Company Overview

Colorado Barricade is a leading provider of traffic safety services and equipment for the road repair, construction, and maintenance industry in the State of Colorado.  Colorado Barricade’s core services include traffic control planning and services, pavement marking, permanent sign and related merchandise and equipment rental and sales.  Customers include highway construction companies, Departments of Transportation, municipalities, and utilities.

Company Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, which includes competitive salary, matching 401(k), excellent health, dental, and vision benefits, Flex Spending and Dependent Care, Supplemental Accident Insurance and Supplemental Life Insurance, Employer Paid Short Term Disability, Employer Paid Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, and much more.

Colorado Barricade’s Purpose

To be a builder of Safety, Community, and Opportunity

Mission

To be the leading safety company in America

Values

We Are One

We Take Pride in the Win

We Figure it out for our Customers

We Keep our Ego in Check

Position Overview

The Project Manager will have experience in full life cycle construction project management ($2M-$5M), including budgeting, bidding, awarding contracts, managing the project construction team and guiding the project from preconstruction through close out. While this is an individual contributor role, you will be involved in many facets of our contracting lines of business; Traffic Control, Pavement Marking, and Permanent Installation. As the Project Manager, you will support the line of business leader on project management duties and responsibilities including preconstruction, procurement, contract administration and closeout, customer contact, identifying and mitigating risk, and project financial setup and maintenance.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Function as single point of accountability on assigned projects, tasked with providing timely delivery of services that meets the projects hard cost budget.

• Providing overall contract administration, technical expertise, and support to the project.
• Developing and implementing the project safety plan and leading by example for health and safety practices and procedures.
• Ensuring the project is constructed as per design, budget, resources, quality, and schedule.
• Understands client drivers and offers value engineering proposals for functionality, cost, and schedule benefit.
• Managing project performance and providing performance status reports for safety, cost forecast, and schedule.
• Travel to customer sites as necessary for customer meetings, confirmation of field layout details, and to resolve customer issues and complaints.
• Negotiating and issuing subcontracts, revisions, major purchase orders and progress payments and monitoring their progress and schedule.
• Understanding and enforcing the contract and contract documents.
• Participating in overall project commissioning and closeout.
• Identifying and managing risk and opportunities on construction projects.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with internal and external key stakeholders, decision makers and owners.
• Other duties as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in engineering, construction management, or a related field, preferred.
• 3-5 years of progressive construction experience with leadership and mentoring preferred.
• Demonstrated experience implementing a strong safety culture by application of health, safety, and environment principles and legislation.
• In-depth knowledge of construction industry including building materials, construction specifications, methods and procedures, and safety and quality management practices.
• Strong planning, organizational, and time management skills including the ability to manage project budgets and schedules.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, project management and scheduling software, with a strong aptitude for adopting new technology.

Working Environment/Physical Requirements

• Field Support along with office responsibilities.

• Position involves sitting for extended periods of time while working at a computer terminal.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or listen. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk; sit; and use their hands. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Travel

• Daily travel to and from worksite, some overnight travel may be necessary.

Requirements

• Valid Driver’s License and clean MVR **Must maintain a valid driver’s license during entire employment**
• Pass pre-employment, random, post-accident, and reasonable suspicion drug screens
• Satisfactory results of pre-employment background check

Colorado Barricade Co. is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all future and current employees.

Applicants and current employees will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.