Senior Project Manager

TAKNEK; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TAKNEK LLC is seeking a Senior Project Manager for industrial construction to lead complex projects across North Texas. You will oversee multiple projects, mentor PMs and APMs, and ensure safety, quality, and financial performance from preconstruction through turnover.

The ideal candidate has a strong GC background, CPM scheduling knowledge, and the ability to manage client relationships and project teams across civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical disciplines.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive construction project management experience on industrial, heavy civil, infrastructure, or similar complex projects.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or supervising Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers.
• Strong understanding of contracts, plans, specs, subcontracts, purchase orders, RFIs, submittals, change orders and claims.
• Ability to read civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and process construction documents.
• Willingness to travel to project sites throughout North Texas and other project locations as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead industrial and infrastructure construction projects from preconstruction through turnover and commissioning.
• Maintain responsibility for safety, quality, schedule, cost, contract compliance, and client satisfaction.
• Establish execution plans, budgets, schedules, procurement strategies, and staffing.
• Review contract documents, drawings, scopes, estimates, and requirements.
• Identify risks early and develop mitigation and recovery plans.
• Forecast costs to complete, committed costs, margins, cash flow and schedule impacts.
• Lead meetings with owners, engineers, subcontractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Manage RFIs, submittals, change orders, claims, procurement, and documentation.
• Ensure long-lead materials/equipment are tracked to the schedule.
• Coordinate with field leadership to translate plans into safe field execution.
• Drive projects from startup to turnover and closeout.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management / Civil or Mechanical Engineering

8+ years of progressive construction PM experience

Team leadership of PMs/APMs

Contract administration & change management

CPM scheduling & sequencing

Job description

Build Critical Infrastructure. Lead the Team That Delivers It.

TAKNEK LLC is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager Industrial Construction to lead complex construction projects throughout North Texas and support the continued growth of our Industrial Construction division.

This is a senior position for a construction professional who can do more than manage an individual project. The Senior Project Manager will have responsibility for the successful execution of multiple projects and will provide leadership, direction, mentoring, and accountability to Project Managers (PMs) and Assistant Project Managers (APMs).

The ideal candidate has a strong general contracting background, understands field execution, contracts, cost control, scheduling, procurement, subcontractor management, and owner relationships, and knows how to build project teams that consistently deliver.

TAKNEK is a full-service industrial construction and automation company headquartered in Gainesville, Texas. Our Industrial Construction division delivers complex infrastructure and industrial projects with in-house capabilities spanning civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical construction.

We are looking for a leader who takes ownership.

• Lead industrial and infrastructure construction projects from preconstruction and turnover through commissioning and final closeout.
• Maintain overall responsibility for project safety, quality, schedule, cost, contract compliance, and client satisfaction.
• Establish project execution plans, budgets, schedules, procurement strategies, and staffing requirements.
• Review contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work, estimates, and project requirements before and during execution.
• Identify project risks early and develop practical mitigation and recovery plans.
• Maintain accurate project forecasting, including cost-to-complete, committed costs, projected margins, cash flow, and schedule impacts.
• Lead project meetings with owners, engineers, subcontractors, vendors, superintendents, and internal stakeholders.
• Manage RFIs, submittals, change orders, claims, procurement, subcontract administration, and project documentation.
• Ensure long-lead materials and equipment are identified, released, tracked, and delivered in accordance with the project schedule.
• Coordinate closely with field leadership to ensure project plans translate into safe and efficient field execution.
• Drive projects through startup, commissioning, punch list, turnover, and final closeout.

Lead Project Managers & APMs

A major responsibility of this position is developing TAKNEK's project management organization.

• Provide direct leadership and oversight to assigned Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers.
• Establish clear expectations for project controls, reporting, documentation, communication, and financial performance.
• Review project status with PMs regularly and intervene early when cost, schedule, procurement, contractual, or client issues arise.
• Coach PMs on owner communication, contract administration, change management, negotiation, forecasting, and decision-making.
• Mentor APMs and create opportunities for them to progressively take ownership of larger portions of projects.
• Review the quality and accuracy of project documentation produced by PMs and APMs.
• Help standardize project management processes and establish repeatable best practices across TAKNEK projects.
• Participate in performance evaluations and development planning for project management personnel.
• Build accountability while creating a culture in which team members are expected to identify problems early and bring forward solutions.
• Own the financial performance of assigned projects.
• Establish and maintain project budgets and cost codes.
• Review monthly project financials and cost-to-complete forecasts.
• Protect project margin through disciplined cost management and change-order administration.
• Identify scope gaps, changed conditions, and additional work and ensure they are documented and commercially addressed.
• Review subcontractor and vendor proposals, commitments, invoices, and change requests.
• Support contract negotiations and resolution of commercial issues.
• Monitor billing, collections, retainage, and project cash flow in coordination with accounting and leadership.
• Provide management with accurate and timely forecasts rather than reacting after problems have already affected project performance.

Scheduling & Operations

• Develop and maintain realistic project schedules with field leadership and project teams.
• Understand critical-path activities and actively manage schedule risk.
• Coordinate engineering, submittals, procurement, fabrication, subcontractors, self-perform crews, testing, and commissioning.
• Evaluate manpower and resource requirements across assigned projects.
• Work closely with superintendents and operations leadership to remove roadblocks affecting field production.
• Develop recovery plans when projects fall behind schedule and hold responsible parties accountable for execution.

Safety & Quality

Safety and quality are fundamental to how TAKNEK executes its work.

The Senior Project Manager will:

• Reinforce TAKNEK safety requirements and expectations across every assigned project.
• Partner with field leadership to ensure project-specific safety planning is completed before and throughout construction.
• Promote proactive hazard identification, pre-task planning, and open reporting of safety concerns.
• Ensure quality-control requirements are understood and incorporated into project planning and field execution.
• Drive proper testing, inspections, documentation, commissioning, and turnover.
• Lead by example and reinforce the expectation that schedule or cost pressure never justifies compromising safety or quality.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a senior point of contact for owners, engineers, consultants, subcontractors, and other project stakeholders.
• Develop strong, professional relationships with TAKNEK clients.
• Communicate project status, risks, decisions, and required actions clearly and proactively.
• Manage difficult project conversations professionally and commercially.
• Represent TAKNEK's interests while maintaining productive long-term client relationships.
• Identify opportunities for repeat work and support TAKNEK's reputation as a dependable construction partner.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive construction project management experience, with significant responsibility for industrial, heavy civil, infrastructure, water/wastewater, utility, process, or similar technically complex construction projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects as the primary Project Manager.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or supervising Project Managers, Assistant Project Managers, Project Engineers, or similar project personnel.
• Strong understanding of construction contracts, plans, specifications, subcontracts, purchase orders, RFIs, submittals, change orders, and claims.
• Strong project financial management skills, including budgeting, forecasting, cost-to-complete analysis, and margin management.
• Strong understanding of CPM scheduling and construction sequencing.
• Experience coordinating subcontractors, vendors, field supervision, engineering teams, and owners.
• Ability to read and understand civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and process construction documents.
• Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Willingness to travel to project sites throughout North Texas and other project locations as required.
• Valid driver's license.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with municipal water and wastewater treatment facilities, pump stations, utility infrastructure, industrial facilities, or process construction.
• Experience working for a general contractor with significant self-perform capabilities.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary scopes involving civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, and controls.
• Experience managing projects from preconstruction through startup and commissioning.
• Experience working with public-sector owners, municipalities, engineering consultants, and formal bid projects.
• OSHA 30 certification.
• PMP, CCM, PE, or other relevant professional certification is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

• Delivers projects safely.
• Protects project margin.
• Keeps projects on or ahead of schedule.
• Identifies problems before they become emergencies.
• Maintains strong owner and engineer relationships.
• Holds subcontractors, vendors, and internal teams accountable.
• Develops PMs and APMs into stronger construction leaders.
• Creates consistency and discipline across multiple projects.
• Takes ownership from contract award through final closeout.

Why TAKNEK

TAKNEK combines industrial construction and industrial automation to deliver turnkey solutions for technically demanding projects.

Our Industrial Construction team executes work across multiple disciplines, including civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical construction. This integrated approach gives our project teams greater control over execution, coordination, quality, and schedule.

For the right Senior Project Manager, this position offers the opportunity to do more than manage projects. You will help build the project management organization, develop the next generation of TAKNEK project leaders, and play a meaningful role in the continued growth of our Industrial Construction division.

If you are a construction leader who takes ownership, develops people, understands the numbers, and knows how to drive complex projects from award through successful turnover, we want to hear from you.