Senior Project Manager

Suffolk Construction•Miami, 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 oversees work performance and quality and tracks team progress against the project plan. The Senior Project Manager also leads project financial and schedule controls, close-out, purchasing, subcontractor relationships, owner communications, quality management, and team development.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an applicable discipline.
At least 10 years of experience relative to the project’s size and scope.
Excellent business judgment, with a record of achieving profitability objectives and strong 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, including when information is incomplete or ambiguous.
Ability to multitask and manage competing business, organizational, and customer-relations priorities.
Sound judgment about when to escalate issues through the chain of command.
Ability to manage and adapt to change, including new processes and new approaches to existing problems.
Strong sense of urgency and initiative, with the ability to quickly assess and respond to complex issues.
Excellent problem-solving skills and confidence in making decisive decisions.
Team leadership, diplomacy, and communication skills, including the ability to handle and resolve conflicts effectively in a firm but fair manner.
Possess Suffolk’s core values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.
Ability to sit for long periods and perform fine motor, hand, and finger tasks using a keyboard, telephone, or writing; frequently stand, walk, and reach with arms or hands; and meet vision requirements including close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and focus adjustment.

Responsibilities

Produce and manage detailed cost-to-complete forecasts, identify potential cost exposures, track field directives and back charges, and ensure timely budget updates.
Manage change orders by tracking proposed and owner changes, reporting status to the Owner, processing requests, and supporting timely closure of changes with subcontractors.
Establish and implement an early project close-out plan, manage required close-out systems and documentation, and train other employees on close-out processes.
Oversee owner and subcontractor requisitions, schedules of values, payment collection, hold reports, and timely payments to subcontractors and vendors.
Manage project cash flow, review schedules of values and requisitions, maintain the owner cash model, and provide accurate percent-complete projections.
Establish effective project meeting practices, follow standard operating procedures for focused meetings, and manage meetings using agendas and time limits.
Ensure project logs are assembled, maintained, and periodically reviewed; hold monthly focus meetings to identify exposures and issues.
Build firm but fair subcontractor relationships, promote professionalism, and promptly address subcontractor performance issues.
Coordinate purchasing with the project team, superintendents, and estimators; develop accurate scopes of work and manage buy-out and procurement timing.
Lead schedule development and updates with the Superintendent and Scheduling team, track impacts and changes, focus on critical path matters, and communicate monthly schedule updates to the Owner.
Manage project risks through timely buy-out, contract execution, bonds and insurance, notices, change authorizations, prompt action on subcontractor issues, and timely completion of submittals and coordination.
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 to establish and manage quality expectations.
Promote teamwork, establish team work-ethic expectations, organize team events and training, and address interpersonal conflicts promptly.
Oversee personnel career and educational development, reinforce standard operating procedures, and actively teach project processes.