Project Manager - Construction Initiatives; Kansas

Description

The Project Manager, Construction Initiatives leads strategic programs and initiatives that improve construction operations, project delivery, and business performance. This role oversees initiative planning, execution, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and change adoption while collaborating across multiple departments to implement innovative processes, systems, and solutions. The Project Manager drives continuous improvement efforts, ensures alignment with organizational objectives, and delivers measurable results that enhance efficiency, consistency, and project outcomes.

The Project Manager, Construction Initiatives supports the end-to-end innovation lifecycle—proactively identifying operational needs, ideating scalable solutions, and creating standardized operating procedures, work processes, and toolsets that unify execution across multiple global practices and business lines.

Central to this role is a strong passion for technology and innovation, paired with the practical insight required to translate emerging digital capabilities into measurable operational value. By collaborating with cross-functional teams, integrating enterprise systems, and orchestrating technology adoption, the Project Manager unlocks project efficiencies, enhances delivery quality, and establishes future readiness across the organization.

Initially joining the EPC Tools team, the Initiative Manager will support the development and deployment of EPC Tools 2.0 and 3.0 under the lead of the EPC Tools Program Manager, operating in strategic alignment with the Enterprise Transformation Office (EXO) and the Blue Horizon Program. The position will collaborate closely with the CPMD leadership, internal subject matter experts, IT, the Technical Services Group, and external consulting partners (e.g., Deloitte) to ensure smooth program execution and sustained change adoption.

The position will coordinate with other initiatives being led by the CPMD group, EXO, as well as innovation teams across the company.

Strategic Ideation & Initiative Leadership

• Opportunity & Need Identification:
  Proactively evaluate operational workflows across business lines to pinpoint inefficiencies, gaps, and high-impact opportunities for standard work creation.

• Ideation & Strategy Execution:
  Support the conceptualization, planning, and execution of strategic EPC Tools and operational initiatives across CPMD, managing initiative roadmaps, scope, schedules, and deliverables.

• Transformation Program Alignment:
  Maintain active alignment with the Enterprise Transformation Office and the Blue Horizon Program, ensuring CPMD initiatives support broader corporate transformation goals and performance metrics.

• Consultant & Partner Coordination:
  Manage day-to-day engagements with external management consultants (e.g., Deloitte), overseeing task execution, progress check-ins, financial tracking, and deliverable quality.

Practice Unification & Standard Development

• Global Practice Alignment:
  Unify SOPs, tools, and workflows across diverse global practices and business lines to create a cohesive, enterprise-wide EPC delivery standard.

• Governance & Steering Committees:
  Facilitate initiative committees and task forces to align departmental leadership on initiative priorities, standards, and adoption milestones.

• Work Instructions & Process Documentation:
  Serve as and coordinate with Process Owning Group Leads (POGLs) to author, review, and maintain clear Work Instructions (WIs) for core project functions (e.g., forecasted ROMs, change management, commitment reviews).

Cross-Functional Resource & Technology Integration

• Internal Resource Management:
  Engage, direct, and collaborate with key internal technical groups—including the Technical Services Group, IT, software developers, and database leads—to scope, build, test, and deploy initiative tools and system integrations.

• Technology Evaluation & Application:
  Evaluate enterprise construction technologies (e.g., Procore, Primavera P6, custom applications) and lead pilots to determine best-fit solutions that unlock operational efficiency and future readiness.

• Systems Integration & Automation:
  Support technical syncs and workflow automation projects (e.g., bot integrations and automated data pipelines) in coordination with IT and Technical Services to streamline project controls and administrative workflows.

• Training, Change Management & Continuous Improvement

• Training Program Deployment:
  Plan,…