Project Manager

Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU) - Australia Chapter; Merritt Island (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Building Blocks Facades, a vertically integrated facade company, seeks a seasoned Project Manager/Engineer with 5–10+ years of experience in facade systems. You will own project budgets, submittals, RFIs, and change orders while coordinating design, fabrication, and installation across sites.

You will lead scheduling, procurement planning, and logistics to protect schedule and margin, coordinating with clients and general contractors throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Five to Ten+ years of project management or project engineering experience with a facade, curtain wall, glazing, architectural precast, or specialty cladding subcontractor or fabricator.
• Demonstrated ownership of a project budget, including cost forecasting and margin performance.
• Hands-on experience running submittals, shop drawings, RFIs, and change orders on commercial projects.
• Working knowledge of fabrication lead times, material procurement, and delivery sequencing.
• Ability to read and interpret architectural and structural drawings, specifications, and subcontract terms.

Responsibilities

• Own project economics: live cost-to-complete forecast and monthly margin reporting.
• Manage change orders by documenting, pricing, and submitting before work begins; maintain logs.
• Plan and track schedule across engineering, procurement, fabrication, shipping, and installation.
• Coordinate design/submittals with design and engineering teams to match fabrication capabilities.
• Oversee manufacturing, procurement, and logistics; monitor lead times and delivery sequencing.
• Partner with field leadership on installation planning, productivity, and quality control.
• Manage client and GC communications with published agendas and minutes.

Skills

Project management

Budget ownership

Submittals

Shop drawings

Change orders

Procurement planning

Scheduling

Read drawings

Drawing markup tools

Education

Construction management / Engineering / Architecture degree

Tools

Construction PM software

Scheduling software

Drawing markup tools

Job description

About Building Blocks Facades

Building Blocks Facades is a vertically integrated facade company. We design, engineer, manufacture, and install complex GFRC, UHPC, and specialty facade systems for commercial construction projects that most contractors will not take on.

About Building Blocks Facades

Building Blocks Facades is a vertically integrated facade company. We design, engineer, manufacture, and install complex GFRC, UHPC, and specialty facade systems for commercial construction projects that most contractors will not take on.

Vertical integration is the point. Because we control design coordination, fabrication, logistics, and field installation under one roof, we can protect architectural intent while giving clients cost, schedule, and quality certainty that a fragmented supply chain cannot. It also means our project managers see the whole system rather than one slice of it.

What You Will Own

Project Economics

• The budget on your projects from award through closeout, with a live cost-to-complete forecast rather than a backward-looking report.
• A monthly cost and margin report you produce yourself, with variance explanations and corrective actions.
• Project cash: billing accuracy, timely pay applications, lien and retainage tracking.
• Committed cost control. No work performed and no material released against an unapproved commitment.

Change Management

• Identifying changed and added scope as it emerges, from drawing revisions, RFI responses, field direction, and delays caused by others.
• Documenting, pricing, and submitting change orders before the work is performed. This is the standard here, not an aspiration.
• A clean, current change order log with nothing aged or forgotten.
• Preserving schedule entitlement alongside cost entitlement. Time is as recoverable as money and is lost more often.

Schedule

• A project schedule that treats engineering, procurement, fabrication, shipping, and installation as one integrated sequence.
• The submittal and shop drawing schedule. Late approvals are the most preventable cause of fabrication and field delay.
• Planning backward from installation dates through plant capacity and material lead times, so you always know the drop‑dead release date for every scope package.
• Flagging variance the week it appears and issuing a recovery plan with owners and dates.

Design and Submittal Coordination

• Driving RFIs and submittals to closure and escalating external delay with documented impact.
• Working with our design and engineering teams so approved shop drawings match what the plant can build and the field can install.
• Confirming field verification and dimensional control before scope is released to fabrication.

Manufacturing, Procurement, and Logistics

• Interfacing with our plant on production sequencing, release timing, and capacity across projects.
• Working with supply chain on buyout, long‑lead procurement, vendor performance, and staging.
• Owning delivery sequencing to site, including load planning against installation sequence, staging space, and site access.

Field Execution and Quality

• Partnering with field leadership on installation planning, crew sequencing, and productivity tracking.
• Tracking installed quantities against budgeted labor while there is still time to correct a variance.
• Punch list closure and closeout: as‑builts, warranties, O&M documentation, final billing, retainage release.

Client and General Contractor Relationships

• Serving as the day‑to‑day point of contact for the general contractor, client, and design team.
• Running project meetings with a published agenda, documented decisions, and issued minutes.
• Communicating problems early and with a plan. We protect relationships by being reliable, not by being agreeable.

Required

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Five to Ten+ years of project management or project engineering experience with a facade, curtain wall, glazing, architectural precast, or specialty cladding subcontractor or fabricator.
• Demonstrated ownership of a project budget, including cost forecasting and margin performance. You should be able to tell us what a project of yours sold at and what it delivered at.
• Hands‑on experience running submittals, shop drawings, RFIs, and change orders on commercial projects.
• Working knowledge of fabrication lead times, material procurement, and delivery sequencing.
• Ability to read and interpret architectural and structural drawings, specifications, and subcontract terms.
• Proficiency with construction project management software, scheduling software, and drawing markup tools.

Preferred

• Experience with GFRC, UHPC, or architectural concrete facade systems.
• Experience at a company that controlled both fabrication and installation.
• Exposure to design assist or delegated design delivery.
• A construction management, engineering, or architecture degree, or an equivalent delivery record.

Who This Role Is Not For

• If your experience is administering projects under someone else’s budget, this is a step you are not ready for. We need someone who has carried the number.
• If you have only worked general contractor side and have never dealt with fabrication lead times, plant capacity, or subcontractor margin, the learning curve here is steeper than it looks.
• If you have gotten comfortable performing changed work on verbal direction to keep a relationship smooth, you will find our standard uncomfortable.
• If you prefer to report problems rather than close them, this is not the environment. We expect the recovery plan to arrive with the bad news.
• If you want to stay in an office, note that this role is regularly on job sites and in the plant.

Compensation And Benefits

We offer a competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus a performance incentive tied to project outcomes: delivered margin, milestone reliability, and commercial performance. Compensation is discussed openly early in the process so neither side wastes time.

Building Blocks Facades is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected characteristic.

Note to Recruitment Agencies

We love your enthusiasm, but we prefer to connect with our candidates directly. Building Blocks is not partnering with external agencies for this search, so please save the outreach, we’ve got this one covered. Any resumes submitted without a signed agreement in place will become the property of Building Blocks and no fees will be paid.