Project Manager, Steel Procurement

Clayco; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Medical, dental and vision plans

401k

Generous PTO

Paid holidays

Job summary

Clayco is seeking a Project Leader to oversee complex construction projects from setup through delivery. You will coordinate with General Contractors, owners, and subcontractors to maintain schedules and budgets.

Responsibilities include establishing and tracking schedules, managing change orders, reviewing purchase orders, and maintaining cost control. The role requires strong leadership, communication, and a proven track record in construction management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in construction management or engineering preferred.
• 5+ years of experience.
• Clear communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to plan, cost control, and lead teams.
• Knowledge of construction principles and schedules.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary contact to customers on projects.
• Establish and maintain schedules for drawings and delivery.
• Work with suppliers to align internal and job schedules.
• Collaborate with accounting to manage schedule of values.
• Coordinate with subcontractors.
• Maintain project budget with profit and loss accountability.
• Identify change orders and establish cost where applicable.
• Prepare and track change orders for material beyond contract.
• Review PO and specs to ensure scope matches estimate.
• Minimize site issues and cost impacts.
• Lead to achieve department goals with leadership and collaboration.

Skills

Project leadership

Schedule management

Budget management

Change orders

Subcontractor coordination

Client communication

Construction knowledge

MS Office Suite

On-Screen Estimating

ACC Build

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management

Engineering discipline

Tools

On-Screen Estimating software

ACC Build

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $8.1 billion in revenue for 2025, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for mission critical, industrial, life sciences, power & energy, aviation, commercial, institutional, residential and sports & entertainment related building projects.

About Consolidated Distribution Company (CDC)

Clayco’s Consolidated Distribution Company (CDC) uses its extensive relationships to secure competitive pricing and product availability. By negotiating with top brands and manufacturers, CDC provides cost-effective solutions for construction equipment, materials, and finishes. It excels in managing complex projects through strategic sourcing and mass purchasing, offering integrated design, and purchasing power for both internal and external clients.

The Role We Want You For

This position serves as the overall Project Leader for the jobs in which they are involved. Responsibilities range from project set up, project buy out, contract execution and compliance, material procurement, progress tracking, material invoice approval, responsible for project sequencing and scheduling, maintaining, and updating schedules, coordination, and communication with General Contractor, change order distribution/tracking, coordination with Estimators, cost report job forecasting, overall project fiscal responsibility.

The Specifics of the Role

• Serve as primary contact to customers on projects.
• Establish and maintain schedules for both drawings and delivery and work with suppliers to ensure that internal schedule is consistent with job schedule and manage schedule changes internally.
• Work closely with accounting to establish and manage a schedule of values for progress billing.
• Coordinate with subcontractors.
• Maintain project budget throughout each project, with profit and loss accountability.
• Identify opportunities for change orders and establish cost where applicable.
• Prepare, issue and track change order status for material above and beyond the original contract.
• Review purchase orders and specifications on new jobs to ensure the scope of work is consistent with the estimate.
• Minimize job site and schedule problems wherever possible and minimize cost impact of potential back charges.
• Ensure department achieves goals through management and leadership mentality.
• Coordination with GC/Owner.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Construction Management or Engineering discipline preferred.
• 5+ years of experience.
• Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills.
• Ability to identify, assimilate and comprehend the critical elements of a situation to extract and interpret implications of courses of actions to attend to details of a problem.
• Effectiveness in planning and controlling work, motivating, and developing subordinates, improving work methods and results, encouraging and supporting suggestions for work improvements, etc.
• Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.
• Plans for and uses resources efficiently, always looks for ways to reduce costs.
• Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Leads through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.
• Operates within the organization's formal and informal structures, builds allies and relationships across departments, uses allies to build consensus and create results, is appropriately diplomatic, understands others' roles and perspectives, can sell projects and ideas across the organization.
• Anticipates and resolves conflicts, turns team diversity into an advantage, uses unique team talents, defines processes and goals, works for consensus.
• Establishes project goals, milestones, and procedures, defines roles and responsibilities, acquires project resources, coordinates projects throughout the company, monitors project progress, and manages multiple projects.
• Knowledge of construction principles/practices required.
• Energetic and highly motivated with a strong sense of urgency.
• Knowledge and understanding of building construction combined with steel design concepts presented on architectural and engineering drawings. Project set up, budget planning, buy out, and cost reporting experience is a must.
• Ability to work with Microsoft Office Suite, On-Screen Estimating software, and ACC Build.

Some Things You Should Know

• This position will be based out of St. Louis, MO.
• No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
• We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
• The pace is fast!

Why Clayco?

• 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
• 2025 ENR Top 400 – Top Data Center Contractor (Top 3).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!

Compensation

• The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.