Concrete Project Manager

Do you want to be part of an award-winning team? Come join Jacobsen – an employee-owned company that has spent the last 100 years working on our greatest passion – building the places where life happens. As a Concrete Project Manager, you will make a significant impact on some of the best projects in the market. As you do so, you will work with some of the most talented construction professionals in the industry with a common purpose of excellence, partnership and ownership. Along with all of our employee-owners, you’ll participate in our ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) that rewards your contributions and dedication. If you would like to learn more about our passion, purpose, and history, click here.

Your Day to Day 

• Coordinate concrete scope work for projects with project schedules and other work schedules, ensuring concrete projects do not conflict with project schedules and deadlines.
• Call project teams when necessary to facilitate scheduling needs. 
• Help solve construction-related problems and provide support to concrete finishing and concrete forming crews as needed. 
• Manage the budgets of self-performed concrete jobs and projects.
• Order materials and supplies for self-performed concrete work, ensuring projects have sufficient supplies for current and pending jobs.
• Issue and create purchase orders and subcontracts for materials and labor supplied on the project.
• Review drawings and specifications of concrete projects for accuracy and constructability, making corrections or suggestions for improvement as necessary. 
• Process change orders for concrete-related scopes on projects. 
• Compile project submittals, including shop drawings, material data, product data, samples and other project-related information for review as specified in the contract documents.
• Complete monthly snapshot reports, accounting for current project status and completion timelines.
• Submit requests for information on assigned projects. 
• Review timecards of craft workers assigned to their projects for accuracy.
• Provide input on projects concerning quality, phasing, scheduling and the overall concrete scope of the self-perform concrete work.
• Provide training to self-perform work site supervisors on computer skills and leadership skills. 
• Forecast accurately the material and manpower needs of projects and fulfill needs in a timely manner. 
• Analyze various work and determining quality and compliance with contract documents.
• Analyze problems and resolve issues as necessary to quickly determine the best course of action.
• All other duties, as assigned.

How You Contribute 

• Organizing project documents in a way that information is easily understandable to all who need it.
• Effectively communicating ideas, solutions, and requirements to others. 
• Building business with current customers by delivering on Company promises and creating new business with potential customers in a proactive manner, promoting all construction services.
• Building effective relationships with clients, design teams, subcontractors, suppliers, and user groups that reflect and support Company core values and meeting or exceeding the client’s expectations. 
• Promoting Company values. Communicating our vision and purpose through service, talent, and actions.
• Serving as a role model and promoting professional behavior. 
• Participating in and supporting operations training programs and committing to the development of project staff and of self. 
• Demonstrating thorough knowledge of construction cost, scheduling, estimating, purchasing and engineering principles and techniques, as well as accounting principles. 
• Demonstrating proven written and verbal communication abilities and proficiency with computer applications, including Microsoft Office suite, Tekla, ViewPoint and BlueBeam.
• Demonstrating the ability to read, understand and interpret contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work and project schedule.

Education & Experience

• Three to five years of similar or related experience in the construction and/or engineering industry with a similar high volume environment. 
• Four-year business or technical degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in the construction and/or engineering industry with a similar high volume environment