Construction Manager

Construction Manager II

The Construction Manager II provides field-based leadership for a major industrial construction project in Alabama, overseeing all construction activities from site mobilization through startup readiness. This role leads daily onsite execution across mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, utility, millwright, and equipment-installation scopes while maintaining safety, quality, schedule, and stakeholder alignment. The Construction Manager II serves as a highly visible onsite leader who makes practical field decisions, resolves contractor interface issues, identifies schedule risks, and clearly communicates project status to both field teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities include:

• Plan, organize, and coordinate daily onsite construction activities across all active work areas from mobilization through construction completion and startup readiness.
• Provide field input into the integrated construction schedule, short-interval plans, budget forecasts, and recovery plans to keep the project on track.
• Conduct routine site inspections and construction walkdowns to verify quality, progress, safety, and conformance with issued plans and specifications.
• Coordinate mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, utility, millwright, and equipment-installation activities to ensure efficient sequencing and minimal conflicts.
• Oversee general contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and specialty trades, maintaining clear expectations and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Monitor critical paths, schedule dependencies, contractor productivity, access constraints, material availability, and trade interfaces to anticipate and address issues proactively.
• Identify schedule variances and collaborate with contractors and project leadership to define and implement corrective or recovery actions.
• Review field conditions, resolve routine construction conflicts, and escalate matters that require engineering, commercial, or executive decisions.
• Monitor contractor compliance with site safety requirements and support corrective actions when unsafe conditions or behaviors are identified.
• Provide quality oversight to help ensure all work complies with project specifications, drawings, and relevant industry standards.
• Facilitate coordination meetings involving the owners representatives, contractors, engineering, operations, and equipment vendors to align priorities and resolve issues.
• Track and report construction progress, open risks, action items, key decisions, change impacts, and potential budget effects to project leadership and stakeholders.
• Support installation-readiness and turnover planning for manufacturing equipment and infrastructure, ensuring smooth transition to startup and operations.
• Maintain clear, consistent communication with field personnel, project leadership, and management regarding status, risks, and required decisions.
• Provide practical leadership and guidance to supervisors and project-team members while preserving clear accountability for contractor performance.
• Begin each day with contractor coordination, safety discussions, sequencing review, and constraint analysis to set expectations and align activities.
• Walk active work areas daily to compare actual progress with planned work and to identify any quality or safety concerns requiring attention.
• Coordinate handoffs and site access among civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, utility, and millwright crews to minimize downtime and interference.
• Review near-term milestones, critical activities, material status, engineering dependencies, and vendor requirements to ensure readiness for upcoming work.
• Document site observations, responsible parties, due dates, and escalation needs, and lead or participate in…