Project Manager

Job description / Role

- Communicate with the Client’s representatives continuously regarding Project Progress and other areas of concerns.
- Participate in the planning and formulation of design alternatives and solutions for the construction project; provides conceptual estimates, feasibility studies, and cost estimates, and may coordinate the production of basic design plans and construction documents.
- Develop and/or administer project budgets and fiscal controls, contracts, and quality control provisions; perform project cost estimating and value engineering, as appropriate.
- Oversee all aspects of the day-to-day management of the construction project; monitor and coordinate work performed by architectural, engineering, and construction departments.
- Review and interpret proposed designs, architectural drawings, and building specifications for appropriateness to required function and/or institutional standard, and initiates revisions where appropriate; advise consultants and clients as to how best to achieve required results.
- Ensure that project operations are in compliance with design specifications and with client requirements.
- Establish performance and delivery criteria, ensuring that client requirements are being met; prepare project specifications, and coordinates procurement, as appropriate.
- Authorize the issuance of contracts, purchase orders, and change orders, and approves contractor invoices for payment.
- Direct work sequencing to expedite project delivery and to minimize disruption of ongoing operations.
- Inspects, approves, and accepts completed projects for the institution, ensuring conformance with institutional standards, building and life safety codes, and architectural/engineering specifications.
- Represent the institution in business with customers, consultants, contractors, and other public and/or private agencies and organizations.
- Researches and prepares various reports pertaining to operations, equipment, policies, procedures, and/or other issues, as appropriate.

Requirements

- A degree in an Engineering discipline is required
- Post Graduate education such as a MSC or PHD is highly desired
- Must have on site Project experience from initial design through to handover and completion.
- 20 or more years’ of working on Multi- Million Dollar projects within the Construction field.
- Has extensive experience working on $ multi-billion Railway Projects from Inception up to completion.
- With extensive Project, Design and construction Management experience.
- Ability to think ahead, identify new opportunities and create new and innovative approaches to work related issues
- Strong Management and communication.
- Demonstrates a determination, desire to succeed and a wish to progress and develop within a commercial role.
- Excellent working knowledge of Word, Excel and strong user skill level within MS Office or Primavera
- Excellent numerical and communication skills

About the Company

The Louis Berger Group is an internationally recognized consulting firm that provides engineering, architecture, program and construction management, environmental planning and science, and economic development services. For nearly 60 years, we have been a devoted and trusted partner to U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies; national, provincial, and local governments; multilateral institutions; and commercial industry. To this diverse client base we bring strategic vision and an entrepreneurial spirit, developing innovative solutions to the worlds most challenging problems.

Around the world, we operate with a commitment to integrity and hold ourselves to the highest standards of ethics, quality, and accountability. From our president to our teams in the field, we share a genuine sense of respect and stewardship for the places where we work and the people whose lives we impact.

The Louis Berger Group is one of 10 firms that make up Berger Group Holdings. With a resource base of 6,000 dedicated employees and affiliate employees in more than 50 countries, we are able to respond to local conditions while providing clients with the technical resources and rapid response capabilities of a leading global organization.