Project Executive II

The Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the highest quality of care in the treatment and prevention of human illness. JHHS is an academically based health system consisting of: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center, Suburban Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital, The Johns Hopkins All Children’s Health System, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, The Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation and Johns Hopkins Medical Management Corporation.

What Awaits You?

• Career growth and development
• Employee and Dependent Tuition Assistance
• Diverse and collaborative working environment
• Affordable and comprehensive benefits package

Location: Ashland Ave., Baltimore, MD

Position Summary:

• Project Executives are responsible for the overall leadership of a portfolio of projects that may include construction of additions, alterations, renovations, and major ground-up construction at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and/or various satellite ambulatory locations that require project management support.
• The ideal candidate should possess proficiency delivering all aspects of construction projects including project initiation, design, budget, construction, safety/compliance, and closeout.
• Project Executives work closely with the Senior Director in setting the culture, processes, procedures, and best practices within the department with the goal of continuous improvement.
• Project Executives will play a key role in the delivery of more than $1 billion of capital construction in the coming years including three major projects: 517,000 square foot Johns Hopkins School of Medicine North Tower Addition, $119 million Belward Farms Medical Office Building, and the 407,000 square foot Johns Hopkins Bayview New Inpatient Building.
• Beyond the required technical skills for this position, Project Executives must also possess effective communication, interpersonal, problem-solving skills with the ability to build positive working relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Project Executives operate with a high degree of autonomy and accountability to ensure the estimating, construction, and occupancy phases of major capital and/or multiple, concurrent large and complex projects meet JHHS project goals and objectives.

Essential Duties, Functions, and Responsibilities:

• Leads and manages the renovation, tenant fit-out, and major capital construction projects ranging in cost up to, and at times exceeding $50M. Project responsibilities often include tight timelines, focused programs, difficult logistics, and fixed budgets.
• Builds conceptual estimates and coordinates planning work with other leaders to align with master level plans and programs
• Manage multiple team members comprised of Project Managers and Senior Projects Managers to ensure that the portfolio of projects under your guidance are being delivered to expected standards.
• Works cohesively with partner departments such as architecture/planning, finance, engineering/operations, clinical engineering, and others on a regular basis to ensure effective communication and collaboration at all phases of a project.
• Provides exemplary customer service by providing timely and accurate updates to internal team members and the client representatives regarding project status, budget, and schedule. Ensures that assigned team members are meeting customer service expectations and provide direct support as needed.
• Oversees individual or multiple projects with higher risk, complexity, and scale.
• Can lead, independently, if necessary, the complete planning, design and construction of a major initiative without the support of others.
• Possesses the ability to individually lead renovation or ground-up project exceeding $100M while also managing the overall quality and health of a portfolio of projects being delivered by dedicated Project Manager and/or Senior Project Manager staff.
• Serves as departmental representative or appropriately delegates responsibilities on all assigned projects. Identifies when Project Manager and/or Senior Project Manager staff need support managing client, contractor, architect, consultant, or agency relationships.
• Works with the Senior Director and other Project Executives on project staffing and team resource allocation.
• Leads internal department committees to develop internal standards for all aspects of project delivery.
• Leads internal departmental efforts to assess and implement innovative project delivery methods such as Design/Build, Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), or other useful models.
• Directly works with Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ’s) who permit, inspect, and approve project work to resolve discrepancies. Provides direct support to Project Manager and/or Senior Project Manager staff with AHJ’s as needed.
• Works with capital finance and other leaders on the long-range capital plans and has a grasp of the financial impact of the work on the organization.
• Can quickly distill the value/risk of suggested programmatic changes and can create recommendations regarding changes then prioritize and escalate these to leadership for action.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or related field is preferred.
• Candidates who possess equivalent advanced technical knowledge via an associate degree, training in trades programs, vocational or technical school, partially completed coursework at a college/university, or apprenticeship sponsor organization will be considered.

Work Experience:

Project Executive II

• No Degree: 20 yrs. Health Care Design/Construction
• Associate’s Degree: 19 yrs. Health Care Design/Construction
• Bachelor’s Degree: 18 yrs. Health Care Design/Construction
• Experience in the construction of wet labs and computational labs highly desired.

Salary Range: $64.81/hour - $113.43/hour. Compensation will be commensurate with equity and experience for roles of similar scope and responsibility. I

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