OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Responsible for the success of the client’s construction and facilities-related projects.
JOB COMPLEXITY/SCOPE: Supervises, directs, and coordinates design and project management including direct liaison with the owner, designers, and contractors regarding cost, schedule, quality, safety, and contract administration. Can independently manage several small-to-medium projects (less than $5 million) and/or a single large project of moderate complexity. Applicant must have construction experience and must understand building systems including mechanical, electrical, foundation and building envelope.
JOB DUTIES:
Cost Management
- Monitors project costs during all project phases with limited supervision.
- Prepares and/or reviews cost estimates with limited supervision.
- Understands the contractor billing and change order processes; reviewing these documents with limited help from supervisor.
- Tracks budgets, contracts, change orders and invoices and produces reports using integrated database software.
Schedule Management
- Understands the project schedule and works to ensure on-time completion from design and construction team.
- Creates critical path method schedules using scheduling software.
- Takes initiative when schedule concerns arise to work with project team and Cotter supervisor to correct. Prepares remedy schedules to get work back on track.
Quality Management
- Assures selection of materials and products in specification conform to quality requirements and applicable standards set forth by owner.
- Performs design and document reviews to ensure construction details are quality-focused and documents are complete, with coordination among disciplines.
- Performs field inspections during construction process to ensure design intent and specifications are being met.
Procurement and Contract Administration
- Assists the owner with preparation of front end and scope documents suitable for public bidding.
- Manages public bidding process, evaluates bids and prepares recommendations for award.
- Actively participates in all project meetings, addresses issues for resolution.
- Reviews proposed change orders for need and accuracy.
- Reviews pay applications for completion, costs and required documentation.
- Manages the project closeout process.
- Works with governmental agencies to obtain proper permits, inspections, and occupancy certificates.
Client Relations and Business Development
- Maintains relationship with client on an ongoing basis to enhance client satisfaction and increase potential for additional business.
- May assist with marketing and business development activities.
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or related field.
- A minimum of five years’ experience, including on-site construction experience.
- Ability to travel to client sites for site inspection and project oversight.
- Ability to work at a fast pace, meet deadlines and produce work that is accurate and professional.
- Ability to use a computer, the Internet, and word processing, spreadsheet, database and email software.
Flexibility and Adaptability
- Adjusts to new or changing assignments, processes, and people.
- Demonstrates willingness to listen to other opinions.
- Provides examples of shifting from task to task.
Learning Oriented
- Shows readiness and ability to learn new concepts, processes, and tools.
- Uses mistakes, failures, and successes as data for future development.
- Makes use of publications, associations, and conferences in own professional specialty.
Oral Communications
- Speaks well without preparation.
- Adapts language, tone, structure, and level of detail to the needs of others.
- Maintains a dialogue in difficult situations.
Teamwork
- Coordinates roles, responsibilities, and interdependencies of all team members.
- Develops an effective working relationship with each team member.
- Identifies and addresses potential problems or issues within the team.
Problem Solving
- Identifies problems, disagreements, or conflicts in early stages.
- Leads problem resolution efforts.
- Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
- Is adept at looking at old problems in new ways.
Written Communication
- Produces written materials using correct grammar and construction to produce professional information for distribution.
- Welcomes and uses feedback/editing assistance.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS:
Job duties in an office setting require the following:
- Ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to move through an office.
- The ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
- Good hand-eye coordination; the ability to reach with hands and arms; and arm, hand, and finger dexterity, including the ability to grasp.
- Close visual acuity to perform field inspections, use a keyboard, operate office equipment, prepare and review data and figures, and view a computer monitor.
- The ability to talk and hear.
- The ability to work in an upper level of a high-rise office building (Cotter Chicago office and some client offices).
- The ability to handle temperature changes consistent with inside environmental conditions.
- Mental abilities including remembering, reasoning, concentrating to remain on task, reading, problem solving, managing concurrent tasks, and the ability to understand and follow directions.
For job duties that require visiting a construction work site, the following is required:
- Normal color vision.
- The ability to ascend and descend ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, etc., using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
- The ability to move across uneven surfaces and the ability to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling on uneven or slippery surfaces.
- The ability to stoop, kneel, or crouch.
- The ability to stand for sustained periods of time.
- The ability to work in confined spaces and narrow passageways.
- The ability to work in high places.
- The ability to handle outside environmental conditions including extreme heat, extreme cold, loud noise levels, fumes, odors, dusts, gases, and oils.