Research And Development Project Manager Jobs in Athens, GA

Prime Retail Services is a nationwide retail construction General Contractor helping brands bring their spaces to life with precision and professionalism. Since 2003, we’ve delivered retail construction solutions for Fortune 500 companies and growing brands across the United States.

The Construction Senior Project Manager leads project teams and day-to-day operations to deliver projects safely, on time, within budget, and to client expectations. This role requires strong leadership, financial discipline, client communication, procurement oversight, and the ability to develop team members while driving operational excellence and change.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Manage people, processes, and daily project operations to execute assigned projects successfully.
• Assign and monitor team responsibilities with clear ownership and accountability.
• Lead team meetings that promote alignment, collaboration, and timely decisions.
• Support sales in meeting project requirements, schedules, budgets, and safety standards.
• Serve as the primary client contact for deliverables, communication, expectations, and issue resolution.
• Manage procurement of materials, suppliers, purchase orders, and subcontracts.
• Oversee client relations from order entry through final documentation.
• Support site confirmations, field installations, equipment commissioning, and stakeholder coordination.
• Ensure teams prepare change orders, progress reports, payment requests, cost reports, and milestone updates.
• Monitor scope, schedule, budget, safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.
• Coach, mentor, train, and develop team members while reinforcing accountability and continuous improvement.
• Document performance evaluations and address concerns through corrective action when needed.
• Lead with a business-owner mindset, balancing financial health, operational priorities, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Champion changes by communicating expectations, supporting adoption, and helping teams execute new processes.

COMPETENCIES

• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Strong leadership and team-building skills with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
• In-depth knowledge of commercial construction methods, materials, safety regulations, and industry standards.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience managing complex projects, teams, budgets, schedules, vendors, and customer expectations.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to coach, motivate, and hold team members accountable.
• Ability to manage project financials, including cost tracking, progress billing, change orders, and budget controls.
• Experience coordinating engineering, sales, procurement, field installation, commissioning, suppliers, subcontractors, and clients.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for clear client and stakeholder updates.
• Strong organization, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with a focus on safety, quality, schedule, and customer satisfaction.
• Five-plus years’ experience in Project Management.
• Experience with multiple local municipalities. 
• Strong ability to navigate the MEP requirements of a project.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet firm deadlines in a fast-paced setting
• Strong scheduling abilities along with utilization of Microsoft Project and other company-specific programs.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Business-minded approach to team leadership, financial management, and operational decisions.
• Ability to lead through change as processes, priorities, and customer needs evolve.
• Collaborative style focused on cross-functional partnership and professional client service.
• Commitment to team development, continuous improvement, safety, and project excellence.

REQUIRED EDUCATION

• BS Degree in construction management, operations management, business, or a related field preferred.
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant leadership experience will be considered

PREFERRED EDUCATION

•  PMP Certification preferred
• OSHA 30 Hour certification

ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION

• In lieu of a degree, 5+ years’ verifiable Project Management experience with at least 3 years in a Lead or Senior Project Management position.

*** This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required for this job, but more of a general nature. The employee may be asked to perform duties not listed as required by business needs. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice***