Assoc Project​/Construction Mgr

Assoc Project/Construction Mgr

Requisition  Working Title Assoc Project/Construction Mgr Position Grade 12 Position Summary

This position is required to provide support for life safety, infrastructure, renovation, and capital improvement projects within the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. The effective coordination, execution, and proper oversight of construction activities (both outsourced and self-performed) within an occupied healthcare environment is critical to maintaining patient care operations, regulatory compliance, and life safety. Due to the Cancer Center's status as an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and active outpatient healthcare environment, construction activities require critical attention to patient safety, regulatory compliance, and operational continuity.

Lack of qualified direction puts patients, providers, staff, visitors, and research activities at significant risk during construction, renovation, and project implementation activities.

Under the supervision of the Sr. Project/Construction Manager, this position is responsible for managing programming, design, bidding, construction, and warranty phases of new facilities, additions, renovation, infrastructure, facility improvement, and capital improvement projects as assigned; concurrently managing multiple simple to complex projects. Assists in the preparation of Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Quotation (RFQ), and Scope of Work (SOW) documentation and participates in the selection and coordination of consultants, contractors, vendors, and other service providers.

Evaluates and analyzes projects, including resources, schedules, budgets, operational impacts, and availability to determine the optimum project delivery model that provides best value to the owner.

Construction and renovation activities within the Cancer Center require careful consideration of Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) requirements, Environment of Care standards, Interim Life Safety Measures (ILSM), and applicable regulatory and accreditation requirements, including The Joint Commission standards. The successful candidate must understand the importance of these requirements and coordinate construction activities in a manner that minimizes impacts to patient care, clinical operations, research activities, and facility safety while recognizing the unique challenges associated with construction in an active outpatient cancer treatment environment serving immunocompromised patients.

This position requires frequent face-to-face interaction with Cancer Center leadership, UNM Health leadership, UNM Main Campus leadership, contractors, consultants, clinical staff, researchers, and other stakeholders. The successful candidate must be able to professionally communicate project requirements, schedule, project status, technical information, operational impacts, construction activities, utility outages, project risks, and stakeholder needs both verbally and in writing within a complex healthcare environment.

This role requires significant daily computer-based work, including management of project documentation, schedules, reports, correspondence, construction drawings, project records, contractor coordination, procurement activities, and project tracking. Candidates must be proficient with standard PC operations and Microsoft Office applications and preferably possess experience with, or the ability to learn and utilize, AutoCAD and Bluebeam Revu for review, coordination, and markup of construction documents.

While the majority of work is administrative and coordination-focused, the position also requires regular presence in construction and renovation areas throughout the Cancer Center campus to support ongoing project implementation activities.

The position serves as a key project management and construction support resource for the Construction Services Division by leading and or assisting with project planning, contractor coordination, material procurement, project logistics, construction observation, project closeout activities, and implementation of both outsourced and self-performed renovation projects as assigned. The successful candidate must be capable of working safely within active construction environments, supporting project activities throughout the Cancer Center campus, coordinating material purchases, equipment deliveries, and providing general labor support when additional staffing resources are required.

This position reviews projects for constructability, code compliance, operational impacts, and completeness of documentation according to phase objectives. Inspects construction activities to monitor progress and ensure conformance with plans, specifications, Environment of Care requirements, life safety standards, and institutional standards. Reviews and supports projects affecting critical facility infrastructure systems including mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), technology, network, access control, controls, fire alarm, fire…