Senior Industrial Construction PM – Food & Beverage Plants

IFAB Engineering Partners LP; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off

Bonus and profit-sharing

Retirement plans

Job summary

Dennis Group is seeking an experienced Project Manager for on-site roles in Austin, TX, to drive design-build projects in the food & beverage sector. You will coordinate engineers, architects, designers, and construction teams to meet scope, cost, and schedule targets.

Responsibilities include developing scope, budgets, schedules, procurement plans, and monthly reports, while maintaining client relationships and ensuring safety and compliance across projects.

Qualifications

• Degree in Construction Management / Architecture / Engineering
• 4+ years of experience within a design-build, General Contractor company working with multiple in-house engineer disciplines, architects, designers, etc.
• 4+ years of experience with MEP industrial construction projects, preferably food and beverage or pharmaceutical projects.
• 4+ years of experience with Building construction, Project scheduling, Construction estimating, and Construction Safety.
• 4+ years as a Project Manager with proven track record of successful project management and demonstrated success delivering numerous projects delivered on time, meeting requirements, with high team satisfaction.
• Basic understanding of AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks, and other design software
• Familiarity with sanitary environments is a plus
• Attention to detail, accuracy and deadlines
• Must meet overnight travel requirement of not less than 50% (overnight travel of 70-120 nights out of town annually) of any given time of the year
• Our projects are located throughout the United States and Canada, and this is a position that you will need to work collaboratively with owners, A/E teams, subs, building officials, etc. regularly at the client’s facilities and construction sites. Overnight travel requirement will be not less than 50% of any given time of the year.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, interpersonal and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Works autonomously on specific tasks
• Managing projects from planning through commissioning including developing key success criteria for each project and ensuring the success criteria are achieved
• Assisting with the development of project scope, budget, schedule, and critical path elements
• Develop RFI
• Prepare purchase/work authorization
• Maintain client SharePoint site
• Managing in-house and consulting design teamwork product
• Establishing design criteria; reviewing design and construction phase documents
• Managing permit, code and regulatory approvals
• Develop preliminary procurement plan (preparation of bid packages, bid tabulation, writing of purchase orders and subcontracts)
• Assemble and evaluate potential project bidders
• Define kick-off meeting agenda
• Determine project definition deliverables
• Coordinate all project communication
• Develop project outline specifications
• Develop conceptual layout – understanding of facility personnel and materials flows, critical adjacencies
• Develop medium engineering services proposal
• Manage bid process fairly and professionally and review and approve bid packages
• Maintain “Outstanding Items Needs” list
• Maintain Project Meeting notes
• Develop and implement lessons learned for project
• Develop and issue monthly reports
• Determine project permitting needs
• Update project forecasting tool monthly
• Review and approve engineering deliverables
• Develop preliminary construction cost estimates – site and building
• Define project assumptions / exclusions
• Review and approve monthly supplier invoices and client billing
• Develop and maintain submittal and RFI processes
• Develop preliminary PM/Eng/CM/Start-up support cost estimate
• Facilitate and manage food safety risk assessments
• Organizing construction trades and administering subcontracts
• Managing project budget and expense approvals
• Managing contract and change order administration
• Overseeing equipment installations
• Providing on-site supervision and coordinate design team on-site support activities
• Facilitate project interactive planning sessions
• Refine and update budget forecast
• Finalize procurement plan
• Managing project punch-list inspection
• Assembling and maintaining complete project records and close-out documents
• Facilitate and manage client and 3 rd party design reviews
• Interfacing with client, working in client facilities and construction sites.
• Utilize multiple software programs (MS Office, CAD, Navisworks, MS Project, SharePoint, etc.)
• Researchingproject management best practices
• Supporting talent growth within our organization

Skills

Project management experience

Leadership

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Team coordination

Education

Degree in Construction Management / Architecture / Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

Navisworks

Job description

Dennis Group is seeking an experienced Project Manager for on-site roles in Austin, TX, to drive design-build projects in the food & beverage sector. You will coordinate engineers, architects, designers, and construction teams to meet scope, cost, and schedule targets.

Responsibilities include developing scope, budgets, schedules, procurement plans, and monthly reports, while maintaining client relationships and ensuring safety and compliance across projects.