Construction Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

Reports To: Area Manager

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Jacksonville, FL

Manson Construction Co. was founded in 1905 as a small pile-driving business supporting the early development of Seattle's waterfront. Today, Manson's legacy of quality marine services continues to grow at locations throughout North America. With more than 800 employees and a large fleet of equipment, Manson supports high-profile marine infrastructure and energy projects across the nation.

Manson Construction represents generations of people, families, and communities whose commitment to success, safety, and ingenuity aligns with our core values: Take care of people; Do the right thing; and find a better way. At Manson, we strive to create an engaging and respectful environment where employees can share their ideas. We recognize that our employees are Manson's number one asset and the reason why we continue to execute benchmark work in the marine construction and dredging industry.

Summary

The Project Manager is Manson's authorized project representative with responsibility for all aspects of the project including safety, environmental, quality, ethics, financial, contractual, and schedule compliance. Plans, directs, and coordinates activities of designated project to ensure that goals or objectives of project are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following; Additional duties may be assigned.

• Leadership of the project team including motivating, managing, teaching and mentoring the members to create an efficient team working in a positive work environment.
• Executes the project by ensuring all work meets quality standards and is performed in compliance with all contract and permit requirements.
• Reviews project proposal/plan to determine and coordinate time frames, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.
• Responsible for the timely completion of the work by utilizing a CPM baseline schedule and monthly schedule updates that are submitted and approved by the client.
• Schedules and ensures adequate resources are available to the project including management staff, crews, equipment and supplies.
• Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.
• Effectively communicates contract changes, entitlement arguments and time/cost impact analysis. Responsible for all contract negotiations with the client and vendors. Conducts negotiations in good faith based on fairness, cooperation and standard of business ethics.
• Responsible for the financial success of the project. Ensures financial progress is tracked accurately and that labor, cost and forecast reports are completed weekly/monthly.
• Work as member of the estimating team during the project procurement phase.
• Responsible for practicing safe work standards and promoting an Incident and Injury Free (IIF) work environment.
• Ensures compliance with Manson's Code of Ethics and Standards of Business Conduct. Maintain a high standard of ethical behavior, encourages ethical behavior in others, supports ethical decisions and actively seeks appropriate resolution to potential ethical conflicts.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Leads and directly supervises employees on a construction site.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies, procedures and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Directs best work practices in conjunction with the VP/Area Manager.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities desired in candidates.

• B.S. degree in a technical area of study, typically Civil Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, or Construction Management
• Minimum of 10-15 years of construction experience within marine construction or heavy civil engineering.
• Project management and supervisory experience required.
• Valid US Drivers License required.
• Experience with scheduling, estimating, and project management software preferred
• Marine, structures, heavy lifts, or concrete construction experience preferred.
• First Aid/CPR Certification, preferred.
• 30 hour OSHA Certification, preferred
• Fall Protection Competent Person, preferred

Job Location

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Main office in the Eastern United States is in Jacksonville, FL. Projects tend to be in the Gulf and East Coast region, but can range from Brownsville, Texas to Baltimore, Maryland.

Benefits

Manson Construction offers our full-time employees a comprehensive and generous benefits package that is among the best in the industry. Our benefits package includes:

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision plans for eligible employees and 80% paid for their families
• Paid Time Off (sick, vacation, and holiday)
• Generous Retirement Plan: Employees contribute 3% and Manson contributes 7%.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Car package or vehicle allowance
• Company provided cell phone

Physical Demands

Position is primarily a field position, and will require travel, including visits and monitoring of construction job sites. Employee must be able to wear the personal protective equipment (PPE) required of various construction work environments (hard hats, personal floatation devices, safety glasses, gloves, safety-toed shoes, respirators, etc. The employee is required to stand, walk, use stairs, ladders, and step stools and reach with hands and arms. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may occasionally lift and/or up to 50 pounds. Must be able to navigate stairs, ladders and gangways, board, work on and disembark floating vessels and structures. The noise level in the work environment is moderate to loud. The employee may be required to sit for extended periods of time.

Manson Construction Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veteran status. Manson is a Drug-Free Workplace.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to recruiting@mansonconstruction.com.