Job Opening: PMC Project Manager on Project Sammaan

SuSanA; Khordha, Cuttack; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Project Manager is responsible for the overall supervision of the facilities’ construction in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, Odisha, ensuring completion on time and within the allocated budget. You will be the on-ground representative coordinating with the PMC and government authorities.

Key duties include steering project teams, managing schedules and budgets, ensuring compliance with regulations, and maintaining clear documentation and stakeholder communications throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering and management.
• Approximately 15 years of practical experience.
• Excellent communication and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple sites and teams.
• Experience with government projects.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with government bodies for approvals.
• Coordinate with PMC to supervise construction.
• Set and manage project timelines, milestones.
• Identify risks and develop contingency plans.
• Ensure compliance with municipal regulations and designs.

Skills

Construction project management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Government project experience

Education

Engineering degree

Management degree

Job description

Job Purpose and Description

The Project Manager is responsible for the overall supervision of the facilities’ construction in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, Odisha. The underlying focus of the Project Manager should be ensuring that the individual facilities are completed within the allocated period of time and within the budget that has been assigned.

Responsibilities

• Liaising and Relationship Management
  • Represent Project Sammaan to the Government for all critical issues and approvals. Maintain an open channel of communication with all the concerned government personnel in order to diagnose where the project is stuck and liaise with them to ensure timely redressal and resolution.
  • Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
  • The Project Manager is expected to work closely with state and other municipal authorities to ensure all appropriate approvals are granted prior to commencement of construction.
• Project Management
  • A Project Management Consultancy (PMC) will be appointed to supervise the construction sites, do quality audits, provide engineering and technical expertise for site specific issues, prepare monitoring and completion reports and keep the construction schedule on track. The Project Manager is Quicksand’s representative on the ground and will be expected to direct and manage construction for the project through the appointed PMC.
  • Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.
  • Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
  • Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
  • Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
  • Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path, including resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
  • Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
  • Track project milestones and deliverables.
  • Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
  • Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
• Technical Oversight
  • Sound engineering practices
  • Municipal regulations and requirements
  • Client-dictated criteria
  • Sensitivity to costs
  • Construct-ability of the design
  • The Project Manager will be expected to have a detailed understanding of the field conditions and challenges faced by the Contractor(s). They must be able to convey specific elements of the design and overall project to the Contractor(s) throughout the construction phase.
• Communications and Documentation
  • Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents, and effectively communicate this to all team members and stakeholders. The important stakeholders during the construction phase will be - Quicksand (Delhi/Bangalore), Architects (Delhi), Sewage Technology Experts (Bangalore), Grassroot Community Engagement Firm (Bhubaneswar/Cuttack), PMC (Bhubaneswar/Cuttack) and the Municipal Corporations (Bhubaneswar/Cuttack).
  • Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
  • Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
  • Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
  • Oversee preparation and implementation of construction documents and to provide the client with a set of documents which will allow the successful bidding contractors to construct the project efficiently and with minimal changes.

Qualifications

This position requires a degree in engineering and management (ideally both but the lack of a management degree can be made up through years of relevant managerial experience). The ideal candidate will have approximately 15 years of practical experience. The applicant should have exceptional communication skills, exhibit great attention to detail, and be capable of managing multiple job sites and multiple team members simultaneously.

• Construction project management experience, along with experience working on government projects.
• Strong familiarity with technology tools for collaboration, analysis and reporting such as project management software, word processing, spreadsheet analysis, emails, internet tools etc.
• Demonstrated experience in personnel management.
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Reacts to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
• Flexible during times of change.
• Ability to read communication styles of team members and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments.
• Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating.
• Ability to defuse tension among project team, should it arise.
• Ability to bring project to successful completion through political sensitivity.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.

Location

The Project Sammaan field office is in Bhubaneswar, where 60 Community Toilets and 27 Public Toilets will be constructed; an additional 32 Community Toilets will be constructed in Cuttack (~25kms from Bhubaneswar). The Project Manager will be located full time in Bhubaneswar with occasional travel to Delhi as necessary.

Compensation

Salary will be commensurate with experience and is negotiable.

Contact

In case this resonates with you, please get in touch with us at [e-mail], with a portfolio of selected work and/or links to relevant online work, along with a thoughtful cover letter. Please mention Project Manager - Project Sammaan in the subject line of your application email. We look forward to hearing from you.