Project Manager - Paving and Highways

Identify, communicate, and document all project responsibilities within the project team.

• Work closely with the Project Estimator to understand the budget and scope of work.
• Conduct regular project team meetings and manage subcontractor performance with keen emphasis on budget control and time management.
• Identify job problems and issues, initiate documented action, verify implementation of solutions
• Interact with clients, architects, engineers and local jurisdictions to incorporate project objectives, schedules, permits, costs, etc.
• Manages project administration and communications including, but not limited to, RFIs, submittals, meeting minutes, progress billing, logs and reports
• Utilize project management tools to track project costs
• Prepare project specific financial projections as necessary.
• Create daily, weekly and long-term detailed progress schedules based on input from project and general superintendents.
• Create and/or review detailed critical path schedules for submittal and acceptance by owners in P6 or equivalent.
• Manages and tracks schedule progress and maintains constant awareness of schedule status.
• Identifies, notifies, documents and negotiate time extension requests or schedule recovery with owners and their reps.

• Attend all owner pre-construction meetings
• Participate in estimating handoff meetings.
• Develop, price, prepare and present change order proposals.
• Manages and reviews progress pay requests to ensure all available measures are taken to maintain positive cash flow.
• Identifies extra work and manages negotiations and payments for extra work with owner’s reps.
• Identifies and tracks project issues that have significant, or potentially significant impacts on cost. Manages the resolution of these issues.
• Escalates appropriate issues to the VP of Project Management or VP of Operations
• Prepare and facilitate pre-construction strategy and execution meetings
• Be on call in winter to supervise snow removal operations outside of working hours when required.
• Answer phone calls during non-work hours, overnight, and weekends to handle job emergency communication.

Minimum of 5 years of heavy highway or airport experience in projects ranging from $5 to $20 million

• Knowledge of construction industry practices and procedures
• Detailed, organized, accurate
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task across several projects
• Proficient in Outlook, Excel, Word, MS Project, Viewpoint and HCSS Heavy Job
• Working knowledge of estimating and scheduling software
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-directed and motivated
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to complete projects on time and on budget
• Demonstrated ability to complete or supervise completion of detailed progress schedules including CPM schedules.