Project Manager

About Us

Ventana designs, supplies, and installs high-performing curtain wall façade systems. By working closely with the design team, we can ensure a competitively priced façade that is water and air-tight and allows for optimal thermal control of the interior space. Traditionally, the façade is one of the major risk factors on any building, and the team at Ventana has a proven history of taking the risk and delivering superior façade systems that guarantee long-term performance.

The Role We Want You For

The Project Manager will provide leadership to the project staff and ensure quality and timely execution of design-build projects from design to completion.

The Specifics of the Role

• Working under the leadership of a Senior Project Manager, the Project Manager coordinates all aspects of the project including:
• Coordination with the project team (designers, engineers, production, assembly, site crews).
• Communication and coordination involving the customer and their project team (project managers, architects, engineers, consultants), to ascertain contract time, cost, and quality objectives, and organize project resources accordingly.
• Develop an understanding of the bid scope and contract documents (trade contract, scope drawings, specification, exhibits, bid pricing and clarifications).
• Develop, track, update, and report on the detailed project schedule for design, engineering, mockups, production, and installation activities.
• Develop, track, update, and report on the contract schedule of values and payment requisitions, ensuring the project cash flow is met and payments received in a timely manner
• Develop and understand of the contract budget.
• Coordinate all aspects of project Quality Control; develop, track, update and report on the contract quality control and assurance system.
• Pricing and purchasing of materials, equipment, and sub-contracts, ensuring that both budgetary and specified contractual cost, time and quality requirements are met.
• Research, substantiate, present and report changes to the contract scope.
• Attend and take meeting minutes at all required external and internal meetings.
• Provide and submit all required internal and external contract reports and submissions.
• Manage maintenance and warranty work on completed projects.
• Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills.
• Ability to identify, assimilate and comprehend the critical elements of a situation to extract and interpret implications of courses of actions and address details of the problem.
• Effectiveness in planning and controlling work, motivating, and developing subordinates, improving work methods and results, encouraging, and supporting suggestions for work improvements.
• Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.
• Plans for and uses resources efficiently, always looks for ways to reduce costs, creates accurate and realistic budgets, tracks and adjusts budgets.
• Attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Prepare and monitor realistic construction schedules and achieve full cooperation of superintendents and subcontractors.
• Communicates expectations and importance of safety. Follows up and ensures safety audits are completed accurately and timely. Identifies critical issues and assists in the development of improvement procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or other related discipline.
• 7-10 years of project management experience large scale subcontracting projects, preferably.
• 2 years of experience in Glass and Glazing Project Management - Unitized Systems.
• Proficient using MS Office, Word, Excel, Project, with an aptitude to learn any required in-house software.
• Strong knowledge of construction principles and practices required.
• Excellent critical thinking skills, with an adaptable and flexible style in working with all types of individuals.
• Project set up, budget planning, buy out, and cost reporting experience is necessary.
• Experience with scheduling, dealing with subcontracts, subcontractors and/or self-perform work.
• Experience leading successful project teams, including development of employees, and maintaining relationships with external entities.
• Creative and results-oriented, with a strong sense of urgency.
• Successfully project managed projects of at least 10 million dollars (design-build preferred).
• Highly entrepreneurial and self-motivated, with the ability to work equally well on own as well as in a team environment.
• Ability to walk the job site, climb ladders, and multi floor scaffolding.
• Ability to lift objects at least 50lbs.

Some Things You Should Know

• Our clients and projects are nationwide – Travel will be required.
• We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
• The pace is fast!

Why Ventana and Clayco?

• Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, Phoenix Business Journal.
• ENR – Top Midwest Contractors (#1), Top Design-Build Contractors (#4), Top 400 Contractors (#20), ENR – Top Green Builders (#5).

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive Annual Salary based on qualifications, skills, training, and experience.
• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company performance and individual contribution.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!