Design Project Manager - Buildings Group

Kiewit

The Role

Overview

Lead multidisciplinary building design projects, ensuring schedule, budget and quality.

Key Responsibilities

  • stakeholder management
  • project performance
  • schedule management
  • manpower forecasting
  • coordination meetings
  • team leadership

Tasks

-Maintain and continue to develop relationships with EPC project stakeholders as the representative for IBG’s center of excellence for buildings. -Management and ownership of project performance (productivity, quality, schedule). Monitor project and team metrics; On an as-needed basis this individual will seek out underperformance and develop and execute a recovery plan. -Collaborate with the estimating department with lessons from production. -Leads Coordination Meeting -The building lead is in charge of understanding the entire building scope of a project. They are the primary interface with procurement, construction, the client, and project management regarding building design and execution. -Define and own project schedules and various document control metrics -Provide accurate forecasting of project man-power needs to IBG department managers -Drive the EPC mindset on the project team. -The individual is leading the building project team, along with being, the primary interface with project management and other project discipline leads. The building project team encompasses architects, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and BIM designers. -Know the project contract requirements and what was included in the project estimate. -Actively support project initiation and development in both the estimate and execution phases to ensure projects are set up for success. -Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies. -Drive communication within the project team and various stakeholders ensuring understanding of ongoing activities, contractual requirements, budget, and overall project schedule. -Run weekly buildings internal coordination meetings -Attend weekly project meetings including but not limited to: -Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required. -Manage project staffing needs to properly support each project with the mindset of serving both the project and the development of the team through setting and managing high expectations.

Requirements

  • bachelor's
  • pe license
  • 5 years
  • project management
  • leadership
  • epc

What You Bring

-Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment. -Regular, reliable attendance -Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Architecture, Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Architectural Engineering -Professional Engineer (PE) or Registered Architect (RA) license, preferred -Experience with EPC building execution preferred -Work productively and meet deadlines timely -The candidate should be a solution-driven individual with leadership experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with a group of experienced professionals and drive things forward to completion. -Minimum of 5 years of relevant design experience and 3 years of relevant building project management experience leading a team (or a combination of those years in design plus management) -Knowledge of multi-discipline industrial building design and experience in similar leadership role as outlined above, leading technical resources, and managing scope/schedule/budget for a project.

Benefits

-Model Walks

The Company

About Kiewit

-It evolved into a massive employee‑owned network operating across North America, delivering projects valued in the billions. -Today it specializes in transportation, water/wastewater, power, oil, gas & chemicals, building, industrial, marine and mining sectors. -Signature projects include New York’s 63rd Street Tunnel, Baltimore’s Fort McHenry Tunnel, T‑Mobile Park in Seattle, and major renewable energy sites. -Its marine division undertakes dredging, coastal resiliency and naval base work, while energy teams deliver gas, power delivery and renewables. -With deep roots in engineering‑led construction, it is known for tackling the kind of ‘impossible’ projects that reshape cities and industries.

Sector Specialisms

Mine Management

Production

Infrastructure Construction

Maintenance

Contract Mining

Power Industry

Gas-fired Generation

Power Delivery

Renewable Energy

Transportation

Interstates

Highways and Bridges

Rail Lines and Rail Yards

Urban Mass Transit Systems

Airport Runways and Taxiways

Arts and Culture

Aviation

Commercial/Mixed-use

Federal

Healthcare

Higher Education

Hospitality

Sports/Entertainment

Transportation/Industrial Construction

Water Treatment and Supply

Desalination

Wastewater and Biosolids

Conveyance, Dams and Storage

Industrial Energy

Waste to Energy

Renewable Natural Gas

Food and Beverage

Pulp and Paper

Metals

Advanced Manufacturing

Industrial Water

Data Center / Mission Critical

Education

Government

Manufacturing / Industrial

Mixed Use / Retail

Transit Facilities

Offshore

Oil Sands

Gas Processing

Pipeline Facilities

Tanks and Terminals

LNG

Refining and Renewable Fuels

Petrochemical

Energy Storage

Gas and Hydrogen-fired Generation

Nuclear

Coal Retrofit