- Salary
- $168k – $243k
- Location
- United States, United States of America
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Management
- Seniority
- Manager
- Source
- Workday
Description
Position Summary
Provide leadership and manage the operational and financial aspects of assigned construction project(s); serve as the primary liaison with the client’s project management team. Engage in electrical, civil, and structural discussions; enforce Standard Work Instructions and Quality Programs; drive process utilization, safety, and risk management; and ensure the company’s values are upheld.
Essential Job Functions
Portfolio, Program & Project Leadership
- Manages project(s) from Estimating handoff to warranty.
- Can independently manage up to two projects with minimal schedule overlap, demonstrating self-sufficiency in balancing scope, schedule, and resource needs.
- Develops and leads project plans with increasing autonomy, ensuring alignment with program objectives and adjusting plans based on project complexity.
- Develops project-specific schedules; coordinates and plans across multiple teams as required.
- Makes personnel decisions and approves changes to scope or timing within delegated authority.
- Determines all elements of the project within customer requirements and company standards.
Stakeholder, Client & Communication Management
- Develops stakeholder engagement plans and maintains positive relationships across project teams, directing cross-functional interactions as needed.
- Primary liaison with the client’s project management team for the respective project(s).
- Independently negotiates contracts with support from leadership and is accountable for contract negotiation.
- Understands and upholds the company mission; supports positive client relationships.
Requirements, Planning & Scheduling
- Elicits, documents, and manages complex project and departmental requirements, coordinating verification across multiple deliverables.
- Acts as a subject matter expert resource and technical advisor, supporting decision-making across engineering, estimating, and field teams. Continues to maintain current knowledge through professional development.
Risk, Quality & Change Control
- Manages project-level risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints, using independent judgement to adjust execution plans and develop recovery strategies as needed.
- Specifies and leads the project review process to support evaluation of progress and change decisions.
- Manages and leads assurance reviews; enables independent third-party reviews and resolves identified issues.
Financial Management
- Understands and manages the project budget through monthly forecasting.
- Manages deployment of project resources and leads negotiation and deployment of budget across multiple projects, ensuring financial alignment as scope evolves. Presents forecasts and variances as required.
- Understands and controls project budgets, change management and milestones.
- Meets timing expectations for monthly financial forecasting and project deliverables.
People Leadership, Coaching & Talent Development
- Leads one or more project teams; communicates vision and outcomes; builds team capability through training, coaching, and mentoring.
- Builds the project team’s capability through coaching and day-to-day guidance and mentors across one or more teams as needed, supporting less-experienced Project Managers.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Identifies, implements, and engages innovation within own area of work.
Other Job Functions
- Identifies opportunities for streamlining work and reducing waste in order to improve efficiency.
- Performs additional assignments per supervisor’s direction.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in construction or engineering; or equivalent combinations of technical training and/or related experience.
- 5 or more years of total project/construction experience; 3 or more years leadership experience
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Effective leadership with strong oral, presentation, and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of and experience in cost accounting.
- Understanding of construction regulations and rules.
- Ability to develop work plans and project schedules; strong conceptual skills.
- Knowledge of salary structures, market pricing, compensation modeling, and pay practices.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products.
- Ability to prioritize and work independently to meet deadlines.
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
WHO ARE WE?
With more than 115 years of construction experience, Blattner has played a vital role in building America’s critical infrastructure, ranging from railroads and highways to dams and mines. Since 1997, the company has focused on renewable energy solutions and is responsible for some of the most significant solar, wind and storage projects in the U.S. Today, Blattner has installed over 20% of America’s utility-scale wind, solar and energy storage capacity. Blattner Company is the parent company of Blattner Energy and D.H. Blattner & Sons, of which all are members of the Quanta Services family of companies. Company headquarters are in Avon, Minnesota.
Blattner is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Blattner will not tolerate discrimination against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental disability, military or veteran status, national origin, physical disability, race, receipt of public assistance, sex, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. This commitment governs all aspects of employment including, but not limited to: hiring, promotion, demotion, transfer, layoff, termination, compensation, discipline, and access to benefits and training. Additionally, Blattner is committed, in accordance with applicable law, to making reasonable accommodations for job applicants and employees based on a qualifying disability, a sincerely held religious belief or practice, and for pregnancy, childbirth or related health conditions. Applicants and employees who feel they have experienced or witnessed discrimination or who wishes to request a reasonable accommodation should contact the Human Resources Department. Blattner prohibits retaliation against any individual for making a complaint under this policy, for opposing discrimination, for participating in an investigation pursuant to this policy, or for requesting a reasonable accommodation.