Senior Project Manager

Build Critical Infrastructure. Lead the Team That Delivers It.

TAKNEK LLC is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager Industrial Construction to lead complex construction projects throughout North Texas and support the continued growth of our Industrial Construction division.

This is a senior position for a construction professional who can do more than manage an individual project. The Senior Project Manager will have responsibility for the successful execution of multiple projects and will provide leadership, direction, mentoring, and accountability to Project Managers (PMs) and Assistant Project Managers (APMs).

The ideal candidate has a strong general contracting background, understands field execution, contracts, cost control, scheduling, procurement, subcontractor management, and owner relationships, and knows how to build project teams that consistently deliver.

TAKNEK is a full-service industrial construction and automation company headquartered in Gainesville, Texas. Our Industrial Construction division delivers complex infrastructure and industrial projects with in-house capabilities spanning civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical construction.

We are looking for a leader who takes ownership.

• Lead industrial and infrastructure construction projects from preconstruction and turnover through commissioning and final closeout.
• Maintain overall responsibility for project safety, quality, schedule, cost, contract compliance, and client satisfaction.
• Establish project execution plans, budgets, schedules, procurement strategies, and staffing requirements.
• Review contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work, estimates, and project requirements before and during execution.
• Identify project risks early and develop practical mitigation and recovery plans.
• Maintain accurate project forecasting, including cost-to-complete, committed costs, projected margins, cash flow, and schedule impacts.
• Lead project meetings with owners, engineers, subcontractors, vendors, superintendents, and internal stakeholders.
• Manage RFIs, submittals, change orders, claims, procurement, subcontract administration, and project documentation.
• Ensure long-lead materials and equipment are identified, released, tracked, and delivered in accordance with the project schedule.
• Coordinate closely with field leadership to ensure project plans translate into safe and efficient field execution.
• Drive projects through startup, commissioning, punch list, turnover, and final closeout.

Lead Project Managers & APMs

A major responsibility of this position is developing TAKNEK's project management organization.

• Provide direct leadership and oversight to assigned Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers.
• Establish clear expectations for project controls, reporting, documentation, communication, and financial performance.
• Review project status with PMs regularly and intervene early when cost, schedule, procurement, contractual, or client issues arise.
• Coach PMs on owner communication, contract administration, change management, negotiation, forecasting, and decision-making.
• Mentor APMs and create opportunities for them to progressively take ownership of larger portions of projects.
• Review the quality and accuracy of project documentation produced by PMs and APMs.
• Help standardize project management processes and establish repeatable best practices across TAKNEK projects.
• Participate in performance evaluations and development planning for project management personnel.
• Build accountability while creating a culture in which team members are expected to identify problems early and bring forward solutions.
• Own the financial performance of assigned projects.
• Establish and maintain project budgets and cost codes.
• Review monthly…