The Role

The Mission Critical Center of Excellence manages billions of dollars in projects annually, specializing in data center and mission-critical construction for leading technology and telecommunications clients across the United States. Focused on fast-paced, MEP-intensive projects, the group is recognized for delivering complex solutions while offering significant opportunities for career advancement within the thriving mission-critical construction industry.

The Senior Project Manager manages and coordinates all necessary project resources and documentation throughout the entire project lifecycle. This includes maintaining the budget and schedule and managing and administering all contractual requirements, agreements with trade partners, purchase orders, meeting minutes, and shop drawing logs. This individual also manages risk, insurances, general work performance and quality, and overall team progress against the project plan through consistent communication and collaboration with the owner and project team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead and communicate with Field Supervision, Subcontractors and Vendors to assist them in working to the Project Schedule
• Represent with Owner(s), Architects, Consultants, Government Authorities, Vendors, and Subcontractors
• Administer financial aspects of the Owner’s contract, subcontracts, and purchase orders
• Build effective working relationships with clients and the Suffolk project team members
• Project Start-Up:
  • Review the general contract and contract documents and confirm the budget setup and project milestones
  • Create a schedule of values and project logs, plan for project safety and mobilization, including review and validation with team members
• Purchasing process and document control:
  • Maintain the buy schedule, write scopes of work, distribute and log subcontracts, write required contract riders and purchase orders, and confirm compliance with project insurance requirements
  • Review subcontractor references, obtain Subcontractor bonds, and maintain project files
  • Maintain and manage all purchase and delivery schedules, change order processes, shop drawings, document control logs, Owner, Architect, and Subcontractor correspondence
  • Work with Purchasing in setting up/executing trade buyouts, including defining the scope of work, authoring Exhibit B’s, ensuring scope coverage, coordinating buy and project schedules
• Meeting Management:
  • Attend all scheduled and management meetings necessary to monitor and manage the project, chairing as appropriate
• Financial Management:
  • Manage all requisitions and payments, including lien releases and project payroll, and maintains the best possible cash flow throughout the project, communicating issues proactively
• Project Closeout:
  • Deliver all necessary manuals to the Owner, consolidate project documentation and files
  • Manage subcontractor closeout, transfer of utilities, owner training, and punch list process
  • Deliver all warranties, as-builts, and training to the owner

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or applicable discipline and experience relative to project size/scope
• 10+ years of related experience
• Excellent business judgment demonstrated by consistently achieving profitability objectives and strong project close-outs with client and subcontractor relationships in good standing
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail evidenced by a strong command of all applicable contract and legal provisions
• Ability to consistently analyze and execute financial trade-offs, which frequently involve dealing with incomplete data and ambiguity
• Ability to constantly multi-task and handle competing priorities between business needs, organizational issues, and sound customer relations
• Possess judgment to know when to escalate issues up the chain of command appropriately
• A strong sense of urgency and initiative
• Able to quickly study and react to complex issues
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to confidently and decisively take action
• Team leader with excellent diplomatic and communication skills, able to handle and resolve conflicts effectively in a firm but fair manner
• The ability to manage and embrace change. Respond and adapt to new processes and new ways of looking at old problems

Data center construction, round up experience.

About Q Works Group

We are an Executive Placement Firm that uses our unique services to help our clients find the right fit. Unlike most firms, our recruiters come from the industries that they serve. Too many companies "hire for skill, only to fire for behaviors." We spend a tremendous amount of time with our candidates so that they are comfortable with the organization where we place them. When candidates are happy, so are the employers. Our focus is on Construction, Manufacturing, Design, and Engineering.

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