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Job Description Summary:
Overall responsibility for the operation and administration of project assignments, including the maintenance of client, vendor, and subcontractor relationships, and accountability of project profit and loss.
Job Description:
Position Responsibilities and Duties:
- Able to perform all essential Project Executive responsibilities
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Leadership & Alignment
- Leads project planning, including conducting job start meetings and planning sessions
- Supports project managers with escalated concerns or challenges, including conducting difficult conversations with clients, vendors, subcontractors
- Ensures that cost control is set up and maintained in accordance with company standards
- Supervises project teams to enforce compliance with company policies, safety standards and quality standards, and makes periodic job visits
- Assists division leadership with other (non-operating) functions and activities as required
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Strategic Talent Planning
- Recruits, trains, mentors and develops talent in partnership with division leadership
- Ensures project team members are able to meet their job duties and responsibilities and conducts employee performance evaluations for staff
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Best-in-Class Execution
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Ensures client satisfaction by supporting project leaders with duties as follows:
- Reviews and approves estimates, schedules, budget, and fee for assigned projects
- Facilitates job handover from estimating to project team, ensures all scheduling procedures are followed, and leads and supervises project mobilization and job set up
- Ensures projects are properly resourced with staff, tools, and other resources needed
- Produces various timely and accurate management reports
- Attends proposal presentations and assists in preparation and presentation of materials
- Maintains accountability for project profit and loss
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Ensures client satisfaction by supporting project leaders with duties as follows:
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Market Development & Diversification
- Responsible for meeting all divisional sales goals, and cultivating new business opportunities.
- Maintains a solid understanding of the market, attends industry events, belongs to relevant industry associations, and can identify key partners within and outside the industry
- Reviews contracts, assists with contract negotiations, supervises subcontract bidding and negotiations, and reviews and approves subcontracts and material purchase orders
- Maintains continued client contact on current projects and partners with Business Development to establish new or develop renewed client relationships
- Completes other responsibilities as assigned
Minimum Skills or Experience Requirements:
- Degree in a construction-related field (such as Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture), completion of a Construction Management Certificate Program, or equivalent working experience.
- Extensive experience in field construction management, including supervisory or managerial roles.
- Broad experience managing complex projects and/or multiple projects simultaneously.
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Strong working knowledge of:
- Construction means and methods, contract negotiation and execution, and project management systems (e.g., scheduling, cost control, procurement, and estimating).
- Cost control, labor productivity, cash flow, and cost management procedures.
- Location-specific laws, regulations, building codes, procurement types, and delivery methods.
- Interior construction projects across various market sectors, such as Office (e.g., workplace, conference centers, amenities, base building upgrades), Retail (e.g., luxury brands, flagship stores, specialty spaces), and Hospitality (e.g., fine dining, lodging, lounges, concessions).
- Fundamental knowledge of contract law and project accounting.
- Experience with virtual construction technology systems and platforms (e.g., CMiC, Bluebeam, and related systems).
- Leadership skills in networking, partnering, delegating, facilitating, and strategizing.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to coach, foster collaboration, and effectively navigate conflict to resolve issues.
- Proven ability to build relationships and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
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Skilled in supporting business development activities, including:
- Developing sales and marketing plans.
- Assisting with prospecting and lead generation.
- Leading opportunity pursuits.
- Supporting estimating and bidding activities.
- Maintains a robust network of Trade Partners and Vendors, including both Union and Non-Union professionals, aligned with location-specific interiors construction projects.
SUMMARY OF BENEFITS:
This role is eligible for the following benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company matching, Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP), individual stock ownership, paid vacation, paid sick leave, paid holidays, bereavement leave, employee assistance program, pre-tax flexible spending accounts, basic term life insurance and AD&D, business travel accident insurance, short and long term disability, financial wellness coaching, educational assistance, Care.com membership, ClassPass fitness membership, and DashPass delivery membership. Voluntary benefits include additional term life insurance, long term care insurance, critical illness and accidental injury insurance, pet insurance, legal plan, identity theft protection, and other voluntary benefit options.
About Us
Swinerton provides commercial construction services throughout the United States, delivering innovative solutions and outstanding service to our customers for time-tested buildings and facilities. Over our 136-year history, Swinerton has earned a strong reputation as the Premier Builder in the West. As a 100% employee-owned quality contractor, we hire the best people, give them exceptional training, and provide robust opportunities for professional growth.
Swinerton has built a strong reputation as an employee-owned quality contractor. We hire the best people, give them exceptional training and provide them with the opportunities and the responsibilities that allow them to learn and develop professionally. Swinerton values and recognizes our employees as the essential ingredient to our lasting success. As a 100% employee-owned company, we invest greatly in the personal and professional well-being of our people. Together, we have created an excellent place to work; when people join Swinerton, they tend to stay. We strive for a positive work environment that encourages outstanding performance while making room for fun. We also believe that happy, healthy employees lead to a highly productive company, and we are proud to offer a robust benefits package to support individual and collective success.
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