Construction Project Manager

Construction Project Manager, I

The company

Swatch Group is an international group active in the design, manufacture and sale of finished watches, jewelry, watch movements and components.

Swatch Group supplies nearly all components required by its 16 watch brands, and Swatch Group companies supply movements and components to third-party watchmakers in Switzerland and around the world. Please be sure to visit our brands' websites to learn more about their fantastic products.

Swatch Group is also a key player in the manufacture and sale of electronic systems used in watchmaking.

Job description

Our Retail Development team has decades of experience in building and servicing luxury and fashion retail locations throughout the United States including famous brands such as Swatch, Tissot, Longines, Omega, Harry Winston, and many others.

A Construction Project Manager I will be responsible for overseeing the building process of various construction projects from start to finish. Their duties include building and maintaining the project budget, obtaining the necessary entitlements to construct in various national jurisdictions, and leading a multitude of project stakeholders including internal decision makers and external architectural and construction vendors to achieve project deliverables.

This is an office based role in Miami, Florida.

Profile

Duties and Responsibilities

* Management of construction life cycle activities such as RFIs logs and department meeting minutes templates from beginning to project close out

* Initiating and managing the project, establishing the constructible scope, executing and tracking the construction progress and being the primary point-of-contact for key stakeholders.

* Develop, manage, and monitor anticipated versus actual project budgets to effectively estimate, budget, and control costs within project objective (success) parameters for the project

* Responsible to assure corporate processes are applied and completed.

* Track and assure on-time completion of all project tasks from initial budget to closeout.

* Responsible for communicating effectively throughout the project on questions, changes and updates on the project

* Ensure project processes are integrated effectively to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and effectively transient the project to the brand and ensure project objective accomplishment

* Guarantee that brand designs & identity are respected.

* Assure that construction documents are accurate, achievable and comply with brand and industry standards.

* Oversees quality management processes to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and ensures brand satisfaction

* Prepare and manage schedules for architects, vendors and contractor to deliver the project within the designated project time objective

* Secure the delivery of material and services.

* Issue RFPs, compare & level bids, negotiate proposals.

* Establish and maintain contractor and vendor quality standards during the design, implementation and construction process.

* Engage pro-active solutions for anticipated obstacles.

* Accept full responsibility for success or failure in terms of quality and efficiency of the project.

* Willing to work off hours or days when required by project needs.

* All other duties as assigned by Management.

* Must travel as required to project jobsites.

Professional requirements

Education and Experience Requirements

* Bachelor's degree or Vocational Degree in Construction, Project Management, Architecture, Engineering or related fields is required.

* Must have a minimum 7 or more years in commercial construction, retail preferred.

Experience with a luxury retail or mixed-use general contractor is highly preferred.

* Must have verifiable experience with high end FFE.

* Must have project lifecycle knowledge and experience with managing construction process documents including submittals, shop drawings, and RFIs.

* Procurement experience, sourcing, negotiating, purchasing, and delivering project material is required.

* Excellent project management skills (including tools such as MS Project, Excel, etc.)

* Must be able to create and manage project budgets.

* Must have a understand of building department procedures and requirements in major US cities.

* Must be a strong negotiator of vendor and general contractor agreements and change orders

* Modern mobile communication skills (perform office tasks when traveling on work assignments)

* Must have deep knowledge of construction means and methods, including designs, drawings, MEP systems, fine details, furniture assembly and installation, graphic production, AV and other low voltage systems.

* Must be detailed and organized with a strong ability to prioritize.

* Must have a service-oriented mindset toward the internal clients (our brands and internal departments)

* Ability to multi-task and work under pressure to meet deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy and organization.

* Must be a dependable and reliable team player.

* Must be able to…