Construction Project Director

Full Time
Exton, PA
Posted
Job description
Project Director

Position Title: Project Director
Department: Operations/Project Management
Reports to: President/Chairman/Chief Operating Officer/VP Operations
Direct Reports: Operations Manager/Project Manager/Project Engineer

Summary Description:
This position serves as the Project Executive for all jobs in which they are involved. Responsibilities include overall oversight of project financials including cost spread/estimates, cost reports, overall profitability, and change orders. Responsible for operational oversight on all projects involved. In-depth knowledge of the weekly work status of each project to assure proper resource scheduling company-wide. This role will include mentoring and managing Project Managers and Engineers and having overall responsibility for these projects.

Specific Responsibilities:
  • Preparing/reviewing Cost spread
  • Contract/subcontract review and evaluation
  • Schedule of values development
  • Participate in project buy out and vendor evaluation
  • Early project planning including sequencing, scheduling and resource planning.
  • Weekly project reviews/updates with the project team
  • Monthly Directors meeting attendance
  • In-depth knowledge of ongoing project operations
  • Executive contact for GC
  • Change Order monitoring and responsibility for collections
  • GC relations
  • In-depth knowledge and participation inaccurate cost projections
  • Project problem solving
  • Management Safety Audits - Monthly
  • Mentoring Project Team Members including PM/PE/Operations Manager

Job-Specific Competencies/behaviors:
  • Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills
  • Ability to identify, assimilate and comprehend the critical elements of a situation to extract and interpret implications of courses of action to attend to details of a problem.
  • Effectiveness in planning and controlling work, motivating and developing subordinates, improving work methods and results, encouraging and supporting suggestions for work improvements, etc.
  • Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.
  • Plans for and uses resources efficiently, always looks for ways to reduce costs
  • Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds the root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
  • Knows and projects costs to complete accurately. Proactively adjusts budgets and develops solutions to maximize profits.
  • Leads through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.
  • Operates within the organization's formal and informal structures, builds allies and relationships across departments, uses allies to build consensus and create results, is appropriately diplomatic, understands others' roles and perspectives and can sell projects and ideas across the organization.
  • Anticipates and resolves conflicts, turns team diversity into an advantage, uses unique team talents, defines processes and goals, works for consensus.
  • Establishes project goals, milestones, and procedures, defines roles and responsibilities, acquires project resources, coordinates projects throughout company, monitors project progress, and manages multiple projects.
  • Understands specialty equipment, keeps knowledge up-to-date, is a technical resource for others, follows technology practices and standards.
  • Inspires and stimulates the best efforts of subordinates in the accomplishment of identified goals.

Education/Experience/Attributes/Requirements:
  • 15+ years of experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or Engineer recommended.
  • Complete knowledge of construction principles/practices required
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, with an adaptable and flexible style in working with all types of individuals
  • Project set up, budget planning, buyout, and cost reporting experience are a must
  • Complete understanding of critical path scheduling.
  • Successfully managed multiple self-perform concrete projects with successful outcomes.
  • Experience leading successful project team, including the development of employees and maintaining relationships with external entities
  • Energetic and highly motivated with a strong sense of urgency
  • Highly entrepreneurial and self-motivated, with the ability to work equally well on my own as well as in a team environment.
  • Ability to walk the job site, climb ladders, and multi-floor scaffolding.

Leadership Competencies:
  • Adaptability
  • Teamwork
  • Creativity
  • Results
  • Leadership
  • Stamina
  • Courage
  • Sense of Urgency


About Concrete Strategies:

Our team of the industry’s most talented and knowledgeable concrete construction professionals is dedicated to putting more into the pour to ensure success in everything that we do. Through successful, full-service concrete construction projects across the United States, we have become the nation’s leading turnkey, design-build concrete contractor because we do more before we ever pour. We have an unparalleled track record in architectural site cast concrete, structural concrete, flatwork, site utilities and all types of self-performing concrete construction for commercial projects. Concrete Strategies employs over 550 field personnel and completes over $200 million revenue annually from our headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as our newly opened office in Kansas City, Kansas. We do more before we ever pour to make sure we do every job on target and on budget. Most importantly, our commitment to safety has earned CSI a reputation as one of the top concrete contractors in the United States. Learn more at: www.concretestrategies.com

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