Project Executive

Project Executive

New York City

The Project Executive will provide leadership and executive oversight for our client's Healthcare projects throughout the NYC market. This individual will be responsible for the overall success of multiple projects, including safety, pre-construction, financial performance, schedule, quality, staffing, client satisfaction, and closeout.

The Project Executive will also help growour client's Healthcare business in NYC and New Jersey by maintaining existing client relationships, developing new business, leading pursuits, and building relationships within the local healthcare community.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain safety standards.
• Provide executive oversight of multiple healthcare projects and project teams.
• Lead projects from pre-construction and estimating through construction, turnover, and final closeout.
• Lead pre-construction and RFP efforts with support from the Pre-construction Department and other company resources.
• Review project estimates, budgets, schedules, scopes of work, bid packages, and procurement plans.
• Negotiate contract terms and conditions with clients while managing project risk.
• Monitor project performance through updated schedules, cost reports, forecasts, and operational reviews.
• Maintain accountability for project profitability, quality, schedule, safety, and client satisfaction.
• Ensure project-specific Quality Control Plans are developed, implemented, and followed.
• Assist project teams with resolving scope gaps, subcontractor issues, coordination challenges, and contractual concerns.
• Identify, document, and negotiate change orders and schedule extensions when justified.
• Oversee healthcare-specific planning, including infection control, occupied-facility logistics, shutdowns, phasing, interim life-safety measures, inspections, commissioning, and turnover.
• Ensure proper coordination of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, medical-gas, fire-protection, and low-voltage systems.
• Work closely with healthcare clients, facility teams, architects, consultants, and trade partners to minimize disruptions to active operations.
• Acquire new work while maintaining and expanding relationships with existing healthcare clients.
• Lead RFP responses, project interviews, client presentations, and pursuit efforts.
• Maintain positive relationships with the subcontractor community and healthcare industry partners.
• Ensure the timely completion of punch-list, commissioning, turnover, and closeout activities.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and professional development to Project Managers, Assistant Project Managers, Project Engineers, and other operations team members.
• Partner with field leadership to ensure project teams are properly staffed and positioned for success.
• Delegate responsibilities effectively to ensure projects and tasks run smoothly.

Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of experience with a commercial general contractor.
• Significant experience leading healthcare construction projects, including hospitals, medical office buildings, clinics, outpatient facilities, or other medical environments.
• Experience managing both ground-up healthcare construction and renovations within occupied facilities is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of healthcare construction requirements, including infection control, ICRA procedures, interim life-safety measures, shutdown planning, phasing, commissioning, and regulatory inspections.
• Experience coordinating complex MEP systems, medical gas, fire protection, low voltage, and healthcare equipment.
• Proven ability to oversee multiple projects and project teams simultaneously.
• Experience leading projects from pre-construction and estimating through construction and final closeout.
• Strong estimating and pre-construction experience, including budgeting, constructability reviews, scheduling, value engineering, procurement, and subcontractor leveling.
• Established business development experience, including developing client relationships, leading pursuits, and securing new work.
• Strong relationships within the NYC healthcare construction market are preferred.
• A four-year degree from an accredited university with a concentration in construction management, engineering, architecture, or business is strongly preferred. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Advanced knowledge of construction drawings, specifications, contracts, schedules, cost reports, and project documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Procore, Bluebeam, Adobe, JD Edwards, and other project-specific software platforms.