Senior Project Manager, Construction; Dallas, Orleans, Nashville

Senior Project Manager, New Construction (Dallas, New Orleans, Nashville)

Locations:
Dallas – Texas, Nashville – Tennessee, New Orleans – Louisiana.

The purpose of this position is to manage and lead a staff responsible for individual, multi-disciplined real estate project solutions for clients, with direct accountability for project delivery.

• Manages all facets of project management (budget, schedule, procurement, quality & risk) for individual real estate projects including planning, design, construction, occupancy, and closeout.
• Demonstrates capability to read, understand and apply standard to sophisticated documents affecting projects, including but not limited to: agreements/contracts, leases, work letters, project charters, surveys and drawings.
• Interfaces directly with clients to define project requirements; prepares scope of work, project delivery resource requirements, cost estimate & budget, cash flow, work plan schedule & achievements, quality control, and risk identification.
• Identifies project resources from pre‑qualified lists or through individual project qualification process; conducts request for proposals; completes bid analysis; leads evaluation interviews; recommends resources to clients.
• Leads project resources/team (typically larger, more experienced team) providing project mentorship and direction to achieve project goals.
• Implements communication plan for meetings and written reports/meeting minutes to keep client and project resources advised; facilitates project meetings.
• Implements project documentation governance aligned with company and client requirements; ensures project data integrity and documentation is accurate, timely and coordinated.
• Tracks progress of each project against goals, objectives, approved budgets, approved timelines; reports status and variances; builds plans to meet objectives, budget, and schedule.
• Implements change management routines to assess change requests, make recommendations, secure client approvals, and issue change orders; assesses impacts to scope, budget, schedule, quality and risk.
• Demonstrates ability to identify sophisticated project risks, lead constructability reviews, develop risk mitigation and contingency plans, and implement action plans to reduce or eliminate project risks.
• Demonstrates a knowledge of projects & project management within the context of business results.
• Provides formal supervision to individual employees within single functional or operational area; approves subordinate's recommendations for staff recruitment, selection, promotion, advancement, corrective action, and termination; recommends same for direct reports to next level management; plans and monitors staffing levels and utilisation of labour, including overtime; prepares and delivers performance appraisal for staff; mentors and coaches team members; leads by example and models behaviours consistent with the company's values.
• Manages 3rd party project delivery resources/team (typically larger, more experienced team); identifies training needs, supervises performance, mentors, and motivates team members.

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS/BEng/BArch) from college or university in a technical area of study.
• Minimum six (6) years of related experience and/or training.
• PMP (US and/or Canada) and LEED AP preferred.
• Construction project experience in retail banking, hospitality, restaurants or healthcare preferred.
• Ability to comprehend, analyse and interpret the most sophisticated business documents; respond effectively to the most sensitive issues.
• Ability to write reports, manuals, speeches and articles using distinctive style.
• Ability to make effective and persuasive presentations on sophisticated topics to employees, clients, top management and/or public groups.
• Ability to influence and negotiate effectively with key employees, top management and client groups to take desired action.
• Requires in‑depth knowledge of financial terms and principles; ability to calculate sophisticated figures; forecast and prepare budgets; conduct financial/business analysis including the preparation of reports.
• Ability to solve sophisticated problems and…