Construction Project Manager, Tenant Improvement Construction

About Bedrock

Bedrock is an award-winning real estate developer focused on comprehensive city building initiatives in Detroit and Cleveland. Its work includes creating iconic cityscapes, rehabilitating historic properties, and making space for the community—all with the philosophy to operate for more than profit.

The Construction Project Manager, Tenant Improvement will expedite the tenant start of business to enhance Landlord’s opportunity for earlier rent commencements to increase Net Operating Income. They require customer service to support leasing efforts, and partner with Construction, Development, Legal, Leasing and Property Management to expedite lease execution and tenant openings. The Construction Project Manager, Tenant Improvement will communicate with tenants, support, and track their pre-opening activities related to design and construction and will also work to ensure tenants are pursuing their Tenant Improvements in a safe and code compliant manner.

They will report directly to the Tenant Improvement Senior Director on issues of importance in a timely manner, and ensuring issues identified are pushed with urgency toward resolution. They will operate in an urban setting, in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and must possess the necessary skills and understanding of project management, real estate development and construction. The Construction PM, TI will be responsible for managing construction projects from beginning to end, working in collaboration with the legal, finance, development, operations, design, architectural and property management teams.

• Act as owner and point of contact for all components associated with getting a tenant’s start of business (which may involve unusually complex tenants or projects), to include understanding the tenant’s unique needs relating to the condition of the space for each deal and pro-actively helping the tenant or its Architect to obtain information on existing conditions and local permitting, inspection and construction special requirements and practices

• Assist tenants (especially local tenants, high impact tenants, and those with little or no construction experience) through the design, permitting and build out process

• Provide a consistently high level of customer services to all customers (i.e, Leasing, Legal, Tenants, etc.)

• Create and maintain a critical path schedule for all projects to ensure that multiple, simultaneous, and sequential tasks are being monitored and executed for timely completion

• Provide timely Landlord Work Estimates (some of which may be quite complex and may involve structural work, site work and turnkey construction) to Leasing, and ensure the Leasing Agent is well versed on the Landlord Work scope and cost so that a deal can be accurately represented to Deal Committee

• Ensure Tenants are proceeding with their Tenant Improvements in accordance with their leases, by engaging Landlord approved contractors, collecting their insurance certificates, obtaining permits and passing inspections for all work

• Host preconstruction meetings with Tenant, Tenants Superintendent, Property Management and Property Engineers, review contractor rules and regulations, Landlord approved drawings, and allow Property Management to discuss site logistics and daily coordination items

• Effectively self-manage their workload (requiring little or no supervisory oversight of their work) and actively participating in recurring meetings with tenants, leasing and other stakeholders, as evidenced through proper documentation of deal progression and milestones on a Tenant Progress Report, timely follow ups and expedited turnaround times to facilitate tenants start of business as early as possible, the ability to see the business side of issues and effectively dialog and communicate with the highest levels of Leasing and Management

• Review, comment and approve tenant plans to ensure compliance with building systems, criteria, and basic design

• Advise leasing on prospective new tenants located in buildings with Historic Tax Credits, identify tax credit status, and establish a strategy to use regarding historic requirements when…