Job Title: Construction Project Manager (design and construction phase)

Location: Chicago, IL 60602 (Hybrid - in office and field)

Pay: $50-60/hour

Start Date: ASAP

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, Construction Management, or Engineering
• Experience managing public construction projects (infrastructure, schools, etc.)
• 7 years of construction project management experience
• Experience managing the design phase as well as the construction phase (working with architects, reviewing designs, etc.)
• 4 years’ experience in planning and design management
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, contractors, and subcontractors.
• Knowledge of project controls procedures and practices
• Ability to understand construction drawings and specifications.
• Experience with construction cost tracking and cost control.
• Ability to give presentations of schedule reports to stakeholders.

Your Role (Responsibilities):

• Administer various planning and design meetings and coordinate all reviews for due diligence. Communicate the development of this information in various report formats to capital programs leaders.

• Coordinate and review the assigned programming criteria for multiple projects

• Assist Project Managers with due diligence reports and site approvals

• Review architect/consultant proposals associated with the pre-design, design, and construction phase report deficiencies to Project Director

• Coordinate and prepare (for approval) scope of works, design deliverables and schedule milestones for incorporation into standard design subcontracts

• Review, update and prepare educational specifications and design requirements documents

• Maintain Design Summary Sheets for each project

• Ensure understanding and monitor completion of documents by the design team

• Verify design and code requirements by project architect

• Establish design review sessions and implement comments and changes at the conclusion of each design phase

• Coordinate, update, review, and report (to appropriate parties) all scheduled milestones associated with design

• Attend design coordination meetings with architectural team on a regular basis to assess design progress and quality.

• Ensure that the requisite Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) are engaged for required reviews and approvals at the appropriate design milestone and ensure necessary changes are implemented

• Provide review of A/E invoices associated with design phase services

• Implement project controls procedures and practices to monitor progress and identify potential delays.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with project teams and stakeholders.
• Experience in cost control, ensuring projects stay within budget constraints.
• Review specifications and calculate takeoffs from plans to determine quantities for preparing schedule activities and associated durations.
• Cost and/or resource load schedules as needed.
• Prepare independent CPM schedules for evaluating construction contract milestones, durations, and time impact of contract change modifications and potential claim settlements.
• Review and prepare written evaluations of contractor or consultant schedules. This includes providing recommendations for corrective actions to mitigate impact to variances from contract completion dates.
• Support negotiations for finalizing time impact claims.
• Assist in constructability reviews.