Residential Construction Project Manager

Barndos Direct LLCProject Manager Job Description

Company: Barndos Direct LLC
Location: Jamestown, Tennessee / Office and occasional field travel required throughout the areas served by Barndos Direct
Role Type: Full-Time
Reports To: Vice President of Operations

Position Summary

The Project Manager is responsible for the administrative, financial, contractual, procurement, scheduling, resource, and project-control functions necessary to support successful residential construction projects.

The position is expected to apply a production-oriented project management approach built around standardization, repeatable processes, early commitments, advance planning, and completing management requirements well ahead of field production.

The Project Manager is responsible for maintaining effective project controls while supporting project Superintendents in the execution of their field responsibilities.

Primary Responsibilities

• Review and validate project construction packages at operational handoff and require correction of missing, incomplete, conflicting, or unacceptable information before projects are accepted into Operations.
• Maintain ownership of project budgets, commitments, projected costs, cost-to-complete, financial variances, and overall project financial performance.
• Participate in the subcontractor and vendor invoice approval process, including review of commitments, schedules of values, supporting documentation, payment conditions, corrections, resubmissions, and payment-related issues.
• Own project buyout, purchase orders, material commitments, and standardized trade scopes.
• Maintain consistent trade scopes from project to project and identify scope gaps, overlaps, exclusions, and trade-to-trade responsibility transitions.
• Maintain the master project schedule in Buildertrend and manage the administrative, procurement, contractual, customer-decision, customer-responsibility, and resource requirements necessary to support it.
• Own Barndos Direct’s company-wide subcontractor and vendor capacity and ensure sufficient qualified resources are available to support current and projected construction volume.
• Manage subcontractor and vendor pricing and performance so available resources remain consistent with project budgets, estimating assumptions, quality expectations, and company pricing standards.
• Maintain a working command of the Prime Contract, Master Subcontract/Trade Agreements, approved plans, Base Specifications, Exclusions & Assumptions, and other controlling project documents.
• Own change-order administration and ensure changes are identified, priced, approved, documented, and incorporated sufficiently ahead of production.
• Maintain Buildertrend as the primary operational project-management system and ensure the overall project record is complete, accurate, and current.
• Manage appropriate Buildertrend access and customer-facing controls for customers, project Superintendents, subcontractors, vendors, and internal personnel.
• Provide administrative oversight of project Superintendents and ensure compliance with established Barndos Direct reporting, documentation, communication, schedule-update, inspection, QC, and other administrative requirements.
• Own project-level lender and customer draw and billing administration, including required information and supporting documentation.
• Forecast earned revenue based on project costs incurred and report actual earned revenue against forecast.
• Coordinate with Pre-Construction, Estimating, Design, Sales, Accounting, Permitting, Operations, and other internal functions necessary to support project execution.
• Provide Estimating with ongoing feedback regarding buyout pricing, scope gaps, cost variances, market pricing, and other information necessary to improve future estimates.
• Manage escalated customer, lender, contractual, financial, and administrative project issues.
• Own subcontractor and vendor administrative and commercial matters, including purchase orders, scopes, schedules of values, invoicing, payment-related issues, insurance compliance, and licensing compliance.
• Manage the administrative and financial closeout of assigned projects.
• Manage warranty dates and administrative warranty requirements from entry through conclusion of the applicable warranty period.
• Maintain visibility into project risks and follow administrative and management issues through documented resolution.

Project Manager Authority

The Project Manager is authorized and responsible to:

• Issue, revise, cancel, and reissue project commitments within approved company authority.
• Select and assign approved subcontractors and vendors.
• Negotiate pricing and scope within established company standards and approved contractual requirements.
• Require corrections to scopes, pricing, schedules of values, invoices, and other subcontractor/vendor documentation.
• Administer change orders in accordance with established company procedures.
• Review, reject, require revision of, and approve subcontractor/vendor invoices when all required payment conditions have been satisfied.
• Require project Superintendents to comply with established administrative requirements.
• Establish and enforce administrative, procurement, customer-decision, and project-management deadlines.
• Manage Buildertrend access and customer-facing controls.
• Take appropriate management action to protect project budgets, contractual requirements, documentation, company resources, and project schedules.

The Project Manager May Not Independently:

• Spend project margin.
• Increase the approved total project budget.
• Increase Barndos Direct’s contractual scope.
• Commit the company to work not required by the applicable contract.
• Authorize customer-requested work, credits, concessions, or scope changes outside the required approval process.
• Approve payment for incomplete work or work for which required phase-completion, inspection, documentation, corrective-work, cleanliness, or other payment conditions have not been satisfied.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated construction project-management experience.
• Strong knowledge of residential construction sequencing, trade scopes, procurement, and project controls.
• Ability to read and interpret construction plans, specifications, scopes of work, purchase orders, contracts, schedules, and project documents.
• Strong financial and budget-management capability.
• Working knowledge of construction contracts and change-order administration.
• Strong organizational, planning, documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage a high-volume portfolio of concurrent construction projects and competing priorities.
• Ability to effectively manage subcontractor, vendor, customer, lender, and internal relationships.
• Ability to use Buildertrend or comparable construction-management systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing custom or semi-custom residential construction.
• Experience in production or high-volume residential construction.
• Experience managing multiple geographically dispersed projects.
• Experience with residential project budgeting, buyout, procurement, and earned-revenue forecasting.
• Experience developing and managing subcontractor and vendor networks.

Performance Measures

Performance will be evaluated based on:

• Project budget and financial-control performance.
• Commitment and buyout performance.
• Subcontractor and vendor capacity, pricing, and performance.
• Accuracy and completeness of trade scopes and purchase orders.
• Project-management support of schedule performance.
• Change-order management and contract administration.
• Billing and draw administration.
• Earned-revenue forecast and actual performance based on project costs incurred.
• Buildertrend and project-documentation compliance.
• Project Superintendent administrative compliance.
• Internal coordination and Estimating feedback.
• Administrative and financial project closeout and warranty administration.
• Consistent use of standardized company processes, proactive management, problem prevention, and follow-through.

Compensation

Compensation shall consist of a base salary and an available performance bonus.

Detailed bonus calculations, eligibility requirements, performance categories, exclusions, and payment terms shall be established separately in the company’s approved Project Manager Bonus Policy.

Pay: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Work Location: In person

Salary : $70,000 - $90,000