Senior Project Manager

Suffolk Construction•Miami, FL

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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 overall team progress against the project plan. The Senior Project Manager leads financial forecasting and cash management, change-order administration, project close-out, requisitions, meeting and contract-log processes, subcontractor relationships, purchasing, schedule management, quality management, and owner relationships. The role also leads and develops project personnel, teaches standard operating procedures, and addresses project risks and performance issues.

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 positive 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 when information is incomplete or ambiguous.
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, 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 communication, and conflict-resolution skills, with a firm-but-fair approach.
Possess Suffolk’s Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

Responsibilities

Produce detailed cost-to-complete forecasts, identify potential exposures, monitor costs of field directives and back charges, and follow the forecasting calendar.
Manage change orders by tracking proposed and owner change orders, reporting status to the Owner, pursuing legitimate general-condition costs, and monitoring allowances, field directives, and back charges.
Establish and manage an early project close-out plan, collect and review close-out documents, and use the required reporting, work-list, and quality processes.
Oversee owner and subcontractor requisitions, develop schedules of values, manage payment collection and subcontractor/vendor payments, and review hold reports and deficiencies.
Manage project cash flow, review schedules of values and requisitions, update the Owner cash model, and prepare percent-complete projections.
Establish and manage project meetings using agendas, time limits, and applicable standard operating procedures.
Ensure project logs are assembled, maintained, and periodically reviewed; lead monthly focus meetings to identify exposures and issues.
Build professional, firm-but-fair subcontractor relationships and promptly address nonperformance that could affect the project.
Coordinate with project teams, superintendents, and estimators to develop accurate scopes of work and administer timely purchasing and buy-out.
Lead development and maintenance of the contract schedule, manage schedule updates and narratives, focus the team on critical-path matters, and address subcontractor impacts.
Manage project risk by completing buy-out, securing required contract executions, bonds, insurance, and change authorizations, issuing timely notices, and addressing risks of delay.
Develop 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 benchmark inspections, nonconformance reporting, and mock-ups.
Promote teamwork, establish work-ethic expectations, organize team events and training, and address interpersonal conflicts.
Oversee the career and educational development of project personnel and teach standard operating procedures and project processes.