Construction Project Manager

Title: Construction Project Manager

Position Type: Staff Full-Time

Days Per Week: M-F

Hours Per Week: 40

VP Area: Finance and Administration

Department: Planning, Design & Construction Mgmt.

FE, PE, PMP, NCARB, RA certification and/or general contractor license.

Job Duties

• PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • Manage the construction, and close out phases as well as coordinate activities of designated projects to ensure that goals or objectives of project are accomplished within prescribed time fame and funding parameters.
  • Perform the full range of project management cycle from bidding to close-out: initiating, planning, budgeting, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
  • Manage the construction budgets from conception through final completion. 
• CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
  • Lead the University's construction-phase management of assigned projects and serve as the Owner's primary representative in managing contractor performance and successful project delivery.
  • Monitor contractor performance against contractual schedule requirements, project milestones, and University occupancy commitments. Collaborate with contractors to develop and implement recovery plans when adjustments are needed to maintain project milestones.
  • Review baseline schedules, schedule updates, critical path activities, procurement schedules, manpower and sequencing. Confirm reported progress is consistent with actual field conditions and challenge unsupported schedule assumptions or completion projections.
  • Maintain a strong field presence and routinely evaluate construction progress, staffing, sequencing, quality, safety concerns, site logistics, and constraints that could affect project delivery.
  • Facilitate constructive performance discussions with contractors by establishing clear expectations, documenting commitments, monitoring corrective actions, and supporting timely resolution of outstanding issues.
  • Establish clear expectations, document commitments, track corrective actions, and escalate unresolved issues as appropriate. Anticipate construction risks and identify potential delays, conflicts, long-lead procurement issues, design conflicts or omissions, owner decisions, and other impediments before they affect the critical path.
  • Lead construction progress meetings with a focus on decisions, accountability, schedule, outstanding RFIs/submittals, procurement, change management, and resolution of constraints.
  • Review contractor payment applications and validate reported percent complete against actual work in place and contractual requirements. Review change order requests for entitlement, scope, cost, schedule impact, supporting documentation, and compliance with the contract.
  • Negotiate or support negotiation of changes to protect the University's interests. Coordinate with architects, engineers, University stakeholders and authorities having jurisdiction to resolve field conditions and construction issues promptly.
  • Oversee punch-list completion, commissioning, inspections, training, closeout documentation and warranty obligations and drive these activities to completion.
• DESIGN & PLANNING
  • Reviews construction documents, bid packages, contracts for constructability and compliance with AIA owner-contractor contracts, and schedule.
  • Reviews submitted bid packages and awarding contract to successful bidder.
• GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
  • Attends departmental and division meetings Reviews and certifies invoices for payment Solicits estimates and establish purchase orders for goods and services.
• INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING Community is foundational to Elon and a shared responsibility within our residential campus. All who work at Elon should demonstrate an understanding of and engagement with Elon’s foundational commitment to relationships, mentoring and collaboration in a close-knit residential community. We embrace the shared responsibility to foster inclusive excellence within a strong residential community. Accordingly, employees are expected to join together and build connections in activities that foster an active and engaged campus environment and engage in professional development to support the shared responsibility of enriching diversity, equity, and inclusion through meaningful relationships and mentoring at Elon. Employees are encouraged to, for example, attend or participate in campus activities such as College Coffee, Numen Lumen, campus cultural events, athletic events, continuing education, professional development opportunities and trainings, employee resource groups and other university-sponsored activities to demonstrate an active commitment to the Elon community.

**Special Instructions to Applicants: The search is being conducted by the Duffy Group. Please send all application materials including a resume and cover letter to the Duffy Group at jfierro@duffygroup.com.**

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