Field Construction Manager

Reports to: Director of Operations

Description: The Construction Manager (CM) can run a standalone multi-craft project up to $30 Million dollars. The CM's primary role on a large construction project is to oversee safety, quality, equipment, material, and manpower and overall site coordination between senior craft leadership. The CM is additionally responsible for supporting and assisting the project lead or being the project lead.

To successfully manage a project, they must have a thorough multi-discipline understanding of the industry's best practices and codes.

Responsibilities (other duties may be assigned)

General:

• 12 years of applicable experience
• History of working successfully as a Sr. Project Engineer or Project Superintendent
• Proven ability to work collaboratively and execute independently, maintain excellent rapport with team members
• Overall project communication, Strategic project planning, organization between multiple stakeholders potentially comprised of partners, customers, public and local government entities.
• Understanding and assessing project resource demands including organization chart development, roles and responsibilities, expectations and the ability to make changes as needed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Through the development of the division of responsibilities, understand, enforce, and as needed develop all necessary project documents.
• Understand and comply with local ordinances, contractor licensing and city and county permitting requirements. Including all subcontractors, engineers and project partners.
• Lead project constructability reviews and task plan to improve the execution of the project.
• Knowledge of project financials and the ability to evaluate costs and benefits to allow for correct decision making when reviewing short and long-term risks and opportunities.
• Demonstrate business skills including communication skills, relationship development, and business acumen
• Self-motivated; capable of taking initiative, successfully handling and prioritize multiple competing assignments and effectively manage deadlines
• Interpersonal and communication skills to coordinate team efforts, provide direction to team members, and communicate project objectives, parameters, status, and outcomes to stakeholders
• Written and verbal communication with ability to serve as a spokesperson for Company
• Willing to travel extensively and relocate to the next project location for an extended period (typically 6-12 months)
• Be an influential leader and developer of Strobel's culture and values

Client interaction:

• In absence of PM, act as the primary client point of contact
• Anticipate and act on client project needs and expectations
• Represent Strobel in a professional manner in all client interaction activities
• Set up and run Client/Strobel/Subcontractor kickoff meeting
• Lead construction specific portions of daily, weekly and monthly meetings with the client

Safety:

• Lead coach and mentor discipline superintendents to establish the safety culture consistent with Strobel's values.
• Anticipate and act on project safety needs based upon upcoming activities and leading indicators.
• Oversee incident management and investigation.
• Understand and lead Strobel's Corporate Safety Plan and develop/assist in site specific safety plan
• Ability to make project decisions related to the safety of all employees including sitewide stop work
• Support or lead safety training meetings and sessions
• Act as site representation in PM's absence for Regulatory Audits (OSHA, Dept. of Environment, etc)
• Ensure Strobel's Safety best practices are in place including Supervisor audits, Craft observations, Safety Leadership Meetings (SLTs), Scorecard, and Trend Report.
• Ensure your team reports ALL safety events and near misses

Quality:

• Lead coach and mentor discipline superintendents to understand and execute Strobel's Corporate Quality Plan and develop/assist in site specific quality plan
• Read, understand, and ensure that the site quality plan is communicated, and all inspections and quality documentation is completed on time and assembled for final turn-over
• Ensure compliance with all internal, client, governmental and 3rd party codes and inspections
• Identify deficiencies, inform and explain to the client, and participate in RCA, and corrective action.
• Identify inconsistencies between industry's best practices and specifications/drawings and provide value engineering through the request for information (RFI) process
• Ensure that the project team is qualified to perform their work. Ensure the team has the appropriate certifications/license to execute their work.
• Lead and support superintendents in developing startup and commissioning plans including flushing, testing, and turnover

Leadership:

• Perform as a leader on the project, and act as a leader within the whole Strobel organization
• Assist in the development of project goals and roles and responsibilities for team members
• Ability to execute the role of your direct reports as needed.
• Conduct and lead meetings, both internally and externally in a professional manner
• Communicate and coordinate with all trades, subcontractors and project stakeholders
• Provide training and coaching to indirect staff, and field leadership
• Ensure on the job training to craft personnel is in place
• Understand and know applicable employee laws and follow Strobel HR policies
• Supervise and manage the employee discipline and improvement process within the team
• Ability to listen to employee concerns and oversee conflict resolution. Elevate to corporate HR as needed.

Project Controls:

• Productivity Tracking

• Understand discipline budgets, install rates and quantities of the productivity tracker

• Ensure Strobel's Productivity Tracking tools are being utilized

• Review productivity of disciplines and support the development of low productivity mitigation plans

• Average Labor Rate

• Understand the components of the rate composition (Base, Sub, Overtime, Crew mix)

• Ensure Superintendents are establishing crew mix to meet budget ALR and hire accordingly

• Review Labor Efficiency Index

• Equipment schedule and log

• Take ownership of the equipment schedule, log, utilization and budget

• Identify equipment purchase opportunities

• Risk and Opportunity Log

• Identify and add to the risk/opportunity log

• Manage actions taken to reduce current risks and seize opportunities

• Lessons Learned

• Provide input to the Lesson's Learned document for your project

• Utilize applicable lessons learned from Strobel's/Industry best practices and prior lessons learned

• Project Closeout

• Oversee/support the closeout process

• Participate in the client critique and client lessons learned of applicable.

Productivity:

• Understand and ensure all superintendents know the project scope of work.
• Know the budget and put a plan in place to meet or beat the labor budget.
• Examine/inspect field conditions and identify problems, inaccuracies, and cost saving measures that arise or that may be encountered. Take proactive actions as needed in any of these areas.
• Follow the Strobel planning process including creating and updating the master schedule.
• Identify Major task plan items and lead major task planning sessions to safely and efficiently carry out all aspects of work assigned.
• Listen to employees' and supervisor's suggestions, complaints, problems, safety concerns and recommendations, evaluate each, then devise and implement a plan based on information gathered.

Scheduling:

• Scheduling:
• Support the scheduling process in the current standard software (Primavera P6)
• Follow scheduling best practices in accordance with Strobel Policy AD-230
• Support the Strobel Planning process
• Master Schedule
• 6 weeks (Ownership)
• 3 weeks
• 1 week
• Daily goal cards
• Equipment Schedule
• Indirect Schedule
• Manpower Curves

Project Management:

• Document Control: Ensure that construction is executed from current engineering drawings, specifications, and other necessary documentation.

• Ensure redlines/as-builts are being maintained and assembled for final turn over to client.

• Spectrum: Proficient with Strobel's Construction Management Software, Spectrum. Understands capabilities of the following:

• Project Dashboard

• My Time Kiosk

• Safety Dashboard

• Unapproved Invoicing Management

• Job Analysis Tab

• Project Log Dashboard

• Cost Activity and Material Tab

• Daily reports

• Change Management Process

• Document Control Module

• Average Labor Rate Reports

• Unit Rate Reports

• Request for Information (RFI) Processes:

• Ensure RFI process is in place

• Field Change Order Processes:

• Ensure out of scope work is identified, tracked and submitted to the client through the COR process

Contract management

Contract Management: Know the provisions, terms and scope of the Prime contract. Know and understand the Owner's overall project delivery plan, including Supplier, Engineering, and other Contractor's contract types and their integration. Identify and understand project risks and develop a risk mitigation plan.

• Contract Management:

• Read and understand the project contract

• Participate in high level negotiation/communication with the owner

• Schedule updates

• Change Orders

• Conflicts/Issues

• Identify key terms and conditions (Notice requirements, payment terms, LDs, Milestone requirements, Change Order Process, Insurance, bonding, etc.)

• Separate and disseminate contract scope documents to applicable field leadership

• Ensure review of any revised contract documents for potential change orders (include scope drawings)

Financial oversite:

• Budget Process

• Support superintendents in the budgeting process of taking the Estimate and converting it to Strobel's Standard Phase codes, following the rule of thumb guidelines (i.e. no phase code with more than 1,000 hours)

• Forecasting Process (Work in progress reporting)

• Provide input for the update of the forecast

Subcontract and Procurement Management:

• Subcontract Administration and Management: Oversee the subcontracting process, understand Strobel's subcontract template and any Prime Contract passthroughs.

• Subcontract Administration and Management:

• Understanding and communicating key terms of the subcontract (LDs, Payment, Prime pass through)

• Lead final subcontract negotiations

• Receive, review, and approval subcontract schedule of values and construction schedule

• Lead onsite kickoff meeting with each subcontractor prior to mobilization

• Ensure subcontractor controls processes is followed including cost, progress, and schedule updates

• Review required subcontract communications (Notices, delays, scope changes)

• Review of subcontract change requests

• Conduct final contract scope and administrative close out (Punch list, warranty, liens)

• Approve final payment and financial close out in Spectrum of each subcontract

• Complete and return subcontractor evaluation form

• Procurement

• Ensure all long lead/specialty material and equipment is ordered, and on site

• Ensure major procurement items are on the master schedule

• Ensure discipline superintendents are submitting material requisitions per the master schedule/project spec and approved submittals.

• Ensure equipment procurement includes startup, FAT, field support, first fills etc.

• Ensure the PSR is being utilized

• Receiving/Warehouse

• Set up project receiving plan including OSD

• Set up warehouse storage plan including staging material, equipment

• Set up equipment storage plan including Climate control, Rotation, lubrication etc.

• Set up material field requisition plan

Technical Abilities

• Autocad and 3d modeling

• Operate Autocad viewers, print screen sections, add and remove layers

• Operate 3D/BIM viewers, print screen sections, add and remove scope layers

• Microsoft Office

• Have ability to generate word documents and understand and create Excel documents.

• Specifications and Drawings

• Able to read and understand standard specifications and drawings

Experience

• Have demonstrated success as a Senior Project Engineer or Project Superintendent
• Manage up to 7 direct reports
• Lead/direct a field crew of 100 people
• Oversee and manage a multi-discipline scope of $30M
• 12 years' experience

Hours: This position is a Full-Time salaried position. The schedule can vary based on the project requirements, typically 50 hours/week.

Travel: Travel as needed.

Compensation based on experience and qualifications

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.