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Project Manager

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for: Clayco
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-18
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
  • Construction
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Project Manager

The Project Manager will provide leadership to the project staff and ensure quality and timely execution of design-build projects from design to completion.

The specifics of the role include:

  • Coordination with the project team (designers, engineers, production, assembly, site crews).
  • Communication and coordination involving the customer and their project team (project managers, architects, engineers, consultants), to ascertain contract time, cost, and quality objectives, and organize project resources accordingly.
  • Develop an understanding of the bid scope and contract documents (trade contract, scope drawings, specification, exhibits, bid pricing and clarifications).
  • Develop, track, update, and report on the detailed project schedule for design, engineering, mockups, production, and installation activities.
  • Develop, track, update, and report on the contract schedule of values and payment requisitions, ensuring the project cash flow is met and payments received in a timely manner.
  • Develop and understand of the contract budget.
  • Coordinate all aspects of project Quality Control; develop, track, update and report on the contract quality control and assurance system.
  • Pricing and purchasing of materials, equipment, and sub-contracts, ensuring that both budgetary and specified contractual cost, time and quality requirements are met.
  • Research, substantiate, present and report changes to the contract scope.
  • Attend and take meeting minutes at all required external and internal meetings.
  • Provide and submit all required internal and external contract reports and submissions.
  • Manage maintenance and warranty work on completed projects.
  • Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills.
  • Ability to identify, assimilate and comprehend the critical elements of a situation to extract and interpret implications of courses of actions and address details of the problem.
  • Effectiveness in planning and controlling work, motivating, and developing subordinates, improving work methods and results, encouraging, and supporting suggestions for work improvements.
  • Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.
  • Plans for and uses resources efficiently, always looks for ways to reduce costs, creates accurate and realistic budgets, tracks and adjusts budgets.
  • Attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
  • Prepare and monitor realistic construction schedules and achieve full cooperation of superintendents and subcontractors.
  • Communicates expectations and importance of safety. Follows up and ensures safety audits are completed accurately and timely. Identifies critical issues and assists in the development of improvement procedures.

Requirements include:

  • Bachelors Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or other related discipline.
  • 6-10 years of project management experience large scale subcontracting projects, preferably.
  • 2 years of experience in Glass and Glazing Project Management - Unitized Systems.
  • Proficient using MS Office, Word, Excel, Project, with an aptitude to learn any required in-house software.
  • Strong knowledge of construction principles and practices required.
  • Excellent critical thinking skills, with an adaptable and flexible style in working with all types of individuals.
  • Project set up, budget planning, buy out, and cost reporting experience is necessary.
  • Experience with scheduling, dealing with subcontracts, subcontractors and/or self-perform work.
  • Experience leading successful project teams, including development of employees, and maintaining relationships with external entities.
  • Creative and results-oriented, with a strong sense of urgency.
  • Successfully project managed projects of at least 10 million dollars (design-build preferred).
  • Highly entrepreneurial and self-motivated, with the ability to work…
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