Project Manager - Land

The Project Manager is responsible for managing a team of internal and external resources to define, plan, execute, monitor, and close out Land Development projects for a specific market to meet their sales, starts, and closing budget. The Project Manager may perform duties on specific phases of the Land Development projects or the entire project. The projects will meet the Land team's quality standards and budgets established by the Land Project Management Office (PMO).

The Project Manager implements the Leadership Charter - establishes team congruency with the True Difference Culture; demonstrates leadership consistent with the True North Leadership (TNL) Platform; matures their Functional Platform. Demonstrates high levels of team function and ability to execute.

• Establishes team congruency with the True Difference Culture
• Demonstrates leadership consistent with the TNL Platform
  • True Approach:
    Interactions with Associates, Trades, and Strategic Relationships that consistently reflect the values of the company
  • True Actions:
    Daily focus reflects franchise philosophy and synergistic structure including stewardship of resources, congruent leadership, operational excellence, and results-focused execution
  • True Acumen:
    Creates enterprise value through client focus, people development, stakeholder relationships, operational discipline, and financial performance
• Demonstrates high levels of team function with other Leaders
• Project Management and Schedule Conformance
  • Identifies and creates standard and project specific due diligence, entitlement, development, and close‑out activities and estimate durations to create a project schedule and identify the critical path
  • Identifies all required permits and submission process necessary for development
  • Ensures due diligence tasks are executed prior to end of defined inspection period
  • Manages site plan approval and rezoning process to obtain minimum design efficiency requirements in addition to desired lot sizes, density, and product requirements to meet Market's strategies
  • Reviews due diligence materials with regard to assumptions, risks, and issues and makes recommendation to Land Committee to extend due diligence period or proceed with project
  • Engages and leads design Trade Partners to ensure land development standards are being met in design and field work and sufficient progress is made regarding schedule and gate conformance
  • Manages and tracks permit submittal packages and approvals necessary for development; influences plan and permit reviewers to achieve desired designs and gate conformance
  • Guides and coordinates the value engineering process
  • Oversees Trade Partner selection process through mutual gain negotiating
  • Submits final construction budget, schedule, and Trade Partner agreements for approval.
  • Monitors and controls schedules for all project activities through regular on‑site meetings with Trade Partners and subcontractors
  • Identifies, records, tracks, and resolves actual and potential issues in all phases of development
  • Ensures communities are "Retail Ready" and adhere to maintenance and cleanliness standards
  • Coordinates, maintains, and reports the issuance of and tracking of capital and maintenance bonds in a timely manner to retire bonds at earliest possible instance
  • Records and archives project documents and lessons learned
  • Presides over Lot Turnover process to sales team
• Develops accurate budgets using historical costs, contractor bids, and verified quantities on our established budgeting templates.
• Plans, acquires resources, and delivers projects at or below budgets that are underwritten to meet project goals.
• Reviews change order requests for scope, cost, and schedule impacts and makes recommendations for approval
• Reviews invoices against contracts, work completed, and job cost reports.
• Identifies and oversees earliest opportunity to close and terminate development permits and bonds
• Administrative
  • Assists Land Market Partner with reconciling the Transition Report with Development Schedule to verify lot delivery per Market's goals
  • Coordinates, maintains, and reports the issuance of and tracking of capital and maintenance bonds in a timely manner
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