Temporary Construction Laborer Jobs in Riverside, CA

PROJECT MANAGER

The Project Manager leads, manages, and coordinates all phases of one or more projects from preconstruction through closeout. Project Managers will work closely with all members of the project team.

The Project Manager will report to Senior Project Manager or Project Executive. This position is Exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Core Responsibilities

Project Management

• Must have complete understanding of the owner contract for the project and risk mitigation measures and ensure that the project team is aware of them.
• Develop relationships with owners, subcontractors and consultants.
• Establish, update, and communicate Master Project Schedule and manage its implementation.
• Work with the Superintendent and third-party Safety Director on implementing the safety program.
• Always ensure strict adherence to ethics and compliance requirements.
• Support and drive utilization of various CDG initiatives and technologies.
• Responsible for bidding, scope review, and awards of subcontracts.
• Challenge & support internal jobsite staff and subcontractors.
• Accountable for project completion within scope, schedule, budget.
• Review, validate and manage the project financials.
• Responsible for the change order process (subcontractor and owner).
• Ensure plans, subcontracts, Purchase Orders (POs) and change orders are reviewed and accurate.
• Perform all required engineering duties and responsibilities, including Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC).
• Work with Accounting to initiate Pay Application process and follow up to ensure payment is received in a timely manner.
• Accountable for project completion and financials, Critical Success Factors, Customer Satisfaction Results.
• Keep management informed on progress of project and budget through regularly scheduled PSR (Project Status Report) Meetings.
• Manage closeout process.

Leadership of Project Team

• Manage and develop staff as assigned for a project, (Project Engineers, Project Coordinators and Superintendents), including driving team competencies & results, and providing input on performance evaluations.
• Ensure regular feedback is shared with team for fast-paced growth development.

Business Development

• Participate in new project pursuits.
• Maintain existing relationships with clients to secure future opportunities.

Core Competencies

• Able to manage the project team, guiding to success.
• Thorough knowledge of construction cost, scheduling, estimating, purchasing, and engineering principles and techniques, as well as accounting principles.
• Ability to read, understand, and interpret contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work, and project schedule.
• Familiar with various construction methods and materials, their characteristics, installation procedures and tolerances.
• Strong computer skills and familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite of programs.
• Ability to mentor others and lead by example.
• Understanding of estimating, budgeting and forecasting.
• Hands-on knowledge of Project Scope.
• Strong negotiation, organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Display strong written and oral communication skills and employ effective listening skills.
• Tactful and mature demeanor with well-developed interpersonal skills including the ability to work well with diverse personalities.
• Ability to create and support team morale.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in construction management, engineering or related field preferred but not required.
• 5 years of experience running multiple complex, highly technical projects preferably within CDGs core market.

Candidate Profile

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to be a self-leader, influence others, build alignment with all key stakeholders, and meet organizational goals.
• Ability to examine issues from multiple viewpoints.
• Takes ownership of circumstances (i.e. takes responsibility of success as well as shortcomings, effectively problem-solves towards improvement).
• Responsive to emails, phone calls, texts, etc. within appropriate timeframe (i.e. acknowledges and gives updates to all requests immediately).
• Self-starter, highly motivated and goal-oriented.
• Strong attention to detail and an organized approach to completing tasks.
• Passionate about construction.
• Demonstrates integrity in all situations (i.e. understands right from wrong and consistently does the right thing).

Physical Demands: Performance of the duties will occasionally require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs, passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Performing this job requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee may regularly work on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.