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Job Description:

Senior Construction Manager – Southern California – Los Angeles, Orange County focus

Parsons is an industry leader in delivering technology driven solutions to promote safer, healthier and sustainable world class infrastructure to communities throughout the world. Our landmark projects and capital improvement programs support global initiatives in infrastructure, water, energy, power, renewables, environmental remediation, healthcare, education, and communications. We are hiring colleagues with an entrepreneurial spirit who thrive on professional challenges in a high energy environment.

We are seeking an experienced Construction Manager to execute high-profile self-perform, complex highway and freeway construction projects. The individual will also be responsible for developing a construction management team and pursuing new work in the Southern California market. We are looking for a strong leader and mentor to join our team; one that inspires passion and commitment, with a strong safety focus and proven success with construction projects. Candidate is expected to apply extensive knowledge of current methods and techniques to achieve cost-effective, on-schedule, safe execution.
Specific Responsibilities:
• Identifies construction management opportunities and works with key Parsons staff to form teaming partners. Looks for opportunities to grow the construction management market sector.
• Mentors and leads young engineer staff in their construction management career path.
• Manages multiple freeway projects using a variety of construction, construction management, materials testing and surveying contractors.
• Directs and advises consultant construction management staff including resident engineers, inspectors, and other members of construction management services teams on project quality, contract compliance, claims resolution, and interaction with various technical disciplines.
• Manages project issues to avoid additional costs and project delays.
• Promotes safety on jobsites for workers and the public.
• Establishes and maintains effective project working relationships with contractors, clients and third party agencies.
• Reviews contract documents.
• Monitors, negotiates claims and change orders, and recommend for approval to the client.
• Expedites resolution of design and field coordination issues.
• Reviews and recommends approval of invoices and progress payments.
• Provides guidance to construction management services teams and construction contractors in the area of environmental compliance.
• Prepares and presents written and oral reports.
• Reviews project sites during construction for quality, schedule, SWPPP, and safety, etc.
• Monitors environmental compliance on projects.
• Maintains awareness of current federal, state and local regulations related to construction management and assures compliance.
• Determine budget estimates and staffing requirements for defined scope and schedule.
• Ensure effective implementation of all Company and client policies and procedures, including labor relations policies.
• Serve as the primary contact with client representatives, subcontractors, and government representatives for construction-related activities.
• Candidate must also implement behavior-based safety tools to strive for incident free operations (no personal injuries, property damage or environmental releases) for both the Client and Parsons.
Qualifications:
• 4-year degree in construction-related field (or equivalent construction-related work experience) and a minimum of 15 years of experience in field construction for environmental projects is required.
• Must have direct experience executing multi-faceted construction projects; including Alternative Delivery, CMGC, Traditional Contract delivery for transportation agency preferred

Demonstrated leadership, project management, and client management experience.
• Proven ability to perform in a management capacity in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Security Clearance Requirement:

None

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!

Salary Range: $128,700.00 - $231,700.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

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