Construction Manager

Under the supervision of the Project Director, the Construction Manager is dedicated exclusively to the Casino Arizona renovation project. The role coordinates day-to-day planning, design, construction, activation, and closeout activities to support completion within the approved scope, schedule, budget, specifications, and quality standards. The Construction Manager serves as the primary coordination point among Casino Arizona departments, consultants, contractors, and regulatory partners and escalates significant budget, schedule, quality, safety, operational-impact, and scope decisions to the Project Director.

Job Title:
Construction Manager

Department: IT

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Reports To:
Project Director

Under the supervision of the Project Director, the Construction Manager is dedicated exclusively to the Casino Arizona renovation project. The role coordinates day-to-day planning, design, construction, activation, and closeout activities to support completion within the approved scope, schedule, budget, specifications, and quality standards. The Construction Manager serves as the primary coordination point among Casino Arizona departments, consultants, contractors, and regulatory partners and escalates significant budget, schedule, quality, safety, operational-impact, and scope decisions to the Project Director.

• Assists with all aspects of a construction project, including planning, budgeting, scheduling, coordinating subcontractors and ensuring safety compliance.
• Partners with the Safety department, Security, Facilities, the general contractor, and Casino Arizona operations to establish and maintain a project-specific safety plan for renovation work within and adjacent to an operating casino. The plan addresses controlled access, public separation, emergency egress, hot work, dust and noise control, utility shutdowns, temporary barriers, incident response, and communication of changing site conditions.
• Coordinates the Casino Arizona renovation design and construction phases, including bid packages, sequencing, temporary conditions, shutdowns, relocations, swing-space needs, commissioning, and phased turnover. Monitors contractor and consultant performance; identifies risks or issues affecting guest experience, casino operations, cost, schedule, quality, safety, or regulatory compliance; recommends corrective action; and escalates significant concerns to the Project Director.
• Responsible for reviewing problems, checking progress and ensuring compliance with plans and specifications.
• Develops and maintains a phased construction and operational-continuity plan for the Casino Arizona renovation. In partnership with Casino Arizona operations, Security, Safety, Facilities, Marketing, Information Technology, and other affected departments, evaluates business volumes, guest and Team Member circulation, transportation access, parking, property ingress and egress, temporary routes, noise, dust, utilities, life-safety systems, and planned shutdowns to protect revenue and minimize disruption to casino operations.
• Coordinates required permits, reviews, inspections, and approvals for the Casino Arizona renovation, including applicable Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community processes, ECS, DRC, gaming-regulatory requirements, fire and life-safety reviews, accessibility requirements, and certificates or approvals required for phased occupancy and final completion.
• Works with general contractor and executive management to perform value engineering and constructability review.
• Assures regular jobsite meetings with subcontractors, architects and owners occur and that written minutes are maintained. Monitors cost and schedule performance, change order requirements, maintains up-to-date records, and takes corrective action to meet milestone objectives. Observes work put in place to monitor quality of workmanship and assure a successful project.
• Prepares a monthly Casino Arizona renovation status report for the Project Director and executive leadership covering safety performance, completed and upcoming phases, schedule milestones, critical path, procurement, budget and forecast, contingency use, billing, change orders, operational impacts, regulatory approvals, key risks, decisions required, and corrective actions.
• Reviews vendor and contractor invoices, confirms that charges are supported by completed work and appropriate documentation, codes invoices, and…