Project Manager, Operations Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager

The Plote Family of Companies is a fine example of the American dream realized through over 60 years of hard work, sacrifice and a deep understanding of the value of focused individual effort, performed in concert, to achieve the goal of entrepreneurial success. At Plote we bring expertise, quality, depth of resources, and cutting‑edge equipment and technology together to deliver exceptional services in excavation, aggregates, asphalt paving, concrete paving, civil heavy engineering, sustainable materials, commercial development, environmental services, and snow removal.

The Project Manager works closely with the Project Superintendent to plan, execute, monitor, coordinate, control, and close heavy/highway construction projects. The PM is ultimately responsible to ensure that resources are scheduled and deployed so that all safety requirements, contract requirements, client expectations, and profitability forecasts are being met or exceeded. The PM must evaluate contracts and/or agreements, assess deliverables, and then communicate, delegate, and document responsibility for those deliverables to all other Plote team members, subcontractors, and consultants.

• 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 a 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 negotiates 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 owners’ 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.

• Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent related experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of heavy highway or airport experience in projects ranging from $5–$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.

• able to lift…