Construction Project Manager

Qualifications & Skills

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Architecture/Engineering/Construction Management or registration as a professional engineer in a state, District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
• Licensed Professional Engineer or other industry-standard professional licensure related to position highly desirable.
• Has a minimum of five years’ experience as field engineer, project manager, or managing multiple construction contracts involving multiple disciplines/trades. Be trained and skilled in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, computer-aided design (CAD), and database materials and programs to perform the detailed activities of this task order.
• Demonstrate mastery of construction project management concepts, principles, and practices. This includes managing project schedule, construction progress, and period of performance/contract completion date; assisting with development of contract modifications and associated documents to include construction costs estimates, red line drawings, statement of work, and edits to the specifications; being an effective communicator, understanding risks, and developing strategies to review equipment and material submittals, progress charts, quality control, safety plans, and various work plans; and managing multi-discipline, multi-faceted projects related to real property facilities.
• Must be willing to complete the following training courses within 120 days of employment. The course include Construction Quality Management for Contractors training, 30-Hour OSHA Certification, Construction Industry 8-hour Confined Spaces Entry Certification, 40-Hour Contracting Officer Representative (COR) certification training, and Professional Construction Manager Course (PCM). If the CPM has already completed the trainings, but no longer hold an active certification, they must complete training necessary to recertify.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Provide construction project management services in support of work associated with projects on the Advanced Acquisition Plan and other inserted projects.
• Ensure construction is in accordance with plans and specifications.
• Review current work with the approved site plans, specifications, and permits to help ensure the construction project is compliant with local, state, and federal environmental requirements.
• Make on-site visits and work with Superintendents/Contractor’s Project Managers of construction project(s) and provide written reports.
• Monitor job-site safety and compliance.
• Research and identify design and/or construction problems and provide recommendations to the Coast Guard construction project management team.
• Process contractor Requests For Information and Design Clarification Requests.
• Monitor the contractor’s project management for compliance with contract, and report observations to the Contracting Officer or designee.
• Assist with development of contract modifications and associated documents to include but not limited to: construction costs estimates, red line drawings, statement of work, and edits to the specifications.
• Monitor and maintain a complete, updated file of approved submittals for the construction contract. Review construction contractor’s submittal, check against the materials being installed, and monitor schedule of submittals.
• Maintain field records such as correspondence, construction contractor daily reports, test results, solid waste disposal acceptance receipts, progress payments, modifications, etc.
• Maintain a current set of contract plans and specifications with executed modifications posted.
• Ensure the construction contractor is maintaining a current set of as-built drawings and updates the construction schedule.
• Perform labor interviews when directed by the Contracting Officer.
• Maintain good rapport, coordination, and communications with other agencies and organizations involved in the project. Coordinate utility interruptions and/or outages between the Coast Guard and the contractor.
• Perform pre-construction plan reviews, identify risks, identify confusing plans and specifications, and offer solutions.
• Arrange for transfer of documents, Operations and Maintenance manuals, spare parts, tools, as-built drawings, keys, and guarantees to the Coast Guard.
• Monitor compliance with environmental protection requirements. Noncompliance shall be brought to the attention of the COR and the construction contractor.
• Observe representative construction contractor’s on-site samplings and tests, to assure that the test procedures are satisfactory.
• Keep the COR fully informed of any technical or contractual difficulties encountered during performance.
• Ensure that the contractor submits proper security or facility clearance forms and ensure proper management of government furnished property.
• Evaluate proposals for technical feasibility, and quantity verification. Provide recommendation to the project COR.
• Review payment requests/invoices and provide recommendations.