Senior Project Manager

The Haskell Company; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Haskell is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead large, complex construction projects in the Charlotte area. You will oversee one or moreproject managers, drive safety, quality, and schedule adherence, and manage budgets and procurement to ensure profitability.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in engineering or construction management and 10+ years of experience in municipal construction. You will lead teams, coordinate with clients, and ensure compliance with safety standards and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in construction, design, or management.
• Expertise in managing resources including budgets, schedules and materials.
• Knowledge of estimating, construction methods, engineering, equipment and technology.
• Excellent understanding of safety procedures.
• Strong organizational, supervisory, communication, collaboration and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Field Management, Safety, and Quality: Review project progress, ensure safety compliance, and coordinate quality inspections.
• Document Control: Manage submittals, RFIs, drawings, and specifications to keep schedules on track.
• Scheduling: Plan and direct the project schedule with input from the superintendent and subcontractors.
• Financial Management: Monitor project costs, prepare budgets and ensure profitability, manage invoicing.
• Procurement and Commitments: Develop procurement strategies, analyze bids, sign subcontracts and purchase orders.
• Estimating: Prepare detailed estimates and cost control systems.
• Project Lifecycle Management: Monitor key indicators across safety, scope, time and cost.
• Project Team Leadership: Lead project teams, delegate tasks, and maintain team culture and performance.
• Scope and Change Management: Manage changes, notices, and owner approvals.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate project risks.
• Subcontractor/Vendor Management: Manage performance, documentation, and replacements when needed.
• Design Coordination: Review design documents and coordinate with authorities for permits.
• Client Relations: Manage communications, meetings, and progress reports.
• Project Development: Prepare conceptual estimates and participate in client presentations.
• Staffing: Define organizational needs and resource requirements.
• Personnel Development: Mentor and develop team members.
• Project Communications: Establish communications plan and channels.
• Travel as required.
• Other duties and supervision as needed.

Skills

Project leadership

Budget management

Schedule management

Safety procedures

Communication skills

Travel flexibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or construction management

Job description

At Haskell, you're not just joining a company—you're joining a nationally recognized Top Workplace where diverse perspectives and inclusive thinking drive stronger outcomes. Whether you're starting out, growing your expertise, or leading the way, you'll find a culture grounded in trust, driven by excellence, and built to support your goals. Here, you'll have the opportunity, flexibility, and sense of belonging to grow your career your way—while making a real impact.

Scope of Position

Leads and directs a project team, has a proven record of successful projects and management of large, complex projects or multiple projects while overseeing the work of one or more project managers. The Senior Project Manager has an advanced level of proficiency with all project management competencies specifically project team leadership.

Job Responsibilities

• Field Management, Safety, and Quality: Reviews and monitors project progress, quality and safety. Ensures that Haskell safety policies are enforced with commitment from all subcontractors. Complies with quality requirements to meet established quality objectives. Works with Superintendent to ensure the project is being completed per all project requirements. Monitors the Risk Register and QIP for timely coordination of quality inspections/events and mitigating risk identified at project inception.
• Document Control: Ensures submittal control, including scheduling, receiving, reviewing, approving and expediting submittals from suppliers and subcontractors to comply with progress schedule. Ensures RFI's are handled appropriately, and drawings and specifications are maintained.
• Scheduling: Plans, sequences, and schedules the project with input from the superintendent and subcontractors, in accordance with the prime contract key dates. Directs the project schedule, conducts job site meetings and assists with preparation of updated schedules.
• Financial Management: Responsible for project cost control including updating of labor projections, financial logs (contingency, buyout, change orders, etc), cost reports and project status summaries. Responsible to understand the expected project fee and to manage the project budget to ensure profitability. Prepares Owner requisitions for payment and other required project invoicing. Maximizes project cash flow through invoicing and collections. Manages payments to subcontractors and vendors, including reviewing and approving schedules of value, pay requisitions, invoices and required insurance coverage.
• Procurement and Commitments: Responsible for establishing the procurement strategy, for preparing bid packages and invitation to bid inquiries, receiving and analyzing bids, qualifying subcontractors, and awarding subcontracts and material purchase orders. Ensures procurement strategy commitments are in line with established budgets with any significant variances are reported to supervisor. Responsible for creating commitments that identify scope, are of the correct type, to minimize risk. Works with Prequalification Department to qualify subcontractor and obtain approvals. Implements risk mitigation strategies as outlined within the completed Subcontractor Risk Evaluation (SRE).
• Estimating: Prepares detailed estimates, cost code input, and cost control systems.
• Project Lifecycle Management: Effectively monitors and manages the key project indicators throughout the life cycle of the project, such as, safety, scope, quality, time and cost. Directs the project start-up strategy and organization and adjusts as needed for a successful project outcome.
• Project Team Leadership: Sets the vision for the project and integrates project with business objectives. Provides leadership to the project team and helps execute the plan, solves problems and removes roadblocks Provides leadership to the project team and maintains a healthy project team culture focusing on the Haskell core values. Divides, delegates, and supervises the execution of all project management tasks.
• Scope and Change Management: Monitors proper notice and documents changes and prepares and secures owner acceptance of contract change orders. Issues modifications to subcontracts and purchase orders after owner acceptance and updates budget in summary cost report.
• Risk Management: Identifies, assesses and evaluates risks to the project using various available tools. Understands prime contract requirements and terms and conditions within subcontract agreements.
• Subcontractor/Vendor Management: Communicates performance requirements and manages subcontractor and supplier performance issues including documentation, default notices and replacement, if necessary.
• Design Coordination: Participates in design review meetings and provides input regarding constructability, as well as scope and cost changes. Monitors the progress of design documents and design budget. Directs requirements of governing authorities for permits, inspections and final approval of the project with A/E.
• Client Relations: Effectively manages client relations, including progress meetings, correspondence, periodic reports, change orders, and response to client inquiries and directives.
• Project Development: Partners with project directors in responding to RFP's including the preparation of conceptual estimates, schedules and other proposal documents. Participates in client presentations if required.
• Staffing: Works with director of construction and construction core personnel to establish job organization including superintendent and PCE requirements.
• Personnel Development: Actively involved with the development of construction personnel through mentoring and on-the-job training; to include performance management. Sets clear expectations for each team member and defines their role.
• Project Communications: Establishes and maintains project communication plan.
• Travel as required.
• Other duties which may be assigned as needed.
• Supervises others.

Education & Years of Experience

Bachelor's degree in engineering or construction management or equivalent preferred, plus 10 years or more of experience in construction, design or management.

Qualifications

• Expertise in managing resources, including budgets, schedules and materials in an environment of multiple, competing demands
• 10+ Years experience in the Municipal Construction industry
• Knowledge of estimating, construction methods, engineering, equipment and technology
• Excellent understanding of safety procedures
• Excellent organizational, supervisory, communication, collaboration and analytical skills
• Ability to travel per project requirements

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, team members may be required to visit alternate locations and therefore must have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to do so. This position requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds. Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand, and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application/form information. The team member is frequently required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.

Haskell will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and marginal job functions are subject to modification.

Haskell is a Drug-Free Workplace, and an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

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