Project Manager

Senior Project Manager | "What if your RFIs got answered before lunch?"

At most GCs, "design-build" means an outside architect, a design-assist clause, and a prayer. Here, it means the architects and engineers are on payroll, in the same building you sit in. You shape the estimate before award rather than inherit one. Questions get answered by walking down a hall.

Here's the work: You'll run commercial projects start to finish, precon through closeout, no handoffs. You'll lead design coordination with a design team that actually reports to your company. You'll own budgets, buyout, and change orders, and have the authority to make calls without escalating through three layers. You'll manage supers, subs, and owners directly. And you won't run the same building twice: recent work spans heavy manufacturing with full-length crane bays, a 110,000 SF rec center with a pool, and fast-track healthcare.

What's in it for you: $130,000–$150,000/year, direct hire, at a privately held design-build GC in Wisconsin's Lake Country that's been building for 80 years, most of it negotiated, repeat-client work. One client has been coming back for 20 years straight. Profit sharing on top of base, 401(k) match, full health benefits, and a team small enough that your projects are visibly yours.

You'll recognize yourself here if you've spent a decade or so running commercial work at a general contractor and you're tired of being a slice of someone else's machine. You'd rather own one job completely than report on five. Design-build experience helps; the instinct to get into the design early matters more.

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