Senior Project Manager at Dragados USA in Los Angeles, California

Job Description:

• Manage professional staff responsible for design and project construction
• Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget
• Review project estimate or plan to determine schedule, estimated job cost, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project
• Review status and modify schedules or plans as required and prepares project reports for management, owners, and subcontractors
• Follow-up on directives to be continuously on the alert for situations that are not progressing productively and for opportunities to improve project performance
• Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems
• Provide positive safety leadership to the project
• Responsible for claims management and documentation
• Coordinate material purchases, assure that subcontractor agreements are prepared and change orders are accurate and issued to owners, subcontractors and suppliers
• Develop, maintain business relationships and manage subcontractor, client/owner, engineers, JV partner(s) and unions
• Maintain relationships with contracting and regulatory agencies and executive management
• Responsible for project closeout. Secure loose ends by finishing paperwork, obtaining retainages, supporting supervisors and expediting claims
• Able to confidently negotiate any, and all matters on behalf of the Company as they relate to cost, schedule and contract matters with Owner/Sub suppliers
• Perform additional assignments per management's direction