Concrete Project Manager

Christman Southeast Constructors; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Christman Southeast Constructors is seeking a Concrete Project Manager in the Knoxville, TN region. The role requires a BS in civil engineering or construction management or equivalent experience, with 5+ years in civil, concrete, or general contracting.

You will forecast costs, manage budgets, schedules, and safety, coordinate with estimators and field leadership, and ensure timely payments and documentation across projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, construction management, and other relevant coursework, or years of related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Forecast project cost to completion and project gross profit for monthly close.
• Develop and manage project budgets, SOVs, and owner invoices to ensure timely payments.
• Coordinate with estimating for take‑offs, bids, proposals, and pricing.
• Ensure safety goals and implement safe work practices on assigned projects.
• Develop schedules, manage changes, and coordinate subcontractors and vendors.
• Prepare project correspondence documenting risk, delays, claims, and safety hazards.

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or construction management

Job description

Build More with Your Career at Christman Southeast Constructors

With projects throughout the mid-Atlantic, Christman Southeast Constructors (CSEC) is a great place to begin, continue or grow your career. We're searching for the next generation of innovative minds who want to shape the world and live to build. CSEC is looking for a Concrete Project Manager in our Knoxville, Tennessee region who is experienced in civil, concrete, or general contracting for construction projects.

What You Will Do:

As Concrete Project Manager, your primary daily responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Ensure that safety goals are achieved for responsible projects and identify safe work practices and areas for improvement


• Provide professional conduct on behalf of Christman Southeast Constructors


• Forecast project cost to completion, and project gross profit for each monthly close


• Coordinate directly with Chief of Civil/Concrete Estimating for estimate and bid support including take‑off, estimates, proposals and pricing


• Communicate project goals with field leadership and coordinate planning effort


• Project planning including conceiving of civil and concrete means/methods, schedules, change order time and costs, as well as coordinate subcontractors


• Determine subcontractor/vendor buyout, commitments and scope execution


• Develop project budgets based on current estimates and proposals


• Vendor and subcontractor invoice approval


• Develop Schedule of Values (SOV), Owner invoices and ensure timely Owner payments


• Estimate and quote extra work and document changes, ensure extras are loaded into Viewpoint/logs and track/act on Owner contract changes


• Ensure that project controls such as safety forms, work plans, submittals, RFI's, logs and documents are organized, submitted, closed and complete


• Work with project team to develop project and look‑ahead schedules. Provide periodic review of schedules to ensure milestone dates are met and schedule delays are documented


• Draft and submit project correspondence in order to document risk‑related issues such as delays, claims, extra work and safety hazards

What You Will Bring to the Team:

Required experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, construction management, and other relevant course work, or years of work experience in related job field.


• Five (5+) or more years' of relevant work experience or proven established work history for the position.

Why Christman?

At Christman, everyone is an owner. Through our employee stock ownership plan, each employee-owner shares in the collective success and wealth of our nationally recognized company and is eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance, 401K contribution, professional development and tuition reimbursement, and more.

CSEC is a premier full-service construction contractor with a tradition of excellence spanning more than a century and more than 75 years of regional experience. We are passionate about constructing facilities that drive our economy, improve our public infrastructure, and create the spaces that enable our clients to do what they do best.

With offices in Knoxville, Tennessee and Greensboro and Raleigh, North Carolina, CSEC specializes in:

• Carpentry & General Trades


• Mass Timber


• General Contracting

Learn more about how you can grow as a Christman Expert, Leader and Partner and build more with us.

The Christman family of companies is an Affirmitive Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.As part of our company policy, this position requires successful completion of pre‑employment screening, including but not limited to drug and background screening.