Construction Management Lead – Owner’s Representative (Pharmaceutical - Construction)

Cumming Group; New Site (AL); On-site; USD 115,700 - 161,966; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

401(k) Matching

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Disability Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Cumming Group is seeking an experienced Construction Manager to lead owner-side oversight across complex pharmaceutical facilities. You will coordinate EPC contractors, construction managers, and vendors to verify progress against schedules and drawings, ensuring safety and quality across multidisciplinary scopes.

With a background in GMP construction and experience in large-scale projects, you will drive commissioning readiness, turnover, and successful project outcomes for multi-building

Qualifications

• Experience in large-scale pharmaceutical/industrial construction projects.
• Familiarity with GMP documentation and commissioning.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary scopes and prime contractors.

Responsibilities

• Lead owner-side construction oversight across active work areas.
• Coordinate EPC contractors, construction managers, trade contractors, vendors, and equipment suppliers.
• Monitor field progress against the integrated schedule and construction sequence.
• Verify construction against drawings, specifications, contracts, quality requirements, and safety standards.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary scopes (civil, structural, architectural, process, mechanical, piping, HVAC, electrical, instrumentation, automation, and utilities).
• Identify scope gaps, conflicts, access constraints, and sequencing issues.
• Review look-ahead schedules, manpower, productivity, materials, work packages, and field constraints.
• Support constructability, modularization, prefabrication, work packaging, and site logistics.
• Track RFIs, submittals, field changes, nonconformance reports, and corrective actions.
• Verify contractor-reported progress.
• Monitor inspections, testing, quality records, and turnover documentation.
• Track turnover and pre-commissioning readiness.
• Coordinate turnover with CQV, Technical, Quality, Automation, and Operations.
• Review contractor recovery plans and corrective actions.
• Support tie-ins, energization, equipment setting, and startup.

Skills

Large-scale construction

Process buildings

Construction drawings

Coordination of scopes

Mechanical completion

Quality management

GMP construction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or Engineering

Job description

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 10 rankings in ENR. With over 60 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead owner-side construction oversight across active work areas.
• Coordinate EPC contractors, construction managers, trade contractors, vendors, and equipment suppliers.
• Monitor field progress against the integrated schedule and construction sequence.
• Verify construction against drawings, specifications, contracts, quality requirements, and safety standards.
• Coordinate civil, structural, architectural, process, mechanical, piping, HVAC, electrical, instrumentation, automation, and utility scopes.
• Identify scope gaps, work-front conflicts, access constraints, and sequencing issues.
• Review look-ahead schedules, manpower, productivity, material availability, work packages, and field constraints.
• Support constructability, modularization, prefabrication, work packaging, and site logistics.
• Track RFIs, submittals, field changes, nonconformance reports, and corrective actions.
• Verify contractor-reported progress.
• Monitor inspections, testing, quality records, and turnover documentation.
• Track mechanical completion, punch lists, system completion, turnover, and pre-commissioning readiness.
• Coordinate turnover with CQV, Technical, Quality, Automation, and Operations.
• Review contractor recovery plans and corrective actions.
• Support tie-ins, energization, equipment setting, utility startup, and other critical field activities.

Knowledge & Skills Required

• Large-scale pharmaceutical and industrial construction.
• Process buildings, central utilities, cleanrooms, laboratories, warehouses, tank farms, and infrastructure.
• Construction drawings, specifications, P&IDs, equipment layouts, schedules, and work packages.
• Coordination of multidisciplinary scopes and multiple prime contractors.
• Mechanical completion, turnover, commissioning, qualification, and startup.
• Construction quality management, nonconformance tracking, punch lists, and turnover documentation.
• Pharmaceutical GMP construction and documentation requirements.

Preferred Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years of construction-management or field-oversight experience.
• 5+ years in a Construction Manager, Construction Director, or Area Manager role.
• Greenfield pharmaceutical, biotechnology, API, biologics, or chemical manufacturing experience.
• Multi-building and multi-EPC program experience preferred.
• CCM or PMP preferred.

Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity in its personnel policies and practices. It is Cumming Group’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, marital status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender (including gender expression and gender identity), pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions, including breastfeeding), military service, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical disability, mental disability, veteran status or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. All such decisions are based on (1) individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and (2) promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.

All other terms and conditions of employment, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoff, return from layoff, training, education, and social and recreational programs, are administered without regard to the characteristics described above. To this end, Cumming Group complies with all provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, all of the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor, and all similar state and local laws.

The salary range for this full-time role is $115,700.00-$161,966.69 per year. Ranges are determined based on the position, geography, client and industry experience and level, and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range reflects base salary only, and not the total compensation package. Cumming Group reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on a candidate’s experience, skills, and qualifications, including client requirements.

In addition to base salary, Cumming Group offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• 401(k)
• 401(k) Matching
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Short and long-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program