What are the responsibilities and job description for the Construction Manager - Civil & Underground Utilities position at PURIS?
Construction Manager
About PURIS
PURIS operates across North America as the largest independent trenchless rehabilitation provider with 900 employees dedicated to building lasting infrastructure with smart, sustainable resource management. The PURIS Family of Companies provide trenchless renewal solutions in the water, wastewater, and stormwater markets. Our environmentally friendly solutions work within the existing infrastructure to save time, minimize environmental impact, and cause fewer community disruptions. With an unrivaled toolbox of technologies, PURIS has the RIGHT solution for each project.
Job Summary
We are seeking a talented Construction Manager to join our team! In this role, you will work directly with Project Managers, Engineers, and subcontractors to ensure a timely, safe, and accurate job completion.
Essential Job Accountabilities
About PURIS
PURIS operates across North America as the largest independent trenchless rehabilitation provider with 900 employees dedicated to building lasting infrastructure with smart, sustainable resource management. The PURIS Family of Companies provide trenchless renewal solutions in the water, wastewater, and stormwater markets. Our environmentally friendly solutions work within the existing infrastructure to save time, minimize environmental impact, and cause fewer community disruptions. With an unrivaled toolbox of technologies, PURIS has the RIGHT solution for each project.
Job Summary
We are seeking a talented Construction Manager to join our team! In this role, you will work directly with Project Managers, Engineers, and subcontractors to ensure a timely, safe, and accurate job completion.
Essential Job Accountabilities
- Review and understand the project HSE and Quality requirement, scope of work, specifications, and project overall schedule.
- Prepares Construction Management Organization chart, identify key positions, and prepares mobilization plan, in coordination with Project Manager.
- Establish clear definition of responsibilities for the construction management personnel.
- Reviews and leads the implementation of the project HSE & Quality plans.
- Contribute to project function ability & reviews plans at home office during engineering activities, in coordination with construction support engineer, and subcontractors construction managers.
- Prepares, in coordination with project subcontractors managers, and the project managers, the subcontracting and mobilization plan.
- Prepares the construction schedule in conjunction with the planning engineers with details on specific activities and respective dates of completion.
- Ensure the mobilization of all labor, materials, and equipment in the most cost effective and efficient manner to achieve the construction objectives.
- Commence the project as per guidelines set and ensure the completion of the same as per the above plan.
- Leads the construction management team, fostering continuous inter-discipline coordination to ensure the smooth completion of all activities with minimum interruptions & reworks.
- Promotes excellent working relationships with construction subcontractor team members.
- Ensures continuous construction work fronts availability through preparation and review of look ahead schedules, resource charts, engineering deliverables and material delivery schedules.
- Constantly identify bottlenecks for progress on project and proactively take action to resolve the same.
- Chairs daily, weekly & monthly internal meetings, and ensures action points are liquidated in a timely manner.
- Carry out any other duties as directed by the Area Director.
- Continuously assess, with the QC & HSE managers, the status of project Quality & HSE, and ensures timely closures of corrective actions & non conformances.
- Coordinate and liaison with client/contractor and certifying and regulatory authorities to ensure that the project is in compliance with all requirements.
- Ensures proper and timely hand over of systems/subsystems to commissioning teams and provide assistance as required.
- Continuous performance assessment of subordinates, giving them feedback on their performances, their strengths and weaknesses, giving them clear guidance on areas where they should improve.
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Degree in construction management, architecture, or engineering (preferred)
- 3 years of experience in a field supervisory, project engineer, field engineer or project coordinator role
- Must be willing to learn and provide instructions, able to communicate, work in a process-oriented manner.
- Proactively manages resources efficiently.
- Time management
- Decision making abilities
- Strong communication abilities
- Leadership experience
- Ability to travel based on operational needs.
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package that includes medical/Rx, dental, vision, critical illness and accident insurance, and short-term disability.
- Several 100% company-paid benefits including:
- Life Insurance
- Long-term disability
- Employee assistance program
- Bonus program
- 401(k) savings plan with company match
- Generous PTO
- 10 paid holidays
- Tuition reimbursement
- Career advancement opportunities