Project Manager

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 oversees the planning, coordination, and execution of multi-site retail and restaurant projects across North America. This role manages project scope, schedules, budgets, and vendor performance while ensuring all work is completed to quality standards. The Project Manager serves as the primary liaison between clients, field teams, and internal departments, driving clear communication and efficient project delivery. Success requires strong leadership, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple fast-paced, high-volume projects simultaneously.

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 include managing the budget, tracking of team expenses, and minimizing exposure and risk in the project.
• Ensure that project activities move according to predetermined schedules.
• Devise the project work plans and make revisions when needs arise.
• Communicate effectively with the contractors who are responsible for completing various phases of the project.
• Coordinate the work and schedules of all parties involved in the project, which include the architects, consultants, contractors, sub-contractors, and laborers.
• Monitor the progress of the project's 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 deliverables prepared by the team before passing them on to the client.
• Effectively and professionally communicate with all levels of the organization, as well as field and office personnel, subcontractors, outsourced 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 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.
• Five (5) to Eight (8) years of experience working as a Construction Project Manager.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel, strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Preferred experience with VISIO, Adobe, Oracle.
• Preferred Project Management Professional (PMP) Certifications.
• 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 out 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 LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Supports a Diverse, Inclusive Work Environment

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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.

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