendents, Project Managers, Assistant Project Managers, Project Engineers, and Project Support staff.

Nice To Haves

Construction-related certifications and additional relevant training.
Prior experience managing self-perform trade scopes.

Responsibilities

Oversee all phases of construction projects, from preconstruction through closeout, ensuring safety, quality, and client satisfaction.
Motivate and lead project teams and provide oversight and direction to achieve project results.
Promote Knutson’s Zero Incident safety culture and drive compliance and continuous improvement.
Manage relationships with owners, design teams, subcontractors, and Knutson employees.
Oversee preconstruction, construction, commissioning, and closeout phases.
Develop and implement construction schedules with the project team.
Collaborate with estimating and marketing during preconstruction and project pursuits.
Manage project cost and cost-management processes.
Provide accurate monthly project team meeting reporting to management.
Schedule and conduct internal and external project meetings with project teams.
Oversee the project team’s procurement process.
Lead and manage project-specific QA/QC plans.
Lead project pursuits with the pursuit and Business Development teams.
Build and use professional networks; participate in community and industry events to promote Knutson Construction.
Manage self-perform trade scopes, including demolition, carpentry, concrete, and masonry.
Review Operations employees’ performance on assigned projects and collaborate with the Director of Operations and General Manager on staffing, development, and evaluations.
Provide ongoing positive and constructive feedback to Operations team members assigned to projects.
Lead teams in delivering the Knutson Experience while following company standard operating procedures.
Participate in and complete scheduled and as-needed safety training.