About Us: CDG Maui Inc. is a leading custom home builder specializing in high-end residential construction projects across the island of Maui. With multiple homes under construction at any given time, we are looking for a proactive and experienced Senior Project Manager who can lead and develop our project teams, drive progress, and uphold our standards of quality and efficiency. As a team, we value clear communication, quality craftsmanship, and building long-term relationships with our team and clients.
About the Role: This is a working leadership position for someone who combines strong construction knowledge with the ability to coach people, create accountability, and help multiple projects move forward successfully. You will serve as a key connection between Project Management, Field Operations, Accounting, and executive leadership. The goal is not to personally solve every problem, but to build a strong project team that identifies issues early, takes ownership, communicates clearly, and consistently delivers successful projects.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop Project Managers, Project Engineers, and project leads.
- Hold regular one-on-one meetings focused on priorities, performance, coaching, and development.
- Establish and maintain consistent project-management standards across projects, including budgeting, forecasting, client communication, project meetings, documentation, procurement oversight, and closeout.
- Set clear expectations and hold team members accountable for commitments and results.
- Identify performance, communication, or capacity issues early and address them constructively.
- Delegate effectively and develop team members to solve problems independently rather than relying on senior leadership to take over.
Project Oversight
- Provide senior-level oversight across multiple high-end residential construction projects from preconstruction through closeout.
- Review project schedules, budgets, forecasts, contracts, procurement needs, change orders, and project risks.
- Coach project teams through owner, subcontractor, schedule, budget, and communication challenges.
- Partner closely with Field Operations and Superintendents to align project planning with field execution.
- Work with Accounting to maintain accurate job costing, forecasting, billing, committed-cost tracking, and financial reporting.
- Identify significant project risks early and provide executive leadership with clear information and recommended solutions.
- Step directly into projects when necessary while continuing to develop and maintain accountability with the assigned project team.
Estimating & Preconstruction
- Lead and oversee estimating and preconstruction activities for new opportunities.
- Review plans, scopes, takeoffs, subcontractor proposals, budgets, and bid assumptions.
- Improve the accuracy, consistency, and documentation of estimates.
- Coordinate with architects, engineers, Field Operations, Accounting, and Project Management during preconstruction.
- Lead constructability reviews, value-engineering discussions, and project handoffs.
- Ensure estimates transition into clear, executable construction budgets.
- Build and maintain historical cost information and estimating standards to improve future pricing and planning.
Business Development & Client Relationships
- Participate in meetings with prospective clients, architects, designers, and owner representatives.
- Build trust and clearly communicate CDG Maui’s capabilities, construction approach, and value.
- Help evaluate potential projects based on scope, budget, schedule, risk, profitability, and organizational fit.
- Present estimates, construction approaches, schedules, and value-engineering options professionally.
- Support qualified opportunities through preconstruction and help convert them into profitable construction agreements.
- Build relationships that contribute to repeat business and referrals.
- 8+ years of construction project management, estimating, or preconstruction experience, preferably with increasing leadership responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience leading, supervising, or mentoring Project Managers, Project Engineers, or similar construction professionals.
- Strong understanding of construction contracts, plans, specifications, schedules, budgets, change orders, procurement, and job costing.
- Strong estimating and preconstruction experience, including takeoffs, subcontractor bid analysis, budgeting, and scope development.
- Ability to oversee multiple projects and evaluate both operational and financial performance.
- Experience with high-end custom residential construction strongly preferred.
- Strong judgment and the ability to coach others through complex decisions rather than simply taking over.
- Proactive approach with strong follow-through and the ability to identify issues before they impact a project.
- Clear, direct, and respectful communication style.
- Comfortable holding people accountable while maintaining positive working relationships.
- Proficiency with construction-management and estimating technology; Buildertrend experience is a plus.
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Relocation assistance
- Vision insurance
Full-Time
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