The Project Manager is responsible for managing and coordinating all necessary project resources and documentation throughout the entire project lifecycle. This includes the maintenance of the budget, schedule, and the management and administration of all contractual requirements, agreements with trade partners, purchase orders, meeting minutes, shop drawings, and RFI logs. This individual also manages risk, insurance, general work performance and quality, and overall team progress against the project plan through consistent communication and collaboration with the owner and project team members.
Responsibilities
- Lead and communicate with Hernandez Construction Field Supervision, Subcontractors, and Vendors to assist them in working to the Project Schedule.
- Represent Hernandez Construction with Owner(s), Architects, Consultants, Government Authorities, Vendors, and Subcontractors.
- Administer financial aspects of the Owner’s contract, subcontracts, and purchase orders.
- Build effective working relationships with clients and the Hernandez Construction project team members.
- Review the general contract and contract documents and confirm the budget setup and project milestones.
- Create a schedule of values and project logs, plan for project safety and mobilization, including review and validation with team members.
- Maintain the schedule, write scopes of work, distribute and log subcontracts, write required contract riders and purchase orders, and confirm compliance with project insurance requirements.
- Review subcontractor references, obtain Subcontractor bonds, and maintain project files.
- Maintain and manage all purchase and delivery schedules, change order processes, shop drawings, document control logs, Owner, Architect, and Subcontractor correspondence.
- Work with Preconstruction in setting up/executing trade buyouts including defining the scope of work, authoring Scope of Work Exhibit’s, ensuring scope coverage, coordinating buy and project schedules.
- Attend all scheduled and management meetings necessary to monitor and manage the project, chairing as appropriate.
- Manage all requisitions and payments, including insuring collection of lien releases (in conjunction with accounting) and maintaining best possible cash flow throughout the project, communicating issues proactively.
- Deliver all necessary manuals to the Owner, consolidates project documentation and files.
- Manage subcontractor closeout, transfer of utilities, owner training, and punch list process.
- Deliver all warranty documents, including as-builts and training to the owner and manage the warranty process throughout the warranty period.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management or applicable discipline and a minimum 5+years experience in relevant projects, including size and scope A+.
- Excellent business judgment demonstrated by consistently achieving profitability objectives and strong project close-outs with client and subcontractor relationships in good standing.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail evidenced by a strong command of all applicable contract and legal provisions.
- Ability to consistently analyze and execute financial trade-offs, which frequently involve dealing with incomplete data and ambiguity.
- Ability to constantly multi-task and handle competing priorities between Hernandez Construction business needs, organizational issues, and sound customer relations.
- Possess judgment to know when to appropriately escalate issues up the chain of command.
- A strong sense of urgency and initiative
- Able to quickly study and react to complex issues.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to confidently and decisively take action.
- Team leader with excellent diplomatic and communication skills, able to handle and resolve conflicts effectively in a firm but fair manner.
- The ability to manage and embrace change. Respond and adapt to new processes and new ways of looking at old problems.
- Overall knowledge and understanding of CPM Scheduling
- Proficiency with MS Word, MS Excel, and Outlook is required. Working knowledge of Procore, PowerPoint, and Bluebeam is a plus.
