
Senior Project Manager (Higher Education) - Detroit
Required skills
- Construction Cost
- Scheduling
- Estimating
- Purchasing
- Engineering Principles
- Accounting Principles
- Contract Documents
- Drawings
- Specifications
- Scopes of Work
Nice to have
- Lean
- Turner Initiatives
- Turner Technologies
Role summary
This Senior Project Manager role in Higher Education Construction in Detroit requires leading and managing multiple construction projects. The position involves developing high-performance teams, managing contracts, budgets, schedules, and quality control. Key responsibilities include fostering stakeholder relations, overseeing field operations, ensuring safety compliance, and driving the adoption of new technologies like BIM and Lean principles. A Bachelor's degree and at least ten years of related experience are required, along with strong knowledge of construction management, accounting, and communication skills.
| Division: | Michigan |
| Project Location(s): | Detroit, MI 48201 USA |
| Minimum Years Experience: | |
| Travel Involved: | |
| Job Type: | Regular |
| Job Classification: | Experienced |
| Education: | |
| Job Family: | Construction |
| Compensation: | Salaried Exempt |
Position Description: Leads, directs and coordinates the overall management of multiple projects.
Reports to: Project Executive, Deputy Operations Manager or Operations Manager
Essential Duties & Responsibilities*:
- Develop a high-performance team through supervision, training, coaching, and mentoring. Ensure regular feedback is shared with staff including timely completion of employee performance appraisals.
- Understand and administer Turner's contract and subcontract agreements.
- Foster and enhance owner, architect, subcontractor and vendor relations.
- Establish, update, and communicate Master Project Schedule and manage its implementation.
- May work with Preconstruction team in development of project.
- Manage budget and financial reporting, interpret and analyze reports to ensure adherence to project budget.
- Manage the Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) Program.
- Manage and oversee field operation and engineering processes and procedures.
- Drive competencies to team on requirements for insurance, labor relations, and employee relations.
- Drive enforcement of safety protocols by the project staff.
- Work with Accounting to initiate Pay Application process and follow up to ensure payment is received in a timely manner.
- Keep management informed on progress of project and budget through regularly scheduled Operation Review Meetings (ORMs).
- Support and drive utilization of various Turner initiatives and technologies.
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Qualifications: Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of ten years' related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience. Thorough knowledge of construction cost, scheduling, estimating, purchasing and engineering principles and techniques, as well as accounting principles. Prove written and verbal communication abilities; proficiency with computer applications including Microsoft Office Suite. Ability to read, understand and interpret contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work and project schedule. Ability to implement leading-edge technologies such as Building Information Models (BIM) and Lean to benefit the project. Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills.
Physical Demands: Performance of the required duties will require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs, passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Performing this job requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.
*May perform other duties as assigned.
Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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