Senior Construction Manager

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JOB TITLE: Senior Construction Manager

DEPARTMENT: Platform Delivery

REPORTS TO: Director, Construction Management or Reg. Director, Platform Execution

SUMMARY: Manage all aspects of construction projects, from planning to closeout, to ensure performance certainty, including safety, project turnover dates, cost control, quality of craftsmanship, and customer satisfaction. Provide leadership and direction in construction management policies and fostering key relationships to include general contractors, trade partners, AHJs, and other essential project vendors and suppliers. Will work closely with Senior Construction Manager and/or Director, Construction Management in the development and implementation of construction management best practices, procedures and tools.

• Travel may be required to support additional projects and pursuits. Projects are expected to be throughout North America and could extend into LATAM, South America, and EMEA.
• Responsible for managing day-to-day operations of construction projects.
• Projects will be large, fast moving, complex, and require a high degree of coordination and proactive leadership.

• Drive projects from inception through customer or business turnover, with heavy focus and leadership in the preconstruction, construction, commissioning and turnover phases of projects. The Construction Manager operates as the primary support role of the project to the Design Manager (DM) through design phase of the project and assumes overall project leadership role from the DM at GC mobilization.
• Direct accountabilities include:
• Provide guidance and project leadership including ground up construction, remodels, renovations, and fit outs, ensuring performance certainty of projects.
• Organize and lead cross function work groups, including design, engineering, procurement, land enablement, commercial, operations, IT/network, sales, solutions architecture, legal, brand strategy, finance, and accounting as needed to achieve construction management best practices.
• Develop collaborative relationships with the construction community including general contractors, MEP trade partners, CSA trades, local Authorities Having Jurisdiction, design partners, and other key project vendors and suppliers.
• Active management of project budgeting from project inception through the various design phases and the completion of building turnover.
• Manage budgets during the design phase to utilize cost data as an input to design decisions.
• Direct as many as 25+ external vendors per project comprising of general contractors, A&E design teams, commissioning agents, equipment suppliers, etc.
• Assist in development and implementation of company and departmental processes and best management practices within areas of responsibility.
• Create effective tools to empower and incentivize contracting and design partners to innovate approaches and solutions for project delivery and specific challenges.
• Ensure effective contract administration including generation, review, management, and monitoring of prime contracts, subcontracts, change orders, cost forecasts, and other pertinent documents and documentation. Assure that internal controls are in place at each step of the process.
• Inspect work in place and work in progress to ensure same meets or exceeds quality, specification, and schedule requirements.
• Advocate for self-growth and promotion by seeking out training, professional development, and career advancement opportunities.
• Provide subject-matter expertise in areas of responsibility.
• Reports status, successes, challenges and plans of action to management team and company on a timely basis.
• Operates in lockstep with the DM on each project to ensure proper communications/escalations and regular reporting to all internal and external parties and…