Senior Project Manager (Data Centers)

Suffolk Construction•Houston, TX

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 general work performance and quality and monitors the project team's progress against the project plan. The position leads project budgeting and forecasting, change order management, project closeout, requisitions, cash management, meetings, contract logs, subcontractor relationships, purchasing, scheduling, risk management, owner relationships, and quality management. It also provides project team leadership, mentoring, and training, including teaching standard operating procedures and supporting employees’ career and educational development. The role requires close collaboration with the project team, including Superintendents, Estimators, and the Scheduling team, as well as with Owners, subcontractors, vendors, and other project stakeholders. Work takes place in an office environment and includes walking on the job site.

Requirements

Associate degree in an applicable discipline.
At least 10 years of experience relative to the project’s size and scope.
Excellent business judgment, demonstrated by achieving profitability objectives and strong project close-outs while maintaining good 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.
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 the ability to take confident, decisive action.
Team leadership, diplomatic and communication skills, and ability to handle and resolve conflicts in a firm-but-fair manner.
Adherence to Suffolk’s Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

Responsibilities

Produce detailed Cost-to-Complete forecasts, identify potential exposures, track field directive and back-charge costs, analyze line-item exposures, and follow the forecasting calendar.
Coordinate use of Oracle with Expedition to identify budget exposures and teach standard operating procedures for budget updates.
Manage proposed and owner change orders, provide status reports to the Owner, process change requests for allowance overruns, track field directives and back charges, and recover legitimate general contractor costs related to Owner changes.
Establish and implement an early project close-out plan; collect, review, and package close-out documents; use noncompliance reporting, work lists, and the Completion-Compliance-Quality process; and teach close-out procedures.
Manage Owner and subcontractor requisitions, establish an effective Schedule of Values, obtain timely Owner approval, support timely payment collection and subcontractor payment, and review hold reports and deficiencies.
Manage project cash flow, review subcontractor schedules of values and requisitions, maintain an Owner cash model, and produce accurate percent-complete projections.
Establish a project meeting cadence, follow standard procedures for focused meetings, and manage meetings using agendas and time limits.
Ensure the project team maintains project logs and periodically review them for accuracy, exposures, and issues through monthly focus meetings.
Build firm-but-fair relationships with subcontractors, promote organization and professionalism, and address nonperformance promptly to protect the project from delays and impacts.
Work with the project team to develop clear and accurate scopes of work, administer an organized purchasing process, and meet buy-out and procurement schedules.
Lead schedule development with the Superintendent, manage schedule updates and communications to the Owner, monitor impacts and critical path items, address subcontractor schedule impacts, and support schedule narratives with the Scheduling team.
Manage buy-out and risk processes, including timely workflow, contracts, bonds, and insurance; issue notices; secure CCD authorizations before changes proceed; act on subcontractor nonperformance; complete submittal and coordination processes within 180 days; and teach risk management practices.
Establish a trusting, professional Owner relationship, keep the Owner informed, and work to secure a strong Owner recommendation for SCCI.
Lead implementation of the Quality Management Program, First Delivery and Quality Benchmark Inspections, nonconformance reporting, and mock-ups.
Foster teamwork and synergy, model work ethic and 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.