Senior​/Principal Construction Project Manager, Onsite

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Facilities is seeking a hardworking and highly motivated Construction Project Manager (

Job Title:

Facilities Engineering Project Manager) to join our team. The Construction Project Manager is responsible for ensuring that the project meets scope, schedule, and cost requirements per DOE Orders and Sandia requirements. As the Sandia Delegated Representative, you will be responsible for leading a team of contract construction managers, provide work assignments, issue resolution, mentorship, and guidance for the program. Projects range from supplying utilities for new equipment, increasing energy efficiency and resiliency, renovating existing infrastructure, office, and laboratory space, to construction of new buildings on the approximately 400‑acre site with one million square feet of space in Livermore, California.

• Use your relevant technical knowledge to participate in making contributions to the project through gathering and developing the customer's requirements and providing assurance and constructability reviews
• Work closely with the project team to ensure that the project progresses as planned and identifies and addresses both technical and non‑technical risks, opportunities, and other issues that impact the project during the project execution phase
• Ensure that projects are completed within budget constraints using cost estimation, budget determination, and cost control and effectively addresses budget concerns with the appropriate funding source
• Provide proper coordination, guidance, and leadership to Sandia contracted construction managers and inspectors to effectively schedule and manage all aspects of construction work
• Provide feedback to contract construction management firm on their staff that support Sandia construction program
• Resolve issues between construction contractors and contract construction managers
• Provide change order management, dispute resolution, constructability reviews, and contract administration of Sandia contracted construction management and inspection services
• Develop an integrated construction contractor schedule to manage all construction work as a program, and assign construction projects to Sandia contracted construction managers
• Provide upfront focus on risk management, value management, cost, and project controls of construction projects
• Perform construction project close out activities, including record documentation, and transition to operations and maintenance in a timely manner
• Represent the department organization in specification development, contract negotiations, internal organization performance challenges, and programmatic performance improvements

Due to the nature of the job, the selected candidate must be able to work onsite. You may be interviewed and/or hired into one of several organizations at Sandia.

$121,900 - $237,800

* Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic…