Senior Construction Manager

We are strategizing, planning, and implementing projects that help clients achieve their organization’s objectives. Join our award-winning program management team and bring transformational project solutions to life.

By managing capital programs and projects as if they were our own, our project management business, and technical experts work with clients to strategize, plan, and implement projects that help them achieve their organization’s objectives. Our award-winning team has managed thousands of projects across all sectors — hospitals, airports, and entire university campuses; infrastructure like mass transit and water-treatment facilities; and energy and resource assignments, from mines to wind farms.

Your Opportunity

Stantec’s Program Management Construction Management (PMCM) Group is seeking a Senior Construction Manager to work on large, complex wastewater projects with construction values exceeding $500M over a 10-year period. The Senior Construction Manager will serve as a full-time on-site resource as the “eyes and ears” for the client (Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati).  This role will involve management of several major overlapping construction activities in a fast-paced delivery environment. Projects may include improvements to wastewater treatment facilities at the two largest WWTPs serving the Cincinnati area.

The role is co-located and embedded with client staff in Cincinnati, OH with the other members of the Stantec team, working primarily at the construction site with regular visits to the Program Management Office (PMO)..

Your Key Responsibilities

• Provide visible leadership for the delivery of significant traditional and alternative delivery projects. Ensure project goals and objectives are met, administer the owner’s construction-related contracts, and coordinate project delivery with internal and external stakeholders, including Design-Build Contractors, Owner’s Advisors, and client construction inspection staff
• Coordinate the site-specific requirements for multiple large complex projects executing simultaneously.
• Implement company, client, and project policies, procedures, standards, etc., and make sure they are adhered to properly.
• Lead and/or participate in design phase constructability and construction sequencing reviews
• Provide input to the development of project schedules, coordinate the work according to approved schedules, reports schedule deviations and provides recommendations on any schedule modifications.
• Advise owner and program teams on construction issues, participate in the decision-making process and implement necessary mitigative actions on behalf of the client.
• Prepare and provide input for contract documents, including scopes of work.
• Serve as owner’s contract manager in the resolution of all claims and determination of appropriate project change orders.
• Oversee day-to-day construction management efforts to ensure the project(s) are constructed in accordance with design, budget, and schedule.
• Coordinate onsite construction activities by liaising with field staff, third party consultants, utility companies, public agencies, sub-contractors, and general public.
• Maintain records of activities including work completed and inspected. Report deviations from contract documents and follow through with responsible party until resolution.
• Review daily inspection reports for completeness and accuracy. Review material test reports for compliance with specifications.
• Support all equipment testing, training, startup, commissioning, closeout, and warranty activities.
• Oversee post-construction phase, preparing and submitting final deliverables (e.g., as-build drawings and O&M Manuals), reviewing final pay request and punch lists, recommending final completion, tracking of warranties and preparation of final invoicing.
• Support business development activities including client meetings, proposal development and presentations.
• Actively engaged in recruitment of key construction staff by screening resumes, interviewing prospective candidates and coordination with HR professionals.
• Perform other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.