Program General Manager - Senior Site Representative (SSR) - Hampton, VA 

Location: Hampton, Virginia  

Centennial and our Joint Venture partner Midnight Sun are seeking Project Managers, Superintendents, and other construction professionals.

Centennial is a national leader in renovation, construction, and design-build services, with a national reach spanning from Florida to Alaska, with offices led by construction professionals sharing a common goal; to keep promises, honor commitments and exceed client expectations. Our performance is what has helped, and continues to help forge strong partnerships, which are strengthened over time.  

Driven by integrity and a long-standing culture of performance excellence, Centennial doesn’t just build structures – we transform spaces and create places. These are unique places for our clients to learn, teach, work, play, and heal.

With 30 years of nationwide experience, on over $4 billion in diverse projects, we excel at making the impossible possible.  Centennial provides employees opportunities, both internally and externally, to further develop in their role, yet also grow into other roles, and even leadership positions.

The Role:

The Project General Manager is responsible for the site’s overall financial performance. Enforces Risk Management practices at all necessary levels.

This position will also serve as the Senior Site Representative, being responsible for management of the area of responsibility and serve as the company representative, to include signature authority as applicable.

Qualifications:

•  10+ years’ experience in the construction industry with a commercial or industrial general contractor
•  Extensive experience with various contracts highly desired
•  Very experienced in producing detailed fixed price estimates; has the ability to use RS Means or other published unit price books to produce detailed line item estimates
•  Extensive knowledge of construction and engineering means and methods
•  Possess effective negotiating skills
•  Must demonstrate a strong ability to:
  • Adapt and be flexible to frequent changes in a fast-paced work environment
  • Demonstrate integrity consistent with Centennial’s core values
  • Collaborate and work effectively in a team environment with people of various backgrounds and styles
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, to include clear, concise, and professional presentation of information
  • Adapt to the constantly evolving world of technology, design, means and methods, systems may include but not limited to: Microsoft Office suite, ProCore, Adobe, and BlueBeam
  • Mentor and train assistant level operations team members
•  Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical or civil engineering highly desired

Responsibilities:  

• Strategic Management:  Plans, coordinates and manages all facets necessary to complete projects within budget, on time, and deliver quality work; Manages the projects in accordance with contract requirements and Centennial systems and procedures; Responds in a timely manner to all contract agreements, instructions, and inquiries from authorized government personnel; Enforces Quality Control Plan and implements Site Safety, Attends pre-construction, progress and other project meetings; and provide minutes; Attends pre-issuance site visits to determine existing conditions and client needs; Manages the development of detailed project scope of work to include AutoCad drawings, renderings, preliminary approximations of types of materials to be used and basic quantity counts; Reviews the proposal scope of work, specifications, and drawings to ensure they clearly define the project requirements and client expectations; Manages the development of project work packages for each definable feature of work and solicitation of detailed proposal information from at least proposals for each work package; Reviews and approves proposal package for submission to client and attend negotiations to support the proposal as submitted; Manages project close-out; to include obtaining required documentation, assisting in pre-final inspections and As-Built drawings; Prepares yearly budgets and revenue forecasts; Manages project general conditions, to include staffing requirements; Manages monthly revenue and margins; Ensures that financial requirements are attained for each project; Reviews and approve monthly project cost reports; Generates and reviews monthly project cost reports to manage project cash flow and over/under billings; Assigns or hires additional staff as needed to respond to fluctuations in volume of work; Conducts weekly staff meetings to ensure timeliness and quality of delivery order work.

• Customer Satisfaction:  Ensures that customer satisfaction is at its highest levels; Maintains comprehensive understanding of both internal and external customers; Dedicated to meeting customer expectations and requirements; Anticipates client issues and business challenges; Contributing fresh perspective that creates benefit and commercial value for the customer; Demonstrates genuine commitment to customers by investing time and energy into creating and cultivating trusting working relationships; Promotes and reinforces a customer-centric culture.

• Business Development:  Works closely with Business Development to support the identification, pursuit and acquisition of new work and repeat work from clients; Identifies new business prospects for sponsorship; selecting projects for sponsorship beginning when opportunities are first identified; deciding whether to propose on sponsored projects; participating in the planning and implementation of capture plans for sponsored projects; and contributing to the development of technical and pricing proposals for those projects; Promoting the growth of earned revenues and gross profit on existing projects.

• Estimating:  Performs independent review of estimates based on technical specifications, scope of work and drawings or sketches; to include detailed quantity take-offs for each job order and enter line items into on-site computer containing the Unit Price Book software; Confirms all necessary line items are included in the estimate and any unnecessary items are excluded.

• Subcontractor Management: Manages the coordination of subcontractor buyout; to include arranging and attending site visits with subcontractors, tracking subcontractor proposals and entering required data in project management software; Reviews project cost requirements to ensure compliance with project requirements and Centennial procedures; Reviews and approves proposal package for submission to client and attend negotiations to support the proposal as submitted; Manages negotiations with subcontractors; Reviews and approves detailed subcontractor agreements; Manages submittal process.

• Scheduling:  Reviews delivery order contracts, specifications, and drawings; Accepts the delivery orders; Establishes and maintains project start, progress, and completion schedules; Performs required coordination with project architects and engineers; Manages development of detailed project schedules.

• Safety:  Ensures compliance with Centennial’s Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ) guidelines and procedures along with all local requirements (OSHA, USACE EM385.1.1, etc.).

Senior Site Representative (SSR) specific duties:

• Personnel Management: Manages overhead and general conditions costs for the area of responsibility, to include staffing levels and requirements; Manages all aspects of personnel management, such as performance evaluations, performance development plans, recruiting and hiring, and promoting company policies, to include diversity and inclusion initiatives

• Financial Management: Responsible for technical, financial and quality performance to ensure timeliness and quality delivery of work; Prepares both yearly budgets and monthly revenue forecasts, to include detailed cost reporting for the area of responsibility; Manages monthly revenue and margins; Ensures that financial requirements are attained for each project; Generates, reviews, and approves monthly project cost reports to manage project cash flow and over/under billings

• Occasional travel will be required.

• Performance of the required job duties will be in an office environment along with visits to sites that are under construction which may include various weather conditions.
• The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:
  • The ability to walk terrain and surfaces that may be far, uneven, or temporary.
  • The ability to regularly sit, stand, walk, talk and hear.
  • The ability to frequently use hands to finger, handle or feel.
  • The ability to occasionally climb, balance, stoop, kneel, squat, or reach.
  • The ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

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Please reach out to Kelly Cocca Baker (703) 537-6016 for any questions related to this position. 

Centennial Contractors Enterprises Inc.  is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veterans/Disabled. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other legally protected characteristics.

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