Build More with Your Career at Christman Constructors, Inc.

With projects throughout the Midwest, Christman Constructors, Inc. (CCI) is a great place to begin, continue or grow your career. We're searching for the next generation of innovative minds who want to shape the world and live to build. CCI is looking for a Civil Project Manager in our Lansing region. As a Civil Project Manager, you will provide overall leadership of civil and concrete projects including but not limited to responsibility for overall safety, profitability and quality of projects. In addition to supporting Civil and Concrete Strategic Planning initiatives, effectively implement and ensure compliance with strategic plan.

What You Will Do:

As a Civil Project Manager your primary daily responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to: 

• Forecast project cost to completion, and project gross profit for each monthly close
• Coordinate directly with Chief of Civil/Concrete Estimating for estimate and bid support including take-off, estimates, proposals and pricing
• Project planning including conceiving of civil and concrete means/methods, schedules, change order time and costs, as well as coordinate subcontractors
• Determine subcontractor/vendor buyout, commitments and scope execution
• Develop project budgets based on current estimates and proposals
• Approve vendor and subcontractor invoices
• Develop Schedule of Values (SOV), Owner invoices and ensure timely Owner payments
• Estimate and quote extra work and document changes, ensure extras are loaded into Viewpoint/logs and track/act on Owner contract changes
• Ensure that project controls such as safety forms, work plans, submittals, RFI's, logs and documents are organized, submitted, closed and complete
• Work with project team to develop project and look-ahead schedules. Provide periodic review of schedules to ensure milestone dates are met and schedule delays are documented
• Communicate project goals with field leadership and coordinate planning effort
• Draft and submit project correspondence in order to document risk-related issues such as delays, claims, extra work and safety hazards
• Ensure that safety goals are achieved for applicable projects, identify safe work practices and areas for improvement

What You Will Bring to the Team:

Required experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.
• Minimum five years of relevant work experience in the construction industry.
• OR equivalent combination of the above education, training, and experience.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Have the ability to interact with and develop effective working relationships with a wide range of people, including internal and external customers, in different situations. 
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Able to plan, schedule, and organize tasks while completing work within established deadlines. 
• Ability to follow instructions, respond to management direction, take responsibility for own actions, and keep commitments. 
• Must have excellent written and oral skills. 
• Basic computer knowledge of Microsoft 365 including Word, Excel, and Outlook. 
• Have a passion for team-based planning and problem-solving. 
• Have a wholehearted commitment to building strong partnerships to support project goals. 

Why Christman? 

At Christman, everyone is an owner. Through our employee stock ownership plan, each employee-owner shares in the collective success and wealth of our nationally recognized company and is eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance, 401K contribution, professional development and tuition reimbursement, and more. 

CCI is a premier full-service construction contractor with a tradition of excellence spanning more than a century. We are passionate about constructing facilities that drive our economy, improve our public infrastructure, and create the spaces that enable our clients to do what they do best.

With offices in Detroit, Lansing, and Livonia, Michigan, CCI specializes in: 

• Carpentry & General Trades 
• Concrete & Civil 
• Demolition & Restoration 
• Mass Timber 
• Fireproofing 
• Service 
• General Contracting 

Learn more about how you can grow as a Christman Expert, Leader and Partner and build more with us. 

Work Environment and Physical Demands: The majority of work is completed outside at the construction site and in an office trailer where the project is monitored, and daily decisions are made about construction activities. The position is often exposed to sounds and loud noises, such as construction equipment. The job requires the wearing of protective equipment when on the construction site (hardhats, safety glasses, and highly visible clothing). Temperatures and conditions may vary depending on the weather and seasons. As part of our focus on being a Great Place to Work, we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics we expect: 

• Ability to occasionally stand, walk, sit, reach (with hands and arms), climb, balance stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must be able to talk, hear, use hands and fingers to handle or feel, be able to use a telephone and operate a keyboard. 
• Be able to frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds. 

The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. 

Notice to Recruiting Agencies (Unsolicited Resumes): The Christman Company does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our applicant tracking system, website, or to any Christman employee/affiliates. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Christman employees or its' affiliates will be considered property of The Christman Company and will be processed accordingly. Christman will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume without an executed agreement and assigned to a specific search.  

The Christman family of companies is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.