SPO Project Manager - Concrete (Kansas City)

Turner Construction Company; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner Construction Company’s Kansas City team seeks an experienced construction leader to direct Self-Perform Operations projects. The role demands coordinating pursuit, staffing, planning, budgeting, and risk management across diverse teams at multiple sites.

You will drive high-performance teams, foster inclusion, manage contracts, and build trusted client relationships while collaborating with architects, owners, and suppliers to meet project goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent with 8+ years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of high-performance teams through supervision, training, coaching, and mentoring; provide regular staff feedback and timely performance appraisals.
• Foster environment of diversity and inclusion for all staff.
• Develop and improve client relationships to build trusted advisor status.
• Understand and administer company contracts and subcontracts; ensure alignment with project goals.
• Promote community involvement to build strategic relationships and collaborative networks.
• Enhance relations with internal teams, architects, owners, vendors and suppliers.
• Manage project budget and financial reporting; interpret and analyze reports to ensure adherence to budget.
• Oversee productivity tracking and QC programs to maintain project standards.
• Provide leadership for risk evaluation, contract negotiations, and fee/pricing decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Staff supervision

Mentoring

Diversity inclusion

Client relationships

Contract understanding

Budgeting

Risk management

Communication skills

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Division: Kansas City

Project Location(s): Kansas City, MO 64108 USA

Minimum Years Experience:

Travel Involved:

Job Type: Regular

Job Classification: Experienced

Education:

Job Family: Construction

Compensation: Salaried Exempt

Preferred candidates are open to travel/location flexibility. While candidates local to the Kansas City are are encouraged to apply, initial project assignments may be outside the Kansas City metro. Project locations will vary based on business needs, and applicants should be open to traveling or working in different locations as required.

Position Description:Lead, direct, and coordinate management of Self-Perform Operations (SPO) projects, including overall project pursuit, staffing, proactive planning and implementation, budget, and risk management.

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:

• Lead development of high-performance teams through supervision, training, coaching, and mentoring. Ensure regular feedback with staff including timely completion of performance appraisals.
• Provide leadership to foster environment of diversity and inclusion for all staff.
• Develop and improve assigned client relationships fostering trusted advisor status.
• Understand and administer company contract and subcontract agreements.
• Promote involvement in community to help build strategic relationships and embrace community in which we live and work.
• Foster and enhance internal, architect, owner, vendor, and supplier relations.
• Assist in development and update master schedule to incorporate Self-Perform Operations (SPO) schedule; distribute latest schedule to trade partners and suppliers to ensure contractual obligations.
• Manage budget and financial reporting, interpret and analyze reports to ensure adherence to project budget.
• Manage productivity tracking program.
• Manage Quality Control (QC) program.
• Provide leadership for risk evaluation, contract negotiations, fee and pricing decisions.
• Understand, comply, and advise others on company business ethics, and compliance programs.
• Manage and oversee field operation and engineering processes and procedures.
• Understand and manage labor agreements, if in union environment.
• Develop and ensure implementation of project safety protocols.
• Ensure timely submission of pay applications.
• Collaborate with accounting to ensure timely submission and payment of supplier invoices in accordance with terms of contract agreement. Review subcontracts, Purchase Orders, and Change Orders for accuracy.
• Inform management of project and budget progress via regularly scheduled Operation Review Meetings (ORM).
• Support and drive utilization of various company initiatives; promote and utilize emerging technologies and innovations to support sustainable competitive advantages.
• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.

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Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from accredited degree program and 8 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Supervisor or management experience, preferred
• Prior union management experience, desired
• Thorough knowledge of construction cost, scheduling, estimating, purchasing and engineering principles and techniques, budgeting, and accounting principles
• Read, understand, and interpret contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work and project schedule
• Professional written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient with computer applications and Microsoft Office skills
• Leadership and interpersonal relationship building skills

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Performance of the required duties will require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs, passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Performing this job requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.

Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.