Federal Construction Manager: On‑Site Project Lead

North Wind Group; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Health insurance (medical)

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Health & wellness program

Job summary

North Wind Group is seeking a Construction Manager to provide on-site project and construction-management support to USACE projects. The selected candidate will manage facility and infrastructure projects from initiation through design, acquisition, construction, turnover, and closeout, maintaining schedules, logs, records, reports, and coordinated technical actions.

The role requires coordinating with management, engineers, inspectors, authorized Government representatives, facility users, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, business, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience.
• Minimum of six (6) years of progressively responsible experience in construction management, project management, engineering, scheduling, or federal facility delivery.
• Experience supporting multiple facility or infrastructure projects from design through construction and closeout.
• Knowledge of construction sequencing, quality control, cost control, schedule management, safety, commissioning, and project documentation.
• Strong leadership, organization, negotiation, technical-writing, presentation, and stakeholder-coordination skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and project-management, scheduling, collaboration, or document-control tools.

Responsibilities

• Support projects from requirement definition and design through acquisition, construction, turnover, and closeout.
• Maintain project, schedule, submittal, RFI, payment, change, action, risk, deficiency, and closeout logs.
• Coordinate predesign, design, preconstruction, progress, quality-control, schedule, and closeout meetings.
• Review scopes, drawings, specifications, cost estimates, schedules, acquisition packages, submittals, RFIs, and proposed changes.
• Evaluate contractor schedules for milestones, sequencing, critical-path logic, procurement, submittals, Government review periods, access constraints, testing, commissioning, turnover, and recovery actions.
• Use Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, CPM schedules, or other approved tools to analyze and report project status.
• Review reported progress, payment support, schedule updates, proposed changes, contractor cost information, and time impacts.
• Coordinate field issues, technical reviews, Government comments, decisions, and follow-up actions through authorized channels.
• Support constructability, phasing, outage, access, safety, commissioning, turnover, and mission-continuity planning.
• Coordinate construction-inspection activities and verify that potential deficiencies and corrective actions are documented and tracked.
• Review punch lists, record drawings, operation and maintenance manuals, warranties, training, testing records, and turnover packages.
• Prepare progress reports, forecasts, briefings, meeting minutes, decision records, risk assessments, and recommendations.
• Maintain accurate, complete, organized, and traceable project records.
• Identify and escalating issues requiring Government direction, additional scope, funding, schedule adjustment, or contract interpretation.
• Authorize contract changes, accept work for the Government, or direct contractor means and methods.

Skills

Construction management experience

Project management

Scheduling & CPM

Leadership & stakeholder coordination

MS Office & scheduling tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in CM/Engineering/Architecture/Business

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Bluebeam

BIM

Job description

North Wind Group is seeking a Construction Manager to provide on-site project and construction-management support to USACE projects. The selected candidate will manage facility and infrastructure projects from initiation through design, acquisition, construction, turnover, and closeout, maintaining schedules, logs, records, reports, and coordinated technical actions.

The role requires coordinating with management, engineers, inspectors, authorized Government representatives, facility users, and