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Form of workPosition Purpose: To provide leadership and support to all aspects of the company's excavating operation to include safety, operations, P&L, planning, scheduling, cost monitoring, cost reporting, customer reporting, performance tracking, budgeting, estimating, change orders, billing, marketing, staff development, business development and bid development.
Essential Responsibilities
Knowledge | Skills | Abilities
Qualifications
Work Environment
Essential Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day oversight, support, and technical expertise to a portfolio of excavating projects
- Assure crews and contractors are coordinated to work efficiently and meet customer requirements, budgets, forecasts, and schedules
- Manage staff, prepare budgets, and prepare work schedules and assigning specific duties
- Demonstrate safety leadership by supporting the implementation and management of the MJE Safety Management System and ensuring best practices are being followed.
- Integrate safety into project plans, establish safety goals, reinforce safety policies and procedures, support safety training, and monitor safety metrics.
- Support and coach supervisors and employees, provide feedback to encourage learning and create awareness, set priorities, and focus on continuous improvement
- Support the development of technical scopes of work and independently develop cost estimates and resource requirements for excavating related construction projects
- Provide support to request for proposal (RFP) preparation and evaluations, project specifications, and pricing schedules for the excavating construction projects
- Work with Assistant Project Managers with project scope development and project authorization through completion
- Ensure that MJE Senior Management is kept current on the progress of excavating construction projects, business opportunities and industry trends
- Systematically and regularly appraise and evaluate project progress against established goals, timelines, and objectives. Support Assistant Project Managers to correct deficiencies in these areas
- Consult with Utilities, Clients and Owners regarding design requirements, job specifications, bid requirements and offer technical expertise regarding construction solutions
- Assist with the development of common systems and processes to provide for proper accounting, reporting of project costs, customer billing, scheduling, material procurement, subcontractors, record keeping, documentation and budgeting
- Assist with the tracking of key performance and financial metrics that will optimize performance, productivity and reduce costs
- Assist in the preparation of proposals and estimates, including drawing take-offs
- Work with Assistant Project Managers to set up job structure from beginning i.e. safety, scheduling, document control plan, cost codes, job cost spread, material/tooling plan, equipment, billing, etc.
- Assist in job hand off from estimating to field project supervision
- Work with purchasing on material orders and required submittals
- Travel to project(s) on a regular basis
- Provide weekly updates on project progress to the Operations Manager
- Assist with the quotation of change orders from drawing changes, RFI's, etc.
- Oversee Assistant Project Managers to assure the monthly financial bridge, job forecasts and monthly reporting requirements are met and are accurate
- Work with customer and field management on schedule development and assist in maintaining during course of project
- Ensure the project has adequate resources to maintain schedule, budget and exceed safety expectations
- Interact with customer on project with positive long-term relationship in mind
- Ensure billing is timely submitted along with payment follow through
Knowledge | Skills | Abilities
- Knowledge of project management principles and practices
- Knowledge of business, financial and management principles, and practices
- Ability to work independently and meet deadlines
- Ability to anticipate and meet internal customer needs
- Proven communication, organizational, presentation and interpersonal skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Can read / interpret Geo Technical reports
- Functional computer skills including familiarity with Bluebeam, Microsoft, Access, Excel, other takeoff software such as Trimble, Insite, Civil 3D
Qualifications
- Project Management, Engineering, Construction Management or related field experience with excavation preferred
- Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management or Business Administration preferred
- Experience in one or more of the following preferred: transmission access road and pad building, grading, storm sewer installations, precast foundation installation, and/or anchor installation such as solid bar, hollow bar, helical anchors, precast anchors
Work Environment
- Must be able to remain standing approximately 50% of the time
- Occasional bending, stooping, squatting, reaching, climbing
- The person in this position frequently communicates with employees and vendors and must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations
- Occasionally works in outdoor weather conditions
- Occasionally lifting 40 pounds
- Travel is required
