
Project Manager - General Construction
Required skills
- construction drawings
- specs
- take-offs
- Xactimate
- local codes
- state codes
- federal codes
- inspection requirements
- safe work practices
- First Onsite safety requirements
Nice to have
- Assistant Project Manager
- Area Wide Events
Role summary
A Construction Project Manager is needed to oversee projects valued over $100K from start to finish. Responsibilities include managing schedules, budgets, and quality standards, coordinating with field teams, customers, and subcontractors, and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory requirements. The role requires evaluating scopes of work, monitoring costs, and proactively addressing project risks and challenges to ensure successful and profitable project completion. This position demands strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills to deliver projects that meet customer needs.
A Day in the Life of a Project Manager
As a Project Manager, you'll start your day by reviewing active projects, priorities, budgets, and schedules to ensure work is progressing toward successful and profitable completion. You'll manage projects valued over $100K within a single business line, overseeing daily activities and coordinating teams, resources, and timelines. You'll evaluate scopes of work, monitor project costs, and ensure quality standards are consistently met while keeping customers and stakeholders informed throughout the project lifecycle.
Throughout the day, you'll work closely with field teams, customers, subcontractors, and internal partners to address challenges and keep projects moving forward. You'll review Xactimate scopes, evaluate project requirements, and use your knowledge of local, state, and federal codes and inspection requirements to ensure work is completed correctly and in compliance with applicable standards. When unexpected issues arise, you'll use your problem-solving skills to develop solutions while balancing scope, budget, schedule, quality, and customer expectations.
Safety will be a priority in everything you do. You'll ensure delivery teams follow safe work practices and applicable First Onsite and legislative safety requirements, while making sure appropriately trained and deployed trades have the resources they need to perform their work safely. You'll communicate project expectations, monitor progress, and hold teams accountable for delivering quality results. Every day, your leadership will bring together people, planning, technical expertise, and financial oversight to deliver successful projects that meet customer needs and support the profitability of First Onsite.
Responsibilities:
- Manage projects from start to finish, including full oversight and quality control
- Develop and maintain project schedules, timelines, and budgets
- Review, approve, and manage subcontractor proposals, scopes, and change orders
- Maintain all project documentation: daily logs, reports, inventories, and records
- Coordinate with leadership on scope, buy-outs, and reserves
- Perform billing reviews, audits, and invoicing
- Monitor project risks and proactively address schedule or budget issues
- Respond to on-call needs and manage technician/subcontractor availability, 24/7
- Fill in as needed, including hands-on tasks and additional responsibilities
Experience & Education:
- 2+ years as Assistant Project Manager
- Skilled in construction drawings, specs, and take-offs
- Supervised 2+ Area Wide Events
- Experience in DR or GC
- High school diploma or equivalent
- 7+ current industry certifications
- Valid driver's license
*Employees assigned to certain healthcare-related roles may be required to participate in additional drug and alcohol screening program(s) in accordance with client requirements, such as but not limited to Coalition for Construction Safety ("CCS") regulations in the state of Indiana.
First Onsite provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
First Onsite (and its Companies) participates in E-Verify. We will provide the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employer's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Third party resume submissions are not accepted. Any resume submitted will be considered the property of THE COMPANY, and THE COMPANY will not be held liable to pay a placement fee.
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