Workplace Design and Construction Project Manager

Job Title: Workplace Design and Construction Project Manager
Location: Solon, Ohio | Hybrid, onsite Tuesday through Thursday
Schedule: Full-time, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Duration: 12 Months+
 

Travel: Approximately 20-30% across the United States and Canada

Job Summary

We are seeking a Workplace Design and Construction Project Manager to lead capital construction, workplace renovation, and facility improvement projects across corporate offices, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers.

The Project Manager will serve as the owner's representative, overseeing projects from initial planning and budgeting through design, procurement, construction, and final handover. This role requires strong project management, financial control, stakeholder coordination, and construction expertise, with an emphasis on safety, quality, cost efficiency, and minimal disruption to ongoing operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Planning: Define project scope, assess feasibility, develop budgets, estimates, schedules, business cases, and capital approval requests.
• Design and Pre-Construction: Coordinate with architects, design consultants, contractors, and vendors to finalize requirements, drawings, specifications, and scopes of work.
• Procurement and Contracts: Prepare RFPs, evaluate bids, conduct cost comparisons, negotiate scope alignment, and manage contracts, purchase orders, and change orders.
• Budget and Schedule Management: Monitor project costs, forecasts, milestones, dependencies, invoices, and schedule performance. Identify risks and recommend corrective actions.
• Construction Oversight: Monitor site progress, documentation, quality, contractor performance, and compliance with safety requirements and applicable regulations.
• Stakeholder Management: Coordinate with business leaders, site teams, procurement, finance, legal, risk management, Safety/EHS, consultants, and external vendors.
• Operational Continuity: Manage site access, shutdowns, utility impacts, and construction activities to minimize disruption to manufacturing, distribution, and office operations.
• Project Closeout: Reconcile final costs, complete punch lists, obtain warranties and as-built drawings, maintain closeout documentation, and coordinate project handover.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Interior Design, Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field; alternatively, 8 years of relevant professional experience in a similar field.
• 8+ years of project management experience in construction, facilities, workplace development, manufacturing, distribution, or capital projects.
• Experience managing construction, interior renovations, facility upgrades, site work, or infrastructure improvements in occupied or operational environments.
• Working knowledge of construction processes, building systems, utilities, site work, estimating, budgeting, forecasting, scheduling, value engineering, and cost control.
• Experience developing or reviewing scopes of work, budgets, schedules, bid packages, contracts, change orders, and project closeout documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders while balancing cost, schedule, scope, safety, quality, and business priorities.
• Willingness to travel approximately 20-30% as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with food manufacturing, regulated environments, corporate capital projects, design-build delivery, general contractor procurement, or consultant management.
• Familiarity with AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, Microsoft Project, Planner, or similar design and scheduling tools.
• PMP certification, professional architecture or engineering license, construction management credential, or related certification.
• Experience using AI-enabled productivity tools to improve project reporting, documentation, and collaboration.

Key Skills

• Construction and capital project management
• Budgeting, estimating, forecasting, and cost control
• Project scheduling and risk management
• Contractor, vendor, and stakeholder coordination
• Construction safety, quality, and compliance
• Contract administration and procurement
• Strong communication, negotiation, organization, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently, influence stakeholders, and drive projects to completion