Hybrid Senior Construction Manager – PE

at Freese and Nichols

• Job title: Senior Construction Manager – PE
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Tulsa, United States

About the role

• Senior Construction Manager overseeing transportation infrastructure projects for Freese and Nichols. Provide oversight and management of construction activities while ensuring compliance with regulations.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing transportation infrastructure projects
• Provide supervision to inspectors and other construction managers assigned to projects
• Coordinate assigned work to ensure continuity, consistency, and quality
• Collaborate with design teams to facilitate responses to RFIs and submittals and/or construction issues
• Supervise the observation and inspection of ongoing construction work including material sampling and testing as well as measuring qualities and communicate with contractor about non-conforming work
• Review contractor’s work for compliance with contract documents and clarify contract documents for the contractor
• Oversee the development and management of change/field orders, updates to construction schedule, submittals, request for information (RFI), claims, pay requests, construction meetings, and construction closeout process
• Define tasks to be conducted by others, and provide general supervision, review, and approval
• Responsible for collecting, correlating, and preparing recommendations and conclusions for final reports
• Determine and schedule required project
• Evaluate and analyze project decisions to ensure objectivity, soundness of design, and impact of those decisions on schedule, budget, and needs
• Maintain established schedule
• Keep the Group Manager and/or Project Manager aware of all project activities, responding promptly to needs, problems, or requests associated with project design
• Prepare for and facilitate construction meetings including agendas and minutes
• Read plans and specifications to be able to ensure construction is in accordance with plans and specifications
• Remain state-of-the-art on existing and pending regulations and related technological advancements
• May serve as Project Manager for large complex projects requiring intergroup skills and consultants
• Communicate with owner to understand owner’s needs and clarify owner’s objectives and relay information to Freese and Nichols and contractor
• Conduct pre-construction conferences
• Support the design phase process and risk management efforts for projects as assigned (constructability reviews, advisor, etc…)
• Participate in the administration, interpretation, and implementation of contracts
• Extensive contact with the client, client’s staff, regulatory agencies, other engineering firms and contractors/subconsultants
• Responsible for tasks related to sales and marketing including supporting business development efforts

Requirements

• 8+ years experience within the construction and design industry including specific experience in making independent decisions on engineering problems and methods
• B.S. degree in Civil Engineering or related field
• Oklahoma Professional Engineer Registration
• Fully proficient and ability to mentor others using project management information systems (Example FNI Manager, Site Manager, AWP, etc.)
• Understanding of Alternate Project Delivery Methods
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, etc.)

Benefits

• Paid overtime for salaried employees
• Annual bonus
• Access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico and Banner Elk, North Carolina
• Flexible work environment with a hybrid schedule up to 40% remote work
• Alternative work schedule program providing a day off every other Friday