Project Manager

Summary:
The Project Manager is responsible for the overall set-up and completion of projects within budget, on schedule, to Kent’s quality and safety standards, and the customer’s satisfaction. This position works with the Operations Manager and Superintendent to create corrective action plans to maintain budgets and position the field team to overcome project obstacles and potentially accelerate the project schedule.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Builds and monitors budgets and schedules that meet client expectations by providing weekly progress reports and feedback for further financial analysis.
• Manages and tracks all project costs to ensure project progress aligns at or better than the established budget.
• Works with Operations Manager and Superintendent to identify potential schedule impacts, including scope, weather, manpower, and changes, and facilitates mitigation plans for these impacts.
• Owns the buyout process by verifying pricing and scope, identifies successful bidders, provides gap analysis against initial scope, and manages the issuance of subcontracts.
• Manages the submittal schedule set-up. Coordinates priorities with the team; reviews and approves all shop drawings and samples before submittal to customers, architects, or engineers.
• Foster vendor and subcontractor relationships to potentially create budget savings for project buyouts.
• Ensures approved submittals are returned to subcontractors and available to the project team per the project schedule and the contract.
• Work with Superintendent to ensure the crew’s time/job details/logistics/material is delivered in tune with the project schedule.
• Manage all changes with scope and project drawings to determine cost impact on budget and process changes with field to keep projects on schedule and determine if change orders are needed.
• Prepare and present weekly job performance to the senior management team to update financial statement projections and quarterly business plans.
• Leads the project start-up process, including job forms, certificate requests, submittals, schedule of values, etc.
• Leads the close-out process and manages punch list items with customers and field.
• Work remotely at the project site as needed.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties and Responsibilities are not comprehensive and can be changed at any time, with or without notice.

Work Environment/Physical Demand
This position works in an office environment; occasionally travels to the field to supervise projects as required. This position requires long periods of sitting.

Position type and expected hours of work
This is a full-time, in-office position. Typical work hours are Monday through Friday, 8am-5pm.

Travel
Travel may occur from time to time.

Office Location
1223 Quarry Overlook Drive, Fort Mill, SC 29715

Required Experience, Education, and Qualifications

• Five (5) years of experience managing projects and concrete scopes as a sub-contractor or self-performing general contractor.
• Bachelor's degree in construction, engineering, or business.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presenting advice clearly and concisely.
• Be able and willing to solve challenges through innovation; work with minimal direction and supervision; proactive, not reactive.
• Valid driver’s license
• Must have reliable transportation to the workplace(s)/ job location(s).
• Ability to pass drug screening.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future.

Preferred education and experience

• Bilingual (Spanish/English)

Benefits

Kent Companies provides its employees with one of the most competitive compensation and benefits packages in the construction industry. Benefits vary by location, and typical benefits packages include:

• Weekly pay
• PTO (Paid Time Off)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Supplemental insurance options
• Retirement plans, with discretionary employer-matching
• Holiday pay (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day)
• Scholarship opportunities for dependents
• Leadership development opportunities

A fully customized benefits package is presented upon hire.

Perks associated with this role

Our goal is to offer an unparalleled career progression that is not precisely pre-determined; rather it builds on the teammate’s strengths, interests, and pursuits as the individual gains experience, grows, and develops in their career. You would be hard-pressed to find another ENR Top 6 Commercial Concrete Company that parallels Kent Companies.

About Kent Companies

Kent Companies is a full-service concrete contractor with expertise in commercial and industrial concrete construction, mixed-use construction, multi-family housing, and a full range of concrete-related specialties. Every Kent Companies project is marked by our four distinctive Hallmarks of Service: Safety, Productivity, Quality, and Customer Service. We believe in providing challenging work, opportunities for professional development, and industry-leading compensation packages. And it’s all wrapped in a culture that’s built on values and integrity. We deliver on our promises.

Kent Companies Southeast Structural Commercial Concrete Division
Our Southeast Structural Commercial Concrete division delivers comprehensive, turnkey concrete packages for our customers. Our crews perform a variety of scopes including tilt-up, foundations, slabs, and cast-in-place concrete. With this team, you’ll have a hand in the projects that change your city skyline.
Learn more about our commercial concrete work here: https://www.kentcompanies.com/our-work/services/concrete-construction/

EEO Statement

At Kent Companies, we value a diverse, inclusive workforce and we provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Kent Companies’ does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices and personnel actions, including but not limited to hiring, recruiting, promotions, performance evaluations, termination, and compensation decisions.

The Company will strive to ensure that all employees and prospective employees will be treated equally in regard to recruitment, employment, promotions, demotions, discipline, termination, access to benefits and training, leaves of absence and layoffs. The Company will further ensure that its management staff is aware of the Company’s commitment to this policy and each member understands their individual role in the process of administering this plan.

Kent Companies will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.