Director - Project Management

The Haskell Company; Jacksonville (FL); In loco; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

The Haskell Company is seeking a Director of Project Management to lead a large team across complex projects valued well over $500M. The role demands an advanced proficiency in project leadership and cross-functional coordination with emphasis on risk and profitability.

Preferred candidates hold a bachelor’s degree and 15+ years in construction, design, or management, with strong skills in budgeting, scheduling, procurement, and staffing. This on-site role requires travel as needed.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; 15+ years of experience in construction, design, or management.
• Expertise in managing budgets, schedules, and materials.
• Ability to travel per project requirements.

Mansioni

• Project Team Leadership: Sets the vision for the project and integrates project with business objectives.
• Personnel Development: Coaches team members and mentors staff for short- and long-term benefits.
• Project Development: Responds to RFPs, assists with estimates and schedules, supports client presentations.
• Design Coordination: Participates in design reviews and monitors constructability, scope and cost.
• Estimating: Ensures detailed estimates aligned with prime contract.
• Procurement and Commitments: Establishes procurement strategy and risk controls.
• Staffing: Organizes project team structure and resource allocation.
• Scheduling: Develops and maintains project schedules for large teams.
• Financial Management: Manages budgets, costs, and profitability.
• Document Control: Maintains project management documentation controls.
• Client Relations: Manages meetings, reports, change orders, and client inquiries.
• Scope and Change Management: Ensures proper change notices and documentation.
• Subcontractor/Vendor Management: Oversees prequalification and performance.
• Field Management, Safety, and Quality: Monitors progress, quality, and safety.
• Prime Contract Management: Ensures contract obligations are met.
• Risk Management: Identifies risks and negotiates changes with subcontractors.
• Project Communications: Establishes and uses project communication plans.
• Travel as required.
• Other duties as needed.
• Supervises others.

Conoscenze

Project leadership

Budget management

Scheduling

Risk management

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/ construction management/ architecture

Descrizione del lavoro

At Haskell, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a nationally recognized Top Workplace where diverse perspectives and inclusive thinking drive stronger outcomes. Whether you’re starting out, growing your expertise, or leading the way, you’ll find a culture grounded in trust, driven by excellence, and built to support your goals. Here, you’ll have the opportunity, flexibility, and sense of belonging to grow your career your way—while making a real impact.

Scope of Position

Responsible for leading and directing a large team of construction management and field leadership professionals and has a proven record of successful projects including management of large, complex projects, or those over $500M. The Director of Project Management has an advanced level of proficiency with all project management competencies specifically project team leadership. The Director of Project Management is highly adaptable and provides positive influence on project execution and strategies regarding large-scale project risks.

Job Responsibilities

• Project Team Leadership: Sets the vision for the project and integrates project with business objectives. Balances scope, quality, time, and cost. Provides daily leadership to the project team and helps execute the plan, solves problems and removes roadblocks. Maintains a healthy project team culture focused on the Haskell core values of TEST. Divides, delegates, and supervises the execution of all project management tasks.
• Personnel Development: Assesses team members' abilities for the role they are in and trains and coaches team members on gaps for short-term tasks needed to benefit the project and long-term benefits to employees and the organization. Ensures development of construction personnel through mentoring and on-the-job training; to include performance management. Sets clear expectations for each team member and defines their role.
• Project Development: Partners with Project Executives/Directors or Market Leaders in responding to RFP's including assisting with the preparation of conceptual estimates, schedules and other proposal documents. Participates in client presentations if required. Works with the Project Executive/Director to set up the project management team's organizational chart.
• Design Coordination: Participates in design review meetings and provides input regarding constructability, as well as scope and cost changes. Monitors the progress of design documents and design budget.
• Estimating: Ensures estimates are completed with proper level of detail and in accordance with prime contract.
• Procurement and Commitments: Responsible for establishing the procurement strategy, ensuring alignment with prime contract terms and conditions, and minimizing risk to Haskell.
• Staffing: Works with Director of Construction and Construction Core personnel to establish job organization including superintendent and PCE requirements. Has extensive knowledge of Haskell resources and services and ability to quickly pull from across the organization to execute at our best as well as effectively solve problems.
• Scheduling: Ensures there is a plan and schedule in place to complete the work, in compliance with the prime contract. Works with superintendent and project management team to ensure progress. Owns extensive knowledge of large-scale project scheduling and ability to improve the historical challenges of managing, maintaining, reporting with large teams and many owner stakeholders. Develops a resource utilization timeline/schedule for the Senior PM's, PM's and APM's to coordinate when management resources are needed.
• Financial Management: Responsible for ensuring project financial requirements are completed. Establishes the procedure for general conditions related charges and where they are charged. Monitors the general conditions costs and tracks the labor and non-labor resources. Responsible to understand the expected project fee and to ensure the project budget is managed correctly to ensure profitability. Ensures proper accounting procedures are met for possible audit compliance.
• Document Control: Ensures adequate document control processes are in place for all required project management controls.
• Client Relations: Effectively manages client relations, including progress meetings, correspondence, periodic reports, change orders and response to client inquiries and directives. Reinforces the alignment of Haskell and client expectations regarding project delivery and success.
• Scope and Change Management: Ensures proper notice to client and monitors document changes. Ensures proper change management both upstream and downstream is completed.
• Subcontractor/Vendor Management: Ensures proper prequalification of key subcontractors and/or large and/or complicated. For large and/or complicated scopes of work, communicates performance requirements of the work and manages subcontractor and supplier performance issues.
• Field Management, Safety, and Quality: Reviews and monitors project progress, quality and safety.
• Prime Contract Management: Understands prime contract requirements and terms and conditions within subcontract agreements. Assists in negotiating prime contracts and responsible for ensuring that the project meets the prime contract obligations.
• Risk Management: Identifies, assesses and evaluates risks to the project. Anticipates potential changes/risks associated with commitments and takes action to mitigate or accept the risk. Negotiates large-value or complicated commitment changes with subcontractors/vendors.
• Project Communications: Establishes and confirms utilization of the project communication plan. Ensures project roles and responsibilities are established and maintained, adjusting as needed.
• Travel as required.
• Other duties which may be assigned as needed.
• Supervises others.

Education & Years of Experience

Bachelor’s degree preferred. Preferred field of study in engineering, construction management, architecture. or related field. Minimum 15 years of experience in construction, design, or management.

Qualifications

• Expertise in managing resources, including budgets, schedules and materials in an environment of multiple, competing demands
• Knowledge of estimating, construction methods, engineering, equipment and technology
• Excellent understanding of safety procedures
• Excellent organizational, supervisory, communication, collaboration and analytical skills
• Ability to travel per project requirements

Foundational Competencies

• Strategy - Planning for the Future: Developing talent, organizational alignment, strategic networking, and strategic thinking.
• Delivery - Achieving Results: Analytical thinking, problem solving and decision making, results driven, flexible thinking, managing resources, teamwork, and team leadership.
• Interpersonal - Building Relationships: Customer focus, influencing, negotiating, organizational knowledge, communication and presence, and diversity and inclusion.

Values

• Team: Collaborate and demonstrate respect for team members, partners and everyone with whom we do business; ensure open communication.
• Excellence: Strive for quality and safety; execute best in class work; creative and innovative; dedicated to continuous improvement.
• Service: Passionate about customer service to internal and external clients as well as to the community; creates superior value.
• Trust: High standards of ethics and personal accountability; transparency; credibility; fairness.

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, team members may be required to visit alternate locations and therefore must have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to do so. This position requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds. Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand, and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application/form information. The team member is frequently required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.

Haskell will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and marginal job functions are subject to modification.

Haskell is a Drug-Free Workplace, and an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.