Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Build Something Exceptional. No Exceptions.

Timberline Construction Corporation (TCC) is a full-service construction management firm. Our team provides construction management, preconstruction and design-build services to the region's leading institutions, corporations and developers. We are a local builder with a comprehensive portfolio focused on science and technology, corporate, commercial, academic and multi-family residential market sectors. Our team is accustomed to fast-track, logistically complex projects. We excel at executing these sensitive jobs through proactive planning, communication and coordination with our clients and design partners. Our mission is to be exceptional. This is our professional aspiration for every client, every day. In the business of construction management, this requires an experienced team with focus, drive, empathy and intelligence. No exceptions.

Construct Your Career With Us (About The Job)

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating a wide variety of construction projects. Oversees the planning, scheduling, and implementation of the construction process making sure that the project gets done on time and within budget.

What You'll Build (Responsibilities)

• Customer Relations.
• Meet with clients to define project deliverables, cost estimates, and major milestones.
• Responsible for developing the relationship between TCC and client.
• Ensures contract specifications between all parties.
• Project and Resource Management.
• Support Estimator on bid walks as required determining equipment and labor requirements.
• Review all preconstruction requirements with Superintendent(s).
• Responsible for performing project buyout, in accordance with company standards and in a timely manner taking into account such factors as project schedule, submittal review process and long lead time materials and equipment.
• Create project schedules identifying workflow, timeframes, major milestones, client provided items and vendors.
• Maintain project schedules as work progresses, making adjustments as required, identifying areas of opportunity to gain on time, and communicating schedule requirements and expectations to all members of the project team and client.
• Manage submittal process taking into account project schedule, review process and material lead times.
• Initiate RFI's to address issues with interpretation of plans and specifications, missing information, incorrect details, incomplete information and other issues that require the direction of the Architect and Engineers.
• Ensure that all required project documentation is completed in a timely manner and maintained in the appropriate master project files inclusive of Daily reports, accident reports, concrete logs, submittals, bulletins, drawing logs, sketches and as-built drawings.
• Manage the company safety program as outlined in the company safety manual and provide safety and accident reporting as required.
• Responsible for supervising and developing personnel, including training and discipline.
• Delegates responsibilities to subordinates and is responsible for their performance.
• Responsible for approving all timesheets, monitoring and approving overtime requests, and submitting timesheets to payroll.
• Enforce all TCC Health and Safety Plan regulations.
• Responsible for obtaining all necessary permits and licenses and, depending upon the contractual arrangements, directing or monitoring compliance with building and safety codes and other regulations
• Track and control construction costs to avoid cost overruns.
• Update cost projections through project completion at monthly intervals, identifying cost exposures promptly
• Monitor costs relative to budget and identify overages; communicate overages to Senior Management.
• Initiate, track and receive timely approval of Change Orders.
• Responsible for approving invoices.
• Responsible for the timely completion and submission of project invoices and requisitions to the client, and providing necessary follow up with client to ensure timely payments are received. Communicate with senior management in a timely manner if delays in payment are encountered.

Skills You'll Nail (Qualifications)

• Must understand contracts, plans, and specifications, and to be knowledgeable about construction methods, materials, and regulations. Familiarity with computers and software programs for job costing, online collaboration, scheduling and estimating.
• Must be decisive and work well under pressure, particularly when faced with unexpected occurrences or delays.
• The ability to coordinate several major activities at once, while analyzing and resolving specific problems, is essential, as is an understanding of engineering, architectural, and other construction drawings.
• Must have good oral and written communication skills.
• Must be able to establish a good working relationship with many different people, including clients, other managers, designers, superintendents, and crew.
• May travel extensively when the construction site is not close to their main office or when they are responsible for activities at two or more sites.

Why Timberline - What You'll Gain (Benefits )

Timberline is Exceptional. No Exceptions. We're proud to be named Boston Business Journal 2025 Best Place to Work, Top 20 Construction Manager, and ENR Top New England Contractor. Our people are our greatest asset - and we invest in them accordingly.

• Competitive salary with performance-based incentives
• Robust benefits: health, dental, vision, and 401(k) with company match
• Tuition and education reimbursement
• Career advancement and leadership development opportunities
• Wellness programs
• Culture club-team events
• Onsite snack & drink bar in our Timberline-built, award-winning office
• Early wrap-up on Summer Fridays!

Compensation Range: $160,000 - $220,000 Annually

Timberline Construction is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to assure equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants by prohibiting discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.