Senior Project Manager, Construction Management

Stantec; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec’s Colorado Construction Management Group seeks a highly motivated Senior Project Manager with strong heavy civil transportation construction experience for our Denver or Colorado Springs offices. The PM will monitor on-site work, oversee a team including project controls, inspectors, and admin staff, and advise the client on remedial actions to keep work aligned with the contract.

The role includes leading construction execution planning, safety program development, scheduling, cost

Qualifications

• Senior Project Manager with strong heavy civil transportation construction experience.
• Ability to monitor, report on site construction work and coordinate with subcontractors.
• Experience leading teams including project controls, inspectors and admin staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide construction management leadership to the project team.
• Lead CM oversight services for a government contract.
• Manage diverse team of employees and subcontractors to execute the contract.
• Monitor and report on schedule, budget, and compliance; advise client on remedial actions.
• Lead safety planning and enforce health, safety, environmental requirements.
• Coordinate project controls, scheduling, quality and risk management.
• Build and maintain client relationships and lead marketing/business development efforts.
• Direct subconsultants and ensure compliance with contract documents.
• Support pre-construction activities and execution planning where appropriate.

Job description

Great communities are built on connection. From vibrant economic centers, resilient communities, and public spaces where we gather to the roads, bridges, transit systems, airports, and ports that connect us, our work touches everyday life. We bring together diverse perspectives and expertise to deliver meaningful outcomes.

Join us to help plan, design, and engineer community and mobility solutions that improve everyday life. Whatever the distance, wherever the destination, our designs lead you there.

At our core, we’re a community. Together, we exercise creative thought, developing engineering and designs as individual as the people and projects we touch. From approval and permitting to design and construction management services, we put the goals of our clients and their communities at the center of everything we create.

Your Opportunity

Stantec’s Colorado Construction Management Group is looking for a highly motivated Senior Project Managerwith strong heavy civil transportation construction experience for our Denver,or Colorado Springs, CO offices.

The Sr Project Manager (PM) is responsible for those tasks listed under the heading Key Responsibilities. The primary responsibility of the PM is to monitor and report on the work being executed on site by the construction contractor(s) and their sub-contractors to assist our clients in ensuring the work is being executed in accordance with the construction contract. The PM is responsible for overseeing a team that typically consists of project controls, construction inspectors, and administration staff. The PM may participate in preconstruction activities supporting engineering, estimating, logistics, and execution planning related activities from a construction perspective. The PM will advise the client on any issues or risks observed and provide recommendations on proposed remedial actions for client’s approval.

At the direction of the client, the PM may also lead portions of the construction execution planning processes including but not limited to: communications management, reporting requirements, change management, project controls, scheduling, quality management, risk management, material management, environmental management, regulatory permitting, and logistics associated with the field construction operations that will take place for the project. The construction execution planning exercise will be coordinated with the client, the construction contractor(s), and other stakeholders. Additionally, the PM will provide pre-construction development support of execution strategies and assist in constructability reviews.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Provides construction management leadership to the project team in support of the client.
• The PM will serve as Stantec’s lead employee on a contract providing CM oversight services to a government agency.
• Ability to manage a diverse group of employees and subcontractors to execute a contract.
• Monitor and reporting function will include making recommendations on proposed remedial actions for client’s approval. The PM does not have authority to make these decisions independently without client approval.
• Provides Health and Safety Leadership for the work and will assist with development and implementation of the project specific safety plan to be developed and approved by the client/construction contractor(s). This also includes monitoring and reporting on the contractor(s) for compliance to Health, Safety, Security and Environmental project requirements. The monitoring and reporting task is typically delegated to site health and security representative by the PM.
• Efficient project management of multiple concurrent projects. Technical expert in relevant areas of design and construction and understanding of various methods.
• Thorough knowledge of construction management, practices and methods, costs, scheduling, estimating, purchasing, and engineering principles and techniques.
• Highly effective in building and maintaining client relationships.
• Leads marketing / Business Development efforts, including: identifying and tracking opportunities, building teaming strategies, proposal and scope/fee development, and staff resource management.
• Effectively schedule and direct Stantec subconsultants.
• Understands legal design and construction requirements for public works contracts.
• Thorough knowledge and interpretation of code compliance requirements and industry standards.
• Solves complex problems using sound professional judgment, creativity, and innovation.
• Participates and collaborates in project team setting, engage in creative and critical thought, and effectively communicate ideas, design issues and solutions to others.
• Leads the preparation and coordination of the project deliverables and documents including project reports, cost and schedule reporting, specification reviews and recommendations, and production of engineering documents.
• Ability to read, understand and interpret engineering contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work and project schedule.
• Monitors with contractors’ work for compliance to schedule, budget, technical specifications, and legal requirements.
• Examines field conditions as required to support development and completion of the project.
• Reviews contractor request for change and when appropriate, assists in the preparation of contract change orders/modifications.
• This position will involve work in an office environment in addition to long-term field assignments working at a construction site.