Senior Construction Project Manager

 

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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

 

Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.

 

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
 

Location:

Location for the Senior Construction Project Manager is in Tamaqua, PA with potential for domestic travel required to meet project needs.

 

Your Role

The Senior Construction Project Manager will work closely with members of the project management, engineering, site operations, project controls and procurement departments on execution of approved projects through handover to operations.  This role will be involved in design iterations, estimating, and constructability reviews, manage preconstruction efforts and engaged in construction contracting, and will steer construction entities (general contractor, subcontractor, special inspections, and commissioning) towards milestone schedule and budget targets.  This role will include supervision of on-site construction, construction/construction safety personnel, active problem solving and accountability for construction administration (submittal reviews, RFI’s, design page turns, change orders/change management), and strategic management amongst the different internal stakeholders (manufacturing, process design, finance, procurement, executive).

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery of capital projects safely, meeting quality and performance objectives and meeting cost and schedule commitments.  The role begins with involvement during project development and full accountability after project approval for project execution and hand over to operations.
• Provide Construction management oversight of key capital projects.  Promote and oversee environmental, health, and safety performance of all construction entities on associated projects.  Be the safe working example for construction personnel and internal working groups.
• Direct interface with construction general contractors during the bidding, award, execution, and project closeout/punch list phases.
• Participate in negotiations with general contractors and bids/proposals evaluations.
• Create construction project scope and request for proposals, in close conjunction with project, engineering and process engineering teams.
• Provide Construction project management for specific initiatives aimed at increasing the efficiency, cost effectiveness and safety.
• Constructability reviews of all designs associated with construction.
• Support project management with construction document management including submittal review, RFI’s, change orders, and invoicing.
• Coordinates schedule updates with contractors and assist in monitoring the progress and productivity of field activities.
• Project Close-Out tasks include punch list tracking, as-built drawing submissions, commissioning and pre-startup safety reviews.