Deputy Project Manager
Dragados USA

Principal/Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage professional staff responsible for design and project construction
• Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget while maintaining the safe and quality focused culture.
• Work closely with Company employees, project supervisors, owners, external teams, and support people to get commitments regarding PM's managerial and supervisory needs
• Oversees coordination with project staff to outline work plans, assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority
• Coordinate the preparation and updating of the formal project construction schedule as required by the contract documents
• Assist subordinate supervisors in maintaining production on budget and schedule
• Review status and modify schedules or plans as required and prepares project reports for management, owners, and subcontractors
• Coordinate resource use with project superintendent; for example, craft assignment, crew sizes, and project layout for offices, traffic flow, and material storage
• Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of project, work closely with Human Resources in recruitment efforts as necessary
• Anticipate project needs with sufficient lead-time to avoid delay of production
• Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems
• Review monthly forecast and schedule, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project
• Debriefing of project to review all positive and negative aspects after completion
• Follow-up on directives to be continuously on the alert for situations that are not progressing productively and for opportunities to improve project performance
• Assure compliance with all the project documents and the company policies and procedures
• Maintain engaged positive safety leadership on the project
• Review field operation and ensure that the project provides a safe workplace
• Coordinate material purchases, assure that subcontractor agreements are prepared and change orders are accurate and issued to owners, subcontractors and suppliers
• Develop, maintain business relationships and manage subcontractor, client/owner, engineers, JV partner(s), and unions if applicable
• Maintain relationships with contracting and regulatory agencies & executive management
• Participate in project presentations to elected officials, general public, and other stake holders
• Responsible for claims management and documentation
• Able to confidently negotiate any & all matters on behalf of the Company as they relate to cost, schedule, & contract matters with Owner/Sub suppliers

• Responsible for project closeout. Secure loose ends by finishing paperwork, obtaining retainages, supporting supervisors, and expediting claims
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned.

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field from an accredited four-year college or university, Civil Engineering or Construction Management preferred
• Business oriented
• Five (5) to ten (10) years of related experience; construction and management experienced required
• Federal, state and local knowledge and experience
• Knowledge and experience with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Goal oriented - able to set goals and achieve them
• Interpersonal - able to work well and persuade people at all organization levels
• Ability to clearly articulate thoughts and ideas both verbally and written.

• Knowledge with Primavera P6 Scheduling Software is a plus
• Marine works experience