project manager, construction

Job Description

• • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 40 hours per week
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree
  • Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
  • or equivalent experience

Work setting

• • Industrial construction
  • Residential construction

Budgetary responsibility

• • $100,001 – $500,000
  • $500,001 – $1,500,000

Tasks

• • Prepare and submit construction project budget estimates
  • Recruit, hire and supervise staff and/or volunteers
  • Hire and supervise activities of subcontractors
  • Plan and prepare construction schedules and milestones and monitor progress
  • Prepare contracts and negotiate revisions, changes and additions to contractual agreements
  • Establish and implement policies and procedures for quality control
  • Read blueprint, schemas and drawings
  • Select trade subcontractors and co-ordinate their activities
  • Plan and manage budgets
  • Direct the purchase of building materials and land acquisitions
  • Develop and implement quality control programs
  • Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate daily operations
  • Prepare reports

Supervision

• • 5-10 people
  • Contractors
  • Staff in various areas of responsibility

Computer and technology knowledge

• • AutoCAD
  • MS Access
  • MS Excel
  • MS Office
  • MS Outlook
  • MS PowerPoint
  • MS Project
  • MS Word

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• • Fast-paced environment
  • Tight deadlines
  • Attention to detail

Personal suitability

• • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Flexibility
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Values and ethics

Health benefits

• • Health care plan

Financial benefits

• • Gasoline paid
  • Mileage paid

Long term benefits

• • Life insurance
  • Other benefits

Other benefits

• Free parking available
• On-site amenities
• Parking available
• Travel insurance