Senior Construction Project Manager
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Senior Construction Project Manager overseeing regional building projects for McGrath. Managing P&L, teams, subcontractors, safety, and delivery from pre-bid through closeout.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee projects from pre-bid through contract completion and closeout
- Own project outcomes from Notice-to-Proceed through closeout
- Make execution strategy, staffing, sequencing, and subcontractor-alignment decisions
- Use BuilderTrend to track progress, manage documentation, and facilitate communication
- Proactively manage risks, issues, and project change requests
- Serve as senior escalation point and provide guidance, mentorship, and strategic direction to project teams
- Own project P&L performance, forecasting, cost-to-complete, contingency usage, and margin protection
- Lead and performance-manage Project Managers and Site Superintendents, including hiring, coaching, development, and accountability
- Oversee multiple projects and project teams simultaneously
- Resolve complex issues involving scope, schedules, permitting, inspections, jurisdictions, budgets, staffing, and client expectations
- Support plans and specifications review, constructability, scheduling strategies, and risk identification during pre-bid
- Partner with estimating and operations leadership on pricing, bid strategy, and competitive positioning
- Participate in go/no-go discussions and recommend bid strategies
- Oversee site readiness, including permitting, AHJ coordination, utilities, crane/set planning, access, and inspections
- Identify scope gaps, exclusions, assumptions, and clarifications during pre-bid and contract review
- Validate budgets, schedules, and scopes before contract execution
- Provide strategic guidance on cost control, schedule performance, and subcontractor management
- Lead customer discussions on scope clarifications, change orders, delays, and risk mitigation, particularly with public-sector and school district clients
- Collaborate with regional and executive leadership on workload planning, staffing, and operational improvements
- Establish and enforce safety requirements
- Develop or assist with Scopes of Work, Delineation of Responsibilities, and proposals for larger projects
- Track and report project results and metrics
- Provide status reporting to regional leadership on milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues
- Apply financial and functional acumen to align solutions with client goals, best practices, and company risk thresholds
- Ensure contract compliance and manage changes
- Manage issues and risks to mitigate impact on baseline budgets
- Lead safety tailgate meetings at the start of project phases or shifts
- Ensure job-site compliance with OSHA and company safety standards
- Support projects across a region with approximately 50% travel to active job sites
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- 5–8 years of construction-related experience
- Minimum 3 years of people leadership experience, including direct management, coaching, and development of Project Managers and/or Superintendents
- Extensive understanding of project and program management principles, methods, and techniques
- Proven experience managing and developing Project Managers and/or Superintendents
- Experience supporting preconstruction activities, including estimating, bidding, or pre-bid planning
- Proven ability to lead projects through inspections, closeout, and owner turnover
- Experience leading multiple concurrent projects across multiple jurisdictions and ADJs with high complexity
- Strong working knowledge of subcontracted trades including civil, electrical, plumbing, crane/set crews, and modular installation activities
- Strong business and financial acumen
- Excellent leadership, written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to adapt to change and competing demands
- Technical competency with MS Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and project management software
- Team-building skills with technical and non-technical staff
- Experience working independently and in collaborative team environments
- Excellent prioritization and time management skills
- Understanding of safety field concepts, practices, and procedures
- Strong organization and customer service skills
- Negotiation skills with customers and vendors/subcontractors
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects
- Experience directing the work of others
- Ability to read and interpret construction plans
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis
- Must pass pre-employment drug testing, including marijuana, for this safety-sensitive position
- Ability to perform sustained physical activity and maintain manual dexterity
- Ability to stand and walk for prolonged periods; bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and balance
- Ability to climb stairs and ladders, use construction personnel hoists, and navigate uneven or unfinished work areas
- Ability to handle tools, equipment, and materials and occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds
- Close, distance, and peripheral vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus
- Ability to hear alarms, bells, whistles, and verbal instructions in active construction environments
- Ability to work indoors or outdoors, at elevated heights, and in varying weather, noise, odor, dust, or fume conditions
- Ability to work extended hours, weekends, or emergency on-call support as needed
- Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management is listed as a nice-to-have, not required
- Nice-to-have qualifications include modular building industry experience; school district, municipality, or government authority experience; ADA compliance familiarity; DSA knowledge; IBC knowledge; OSHA 30 certification; knowledge of approval agencies and state requirements; and Bluebeam and CAD experience
Benefits:
- Wellness resources covering nutrition, exercise, emotional health, and self-care
- Vacation and sick time
- 10 days plus 2 half days of company-paid holidays
- Flexible benefits selection and benefit spending control
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- DailyPay
- HSA
- FSA
- EAP
- Pet Insurance
- Space to share ideas and opinions
- Flexibility and evolving responsibilities


















