Construction Manager - Dragados : Job Details

Principal/Essential Duties & Responsibilities

* Coordinate with professional staff responsible for project construction.

* Manage all field operations and work sequence in conjunction with the Project Manager

* Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget

* Assist subordinate supervisors in maintaining production on budget and schedule

* Review project estimate or plan to determine schedule, estimated job cost, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project

* Understand project documents ie: completeness or inadequacies.

* Anticipate project needs with sufficient lead-time to avoid delay of production

* Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of project, work closely with Human Resources in recruitment efforts as necessary

* Oversees coordination with project staff to outline work plans, assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority

* Review status and modify schedules or plans as required and prepares project reports for management, owners, and subcontractors

* Follow-up on directives to be continuously on the alert for situations that are not progressing productively and for opportunities to improve project performance

* Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems

* Work closely with Company employees, project supervisors, owners, external teams and support people to get commitments regarding PM's managerial and supervisory requests

* Provide positive safety leadership to the project

* Review field operation and ensure that the project provides a safe workplace

* Coordinate the preparation and updating of the formal project construction schedule as required by the contract documents

* Coordinate resource use with project superintendent; for example, craft assignment, crew sizes and project layout for offices, traffic flow, and material storage

* Responsible for claims documentation

* Coordinate material purchases, assure that subcontractor agreements are prepared and change orders are

* accurate and issued to owners, subcontractors and suppliers

* Develop, maintain business relationships and manage subcontractor, client/owner, engineers, JV partner(s) and unions if applicable

* Maintain relationships with contracting and regulatory agencies & executive management

* Participate in project presentations to elected officials, general public and other stake holders

* Responsible for project closeout. Secure loose ends by finishing paperwork, obtaining retainages, supporting supervisors and expediting claims

* Debriefing of project to review all positive and negative aspects after completion

* Able to confidently negotiate any & all matters on behalf of the Company as they relate to cost, schedule & contract matters with Owner/Sub suppliers

Qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree in a related field from an accredited four-year college or university, Civil Engineering or Construction Management preferred

* Five (5) to ten (10) years of related experience; construction and management experienced required

* At least 2-4 Roadway projects with the DOT. High traffic arterial projects will be value

Preferred

* Professional Engineer License valued

* Federal, state and local knowledge and experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities, Competencies

* Knowledge and experience with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

* Knowledge with Primavera P6 Scheduling Software is a plus

* Knowledge of the DOT Standard Specifications

* Communication - excellent oral presentation and written skills

* Goal oriented - able to set goals and achieve them

* Interpersonal - able to work well and persuade people at all organization levels

* Organizational ability - able to plan, prioritize, organize and monitor activities and projects. Able to work well in a group environment and foster a team approach