About Vessel
Vessel Technologies is reinventing the apartment building. Unlike traditional construction companies, Vessel delivers projects through a highly standardized building production system in which design, engineering, materials, sequencing, budgets, work instructions, and construction methods are developed and continuously improved at the corporate level. This approach allows Vessel to deliver multifamily housing with greater speed, quality, predictability, and efficiency than conventional construction.
Because Vessel projects are executed through a defined production system, many responsibilities traditionally assigned to construction project managers are centralized or performed by specialized teams. The Trade Partner Operations Manager plays a critical role within this model by ensuring that the trade partners required to execute the Vessel production system are properly sourced, contracted, administered, and managed throughout project delivery.
The Opportunity
The Trade Partner Operations Manager is responsible for securing, contracting, administering, and managing the network of trade partners required to execute Vessel projects.
Working within Vessel's established production system, the Trade Partner Operations Manager ensures that all required trade partners are engaged and capable of performing within Vessel's predefined standards for staffing, productivity, quality, cost, and schedule.
Unlike a traditional construction project manager, this role does not create project budgets, develop project schedules, manage permitting activities, coordinate inspections, report to ownership, or supervise day-to-day field operations. Vessel's project plans, budgets, production sequences, and work instructions are established in advance. The Trade Partner Operations Manager's responsibility is to ensure that the trade partners executing those plans perform successfully.
$130,000 - $130,000 a year
What You'll Do
Trade Partner Buyout and Sourcing
- Execute trade partner buyout activities for assigned projects.
- Review project staffing plans and trade requirements.
- Identify, solicit, evaluate, and select qualified trade partners.
- Negotiate commercial terms and subcontract agreements.
- Build and maintain a network of preferred trade partners across all major construction trades.
- Develop backup sources for critical scopes of work.
- Ensure trade partners understand and commit to Vessel's production requirements, staffing expectations, schedule requirements, and performance standards.
Contract Administration
- Prepare, negotiate, execute, and administer subcontract agreements.
- Manage subcontract documentation and records.
- Administer change orders and contract modifications.
- Maintain accurate records of contract values, commitments, and obligations.
- Ensure compliance with contractual requirements throughout project execution.
Compliance and Qualification Management
- Verify insurance coverage, licensing, qualifications, and required certifications.
- Monitor compliance throughout the life of each project.
- Maintain complete and current trade partner qualification records.
- Ensure adherence to Vessel safety and operational requirements.
Trade Partner Performance Management
- Maintain ongoing communication with trade partners throughout project execution.
- Monitor staffing levels, workforce availability, and trade partner readiness.
- Ensure trade partners are performing in accordance with Vessel's production requirements.
- Address performance deficiencies and implement corrective actions when necessary.
- Escalate significant performance concerns and recommend replacement of underperforming trade partners when required.
Schedule Performance and Recovery
- Meet regularly with Field Operations leadership to review project progress.
- Maintain a detailed understanding of trade partner performance across active projects.
- Identify emerging labor-related schedule risks.
- Investigate and resolve trade partner-related causes of schedule deviation.
- Develop and execute recovery plans when trade partner performance threatens project objectives.
- Serve as the primary owner of labor-related schedule performance.
- Partner with Procurement to distinguish labor-related delays from material-related delays and ensure issues are properly resolved.
- Provide clear reporting regarding trade partner performance, schedule risks, and corrective actions.
Commercial Administration
- Review trade partner requisitions and payment applications.
- Confirm completed work in coordination with Field Operations.
- Approve payments in accordance with contractual requirements.
- Track subcontract commitments and remaining balances.
- Coordinate with Accounting to ensure timely payment processing.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.