Summary
The senior project manager is responsible for the overall set-up and completion of projects within budget and on schedule, to Kent's quality of safety standards and the customer's satisfaction. This position works with the operations manager and superintendent to create corrective action plans to maintain budgets and position the field team to overcome obstacles and potentially accelerate the project schedule.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Builds and monitors budgets and schedules that meet client expectations by providing weekly progress reports and feedback for further financial analysis.
• Manages and tracks all project costs to ensure project progress aligns at or better than the established budget.
• Works with division manager, superintendents, and foremen to plan, organize, and identify potential schedule impacts, including scope, weather, manpower, and changes, and facilitates migration plans for these impacts.
• Owns the buyout process by verifying pricing and scope, identifying successful bidders, providing gap analysis against initial scope, and managing the issuance of subcontracts.
• Manages the submittal schedule set-up. Coordinates priorities with the team; reviews and approves all shop drawings and samples before submittal to customers, architects, or engineers.
• Foster vendor and subcontractor relationships to potentially create budget savings for project buyouts.
• Ensures approved submittals are returned to subcontractors and available to the project team per the project schedule and the contract.
• Work with the superintendent to ensure the crew's time, job details, logistics, and materials are delivered according to the project schedule.
• Manage all changes with scope and project drawings to determine cost impact on budget and process changes with field to keep projects on schedule and determine if change orders are needed.
• Prepare and present weekly job performance to the senior management team to update financial statement projections and quarterly business plans.
• Leads the project start-up process, including job forms, certificate requests, submittals, schedule of values, etc.
• Leads the close-out process and manages punch list items with customers and the field.
• Work remotely at the project site as needed.
• Attends onsite meetings with field teams and progress meetings with customers.
• Responsible for handling more extensive and complex projects, including multiple projects simultaneously.
• Works closely with a Project Engineer, leading their efforts to support complex projects.

Required Experience, Education, and Qualifications

• Five (5) years of experience managing projects and concrete scopes as a subcontractor or self-performing general contractor.
• A bachelor’s degree in construction, engineering, or business.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presenting advice clearly and concisely.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office proficiency and Microsoft Project/Scheduling proficiency.
• Strong financial skills and budget experience are required.
• Be entrepreneurial and find practical solutions to problems and questions.
• Be able and willing to solve challenges through innovation; work with minimal direction and supervision; be proactive, not reactive.
• Be able and willing to travel locally.
• Valid driver’s license
• Must have reliable transportation to the workplace(s)/ job location(s).
• Ability to successfully pass a background check related to driving.
• Ability to pass drug screening.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and in the future.

Preferred education and experience
Bilingual (English/Spanish).

Benefits
Kent Companies provides its employees with one of the most competitive compensation and benefits packages in the construction industry. Benefits vary by location, with a fully customized benefits package presented upon hire. Typical benefits packages include:

• Weekly pay
• PTO (Paid Time Off)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Supplemental insurance options
• Retirement plans with discretionary employer-matching
• Holiday pay (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day)
• Scholarship opportunities for dependents
• Leadership development opportunities

Perks associated with this role.
Our goal is to offer an unparalleled career progression that is not precisely pre-determined; rather, it builds on the teammate’s strengths, interests, and pursuits as the individual gains experience, grows, and develops in their career. You would be hard-pressed to find another ENR Top 6 Commercial Concrete Company that parallels Kent Companies.

Work Environment/Physical Demand
This position works in an office environment and requires long periods of sitting. The project manager travels to the field to supervise projects as required.

Position type, travel, and expected hours of work.
This is a full-time office position. Typical hours will range from 45-50 hours per week and are subject to change. This role requires working nontypical days and irregular hours based on construction schedules. Due to the critical nature of the role, accepting phone calls even during nontypical workdays and hours is also necessary.

Office Location
130 60th Street SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49548

About Kent Companies
Kent Companies is a full-service concrete contractor with expertise in commercial and industrial concrete construction, mixed-use construction, multi-family housing, and a full range of concrete-related specialties. Every Kent Companies project is marked by our four distinctive Hallmarks of Service: Safety, Productivity, Quality, and Customer Service. We believe in providing challenging work, opportunities for professional development, and industry-leading compensation packages. And it’s all wrapped in a culture built on values and integrity. We deliver on our promises.

About our West Michigan Commercial Concrete Division
Our West Michigan Commercial Concrete division delivers comprehensive, turnkey concrete packages for our customers. Our crews perform a variety of scopes including tilt-up, foundations, slabs, and cast-in-place concrete. With this team, you’ll have a hand in the projects that change your city skyline.
Learn more about our commercial concrete work here: https://www.kentcompanies.com/our-work/services/concrete-construction/

Why join our West Michigan Commercial Concrete Division?
Division 0110 builds the skylines across West Michigan. As a part of our team, you will experience the gratification of constructing landmark buildings, knowing they result from your grit and dedication. Your hands will develop projects that begin with an empty hole in the ground and end by occupying city blocks that tower over the streetscape, expand across acres of once undeveloped land, and change the look of neighboring communities with every yard of concrete poured. This team is comprised of individuals who understand hard work and dedication.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties and Responsibilities are not comprehensive and can be changed at any time, with or without notice.

EEO Statement
At Kent Companies, we value a diverse, inclusive workforce, and we provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Kent Companies does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices and personnel actions, including but not limited to hiring, recruiting, promotions, performance evaluations, termination, and compensation decisions.

The Company will strive to ensure that all employees and prospective employees will be treated equally in regard to recruitment, employment, promotions, demotions, discipline, termination, access to benefits and training, leaves of absence, and layoffs. The Company will further ensure that its management staff is aware of the Company’s commitment to this policy and each member understands their individual role in the process of administering this plan.

Kent Companies will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.