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About Us
Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $8.1 billion in revenue for 2025, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for mission critical, industrial, life sciences, power & energy, aviation, commercial, institutional, residential and sports & entertainment related building projects.

About Ventana
As part of the Clayco family, 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 airtight 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 track record 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.
• 6-10 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.
• No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
• We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
• The pace is fast!
• This position is classified as a safety-sensitive role in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Candidates selected for this position will be subject to a comprehensive background check, which includes mandatory drug testing.

Why Clayco and Ventana?

• 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
• 2025 ENR Top 400 – Top Data Center Contractor (Top 3).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors – Green Contractor (Top 3).

Benefits

• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance.
• 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!

Compensation

• The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.