On-Site Federal Construction Manager

North Wind Group; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Medical, dental, and life insurance

Mentorship program

Education and certifications

Health & wellness program

Employee service awards

Job summary

LBYD Federal is seeking a Construction Manager to provide on-site project and construction-management support to USACE projects across multiple locations. The role covers initiation through design, acquisition, construction, turnover, and closeout with emphasis on schedules, logs, and coordination with government representatives and contractors.

The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree, 6+ years in construction management, and strong skills in scheduling, coordination, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CM, engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 6 years of construction management or scheduling experience.
• Experience reviewing drawings, submittals, RFIs, schedules, estimates, changes, and closeout documents.
• Strong leadership, organizational, negotiation, and communication skills.

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 accelerate 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

Leadership

Organization

Negotiation

Technical writing

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in construction management or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

CPM scheduling

Bluebeam

BIM

Job description

LBYD Federal is seeking a Construction Manager to provide on-site project and construction-management support to USACE projects across multiple locations. The role covers initiation through design, acquisition, construction, turnover, and closeout with emphasis on schedules, logs, and coordination with government representatives and contractors.

The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree, 6+ years in construction management, and strong skills in scheduling, coordination, and