Project Manager, Operations Manager

We’re seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead and oversee multiple commercial construction projects from start to finish. This role is responsible for driving every phase of the process—preconstruction budgeting, design coordination, permitting, construction, and closeout—while ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

The Project Manager provides hands-on leadership, clear communication, and proactive problem-solving to guide teams, partners, and clients through successful project delivery.

COMPENSATION: The pay range shown represents the starting compensation for this role. Your individual compensation will be based on your experience, relevant skills, and alignment with role requirements.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Must provide their assigned projects energetic, accountable, and competent leadership.
• Must proactively control the job, do not wait for anything.
• Responsible to manage a good working relationship with the Owner, Architect, and all trade partners.
• Must know the Owner Contract, need to understand what we are bound to.
• Attend site visits, pre-bid meetings, jobsite walk throughs, and coordination meetings to understand the constructability of projects.
• Review plans and specifications to identify the types and grades of materials and equipment needed and to ensure compliance with project requirements.
• Review the estimate to understand how the budget fits to the construction and time frame of the projects assigned.
• Conduct pre-job meetings with Superintendents to review scope of work, manpower requirements, work sequence, special requirements, and safety awareness.
• Coordinate and collaborate with the Project Superintendents.
• Develop a “game plan” with the superintendent and then create the formal project schedule.
• Determine with the superintendent the equipment, and manpower needs of the project.
• Setup the project in Procore.
• Set up the budget in line with the overall “game plan”, then have accounting input into Sage.
• Draft the Schedule of Values (SOV) for review by the Project Executive, and then once approved, for submittal to the Owner and Architect for approval for the first pay application.
• Populate the buyout log for all required subcontracts and material purchase orders.
• Determine the priority and order of the project buyout.
• Write subcontracts and issue to subcontractors.
• Write Major Purchase Orders and send them to the vendors.
• Project Manager and their staff are responsible to obtain all required permits.
• Ensure that the subcontractors receive a copy of the permit so that they can acquire their permits.
• Ensure that the Owner Contract is recorded prior to any work being performed on the project.
• Responsible for ensuring that the submittal log has been correctly populated by the Project Engineer prior to it being submitted to the Architect for review.
• Responsible for ensuring that the material delivery log is correctly populated for all equipment and materials.
• Responsible for ensuring that all subcontracts are signed, and insurance is in place prior to any subcontractor working on the jobsite.
• Responsible for the monthly update of the project schedule.
• Responsible for understanding the billing process, prepare the monthly pay application, and get it turned in on time in accordance with the Contract.
• Responsible for approving all subcontractor and vendor invoices for assigned projects.
• Responsible for following up on the monthly payment to ensure that we receive payment on time.
• If Owner payments are late, responsible for notifying Project Executive immediately.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining the Proposed Change Order log.
• Ensure that the team is accurately updating submittal and RFI logs.
• Understand what is in the Contract, and if a cost item is out of the contracted scope, then they will start the change process.
• Manage the change process, to include takeoffs, pricing by subcontractors and vendors and self-performed work.
• Responsible for presenting and receiving approval on all Proposed Change Orders.
• Incorporate approved Proposed Change Orders into Owner Change Orders, then in turn subcontract change orders.
• Prepare the…