Project Manager

Summary/Objective

The Project Manager, reporting to the Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer (COO), manages capital projects ensuring that scope, schedule, and costs align with institutional priorities. The Project Manager works with departmental heads to review facility conditions and prioritize needs on an ongoing basis.

Essential Functions

• Serve as the primary liaison between client groups, consultants, and various institutional service units to support the institutional mission.
• Ensure designs are consistent with planned objectives, relevant regulations, and institutional standards and strategic goals.
• Assist in the preparation of Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation and participate in the selection of consultants, contractors, vendors, and other service providers.
• Participate in and assist with the coordination of programming, design, bidding, construction, and warranty phases of new facilities, additions, and renovation projects as assigned.
• Lead coordination and review of projects for constructability, code compliance, and completeness of documentation.
• Prepare detailed reports on project progress identifying problems/solutions, milestones, financial cost projections, and analyses.
• Inspect construction to monitor progress and ensure conformance to plans and specifications.
• Complete administrative support activities including tracking of project schedule, scope and costs and specific project activities such as pay requests, change orders, RFI's, submittals, closeouts, and owner manuals.
• Lead, collaborate with, or coordinate the planning and installation of furniture, fixture, and equipment.
• Conduct and coordinate pre-construction conferences and final inspections as part of each project.
• Manage and keep a current campus-wide Facilities Condition Index
• Work with EVP and Executive Director of Facilities to foresee and proactively plan for facility renovations prior to end-of-life cycle.
• Maintain the institutional color palette and coordinate its use on non-capital maintenance and upkeep projects.
• Coordinate the design, development, and installation of all college wayfinding signs and interior environmental graphics and signage consistent with code.

Competencies

• Exceptional organization and attention to detail required
• Exceptional project management and planning required
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building required
• Strong critical thinking and problem solving required
• Effective stress management/composure required
• Effective written and verbal communication required
• Teamwork orientation required

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment

Normal office environment where there is no physical discomfort due to temperature, dust, noise, and the like.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evening and weekend work (or other times when the college is otherwise closed) is required as job duties demand.

Travel

Limited travel is expected for this position.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in project management, construction technology, engineering or equivalent
• One or more years of project management or construction superintendent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Three or more years of project management or superintendent experience.
• Higher education experience.

Physical Demands

The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.