Project Manager [Commercial Construction]

TEEL Construction, Inc.; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TEEL Construction, Inc. is seeking a driven Project Manager to join our team in Fairfax, VA. The role focuses on owning projects, coordinating with owners, subcontractors, and suppliers, and ensuring safety, quality, and profitability on commercial construction ventures.

You will manage contracts, budgets, schedules, and change orders while maintaining strong client relationships and delivering projects with minimal punch lists.

Qualifications

• Requires 12th grade with at least 10 years of construction experience, or a four-year degree in engineering, construction management, or business with 5+ years in construction and leadership.
• Oversees contract compliance, budget control, and coordination with Owner, subcontractors, and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Reads and ensures compliance with contracts and acts as the company’s authority on contracts.
• Attends Owner meetings and leads discussions to clarify major issues.
• Reviews subcontractor pay requisitions and ensures timely execution of subcontracts.
• Manages permits, bonds, and insurance and oversees payables and change orders.
• Maintains project schedules with the Superintendent and recovers any schedule delays.
• Maintains quality and safety standards and ensures customer satisfaction and long-term relationships.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organization

Problem solving

Construction knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Construction Management/Business

12th grade + 10 years construction experience

Tools

Procore

Bluebeam Revu

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Outlook

Job description

TEEL Construction, Inc. is looking for a driven Project Manager to join our team. If you’re ready to take ownership of exciting projects, work alongside a strong team, and make an impact with an established and continuously growing commercial general contractor, we want to hear from you.

Position Purpose

Jointly responsible for the overall success of assigned project(s). Oversees and participates in the allocation of resources to ensure a safe, timely, and quality project while achieving and improving the profit margin. Serves as the primary contact with the Owner, subcontractors, suppliers, and other company personnel. As the primary face of the company, strives to keep the customer happy to encourage long-term business relationships.

Key Responsibilities

The Contract

• Reads, understands, and ensures compliance with all elements of all required and applicable contracts. Serves as the company’s authority on the contract between the Owner and the company.
• Attends all meetings with the Owner. Calls meetings as necessary to clarify or settle major issues.
• Reviews and approves monthly subcontractor pay requisitions.
• Ensures that subcontracts are drafted and executed in a timely fashion to facilitate the project schedule.
• Ensures the acquisition of permits, bonds, and insurance through appropriate channels as required.
• Manages and monitors the RFI system.
• Closely monitors subcontractor performance to confirm that each subcontractor is in compliance.
• Manages and monitors the shop drawing submittal process.
• Ensures that all field records are being kept.
• Documents important transactions, agreements, delays, and events relating to the contract to ensure the company’s best interest is served and protected.
• Ensures that changes are correctly posted to the budget and other job tracking systems.
• Efficiently completes project closeout in accordance with the contract documents.
• Prices, negotiates, and collects for all change orders and extra work.
• Participates in, performs, or directs the buyout of the project. Solicits, acquires, and contracts vendors and subcontractors.
• Develops new business opportunities.

Schedules

• Develops a schedule in cooperation with the Superintendent that complies with the customer’s needs, adheres to the terms of the contract, and supports the planning needs of the company.
• Maintains and updates the schedule, ensuring appropriate documentation of changes and distribution to others. Provides notice to the Owner if others are affecting scheduling milestones.
• Interfaces with subcontractors and vendors to confirm that work and materials are on schedule. If not on schedule, remedies the problem by developing and implementing a recovery plan that does not adversely affect the budget.

Budget

• Assumes responsibility for profit margins and fully manages all financial aspects of the project.
• Reports deviations in margins to appropriate personnel via cost-to-complete projections.
• Identifies discount opportunities both during the purchasing process and at time of payment, and coordinates these activities with appropriate personnel.
• Oversees field purchases by monitoring and approving job-site purchase orders and invoices to ensure compliance with company policies and budget.

Quality

• Understands, commits to, and effectively communicates the concepts and merit of our corporate philosophy of “Zero Punch List.”
• Ensures that the quality standards of the contract are included in all subcontracts and other agreements.
• Maintains excellent customer satisfaction levels at all times by promptly addressing client concerns. Ensures that all correspondence, submittals, shop drawings, billings, etc., are produced with a high level of professionalism.
• Ensures that work is performed with an acceptable level of workmanship and that products and materials used meet contract standards.
• Develops the pre-punch list and manages the closeout process to ensure that nonconforming work is quickly corrected.
• Ensures that all closeout documents, warranties, and extra stock are properly submitted to the Owner. Ensures all warranty work is completed in accordance with the contract documents and company policies.

Safety

• Communicates, supports, and enforces the corporate safety effort.
• Proactively reviews the site for safe working conditions.
• Cooperates with corporate safety managers to ensure OSHA compliance at jobsites.
• Conducts post-incident investigations.
• Participates in corporate safety committee meetings as required.

Qualifications Required

Any combination of education and experience providing the required skills and knowledge for successful performance would be qualifying. Typical qualifications would be equivalent to:

• Completion of the 12th grade, supplemented by a minimum of 10 years of construction experience, at least 5 of which must have been in a leadership capacity.
• Completion of a four-year degree in an engineering, construction management, or business-related field, supplemented by a minimum of 5 years of construction experience, at least 3 of which must have been in a leadership capacity.

Skills And Software

• Organized and detail-oriented, with the discipline to keep several logs current at once.
• Clear written and verbal communication with designers, subcontractors, and field crews.
• Comfortable raising problems early and following an open item through to closure.
• An understanding of construction means and methods, sequencing, and trade scopes.
• Project management software: Procore
• Drawing tools: Bluebeam Revu
• Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook

Work Environment And Physical Requirements

• Work is split between a jobsite trailer or field office and the main office; expect 30% or more of time on active construction sites.
• Exposure to weather, noise, dust, uneven surfaces, and work at heights.
• Must be able to walk and stand for extended periods, climb ladders, stairs, and scaffolding, and lift up to 40 pounds.
• Required personal protective equipment must be worn on site at all times.
• Hours follow the project schedule and may include early starts, occasional evenings, or weekends at critical milestones.
• Travel between local project sites is required; overnight travel is not expected.

This list is not meant to be all-inclusive and shall include other activities necessary to accomplish duties as assigned by the President and/or executive management (i.e. pre-construction services and other special projects).