Senior Project Manager - Commercial Construction Lead

Digitailor; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Retro Insulation, serving Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, seeks a Senior Project Manager to oversee projects from planning through completion, ensuring scope, schedule, and budget adherence. You will manage customer relationships, coordinate with field leadership and subcontractors, and drive timely billing and closeout.

Responsibilities include reviewing contracts, planning manpower and materials, monitoring labor against budget, and mentoring other Project Managers to safeguard project

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management experience in commercial construction, mechanical insulation, specialty contracting, or related construction environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects from contract review and preconstruction through execution, billing, punch list, and final closeout.
• Strong understanding of construction contracts, change orders, RFIs, submittals, schedules of values, billing, retainage, and project documentation.
• Proven ability to manage project financial performance, including cost forecasting, revenue and margin projections, cost-to-complete analysis, billing projections, and identification of financial risks.
• Experience monitoring labor productivity, manpower requirements, material needs, equipment, project sequencing, and performance against budget.
• Ability to identify, document, price, negotiate, and track changes in scope, extra work, delays, schedule impacts, and change orders through resolution.

Responsibilities

• Maintain customer relationships and manage projects in accordance with Retro’s contract administration policy.
• Review contracts with the Regional Director to confirm scope, schedule requirements, and appropriate payment and retainage terms.
• Coordinate project scope and schedule with customers, field leadership, subcontractors, and internal support staff.
• Select and manage subcontractors, working with the Branch Administrator to ensure all required subcontractor paperwork is received.
• Work with the Project Manager Assistant to ensure required submittals and work plans are submitted.
• Plan and drive punch list completion, final billing, retainage collection, and closeout in coordination with Project Manager Assistant.
• Provide regular project updates to customers identifying upcoming work, coordination needs, outstanding decisions, and issues affecting scope, cost, or schedule.
• Work with field leadership to plan manpower, materials, equipment, and work sequencing; monitor labor performance against budget and address productivity issues early.
• Conduct after-action reviews of selected projects with the Regional Director.
• Safeguard the company’s reputation and maintain brand quality at the project level.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of project financial performance, including costs, revenue, margin, and cost-to-complete projections, to accurately forecast where each project is expected to finish.
• Develop and maintain billing projections based on project progress, schedule, approved changes, and anticipated work to provide visibility into upcoming billings.
• Proactively identify and address cost overruns, margin erosion, unbilled work, scope changes, and other financial risks before they negatively impact project performance.
• Create schedules of values and work with the Project Manager Assistant to ensure timely invoices.
• Approved project expenditures below $1,000 in accordance with company policy.
• Maintain current project records in the company’s designated system, including key correspondence, RFIs, directives, changes, and supporting documentation.
• Ensure delays, schedule impacts, extra work, changes in scope, and customer-directed work are thoroughly documented and communicated to the appropriate customer and other relevant project stakeholders in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Manage orders change from identification through pricing, submission, negotiation, and approval, tracking outstanding items through resolution.
• Maintain clear and timely documentation of change orders, contractual issues, project impacts, and key customer communications to protect the company’s financial and contractual interests.
• Provide oversight and mentoring to assigned Project Managers.

Skills

Project management

Budget forecasting

Contract administration

RFIs & submittals

Leadership

Documentation

Negotiation

Communication

Scheduling

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project management software

Construction management software

Job description

Retro Insulation, serving Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, seeks a Senior Project Manager to oversee projects from planning through completion, ensuring scope, schedule, and budget adherence. You will manage customer relationships, coordinate with field leadership and subcontractors, and drive timely billing and closeout.

Responsibilities include reviewing contracts, planning manpower and materials, monitoring labor against budget, and mentoring other Project Managers to safeguard project