Senior Earthwork Project Manager

Our client is seeking an experienced and field-oriented Senior Earthwork Project Manager to lead large-scale earthwork and site development operations for industrial warehouses, distribution centers, and logistics facilities.

The successful candidate must have direct technical and operational experience managing self-performed earthwork, including mass excavation, cut-and-fill, grading, soil stabilization, proof rolling, compaction, and large industrial building pads.

This is not a general vertical construction position. The role requires a professional who understands soil conditions, heavy equipment productivity, field production, project costs, and scheduling, and who can make fast and accurate technical decisions in a dynamic, multi-project environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage earthwork and civil site development operations for large industrial warehouse and distribution center projects.
• Lead mass excavation, cut-and-fill, rough grading, fine grading, and building pad construction.
• Develop daily and weekly production plans based on earthwork quantities, haul distances, soil conditions, equipment availability, and project schedules.
• Determine appropriate equipment spreads and trucking requirements for excavation, hauling, placement, grading, and compaction activities.
• Calculate and monitor equipment productivity in cubic yards per hour and per day.
• Compare actual field production against estimates, budgets, and project schedules.
• Manage self-performing earthwork crews, superintendents, equipment operators, laborers, truck drivers, and subcontractors.
• Review civil plans, grading plans, geotechnical reports, specifications, earthwork quantities, and project schedules.
• Supervise and evaluate proof rolling activities.
• Identify pumping, rutting, deflection, soft spots, unstable subgrade, and unsuitable soil conditions.
• Develop and implement corrective actions for failed proof rolls and soil-related field conditions.
• Manage soil stabilization, moisture conditioning, drying, undercutting, replacement, scarification, and recompaction activities.
• Coordinate density testing, moisture testing, geotechnical inspections, and final subgrade acceptance.
• Monitor lift thickness, compaction effort, material suitability, pad elevations, and grading tolerances.
• Manage excavators, bulldozers, articulated dump trucks, compactors, motor graders, loaders, and support equipment.
• Track labor hours, equipment utilization, fuel, trucking, production quantities, project costs, and schedule performance.
• Identify operational delays and implement corrective actions to protect production, budget, and project deadlines.
• Coordinate with owners, general contractors, engineers, surveyors, geotechnical consultants, testing agencies, vendors, and subcontractors.
• Manage RFIs, change orders, daily reports, production records, cost documentation, and project correspondence.
• Support project estimating, forecasting, cost control, scheduling, and resource planning.
• Travel between multiple active project sites and respond quickly to changing field conditions and priorities.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, environmental, and project-specific requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of direct experience in earthwork, heavy civil construction, or large-scale site development.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Project Manager, Senior Superintendent, or comparable earthwork leadership professional.
• Demonstrated experience managing self-performed earthwork operations.
• Direct experience with mass excavation, cut-and-fill, grading, and large commercial or industrial building pads.
• Practical experience with soil stabilization and unsuitable soil remediation.
• Direct experience conducting, supervising, or evaluating proof rolling.
• Strong knowledge of compaction requirements, moisture conditioning, lift thickness, density testing, and subgrade preparation.
• Ability to calculate equipment productivity using truck capacity, loading time, haul distance, cycle time, material type, swell and shrink factors, equipment utilization, and compaction requirements.
• Experience planning and balancing excavation, hauling, placement, grading, and compaction operations.
• Experience managing heavy equipment fleets and field production crews.
• Ability to read and interpret civil drawings, grading plans, geotechnical reports, project specifications, and earthwork quantities.
• Strong understanding of project scheduling, cost control, production tracking, forecasting, and resource allocation.
• Ability to make timely technical decisions in fast-paced and changing field environments.
• Ability to manage multiple active projects and competing priorities.
• Strong leadership, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently between project locations.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with industrial warehouses, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, or logistics developments.
• Experience managing sites with significant cut-and-fill quantities and large industrial building pads.
• Experience with GPS machine-control systems and survey coordination.
• Knowledge of HCSS, Procore, Bluebeam, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or similar construction management software.
• OSHA certification.
• Experience coordinating directly with geotechnical engineers and material-testing agencies.
• Experience managing multiple large-scale earthwork projects simultaneously.

Pay: From $130,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Salary : $130,000