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Subcontracts Manager

PCL Construction
PCL Construction Salary
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 12/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/21/2026
The future you want is within reach.

At PCL, we build the places where life happens and find camaraderie in the process. We're a community of builders committed to building better communities. That's why we're always looking ahead, and not just to the next project or what's next in our industry.

We're also looking at what's next for you and how we can help you build a career you're proud of.

Here's how a Subcontracts Manager for our US PICCo office contributes to our team:

Responsibilities

  • Collaborates with construction/project manager/superintendent and project team.
  • Ensures information is presented appropriately at all meetings. Able to determine issues that are impacting project performance and communicate issues to all stakeholders.
  • Supervises, directs, coaches, trains, and mentors the project team on the same site or multiple sites.
  • Communicates with the project teams to define scope of work, need for change to budgets and schedules, and identification of variances from the original plan.
  • Responsible for refining and executing the overall project strategy.
  • Implements and maintains project risk management and coordinates risk mitigation strategies.
  • Monitors project performance, schedule, costs, equipment, workforce, materials, HSE and quality control.
  • Sets up project reporting procedures (i.e., labor, material, cost reports, site office procedures, and document control).
  • Understands the labor relations process and how PCL recruits and hires.
  • Understands jurisdictional markups.
  • Provides input to performance status reports regarding safety, cost forecast, and schedule.
  • Manages all change orders, including negotiating, processing, and assessing cost and schedule impact.
  • Performs detailed cost review of construction equipment.
  • Assists in securing new work by participating in estimates, working with subcontractors, and/or participating in proposals and presentations.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering (or other) discipline; or a construction trades background with relevant experience.
  • In-depth knowledge of the construction industry and company operations, specifically construction specifications, building materials, methods, and procedures.
  • Strong understanding of contract language. Proactively identifies risk on construction projects and mitigates through action plans.
  • Ability to lead effective site meetings with the client, consultants, trades, and internal employees; ability to present at client meetings or for project pursuit work.
  • Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication style across multiple departments and audiences including clients, supervision, and craft workers, and relate to all levels of personnel.
  • Proven knowledge of different construction methods, sequencing, potential problems, and timelines through the industrial project life cycle across most disciplines.
  • Intermediate knowledge of project management and estimating software programs, and engineering and construction management principles and practices.
  • Intermediate understanding of, or the ability to learn, in- house software applications quickly (e.g., progressing, cost control, scheduling, quality).
  • Proven ability to solve problems related to construction, sequencing, and staffing.
  • Strong planning, organization, and time management skills to establish priorities and schedule work tasks and projects to ensure the on-time completion of work priorities.
  • Strong ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders and decision-makers.

PCL is an innovative, employee-owned company comprised of people who find passion in their profession and take pride in doing great work every day. Our work powers the infrastructure and utilities that are essential to daily life and our projects are the scene of vacations, careers, education and healing. We are consistently ranked among the best companies to work for because we are committed to supporting and developing our teams.

The PCL Companies celebrate diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating equitable opportunities and an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We make employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or veteran status.

PCL combines numerous pay and benefit strategies to provide a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package. Any salary range displayed by a job board is an estimate. Your salary, which considers your unique qualifications and experience, is just one component of the robust total rewards you'll enjoy at PCL. This may include an employee share purchase offering, discretionary annual performance bonus, comprehensive benefits and wellness programs, retirement plan plus matching, and career development programs.

Should you require an accommodation during the application process, please contact us at careers@pcl.com with the position and location you are interested in.

Together, we can build success and a better future. Let’s get started!

Employee Status: Regular Full-Time

Company: PCL Industrial Construction Co.

Primary Location: Houston, Texas, Abilene, Texas, North Dakota

Job: Subcontracts Manager

Requisition: 10350

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