Construction Materials Project Manager

Overview

Terracon’s Louisville office is seeking a motivated Construction Materials Project Manager to lead projects from planning through completion while ensuring quality, safety, and efficiency at every stage. As a 100% employee-owned company, we believe in ownership, collaboration, and accountability—values that empower our team to take pride in their work and deliver high-quality solutions that support long-term success and community growth.

As a Project Manager, you’ll manage all aspects of construction materials engineering projects to ensure they are safely completed on time and within scope and budget. You’ll play a hands-on role in completing the project as per its contracted scope; monitor progress and performance against the project plan, troubleshoot and resolve operational problems and minimize delays. You’ll be responsible for resource management, project scheduling, budgets and forecasts, and working with external vendors, subcontractors or contractors.

You’ll conduct meetings and prepare reports to communicate the status of the project to the project team and client, set priorities, assign tasks, and coordinate project staff to meet project targets and milestones. You may have responsibilities to communicate with the client and deliver work products to satisfaction of client. You’ll be responsible for approving invoices, preparing change orders, and assisting with collections.

• Manage all aspects of a small to medium sized project.
• Review reports and other project associated deliverables.
• Work with clients or NAM to define project scope, schedule and budget.
• Design, communicate, and implement a project plan for completing the project.
• Lead safety efforts including preparation and compliance with approved safety plan.
• Take action to resolve operational problems and minimize delays.
• Identify, develop, and gather resources to complete the project. This may include preparing calculations, designs, reports and work specifications; developing project schedules, budgets and forecasts; and selecting materials, equipment, project staff, and external contractors.
• Partner with other departments or offices to secure specialized resources for the project.
• Conduct meetings and prepare reports to communicate the status of the project.
• Set priorities, assign tasks, and coordinate project staff to meet project targets and milestones.
• Coordinate with APR to ensure appropriate oversight is in place and sufficient time is allowed for reviews of all critical junctures.
• Coordinate with accounting for financial management of business intelligence, invoicing and collections.
• Develop understanding of project-related risk and be familiar with company risk policies.
• Lead safety efforts for team and ensure team follows safety rules and guidelines. Create and model a safe work environment; promote pre-task planning for all projects.
• Responsible for continuous quality monitoring and improvement on projects. Monitor and promote quality standards and practices.
• Provide consistent quality standards on project and proposal delivery. Engage APRs on projects at their onset.
• Experience with Construction Materials Testing/Special inspections scope:
  Concrete, Soil, Masonry, Structural steel, Wood Framing, Fireproofing.
• Hold coordination meetings with inspectors, subcontractors, and the EOR when issues arise.
• Ensure subcontractors understand inspection requirements and are ready before inspections begin.
• Communicate inspection findings to the project team and ensure timely correction of deficiencies.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline with a minimum of 5 years’ related experience; or in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 9 years’ related experience.
• Valid driver’s license with acceptable violation history.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
• Professional Engineer (PE) or similar professional registration/certification relevant to the type of services and projects being managed.

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