AMVETS Jobs

Principal/Essential Duties & Responsibilities * Coordinate with professional staff responsible for project construction. * Manage all field operations and work sequence in conjunction with the Project Manager * Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget * Assist subordinate supervisors in maintaining production on budget and schedule * Review project estimate or plan to determine schedule, estimated job cost, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project * Understand project documents ie: completeness or inadequacies. * Anticipate project needs with sufficient lead-time to avoid delay of production * Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of project, work closely with Human Resources in recruitment efforts as necessary * Oversees coordination with project staff to outline work plans, assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority * Review status and modify schedules or plans as required and prepares project reports for management, owners, and subcontractors * Follow-up on directives to be continuously on the alert for situations that are not progressing productively and for opportunities to improve project performance * Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems * Work closely with Company employees, project supervisors, owners, external teams and support people to get commitments regarding PM's managerial and supervisory requests * Provide positive safety leadership to the project * Review field operation and ensure that the project provides a safe workplace * Coordinate the preparation and updating of the formal project construction schedule as required by the contract documents * Coordinate resource use with project superintendent; for example, craft assignment, crew sizes and project layout for offices, traffic flow, and material storage * Responsible for claims documentation * Coordinate material purchases, assure that subcontractor agreements are prepared and change orders are * accurate and issued to owners, subcontractors and suppliers * Develop, maintain business relationships and manage subcontractor, client/owner, engineers, JV partner(s) and unions if applicable * Maintain relationships with contracting and regulatory agencies & executive management * Participate in project presentations to elected officials, general public and other stake holders * Responsible for project closeout. Secure loose ends by finishing paperwork, obtaining retainages, supporting supervisors and expediting claims * Debriefing of project to review all positive and negative aspects after completion * Able to confidently negotiate any & all matters on behalf of the Company as they relate to cost, schedule & contract matters with Owner/Sub suppliers Qualifications * Bachelor's Degree in a related field from an accredited four-year college or university, Civil Engineering or Construction Management preferred * Five (5) to ten (10) years of related experience; construction and management experienced required * At least 2-4 Roadway projects with the DOT. High traffic arterial projects will be value Preferred * Professional Engineer License valued * Federal, state and local knowledge and experience Knowledge, Skills and Abilities, Competencies * Knowledge and experience with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint * Knowledge with Primavera P6 Scheduling Software is a plus * Knowledge of the DOT Standard Specifications * Communication - excellent oral presentation and written skills * Goal oriented - able to set goals and achieve them * Interpersonal - able to work well and persuade people at all organization levels * Organizational ability - able to plan, prioritize, organize and monitor activities and projects. Able to work well in a group environment and foster a team approach