Senior Project Manager "Heavy Civil" (2024)

Overview:The Senior Project Manager manages the overall project direction, completion and financial outcome and administers both the owner and subcontractor relationships for assigned projects. This position may oversee a single large project or multiple projects. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for directing and mentoring on-site staff. The position requires business management acumen and must demonstrate strong leadership, organizational and time management skills, as well as have strong communication and client service skills.Competencies / Skills:Is recognized as an expert with specialist/authority level understand and application in:* Contract Management: Reviews, executes and manages the client's prime contract as well as subcontracts and vendor agreements. This includes facilitating, administering and participating in contract discussions, reviews and negotiations with all relevant contracting parties.Has advanced knowledge and ability to coach/guide others in:* Building and Construction Knowledge & Planning: Applies building and construction knowledge, utilizing experience and current developments in the industry to prepare detailed construction sequence plans including all necessary material, equipment and labor.* Change Order Management : Follows financial implications of contracts and agreements to protect the company's interests and rights. Identifies compensable changes and follows the contract provisions to timely resolution.* Project Cost Management: Monitors, tracks, and forecasts self-perform and subcontractor project costs and quantities, including labor, equipment, and materials to ensure projects are successful and profitable.* Risk and Opportunity Management: Identifies potential risks related to operations, contracts, or project execution. Develops mitigation plans and strategies to control the impact of negative situations or to maximize opportunities throughout the life cycle of a project.* Subcontractor Oversight: Monitors, inspects and ensures subcontractors are performing the work safely, are adhering to schedule, and are producing quality work in line with subcontractor agreements and our client contract obligations.Has demonstrated proficiency in:* Plans and Specifications: Reads and interprets construction plans and the technical specifications to aid in constructability review. Ensures submittals are approved prior to proceeding with work.* Quality Management: Establishes processes to meet quality standards. Monitors work practices to identify concerns or issues that do not meet these quality standards. Follows contract provisions for necessary corrective action.* Design Management: Manages design development process and interfaces between design and construction to ensure and issue determinations on the constructability of deliverables* Safety: Ensures the safe execution of all work activities and ensures adherence to our safety regulations to protect all individuals. Verifies and coordinates work activities to comply with Skanska EHS program and corrects unsafe activities, actions and conditions.* Schedule Management - Civil: Manages and prioritizes project-wide activities. Mediates and reconciles conflicting or competing project activities. Leverages the schedule as a tool in external party negotiations.* Schedule Development: Develops, communicates and follows schedules and timelines. Tracks information important to maintaining schedule adherence.Has a basic understanding of:* Logistics: Develops, approves, and communicates construction logistics plans, verifying they are in place and clearly understood. Ensures that projects are proceeding according to these plans.* Business Development - Operations: Analyzes client needs and applies market knowledge to determine business growth opportunities. Develops and oversees the implementation of strategies and action plans to target and pursue additional business with existing clients and new business opportunities.* Insurance and Bond Management: Identifies opportunities for recovery by means of insurance and bonds by recognizing applicable insurance coverages and the liabilities within.Travel Requirements: Less than 10%Work Environment/Conditions: This job is performed both in the office and in the field on an active construction site. Field work requires experience and confidence working in and around heavy industrial equipment and systems, which includes average to loud noises, ability to traverse uneven grounds, and possible outdoor weather conditions. Vision requires the capacity for close and far vision, the ability to adjust focus, depth perception and peripheral vision. Activities and responsibilities require frequent sitting (often working on a computer), frequent driving, flying, walking, standing, light lifting, bending, and reaching. Due to computer usage, there may be repetitive motions of the hands and wrists.Responsibilities:Duties and Responsibilities: Organizational Impact:* Establishes key elements of tactical and operational plans with measurable contribution towards the achievement of results of the sub-function, focusing on short-to mid-term operational plans (eg, 1-3 years). * Develops new products, processes, standards, or operational plans in support of the job function strategy.* Typically has budget or P&L accountability for area of responsibility or manage elements of the budget.* Provides measurable input to new products, processes or standards in operational plans that will have some impact on the achievement of overall function results.Innovation and Complexity:* Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of job area.* Problems and issues faced are numerous, undefined, and moderately complex and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem. * Problems typically impact multiple departments or specialties. Problems are typically solved through drawing from prior experience and analysis of issues.Communication and Influence:* Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function, which may include external customers or vendors depending upon the job function.* Requires ability to influence others outside of own job area on policies, practices, and procedures.Leadership and Talent Management:* Manages a department or unit that includes multiple teams led by managers and/or team leaders. * Responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for department / unit to ensure availability of human capital necessary to accomplish departmental business results.* May have hiring, firing, promotion, and reward authority within own area, in accordance with Corporate Guidelines.Education and Experience:* Bachelor's Degree - Construction or Engineering, or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience.* Requires broad management knowledge to lead project teams on multiple projects or one large project or lead a department. * Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or Professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.Qualifications:Skanska is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or citizenship status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristics under federal, state, or local law.Skanska Equal Employment OpportunitySkanska uses knowledge & foresight to shape the way people live, work, and connect. More than 135 years in the making, we're one of the world's largest development and construction companies. We operate in select markets throughout the Nordics, Europe and the United S