Construction Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Construction Execution: Manage day-to-day construction activities across assigned project areas and work packages, ensuring compliance with approved plans, schedules, budgets, and engineering specifications.
• Contractor Management: Coordinate and supervise contractors, subcontractors, field engineers, and site personnel to ensure efficient execution and adherence to project requirements.
• Schedule Management: Monitor construction progress against the master schedule, identify potential delays and resource constraints, and implement corrective measures to maintain project timelines.
• Health, Safety & Environment: Enforce site safety programs and ensure compliance with applicable health, safety, and environmental regulations and project-specific requirements.
• Quality Assurance & Control: Oversee construction quality activities to ensure work meets engineering specifications, applicable codes, and established quality standards.
• Multidisciplinary Coordination: Coordinate civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and piping activities to ensure effective sequencing, resolve interface issues, and minimize construction delays.
• Change & Issue Management: Manage field-level change orders, Requests for Information (RFIs), and construction issues in collaboration with engineering and project controls teams.
• Site Inspections & Reviews: Conduct regular site inspections, progress meetings, and contractor performance reviews to monitor productivity, safety, and quality.
• Procurement & Logistics: Coordinate with procurement and logistics teams to ensure construction materials, equipment, and resources are available when required.
• Progress Reporting: Prepare construction progress reports, manpower forecasts, productivity analyses, and schedule updates for project leadership.
• Commissioning & Handover: Support construction completion, commissioning handover, and start-up readiness activities to ensure alignment with overall project milestones.
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and manage construction superintendents, field engineers, and site support personnel, fostering accountability, collaboration, and strong execution standards.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 15–20 years of experience in construction management, preferably on large-scale industrial facilities, integrated steel plants, or comparable heavy industrial projects.
• Proven experience managing multidisciplinary construction teams, contractors, and subcontractors in a field execution environment.
• Strong understanding of construction methods, sequencing, site operations, and execution practices for heavy industrial facilities.
• Demonstrated expertise in construction scheduling, cost tracking, manpower planning, productivity monitoring, and change management.
• Knowledge of construction safety programs, quality assurance practices, engineering specifications, and applicable industry codes.
• Experience coordinating with engineering, procurement, project controls, and commissioning teams.
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced, greenfield construction environment.

Working Conditions

• Location: United States.
• Employment Type: Full-time.
• Work Arrangement: On-site, with a dedicated presence throughout the construction phase.
• Willingness to work in an active industrial construction environment and coordinate closely with project leadership, contractors, and field teams.

Preferred Experience

• Direct experience managing construction for a greenfield integrated steel plant or a comparable large-scale industrial facility.
• Experience working with major Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contractors and specialized subcontractors.
• Familiarity with U.S. construction regulations, labor requirements, site safety standards, and industrial construction practices.

Must-Have Skills

• Construction Management
• Construction Scheduling
• Cost Tracking
• Contractor & Subcontractor Management
• Site Execution
• Project Coordination

Good-to-Have Skills

• Civil Engineering
• Heavy Industrial Construction
• Steel Plant Construction
• EPC Project Management
• Greenfield Project Execution
• Quality Assurance & Control
• Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)
• Commissioning & Handover