Construction Project Manager

A regional hotel and commercial developer is hiring asenior construction leader to join its development team. You'll be our advisor and the main link between ownership and the general contractor. Your job is tomake sure every project is estimated accurately, built to plan, and delivered on budget and on schedule. Above all, we need someone who goes deep into the drawings to find better, faster, and less expensive ways to build, and whobrings those options to the design team, the general contractor, and ownership.

We have hotel and commercial projects underway and upcoming in both Whitefish and Missoula.

This is not a high-level oversight role. You will be expected to get into the plan details yourself and actively drive building costs down. Specifically, you will:

• Drillinto the plans. Dig into architectural, structural, MEP, and interior drawings and specifications at the detail level: assemblies, systems,materials, finishes, and connections, to find where cost and time are being built in.
• Bring constructability and VE options to the whole team. Develop practical alternatives (substitute materials, simplified details, alternate systems, prefabrication, re-sequencing) and work them through with the architect, engineers, and general contractors before pricing is locked.
• Control the building price. Challenge GC pricing and design decisions withyour own numbers, so the budget is driven by the owner, not set by the bid.
• Report back to ownership with options, not just problems. Forevery recommendation, give ownership the alternatives side by side: cost savings, schedule savings, and any impact on quality, brand standards, guest experience, or long-term operating and maintenance costs, so we can make fast,informed decisions.
• Leading smaller projects. In addition to our larger projects, we need someone who knows construction well enough to lead us in selecting subcontractors directly and leading the entire process on smaller on-site projects.
• Contract sand negotiations. Expected to lead the team through the GC andowner contract phase.

• Build and maintain detailed estimates and budgets from concept through construction documents.
• Lead preconstruction: run detailed constructability reviews and value engineering sessions at each design milestone (schematic design, design development, and construction documents) with the architect, engineers, and general contractor, and track every VE itemfrom idea through accepted, priced, and incorporated in the drawings.
• Prepare bid packages, qualify and select general contractors, level bids, and negotiate contracts.
• Manage projects day-to-day: schedules,owner-architect-contractor meetings, RFIs, submittals, change orders, and quality.
• Review contractors pay applications, track lien waivers, and prepare lender and owner draw packages.
• Track cost against budget and contingency, andreport monthly to ownership, including a running log of VE and constructability items with the cost and schedule savings achieved.
• Coordinate hotel brand standards and franchise requirements.
• Coordinate FF&E and OS&E purchasing with design and procurement partners.
• Plans phased renovations in operating hotels soguest impact stays low and rooms go out of service for as little time as possible.
• Work with city staff on permits, inspections,and certificates of occupancy.
• Close out projects: punch lists, warranties,as-builts, and handoff to operations.

• 10+ years in commercial construction, with extensive experience in both estimating and project management.
• Ability to read and analyze a full set of architectural, structural, and MEP drawings and specifications at the detail level, and to spot constructability…