Project Executive- Mission Critical

The Project Executive provides overall leadership and direction on the construction project and serves as the most senior person on multiple sites with multiple clients.  Typically the Project Executive is responsible for negotiating the Owner contract, is the main contact for the Project Manager for issues concerning budget, billing and client satisfaction, and ensures the fiscal success of the project.

• Provide leadership in business judgment and all financial and profitability aspects of projects under your jurisdiction.
• Participate extensively in helping to acquire and define projects and develop budgets that will achieve profitability objectives taking into account project-specific challenges.
• Set appropriate milestones and assign staff qualified to handle the scope and complexity of the project.
• Work closely with clients, owners, architects and subcontractors to develop relationships that exceeds the client satisfaction to Suffolk’s demanding standards.
• Provide oversight in managing all necessary resources throughout the entire project from start-up through closeout and ensure that the Owner’s expectations, budgetary and profitability objectives are exceeded.  This involves:
• Oversight of projects at a high level from beginning to end including budget, costs, unexpected events, general performance, and overall progress against plan.
• Ensure that the day-to-day operations of projects are transitioned effectively to Project Managers and Superintendents from Preconstruction when work commences in the field.
• Mentor, train and coach staff to perform to or exceed Suffolk standards.
• Represent Suffolk to the Owner(s), Architects, Consultants, Government Authorities, Vendors and Subcontractors.
• Project Acquisition
• Participate to understand unique owner needs, to represent Suffolk capabilities and help close potential clients.
• Review projects for unique challenges that will impact budget/profitability objectives utilizing Litmus Test.
• Project Start Up/Turnover/Pre-Construction
• Assign appropriate Project Management Staff.
• Review and approve the pre-mobilization activities.
• Ensure Turnover meeting occurs between Preconstruction and Operation teams.
• Project Management, Quality Review and Project Close-Out; responsible for ensuring that Projects achieve budget and profitability objectives.  This includes:
• Monitor and evaluate Project Manager and Superintendent staff assignments.
• Accurately forecast project performance
• Visit sites regularly to monitor project performance, schedule, and expenditures with project staff, highlight potential challenges and provide leadership in responding creatively to bring projects in on schedule and under budget, where feasible.
• Client Relationships and Meeting Management
• Attend all scheduled meetings necessary to monitor and manage project profitability.
• Attend owner and project meetings, maintain continuous client contact to gauge performance perceptions and communicate relevant information to Project Team.
• Ensure Project Management staff is trained according to Suffolk guidelines.
• Recruit qualified talent; mentor, coach and train them to perform and ensure effective matching of talent to project scope.

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5-10 years of general contracting experience.
• Each set of projects has specific characteristics regarding size, complexity, sector etc, which dictate the precise years of experience and industry knowledge necessary for success, above and beyond general construction knowledge and experience. 

Necessary Attributes:

• Candidate must possess Suffolk’s Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work and Professionalism.
• Takes initiative.
• Strong team building skills.
• High sense of urgency.
• Committed to excellence.
• Self-motivated.
• Self-confident.
• Effective communication skills.
• Capable of dealing with ambiguity and tight work oversight.
• Leadership capabilities that motivate staff to exceed expectations.
• Excellent business judgment to consistently analyze and execute financial trade-offs which frequently involve dealing with incomplete data and ambiguity.
• Superior problem-solving skills together with the ability to confidently and decisively take action necessary to achieve strong project closeouts while maintaining positive team relations.
• The ability to constantly multi-task and handle competing priorities between Suffolk business needs, organizational issues, and sound customer relations.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail evidenced by a strong command of all applicable contract and legal provisions impacting profitability on assigned projects.
• Judgment to know when to appropriately escalate issues up the chain of command.
• Excellent diplomatic and communication skills, able to interact effectively with senior management, and the ability to handle and resolve conflict effectively in a firm but fair manner.
• Ability to develop the confidence of clients to gain future project awards.
   

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand and finger skills in the use of a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stands; walk; and reach with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will spend their time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level. Job site walking.

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