Senior Commercial Painting Project Manager

General Manager - Commercial Painting Operations

Bobby Taylor Painting

Location:
Acworth, Georgia

Starting Base Salary: $85,000 per year

Compensation Review:
After 90 days, successful performance may result in a base salary adjustment to $90,000-$95,000 per year.

Lead the Operation. Strengthen Accountability. Drive Profitable Growth.

Position Overview

Bobby Taylor Painting is seeking an experienced Commercial Painting General Manager to lead our Acworth, Georgia operation.

This is a hands-on senior leadership position responsible for the operational and financial performance of our commercial painting and wallcovering business.

We are specifically seeking a proven leader with significant commercial painting experience who understands the business from project award through final closeout.

This is not simply a Project Manager position. The General Manager will take ownership of daily operations, lead Project Managers and field personnel, strengthen processes, protect gross margin, and help drive profitable growth.

Compensation and Benefits

The starting base salary is $85,000 per year.

A performance and compensation review will be conducted after 90 days.

Successful performance may result in an annual base salary adjustment to $90,000-$95,000.

The position includes a performance-based bonus opportunity.

The position includes a $300 monthly automobile allowance.

The position includes a $250 monthly medical stipend.

Paid time off is provided.

The role offers significant opportunities for continued compensation and career growth based on performance.

Primary Responsibilities

Provide daily leadership and accountability for commercial painting and wallcovering operations.

Lead Project Managers, field leadership, superintendents, foremen, subcontractors, and supporting operational personnel.

Oversee the complete project lifecycle from turnover and award through execution, billing, completion, and closeout.

Review contracts, drawings, specifications, scopes, budgets, and project requirements before execution.

Establish project schedules, manpower plans, subcontractor requirements, material procurement plans, and work sequencing.

Maintain current visibility into each active project's contract value, completion percentage, billing position, cost to complete, projected gross profit, change orders, manpower requirements, and operational risks.

Hold Project Managers accountable for forecasting, job costing, documentation, scheduling, billing readiness, and project profitability.

Monitor labor productivity, subcontractor performance, production rates, job costs, and gross-margin performance.

Identify margin erosion and project risks early and implement corrective action.

Oversee subcontractor recruiting, vetting, insurance compliance, contracts, project scopes, schedules of values, performance, and closeout.

Ensure that Master Subcontract Agreements, project-specific work orders, certificates of insurance, and supporting documentation are properly maintained.

Drive consistent use of Knowify for project tracking, job costing, field documentation, scheduling, reporting, and accountability.

Manage change orders, requests for information, scope clarifications, extra-work documentation, and contractual exposure.

Lead project kickoff meetings, weekly operational meetings, project reviews, and jobsite meetings.

Maintain strong relationships with general contractors, owners, vendors, manufacturers, and other business partners.

Partner with estimating and preconstruction to support project handoffs, constructability reviews, production planning, and value engineering.

Support senior leadership with forecasting, budgeting, staffing, revenue planning, gross-margin improvement, and strategic initiatives.

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