Senior Construction Manager

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability. 

Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.

Job Description

The Construction Manager provides advanced construction management and technical leadership for the S300 mission, subcontracted construction projects, and the Laboratory’s construction and facility infrastructure environment. The position has technical responsibility for managing complex construction projects and for planning, coordinating, integrating, and communicating subcontractor construction activities with representatives across the site.

The Construction Manager supports the S300 mission by ensuring that construction and facility infrastructure activities are safely, efficiently, and compliantly planned and executed in alignment with mission priorities, operational requirements, facility interfaces, project controls, and Laboratory standards. The role coordinates construction work with facility operations, engineering, ES&H, security, commissioning, project management, and program stakeholders to minimize impacts to ongoing mission activities while maintaining schedule, quality, safety, and cost performance.

This position requires a broad and advanced knowledge base, combined with demonstrated experience delivering a diverse range of project types. These include tenant improvements, new ground-up facilities, facility modifications, infrastructure upgrades, renovations, utility and site development, and specialty mechanical and electrical projects. The Construction Manager must be capable of adapting construction strategies to the technical, operational, safety, security, and mission requirements of each project. This position is within the Project Management Office.

The Project Management Office (PMO) provides LLNL with engineering, design, estimating, construction, and project management services. PMO provides infrastructure services to enable cutting-edge research and development in the areas of defense technologies, global security, laser science, bioscience, and more. PMO offers cradle to grave infrastructure services to achieve reliable delivery of completed projects with priority on safety, collaboration, and a workforce working toward our shared vision.

This position requires full-time on-site presence due to the nature of the work.

This position will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level. 

You will 

• Provide advanced construction management expertise and technical recommendations throughout project planning, execution, commissioning, and closeout.
• Lead and coordinate complex construction projects, subcontractors, inspectors, project teams, facility stakeholders, and lower-tier contractors.
• Direct construction activities in active, high-hazard, nuclear, and operational facilities while maintaining safe and compliant operations.
• Review and resolve technical issues involving drawings, specifications, submittals, RFIs, schedules, construction methods, and field conditions.
• Conduct constructability reviews, identify risks, and develop practical, innovative, and cost-conscious solutions to design and construction challenges.
• Develop and oversee project-specific quality assurance and safety plans, including job hazard analyses and subcontractor safety programs.
• Ensure compliance with Laboratory, DOE, OSHA, NEC, NFPA 70E, applicable codes, standards, and contract requirements.
• Coordinate testing, inspections, quality and safety hold points, shutdowns, Lockout/Tagout activities, and commissioning.
• Monitor project schedules, budgets, productivity, quality, safety, risks, and customer satisfaction, implementing corrective actions and delay-recovery strategies.
• Provide technical leadership for electrical and specialized systems, and ensure subcontractors produce compliant shop drawings, quality installations, and required as-built documents.
• Lead preconstruction, coordination, and stakeholder meetings; serve as the LLNS subject matter expert; and communicate project status, decisions, risks, and issues.
• Maintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready project records and closeout documentation. Provide techn