PROJECT MANAGER

A construction project manager, or construction manager, coordinates construction projects from start to finish. Duties you may want to include in your construction project manager job description are developing detailed project timelines, ensuring compliance with local building codes and communicating with clients and workers.

In this article, you can identify the duties, responsibilities and background required for your open construction project manager position to better craft your job description

Construction project manager duties and responsibilities

A construction project manager oversees every aspect of a construction project, including planning and design, ensuring it’s completed on time and within budget. They typically hire subcontractors and supervise employees at each job site. Construction project managers also help support compliance with national safety standards and local building codes.

Common duties include:

• Coordinating with architects, engineers, plumbers and electricians
• Preparing and reviewing cost estimates, bids and contracts
• Communicating project updates to clients and other interested parties, such as consultants
• Leading project meetings and maintaining accurate documentation, including drawings, change orders and project plans
• Enforcing employee safety procedures and environmental regulations, such as the Clean Air Act (CAA) 
• Procuring project materials, equipment and permits
• Resolving project issues to prevent delays or budget overages
• Management of construction life cycle activities such as RFIs logs and department meeting minutes templates from beginning to project close out
• Initiating and managing the project, establishing the constructible scope, executing and tracking the construction progress and being the primary point-of-contact for key stakeholders.
• Develop, manage, and monitor anticipated versus actual project budgets to effectively estimate, budget, and control costs within project objective (success) parameters for the project
• Responsible to assure corporate processes are applied and completed.
• Track and assure on-time completion of all project tasks from initial budget to closeout.
• Responsible for communicating effectively throughout the project on questions, changes and updates on the project
• Ensure project processes are integrated effectively to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and effectively transient the project to the brand and ensure project objective accomplishment
• Guarantee that brand designs & identity are respected.
• Assure that construction documents are accurate, achievable and comply with brand and industry standards.
• Oversees quality management processes to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and ensures brand satisfaction
• Prepare and manage schedules for architects, vendors and contractor to deliver the project within the designated project time objective
• Secure the delivery of material and services.
• Issue RFPs, compare & level bids, negotiate proposals.
• Establish and maintain contractor and vendor quality standards during the design, implementation and construction process.
• Engage pro-active solutions for anticipated obstacles.
• Accept full responsibility for success or failure in terms of quality and efficiency of the project.
• Willing to work off hours or days when required by project needs.
• All other duties as assigned by Management.
• Must travel as required to project jobsites.