Project Manager III (Food & Beverage, Industrial construction)

$130,000 - $190,000/Yr

Dennis Group - Carlsbad, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Carlsbad, CA

Food Services and Drinking Places

About the position

The Project Manager III at Dennis Group is responsible for overseeing the entire project delivery process for food and beverage industrial construction projects. This role involves managing client relationships, ensuring project scope, cost, and schedule are met, and collaborating with various teams throughout the project lifecycle. The Project Manager will lead projects from design through construction and start-up, requiring strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Works autonomously on specific tasks
• Possesses sufficient expertise in both building and process systems
• Capable of being the direct client contact and lead project manager on large projects
• Managing projects from planning through commissioning including developing key success criteria for each project and ensuring the success criteria are achieved
• Developing project scope, budget, schedule, and critical path elements
• Develop RFI
• Prepare Purchase/Work Authorizations
• Maintain Client SharePoint site
• Train and mentor junior project manager
• Propose new business to clients including developing proposals and leading presentations to new clients
• Managing in-house and consulting design teamwork product
• Establishing design criteria; reviewing design and construction phase documents
• Managing permit, code and regulatory approvals
• Develop overall procurement strategy and plan (preparation of bid packages, bid tabulation, writing of purchase orders and subcontracts)
• Assemble and evaluate potential project bidders
• Define kick-off meeting agenda
• Determine project definition deliverables
• Single point of contact for all project communication
• Develop project outline specifications
• Develop conceptual layout - understanding of facility personnel and materials flows, critical adjacencies
• Develop large engineering services proposal
• Manage bid process fairly and professionally and review and approve bid packages
• Maintain 'Outstanding Items Needs' list
• Maintain Project Meeting notes
• Develop and implement lessons learned for project
• Develop and issue monthly reports
• Determine project permitting needs
• Update project forecasting tool monthly
• Review and approve engineering deliverables
• Creates accurate project cost estimates - site and building and production systems
• Define project assumptions / exclusions
• Review and approve monthly supplier invoices and client billing
• Develop and maintain submittal and RFI processes
• Develop accurate PM/Eng/CM/Start-up support cost estimate
• Effectively understands how to bid and estimate engineering manhours
• Facilitate and manage food safety risk assessments
• Creates project risk matrix
• Review and approve at-risk design or construction proposals
• Organizing construction trades and administering subcontracts
• Managing project budget and expense approvals
• Managing contract and change order administration
• Overseeing equipment installations
• Providing on-site supervision and coordinate design team on-site support activities
• Facilitate project interactive planning sessions
• Refine and update budget forecast
• Finalize procurement plan
• Managing project punch-list inspection
• Assembling and maintaining complete project records and close-out documents
• Facilitate and manage client and 3rd party design reviews
• Interfacing with client, working in client facilities and construction sites.
• Utilize multiple software programs (MS Office, CAD, Navisworks, MS Project, SharePoint, etc.)
• Researching project management best practices
• Supporting talent growth within our organization
• Help with interviewing candidates for open positions

Requirements

• Degree in Construction Management / Architecture / Engineering
• 8+ years of experience within a design-build company working with multiple in-house engineer disciplines, architects, designers, etc.
• 8+ years of experience with MEP industrial construction projects, preferably food and beverage or pharmaceutical projects.
• 8+ years of experience with Building construction, Project scheduling, Construction estimating, and Construction Safety.
• 8+ years as a Project Manager with proven track record of successful project management and demonstrated success delivering numerous projects delivered on time, meeting requirements, with high team satisfaction.
• Basic understanding of AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks, and other design software
• Familiarity with sanitary environments is a plus
• Must meet overnight travel requirement of not less than 50% (overnight travel of 70-120 nights out of town annually) of any given time of the year.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, interpersonal and communication skills
• Attention to detail, accuracy, and deadlines

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in the food and beverage industry
• Familiarity with project management best practices

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Open vacation policy
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional employee licensing