Construction Facilities & Vendor Manager

Job Title:

Vet Health Services - Construction, Facilities, and Vendor Manager

Location:

Phoenix Home Office (hybrid, onsite required with up to 25-45% travel).

• Oversees and coordinates critical timeline tasks to ensure pre-established hospital opening dates are met.
• Partners with home office and field leaders to ensure post hospital construction punch lists for F&E, IT and the construction team are completed in a timely manner.
• Verifies all post-hospital construction warranty items are completed in a timely manner.
• Ensure effective communication of all key construction initiatives to ensure consistent understanding of the intent, direction, and expected results of each hospital.
• Reviews hospital drawings, and partners with field to ensure compliance with PVS brand.
• Redirects ongoing new hospital Facility requests to the proper departments within the organization and ensures timely completion with appropriate follow-up.
• Communicates with hospital owners/leadership/operators on the progression of all outstanding punch list, warranty, or facility repair issues.
• Reviews current processes and practices, identify improvement opportunities, manage a timeline to improve or change current processes and practices, and track success of processes.
• Manages vendor relationships including identifying and on-boarding of new vendors, resolving vendor matters (e.g., billing issues, vendor performance issues, etc.), and monitor vendor contract timelines.
• Performs with a sense of urgency and agility/flexibility. Able to move quickly between strategy and tactics. Must integrate components from all cross functional partners.
• Schedule may require between 25% and 45% travel.

• Minimum 6 years of construction project management experience or a Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university in a similar field of study with equivalent experience
• Must have experience in multi-project responsibility
• Must be able to read and interpret construction documents
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-changing work environment
• Ability to devise creative solutions; produce measurable results; produce high quality work and attention to detail
• Fluent in Microsoft Office
• Skilled CAD operation a plus

Pet Smart provides an equal opportunity for all associates and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other legally protected characteristics.