Project Manager II; Industrial Construction

Position: Project Manager II (Industrial Construction)
Job Summary
Project Managers are Dennis Group’s primary client contact through the entire project delivery process, from design concept through bidding, construction, and start-up. As a Project Manager, your responsibility is to ensure each project’s scope, cost and schedule are successfully met. Our projects are designing and building food and beverage process facilities (industrial projects). The design/architect teams, engineering teams (multiple), and construction teams are housed within Dennis Group and the project manager is actively interacting with each group to ensure the success of the project.

Project Manager’s mission is to provide project management and execution expertise for clients through the entire project life cycle.

Project Managers also play a vital role in our client relationship management program. As such, having the requisite experience, skill set, and character to successfully support our sales and marketing activities is an essential aspect of the role. This role requires excellent leadership, organization, and time management skills as you will wear many hats se finding success in the role typically have a technical background – which they apply daily – and are professional, self‑motivated, and energetic with excellent communication and inter‑personal skills.

Typical responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Responsibilities

Works autonomously on specific tasks

Managing projects from planning through commissioning including developing key success criteria for each project and ensuring the success criteria are achieved

Assisting with the development of project scope, budget, schedule, and critical path elements

Develop RFI

Prepare purchase/work authorization.

Maintain client SharePoint site

Managing in-house and consulting design teamwork product

Establishing design criteria; reviewing design and construction phase documents

Managing permit, code and regulatory approvals

Develop preliminary procurement plan (preparation of bid packages, bid tabulation, writing of purchase orders and subcontracts)

Assemble and evaluate potential project bidders

Define kick‑off meeting agenda

Determine project definition deliverables

Coordinate all project communication

Develop project outline specifications

Develop conceptual layout – understanding of facility personnel and materials flows, critical adjacencies

Develop medium engineering services proposal

Manage bid process fairly and professionally and review and approve bid packages

Maintain “Outstanding Items Needs” list

Maintain Project Meeting notes

Develop and implement lessons learned for project

Develop and issue monthly reports

Determine project permitting needs

Update project forecasting tool monthly

Review and approve engineering deliverables

Develop preliminary construction cost estimates – site and building

Define project assumptions / exclusions

Review and approve monthly supplier invoices and client billing

Develop and maintain submittal and RFI processes

Develop preliminary PM/Eng/CM/Start‑up support cost estimate

Facilitate and manage food safety risk assessments

Organizing construction trades and administering subcontracts

Managing project budget and expense approvals

Managing contract and change order administration

Overseeing equipment installations

Providing on‑site supervision and coordinate design team on‑site support activities

Facilitate project interactive planning sessions

Refine and update budget forecast

Finalize procurement plan

Managing project punch‑list inspection

Assembling and maintaining complete project records and close‑out documents

Facilitate and manage client and 3rd party design reviews

Interfacing with client, working in client facilities and construction sites.

Utilize multiple software programs (MS Office, CAD, Navisworks, MS Project, SharePoint, etc.)

Researching project management best practices

Supporting talent growth within our organization

Required Education, Skills and Experience

Degree in Construction Management / Architecture / Engineering

4–7 years of experience within a design‑build, General Contractor company working with multiple in‑house engineer disciplines, architects, designers, etc.

4–7 years of experience with…