Construction Project Manager

Construction Project Manager Federal Design-Build / Central Plant Modernization
- Atlanta, Georgia

Apex Facility Services Group / Apex FSE JV LLC

CDC Roybal Campus
- Atlanta, GA

Full-Time / On-Site

Multi-year Federal Design-Build

Apex Facility Services Group is a government-focused facility services and general contracting organization specializing in complex building systems, large MEP infrastructure, and mission-critical facilities. Through Apex FSE JV LLC, the team supports Federal clients including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Defense (DoD), Department of State (DoS), and other agencies. Apex delivers construction, facility operations, maintenance, commissioning, and infrastructure modernization with an emphasis on safety, quality, accountability, and continuity of operations.

Apex is seeking an experienced Construction Project Manager to serve as a senior, full-time, on-site prime-contractor representative for a major Federal design-build central plant modernization project in Atlanta. The successful candidate will manage Apex's day-to-day project leadership and coordinate a large mechanical/design-build subcontractor, controls contractor, specialty trades, engineers, commissioning personnel, facility operations staff, and Government stakeholders.

This is not a conventional tenant-improvement PM role. The project involves large chillers, cooling towers, pumps, hydronic piping, medium- and low-voltage electrical systems, BAS/controls, structural and roofing work, planned utility interruptions, heavy rigging, startup/TAB/commissioning, and phased execution within an active mission-critical Federal campus. The Construction Project Manager must be comfortable managing risk, documentation, schedule, subcontractors, client communication, and field execution while protecting ongoing facility operations.

Salary: TBD, Please submit salary requirements in cover letter.

• Serve as Apex FSE JV's day-to-day on-site prime-contractor representative and maintain a professional, responsive presence whenever construction work is being performed.
• Act as a primary operational interface with CDC project personnel while maintaining disciplined contractual communication through Apex leadership and the Contracting Officer structure.
• Lead project meetings, drive action-item closure, coordinate daily priorities, and elevate scope, schedule, safety, quality, or commercial issues before they become project impacts.
• Maintain clear lines of authority between Apex, subcontractors, designers, operations personnel, commissioning, and Government stakeholders.

• Manage and integrate the work of the major mechanical/design-build subcontractor, BAS/controls contractor, electrical and specialty trades, design professionals, commissioning resources, and lower-tier vendors.
• Coordinate 30%, 60%, 90%, and final design activities with constructability, procurement, phasing, safety, access, maintainability, and operational requirements.
• Review scopes, drawings, specifications, submittals, RFIs, coordination drawings, vendor data, and field conditions to identify gaps, conflicts, or out-of-scope exposure early.
• Hold subcontractors accountable to approved scope, schedule, quality, documentation, manpower, safety, and closeout obligations.

• Own execution of the overall project plan and work closely with the Lead Scheduler on the Primavera P6 baseline schedule, monthly updates, critical path, procurement milestones, outage sequencing, two-week look-aheads, and recovery plans.
• Coordinate field work to meet the Prime Contract completion…