Project Manager

John Burns; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

John Burns seeks an experienced Project Manager to ensure effective communication and coordination across projects. This role may supervise Assistant PMs, Project Engineers, Sub-Contractors and Suppliers, reporting to a Senior PM or Program Manager.

You will manage documentation, submittals, relationships, and financials, while maintaining current plan/specs, tracking labor units, and leading scheduling, safety and recruiting efforts within transit projects.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of project management experience on transit projects.
• Ability to read prints and produce accurate take-offs.
• Experience sourcing and learning labor units for work packages.
• Proficient in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint and scheduling tools like P6/HCSS.

Responsibilities

• Project Documentation – detail, measure and document per JBCC procedures.
• Submittals/Material Management – log submittals and push for approvals with urgency.
• Relationships – maintain collaborative relationships with customers, engineers, foremen and suppliers.
• Financial – track cost vs. budget and invoice for work completed.
• Plan/Specifications – ensure team has the latest plan/spec documents.
• Project Labor Units – track and update labor units for tasks.
• Schedule – develop and update baseline, 2/1 week and daily schedules and report progress.
• Safety – ensure Job Hazard Analysis is complete and site is safe to excavate.
• Integrity – resolve internal and external project issues promptly.
• Recruiting – participate in mentoring and recruiting for PM roles.

Skills

PM experience

Transit project experience

Print reading

Labor units

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

PPT

P6

HCSS

Job description

The Project Manager’s role is to ensure consistent departmental communication and coordinator. This role reports to a Senior PM or Program Manager. The person in this role may also be required to supervise Assistant Project Managers, Project Engineers, Sub-Contractors, and Suppliers.

We’re looking for you to do the following:

• Project Documentation – Follows JBCC procedures to detail, measure and document per project requirements
• Submittals/Material Management – Comply with all project submittal requirements. Accurate log and track submittal status and push for approval with sense of urgency.
• Relationships – Responsible to ensure collaborative team approach to all projects. This includes maintaining a positive relationship with all parties involved in the project: customer, resident engineer, foreman, construction manager, key suppliers, and key subcontractors.
• Financial – Track and accurately report real-time cost vs. budget information. Accurately forecast financial status. Invoice on time for 100% of work completed during pay period.
• Plan/Specifications – Study and understand plan/spec requirements for all assigned work. Ensure project team has and understands most recent documents.
• Project Labor Units – Understand and accurately track estimated labor units
• Schedule - Develop and update baseline, two week, one week and daily schedule to reflect accurate labor, material, equipment and subcontract time requirements and project constraints. Measure and report on schedule against actual progress and implement appropriate corrective actions as necessary.
• Safety - Job Hazard Analysis is complete and distributed prior to Preconstruction meeting and is onsite at all times. Ensure site is safe/legal to excavate.
• Integrity - expeditiously and reasonably resolve all internal team issues and conflicts, as well as, all external client concerns and issues.
• Recruiting - Actively Participate in identifying potential Project Managers, both internal and external, and get actively involved in the mentorship, recruiting and training of project management candidates, Project Engineers and Assistant Project Managers.

You Have:

• Experience – 3-6 Years of PM experience
• Experience - 3 Years of experience working on transit projects/jobs
• Print Reading -- ability to read prints and produce accurate take-offs
• Labor units – ability to source and learn labor units for assigned work
• Computer Skills – Proficient in MS Excel, Word, PPT, P6, HCSS

We Have:

• A team-based culture that rewards collaboration, problem solving and process improvement
• A commitment to your professional development
• Varied career path opportunities across the different disciplines in the company
• A new, robust enterprise resource planning software solution
• Great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401K with company contribution, profit sharing, long-term disability
• Team outings, and an opportunity to get involved and make a difference with various charities in the community