Senior Project Manager, Data Centers

Liberty Companies•Boardman, OR

About The Position

Suffolk is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee project administration and delivery, including contractual requirements, trade partner agreements, purchase orders, risk management, work performance, quality, and progress against the project plan. The role leads project budgeting and forecasting, change orders, close-out, requisitions, cash management, meetings, contract logs, subcontractor relationships, purchasing, schedule management, risk management, owner relationships, quality management, and team development. The Senior Project Manager is expected to maintain strong project financial performance and professional relationships with owners and subcontractors while following Suffolk’s standard operating procedures and core values. The position works in an office environment with quiet to moderate noise and includes walking at the job site. While performing the job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods, talk or hear, and use fine motor skills with a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and reach with arms or hands. Specific vision abilities include close and distance vision, depth perception, and adjusting focus.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an applicable discipline.
At least 10 years of experience relevant to the project’s 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, including when data is incomplete or ambiguous.
Ability to multitask and manage competing business, organizational, and customer-relations priorities.
Judgment to determine when to escalate issues through the chain of command.
Ability to manage and embrace change, adapt to new processes, and reconsider existing 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 and communication skills, and the ability to resolve conflicts effectively in a firm-but-fair manner.
Possess Suffolk’s core values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

Responsibilities

Develop detailed cost-to-complete forecasts, identify potential exposures, and ensure timely budget updates in accordance with the forecasting calendar.
Use Oracle and Expedition to track costs, proposed changes, contract allowances, field directives, back charges, and change orders.
Manage owner and subcontractor change orders, provide current status reports, and pursue recovery of legitimate general contractor costs.
Establish and execute an effective project close-out plan, including collection and review of close-out documents, work-list management, compliance processes, and quality documentation.
Oversee owner and subcontractor requisitions, establish schedules of values, support timely payment collection, and review hold reports and payment requests.
Manage project cash flow, review schedules of values and requisitions, maintain the owner cash model, and provide accurate percent-complete projections.
Establish and manage effective project-team meetings using agendas, time limits, and Suffolk standard operating procedures.
Maintain and review project logs, including cash management, change management, noncompliance, buy-schedule, contracts, procurement, submittals, RFIs, safety, hold reports, construction schedule, and work lists.
Build firm-but-fair relationships with subcontractors and address nonperformance promptly to protect the project from delays and impacts.
Coordinate with the project team, superintendents, and estimators to develop clear scopes of work and administer an organized purchasing process and buy-out schedule.
Lead schedule development and updates with the Superintendent and Scheduling team; track impacts and changes, focus on critical-path matters, communicate monthly updates to the Owner, and address subcontractor schedule impacts.
Manage project risks, including buy-out, contract execution, bonds, insurance, notices, change authorizations, submittal coordination, and timely 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 reporting, and mock-ups.
Promote teamwork and professional standards, organize team events and training, and promptly address personal conflicts.
Oversee team members’ career and educational development and teach standard operating procedures and risk-management practices.