RESPONSIBILITIES
At Beginning of Project
• Read and understand drawings including discrepancies between tender and issue for construction and permit (redline), and potential issues, opportunities and risks.
• Read and understand contract details and update all standard documents with terms including profit, overhead and incidentals to add as standard to changes (i.e. supervision, insurance, bonding, etc.)
• Attend Internal Kick Off meeting documenting all information received from estimating and circulating outstanding actions after the meeting.
• Attend the Pre-Meet with the Design firm as required.
• Lead the External Project Kick Off as per company procedure addressing proactively the major issues anticipated in terms of maintaining the project schedule and budget.
Sub-Trade Management
• Review the trade scope of work and clarify / collaborate with estimating as required.
• Complete all trade mobilization calls between day 4 and day 10 post award (as buy down occurs) and email confirmed commitments on schedule, shop drawings submittals, changes, terms of payment, close out and other outstanding items.
• Lead the construction trade kick off meeting reminding all trades of timelines and commitments in the trade kick off call for schedule, shop drawings, changes, terms of payment and closeout.
• Manages sub-contractor costs to meet or exceed target profitability
Changes Management
• Agree to change process and timing with the trades, service provider, designer and client at the start of the project (in the external kick off, trade mobilization calls, and construction kick off).
• Act as first point of escalation for Project Coordinators if Sub-Trades are not meeting expected turnaround times and deadlines are slipping. Hold Sub-Trades accountable to meeting turnaround expectations.