Traveling Project Manager, Industrial​/Manufacturing

Position:
Traveling Project Manager, Industrial/Manufacturing — with JE Dunn Construction
. The role supports leadership on moderately complex projects within Industrial & Manufacturing, Data Center and Semiconductor sectors as part of JE Dunn’s Advanced Facilities Group (AFG), which combines Mission Critical, Advanced Industries, and Industrial & Manufacturing.

JE Dunn’s diverse teams strive to enrich lives through inspired people and places every day, and we are seeking inspired people to join us in building perfection.

The Project Manager will provide overall direction and leadership on moderately complex projects, or portions of large construction projects. This position will fully implement and manage the operation and administration of projects in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.

• Leads all aspects of the company’s safety culture and creates awareness by demonstrating commitment to an injury-free environment through individual actions and mentoring others. Investigates safety incidents and retrains staff as needed.
• Manages the JE Dunn prestart checklist form.
• Supports the preconstruction team including quantity takeoff, trade coordination and scope of work development, scope review, bid package development, schedule development, bid list creation and bid advertisement.
• Leads plan and implementation of buyout schedule. Verifies pricing and scope, identifies successful bidders, provides gap analysis against initial scope and manages issuance of subcontracts.
• Manages the submittal schedule setup. Coordinates priorities with the team; reviews and approves all shop drawings and samples prior to submittal to architects or engineers.
• Ensures approved submittals are returned to subcontractors and available to project team per the project schedule and the contract.
• Coordinates with Logistics to obtain pricing on materials and equipment.
• Confers with risk management to ensure approval and/or bonding requirements for subcontractors. Reviews decisions with project leader. Provides ongoing risk analysis of subcontractors throughout project lifecycle.
• Coordinates the various stakeholders of the project including subcontractors, owner, field, design team, vendors, etc.
• Disseminates change requests to subcontractors for pricing and schedule input. Gathers and evaluates subcontractor pricing to confirm accuracy.
• Prepares, submits and obtains owner/architect approval for change requests.
• Leads meetings such as monthly project reviews, progress meetings and OAC (Owner Architect) meetings.
• Completes monthly subcontractor and owner pay application process.
• Prepares project schedule with the Project Superintendent. Gathers input from project team and utilizes Lean principles as appropriate. Develops and updates project schedule for both preconstruction and construction activities. Manages materials, labor and procurement logs to ensure resources are available to meet the project schedule.
• Identifies potential schedule impacts including scope, weather, manpower and changes, and facilitates mitigation plans for these impacts.
• Provides written documentation for decisions affecting budget, schedule, legal, quality and/or safety. Uses current best practices for documentation requirements.
• Provides regular reporting and analysis to project teams to communicate overall project status and profitability.
• Prepares monthly cost and margin forecast with input from the superintendent and reviews with the project team. Participates in developing the project budget and regularly reviews costs relative to the budget to highlight discrepancies and improve financial performance.
• Leads overall project closeout process using standard tools and processes (close-out punch list, financials, subcontracts, warranties, etc.).
• Interfaces with region/company legal counsel as appropriate.

• Gains an understanding of the estimating process from conceptual phase through GMP development.
• Identifies, understands and actively manages project risks.
• Understands and manages project business plan to maximize financial success.
• Implements and manages components…