Maine Passive House

Company Description Maine Passive House is a national leader in Passive House construction, building low-carbon and net-zero projects with a strong focus on craft, comfort, and beauty. The team is committed to improving the built environment while honoring relationships with clients, workers, communities, and other stakeholders. Maine Passive House recently became a benefit corporation, reflecting its dedication to social and environmental responsibility.

Role Description

Maine Passive House is seeking a high performance custom residential (& light commercial) Project Manager with 8+ years of experience who demonstrates a deep understanding of the construction industry and quality customer service. If you're motivated by attention to detail, building science, nurturing partnerships, and driving the industry forward, we'd love to hear from you. 

We value diversity in our crew and encourage people of color, women, and LGBTQ carpenters to apply. Compensation range is $36-$52/hr to start (pay determined by experience and abilities), plus paid holidays and vacation, health insurance, retirement benefits, family leave, life insurance, short and long-term disability insurance, and a continued education stipend. 

We hope you will be invested in our jobs and company mission, we will prioritize supporting your job aspirations and work life balance. We have a diverse crew with very little turnover, we laugh a lot and enjoy our work. Our office is located in Norway, ME and most of our jobsites are within a 45 minute drive of our office location.

Job Description:

The Project Manager position requires field experience and a deep understanding of the building process and building specifications. A Project Manager at Maine Passive House has the following responsibilities:

• Manage people, resources, and time to deliver successful projects. 
• Ensure the safe, timely and profitable delivery of projects within the terms of their agreements, while managing stakeholder relationships. 
• Create, maintain, and communicate accurate project documents for each project. 
• Works in the office with occasional site visits. 
• Actively engage in propelling the mission and overall success of the company.
• Be responsible for tracking the progress and profitability of the projects under their supervision and reporting to the Production and Project Management Teams.
• Support Lead Carpenters and entire construction crew in all efforts.
• Maintain and develop good relationships with subcontractors, architects, and others in the building industry.
• Build and maintain good relationships with clients.
• Research ways to improve building methods and products used as a company.
• Think ahead to improve systems of production.
• Involvement in early conversations with clients, architects, and sub-contractors.

Job Responsibilities:

• Estimate detailed labor and material costs for Construction Contract.
• Draft Construction Contract, Schedule of Values, and Notes to the Estimate.
• Acquire building permits and coordinate town inspections.
• Generate takeoffs of large floor and wall packages.
• Create and manage the project schedule efficiently and effectively.
• Run Project Kickoff meetings.
• Review timesheet codes to ensure they align with estimate/budget.
• Collect bids from subcontractors and manage sub-contractor contracts.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with local tradespartners.
• Schedule blower door tests, and be on site to assist with ACH calculations.
• Oversee jobsite safety.
• Run meetings with architects and clients.
• Generate change orders.
• Review and track job cost reports.
• Review and code vendor invoices.
• Communicate to the project team and clients when budget numbers are off track.
• Provide excellent customer service.
• Maintain responsive and professional communication to clients, project team and tradespartners.
• Oversee project closeout, including punch list, final invoicing, commissioning, a check-out meeting with the client, and production of Homeowner’s Manual.
• Secure feedback and work referrals from clients.
• Participate in post-mortem/debrief at the conclusion of each project to improve best practices.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience running multi-million dollar high end custom residential projects
• Experience in multifamily/ residential commercial construction, specifically affordable housing
• Track record of excellent customer service and problem solving capabilities
• Proficient with estimating software (Construction Suite, Procore, etc.), Scheduling programs (Smartsheets/Microsoft Project, etc.), Google sheets and documents, Word, Excel, etc. 
• Experience with personnel management
• OSHA 30hr

Job Type: Full Time, In person.