Remote Construction Project Manager-West Coast

The Project Manager is the leader in quality of construction and operational excellence and is responsible for all aspects of job construction, including planning, scheduling, coordinating, managing, adjusting, and closing out the installation of our contractually agreed upon scope of work.

Core Functions:

• General
  • Own quality of construction and operational excellence
  • Gather and communicate customer and erector feedback to all departments
  • Implement quality control programs
  • Archive / File all documents in Job Books
  • Evaluate and approve minor customer concessions
  • Provide proper documents for credit card transactions
  • Other duties as assigned
• Lead to Order
  • Internally update and communicate lead times (structural steel, standard materials, specialty materials, erectors)
  • Confirm Construction Schedules embedded in customer contracts
• Order to Shop Drawing
  • Obtain Fabricator Structural Shop Drawings
  • Obtain Specialty Material Shop Drawings
  • Confirm necessary permits and licenses
  • Study job specifications to determine appropriate construction methods
• Shop Drawing to Construction Close
  • Project Management / Oversight (ES Project Plan)
  • Review contract deliverables and requirements
  • Deliver contract submittals
  • Schedule the project in logical steps and budget the time required to meet deadlines
  • Confirm ES project plan with the customer
  • Track progress and cost, Document projects with significant changes to the initial ES project plan
  • Inspect and review projects to monitor compliance with contractual obligations, building and safety codes, and other regulations
  • Prepares project status reports and works to ensure plans adhere to contract specifications
  • Confer with supervisory personnel, owners, contractors, and design professionals to discuss and resolve matters such as work procedures, complaints, and construction problems.
  • Effective communication in conflict resolution (de-escalation, forward-looking)
  • Take actions to deal with the results of delays, bad weather, or emergencies at the construction site
  • Investigate damage, accidents, or delays at construction sites, to ensure that proper procedures are being carried out.
  • Prepare and negotiate revisions, changes, and additions to contractual agreements with customers
  • Draft formal response to customer complaints/notice of non-conformance or breach of contract
  • Confirm the percentage of completion for billing
  • Manage project close-out and punch lists
  • Provide warranty documents
• Labor
  • Plan Labor usage
  • Determine labor requirements and dispatch erectors to construction sites
  • Select, contract, and oversee erectors who complete specific pieces of the project
  • Manage safety requirements (manuals, meetings, responses)
  • Approve contracts, purchase orders, and back charges
  • Approve and manage field corrections
  • Inspect the quality of construction
  • Job-site training for new erectors
  • Resolve invoice disputes
• Materials
  • Prepare Cut List
  • Quote multiples vendors for pricing confirmation
  • Approve contracts, purchase orders, and back charges
  • Manage material delivery date
  • Qualify job site conditions
  • Inspect the quality of materials
  • Notification to owners of material delivery
  • Confirm receipt of materials (via erectors)
  • Resolve invoice disputes
• Construction Close to Warranty Service
  • Support Closed Job Performance Review
  • Evaluate and resolve warranty claims
  • Schedule warranty work
  • Approve purchase order
  • Inspect the quality of warranty repair

Duties, responsibilities, and activities are not limited to the list above and may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform core functions.

Key Measures of Success: 

• Improve the time available for each project
  • Increase the frequency of job site visits
  • Support on-the-job training of new project manager
  • Reduce out-of-sequence activities that cause delays in the construction schedule
• Become active in the job at the order confirmation
• Improve coordination with Engineering and Drafting department
  • Microsoft Access program design and use
  • Weekly status meetings
• Improve written and oral communications with customers
  • Contract review at the order confirmation
  • Improve SSI Project Plans and confirmation with the customer
  • De-escalations and back-charge claim responses/tracking
• Own It – Commitment to customer, the company, and each other
• Can Do – Pursuing continuous improvement
• Act in Love – Treating others with humility, respectfulness, kindness, honesty, patience, and self-control

Education & Experience: 

Minimum Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Building Sciences or Project Management.
• Experience may be accepted in lieu of education.
• Minimum of (5) years of experience in a general contractor or subcontractor construction company.
• Minimum of (5) years of experience in execution and oversight of construction projects and oversight of third-party erectors and vendors

Physical Demands & Work Environment: 

Work is performed in an office environment and routinely utilizes standard office equipment, including keyboards, computers, etc., and requires close visual insight to perform activities such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer, and extensive reading to perform the core functions listed in this job description. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies as well as communicate verbally. Work is primarily sedentary.

Work is also performed at the jobsite.  The noise level at the job sites can be loud and in a non-temperature-controlled environment. While performing the core function of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, stand, required to lift to 55 lbs, will be exposed to construction job site conditions including, unlevel ground, heavy machinery, and various other active construction activities. The employee is frequently required to walk, use hands and fingers to handle or feel, reach/pull/push/grab with hands and arms, kneel, and crouch, twist and bend. 

Travel:

• Heavy Travel Required