Project Manager - North Platte, NE

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Chief Industries is seeking a Project Manager to join the team. This position ensures that projects are planned, coordinated, and completed in a timely, efficient, effective, and profitable manner. The Project Manager is responsible for all project‑related activities, ensuring safety, quality, and client satisfaction.

• Works with the Marketing and Estimating team to create proposals, RFPs, budgets, and estimates for projects.
• Negotiates contracts with prospective clients.
• Ensures that all established procedures and policies are followed in regard to safety and protection of company assets.
• Promotes and protects the good name of Chief Industries within the community and surrounding area.
• Maintains good communication with all departments within the division to understand work in progress.
• Attends all project meetings and coordinates the execution of project requirements with a project coordinator and project superintendent.
• Competitively procures materials, equipment, and subcontracts; reviews bids to enable buy‑out of the project at or below the original estimate.
• Generates subcontracts and purchase orders for material items required for the construction of projects under contract.
• Coordinates with the Project Superintendent on all RFIs; ensures that all field RFIs are entered in Procore or submittal exchange software and that open items are resolved timely.
• Maintains confidentiality of proposed projects and costs.
• Approves all subcontractor and supplier invoices prior to the project billing cut‑off date while verifying amounts, cost codes, and disclosed materials/sub‑contractors.
• Monitors and maintains the project schedule with the project superintendent, interacting with subcontractors, material suppliers, and other vendors.
• Processes Change Orders for all approved Change Requests; ensures executed Change Orders prior to proceeding and adjusts projections and schedules.
• Monitors cost issues daily and adjusts projections to ensure accurate accounting of final project costs relative to the original estimate.
• Assists in determining contingency amounts at the time of project closings.
• Maintains a good relationship with the customer during construction, ensuring satisfaction with the job and progress.
• Coordinates the entire project with the Project Superintendent, Project Coordinator, Accounting department, and division management to ensure completion within budget and schedule.
• Manages the complete Project folder within Procore.
• Assists in preparing all close‑out documentation and ensures the punch list is completed timely and cost‑effectively.
• Quickly follows up on all leads in a professional manner within 24 hours.
• Communicates ideas for improving company processes with a positive and constructive attitude.

• High School Diploma, or GED, required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management.

• Minimum 5 years of experience.
• Must possess an OSHA 10‑hour certificate, successfully pass drug and alcohol testing, and possess a valid driver’s license.

• 2nd Shift – 4:30 pm to 3:00 am

Putting the needs of customers first has taken Chief Industries, Inc. from a small construction company in 1954 to a highly diverse company with a reputation for manufacturing quality products and offering unparalleled customer service. Through its many divisions and subsidiaries, Chief Industries employs over 1,400 skilled and dedicated employees who produce a wide variety of products used around the world.

Chief Buildings has designed and manufactured a wide variety of metal buildings, including multi‑story offices, churches, schools, and buildings for retail and industrial use since 1966. Every building is customized to meet customer needs, and Chief Buildings are sold by authorized builders throughout the United States, manufactured in Nebraska, Indiana, and South Carolina.

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Project Management and Information Technology
• Industries:
  Wholesale Building Materials