Senior Project Manager - Advanced Manufacturing

Suffolk Construction • Boston, MA

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About The Position

The Senior Project Manager - Advanced Manufacturing 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 overall team progress against the project plan.

The Senior Project Manager leads project budgeting and forecasting, change order management, closeout, requisitions, cash flow, meetings, contract logs, subcontractor relationships, purchasing, scheduling, and risk management. The role also maintains strong Owner relationships, leads quality management and project teams, and mentors and trains team members. The position requires sound financial and business judgment, strong organizational and communication skills, and the ability to manage complex priorities and adapt to change.

The employee works in an office environment and walks job sites. Office conditions are described as having quiet to moderate noise levels.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an applicable discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience within Advanced Manufacturing, relative to project size and scope.
• Excellent business judgment, demonstrated by achieving profitability objectives and strong project closeouts 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 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 and adapt to new processes and approaches.
• Strong sense of urgency and initiative, with the ability to quickly study 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 handle and resolve conflicts effectively in a firm-but-fair manner.
• Possess Suffolk’s Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

Responsibilities

• Prepare detailed Cost-to-Complete forecasts, identify potential exposures, track field directive and back-charge costs, analyze line-item exposures, complete forecasts on schedule, and teach budget-update procedures.
• Manage change orders by tracking proposed changes in Expedition, providing the Owner with status reports, preparing monthly Owner Change Orders, recovering legitimate general-contractor costs, tracking allowances, and processing change requests, field directives, and back charges.
• Establish and implement an early project closeout plan; collect and review closeout documents; use noncompliance reporting, work lists, and the Completion-Compliance-Quality process; and teach closeout procedures to others.
• Oversee Owner and subcontractor requisitions, establish an effective Schedule of Values, ensure timely Owner approval and payment collection, facilitate payments to subcontractors and vendors, and review hold reports.
• Manage project cash flow; review subcontractor schedules of values and requisitions; prevent payment of unsigned or unfunded change orders; and maintain the Owner cash model and percent-complete projections.
• Establish a project meeting cadence, follow standard procedures for focused meetings, and manage meetings with agendas and time limits.
• Ensure project logs are assembled and maintained, periodically review them for accuracy, and hold monthly focus meetings to identify exposures and issues.
• Build firm-but-fair relationships with subcontractors, promote professionalism, and address nonperformance promptly to protect the project from delays and impacts.
• Work with the project team, superintendents, and estimators to develop accurate scopes of work and administer a purchasing process that supports timely buyout and procurement.
• Lead schedule development with the Superintendent, manage schedule updates and reporting, track events and impacts, focus the team on critical-path matters, address subcontractor schedule impacts, and support buyout and procurement scheduling and monthly schedule narratives.
• Manage project risks through timely buyout, contract execution, bonds and insurance, notices to the Owner and subcontractors, CCD authorizations, prompt response to subcontractor nonperformance, timely submittal and coordination, and risk-management training.
• Establish a trusting, professional relationship with the Owner and keep the Owner informed of important matters.
• Lead use of the Quality Management Program, First Delivery and Quality Benchmark Inspections, nonconformance reporting, and mock-ups.
• Promote teamwork and establish team work-ethic expectations; organize team events and training; and address personal conflicts promptly.
• Oversee team members' career and educational development and reinforce adherence to standard operating procedures through active teaching.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• Auto allowances and gas cards for certain roles.
• Medical and emotional and mental health benefits.
• Dental and vision insurance plans.
• Virtual care options for physical therapy and primary care.
• Generous paid time off.
• 401(k) plan with employer match and access to expert financial resources.
• Company-paid and voluntary life insurance.
• Tax-deferred savings accounts.
• 10 backup daycare days each year.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Commuter benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior