PROJECT MANAGER (Restaurant/Retail Construction)

Position: Project Manager

Department: Canada

Company Overview

DAVACO is a leading turn-key solution provider with more than 30 years of experience supporting the world's leading brands with the development, transformation, and maintenance of their physical sites throughout North America. In collaboration with a diversified base of clients, DAVACO delivers scale, speed, and high-quality solutions that solve tomorrow’s challenges today.

Summary/Objective

The Project Manager serves as a liaison between the office and the field to promote a cohesive approach to doing business and ALL field matters. The ideal candidate has an inherent ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team. Retail & Restaurant Construction experience preferred.

Job Description

As the Project Manager your job will encompass different levels of responsibilities that require professionalism and extreme confidentiality. Below is a partial list of responsibilities.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Charting out the project objectives and plans, setting performance requirements, and selecting project participants.
• Manage multiple, parallel projects using formal project planning techniques.
• Implementation of various operations through proper coordination.
• Oversee the project from start to finish.
• Perform a key role in project planning, budgeting, and identification of resources needed.
• Project accounting functions including managing the budget, tracking if team expenses and minimizing exposure and risk in the project.
• Ensure that project activities move according to predetermined schedule.
• Devise the project work plans and make revisions when need arises.
• Communicate effectively with the contractors who are responsible for completing various phases of the project.
• Coordinate the work and schedule of all parties involved in the project, which include the architects, consultants, contractors, sub-contractors, and laborers.
• Monitor the progress of the project activities on a regular basis and hold regular status meetings with all the sub-teams.
• Maintain strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines, quality, and safety standards.
• Periodic inspection of project sites.
• Ensure project documents are complete.
• Identify the elements of project design and issues likely to give rise to disputes and claims.
• Serve as a key link with the clients and review the deliverable prepared by the team before passing onto client.
• Effectively and professionally communicate with all levels of the organization, as well as field and office personnel, subcontractors, outsource partners and client representatives.
• Review program or project issues and opportunities with supervisor.
• Manage and communicate client concerns, problems, or complaints on assigned programs or projects.
• Effective time management and logical decision-making ability.
• Ability to prioritize work, maintain a positive attitude and composure in stressful situations.
• Must be able to plan, execute and close out multiple projects or tasks in short periods of time to the satisfaction of the supervisor and/or client.
• Other duties as may be assigned.

Preferred Job Attributes

• Strong business knowledge with objectivity to represent all interests.
• Excellent communication and organization skills; detail-oriented, articulate, and mature.
• Motivated/pro-active mindset in an exciting and robust work environment.
• Provide exceptional customer service to our clients both, external and internal.
• Well-groomed with executive attire appropriate for DAVACO and client headquarters.

Preferred Background

• Bachelor's degree preferred in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related field.
• PMP Certification considered a strong asset.
• (2) - (5) yrs. of exp as Project Manager or Similar Experience.
• Must be able to pass pre-employment background screenings (including Criminal Record and Driver's Abstract checks).
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel, strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Preferred experience with VISIO, Adobe, and Smartsheet.
• Must have a good driving record.
• Adhere to company's policies, as well as compliance with federal and state legislation laws.
• Extensive construction, remodeling, and roll outs knowledge inside consumer shopping/guest environments.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

DAVACO ULC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Supports a Diverse, Inclusive Work Environment

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Drug-Free Workplace

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment, random, reasonable suspicion, and post-accident substance abuse testing. We also perform pre-employment background checks.

Applicants with Disabilities

If you are an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran who is unable to use our online tools to search and apply for jobs, you may request a reasonable accommodation by contacting us at HR@davaco.com and/or (214)-706-4018.