Position Overview
Our client is seeking an experienced Project Manager to oversee civil infrastructure projects involving underground utility installation and site development.
This individual will take ownership of assigned projects from initial planning through completion, coordinating field operations, subcontractors, suppliers, customers, and project stakeholders. The position requires someone who can effectively balance schedule, cost, quality, documentation, and day-to-day field requirements.
The successful candidate should have hands‑on project management experience within underground utility construction, civil construction, site development, or a closely related environment.
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead assigned construction projects through planning, execution, and final completion.
- Establish and monitor project schedules, milestones, priorities, and deliverables.
- Coordinate activities between field personnel, subcontractors, vendors, clients, inspectors, and other project stakeholders.
- Monitor project financial performance, labor requirements, material usage, and overall costs.
- Review project progress and identify potential schedule, cost, or operational issues.
- Develop practical solutions to field challenges and coordinate corrective actions.
- Manage project changes and maintain appropriate documentation for scope modifications.
- Track subcontractor and supplier activities to ensure work progresses according to project requirements.
- Maintain accurate project records, reports, schedules, and other construction documentation.
- Communicate project status, potential risks, and upcoming requirements to relevant stakeholders.
- Visit active job sites to evaluate progress and coordinate with field leadership.
- Work closely with construction crews to resolve issues and maintain project momentum.
- Coordinate inspections and address project requirements identified by inspectors or other authorities.
- Support project closeout, final documentation, and completion activities.
Technical Background
Candidates should have practical knowledge of underground civil infrastructure, particularly projects involving:
- Water distribution infrastructure
- Water main installation
- Sanitary sewer systems
- Stormwater infrastructure
- Storm drainage
- Underground utility installation
- Civil site development
- Excavation and underground construction
- Utility infrastructure projects
A strong understanding of construction sequencing and field operations is important for success in this position.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of project management experience in underground utilities, civil construction, sitework, or a comparable construction environment.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously.
- Experience coordinating subcontractors, vendors, field crews, and project stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of construction scheduling and project cost management.
- Experience handling project changes, documentation, and client requirements.
- Ability to interpret construction plans, specifications, schedules, and project scopes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Effective problem-solving and decision‑making abilities.
- Highly organized with strong follow‑through and accountability.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic construction environment and regularly interacting with field teams.
Project Management Focus
The Project Manager will be expected to maintain control over the major elements of project execution, including:
- Schedule and milestone management
- Project budgeting and cost monitoring
- Subcontractor coordination
- Vendor and material coordination
- Scope management
- Change management
- Field coordination
- Project documentation
- Client communication
- Inspection coordination
- Progress monitoring
- Issue resolution
- Project closeout
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a construction-focused project manager who understands how underground infrastructure projects are executed in the field.
You should be comfortable moving between project planning, financial tracking, stakeholder communication, and active job‑site coordination. Strong candidates will bring a combination of utility construction knowledge, project ownership, organizational discipline, and practical field problem‑solving ability.
This is an opportunity for a project professional who wants meaningful responsibility for project outcomes and the ability to contribute to the continued growth of a construction operation.