As a growing company, Lukaven anticipates the hire for the Construction Manager role to be a key company member for many years to come, with great upward mobility potential.
The Construction Manager (CM) position oversees and directs the construction of both multifamily and single family home projects from the moment of permit issuance to close out. They’re expected to run ~$5m worth of projects (1-3 job sites) at any one point in time. The construction manager typically spends 70% of their time in the field and the remaining 30% of their time will be spent between working from home/the office and ancillary tasks.
Typical work days start at 7:30am and ends at 4:30 pm on weekdays, with the majority of site work occurring in the AM. Regarding field work, some days are non-stop, while others are fairly slow - it’s heavily dependent on the phase of construction. Occasionally, evening and Saturday (half day) work is required to address delays, emergencies, bad weather, and other issues at the job sites.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage day to day activities to meet project milestones and ultimately meet or beat the project completion date.
- Review job specifications, plans, and contracts and determine appropriate construction methods and scope of work is covered, as well as to explain the execution plan to subcontractors and clients
- Establish site logistics, infrastructure needs, and construction feasibility prior to mobilization
- Track, receive, and manage deliveries of procured material to subcontractors on time
- Orient new subcontractors and visitors to site
- Complete accurate and on-time completion of all QA/QC documentation and punch-list items
- Verify installed conditions are compliant with project specification and resolve non-compliant items
- Attends weekly project meetings with stakeholders to address their concerns and questions
- Coordinates with utilities for service disconnection and reconnection
- Oversees site start up and commissioning
- Assemble all required project turn over documentation for project close out.
- Aid in the subcontractor bid process
- Support the project manager with city building requirement reviews and permit submissions
- Support project managers in material take-offs
- Contribute to design reviews, post-project lesson review, cost analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Clean up job sites as needed
- Pick up additional materials for subcontractors as needed
- Handle warranty, punch-list, minor drywall repair, and other small finish and carpentery work.
What You’ll Bring:
- Required: 2+ years of residential construction experience, whether in a trade role, operations, or management
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or related field.
- High school diploma require
- 2+ years coordinating subcontractors, trades people, or external parties to execute on a single goal required
- Strong aptitude to learn quickly and embrace new and creative ways to solve problems.
- Meticulous planning, organization, and prioritization skills
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written, to internal and external stakeholders
- General understanding of mechanical, civil, structural, and architectural plans.
- Self-starter who is results oriented, resourceful, innovative, intellectually curious and takes initiative
- Have a joyful approach to work and life, a sense of humor highly recommended
- Comfortable with technology, including Google drive, Google Sheets, Google Documents, Smartsheets, and more
- Access to a vehicle, preferrably a pick-up truck.
- Physical Requirements: Must be able to traverse and inspect all areas of job sites in all types of weather, must be able to lift up to 70lbs at one time. Required to travel to worksites and projects as needed. Exposure to characteristic construction site dangers.
