Construction Project Manager

As a construction project manager, you are accountable for the success of your projects. You will be responsible for assembling strong teams and accurate contractual agreements. You will likely be considered a leader within the project management department and work along side your peers in each department including, but not limited to; Project Management, Estimation, Scheduling, Site Management and Safety.

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You will build relationships and assemble consultation teams with architects, engineers and various sub contractors. You will likely be reporting into senior or even executive leadership at the company. Your soft skills are renowned and that's a good thing too, because you will be responsible for handling clients and accountable for most communications with clients.

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Demonstrating your ability to foster strong professional relationships both inside and outside the company will be critical in your position. You will likely have official delegates, and you will be evaluated on your ability to mentor them. Developing accurate contracts and empowering your direct reports to do likewise will be critical in your growth and future development within the company. 

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Rockstar candidates in this position are highly accountable, highly reliable individuals. Individuals with strong integrity and initiative excel in this role. Building professional relationships is essential in this position. They must be approachable, and confident in approaching others with very strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

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Your path to success lies in your ability to handle a myriad of challenges and navigate the complexities and politics regarding client interactions as well as consultant interactions. You will be counted on by the executive team to deliver reliable reporting and as such and you will need to paint clear and concise pictures of your projects progression.

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Key Considerations and Requirements

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• Candidate’s project history must be relevant to the current project history of the company. 
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• Candidate is adept at identifying risk, scope gaps, and applying mitigation in contractual agreements and in real time site visits.
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• Candidate will be required to demonstrate understanding of full scope and various construction contractual agreements.
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• Strong scheduling skills with the latest software and accurately sequence of work order / phases of construction. Versed in planning ahead and mitigate any impacts to critical path.
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• Understands and demonstrates the development of  risk registers and identifying scope gaps, critical paths and applying impact analysis on risky items and their risk mitigations.
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• Candidate is accurate with quantity take offs, estimating man power, materials, indirect costs, direct costs and premiums. Candidate is also versed in negotiations when required.
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• Candidate is accustomed to be a focal point of communications between internal and external stakeholders. Candidate demonstrates the capability to instigate action from individuals or departments when need be.
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• Candidate is experienced in handling trade meetings and ensuring that the trades and vendors understand the scope of work and agree to project execution. Candidate is versed in ensuring that all trades bid appropriately and on all details, including addenda in the contracts.
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• Candidate is versed in tracking project progression, milestones, budgets, cash flows, progress reports as well as keeping tabs on cost to completion and project profitability.
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• Candidate is can support the development of baseline budgets, creating work activities, assigning costs and managing budgets. Candidate applies practical experiences to develop realistic budgets.
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• Candidate is very experienced in reviewing construction drawings, marking up red flags on drawings and instigating action from architects, engineers (including whichever stakeholder are involved) to ensure contractual obligations are correct.
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• Candidate can identify value engineering activities including finding cost and time savings as well as work arounds on site conditions.
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• Candidate is versed in bid and tender activities including supporting / directing the estimation department in getting pricing and quotations from various trades, performing price / bid variance analysis and working with trades to sleuth out any anomalies in pricing (make sure all requirements are captured and pricing makes sense) as well as issuing letters of intent and tender packages.
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• Candidate is highly experienced with writing & issuing contracts.
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• Candidate is experienced with change management systems including assessing cost / budget impacts and justifying / defending or countering COs and CRs.
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• Candidate understands the politics of maintaining stable relationships while minimizing any delays or extra costs to the project.
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• Candidate has very strong English communication skills both written and verbal.
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• Candidate is able to interface directly with clients.
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• Candidate demonstrates the ability to foster relationships and mentors others.