Senior Construction Project Manager

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First Quality was founded in 1989 and has grown to be a global privately held company with over 4,000 employees. Its corporate offices are in Great Neck, New York, with manufacturing facilities and offices in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, and Canada. First Quality is a diversified family of companies manufacturing consumer products ranging from Absorbent Hygiene (adult incontinence, feminine care, and baby care), Tissue (bath and towel), and Industrial (print and packaging materials), serving institutional and retail markets throughout the world. First Quality focuses on private label and branded product lines.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager for our First Quality Tissue Division located in Defiance, Ohio, site for a new state-of the art tissue manufacturing complex.

Primary responsibilities include :

• Overall management inclusive of services scope definition, design deliverables prioritization, constructability, reviews and approvals, engaging end-users, ensuring complete close-out documentation, administration of agreement terms and conditions.
• Manage and coordinate interface between Engineering and Division Procurement for the purchase of equipment and bulk materials.
• Manage construction contract procurement by the Project Team inclusive of RFP preparation, bid process, post bid verification and award recommendation.
• Responsible and accountable for all contracted vendors / contractors and their deliverables.
• Overall management of Project Team personnel, ramp-up and down of third party personnel, recruitment as necessary, administration of HR related issues.
• Provides direction, supervision and development to all direct reports, ensures that all project team members receive clear direction, feedback and development
• Overall responsibility for Construction Site Safety inclusive of program enhancements, implementation and enforcement.
• Overall management of the Quality program ensuring incorporation of previous projects lessons learned, ensuring quality is built-in from the beginning and continuous improvement in processes to meet the high standards of First Quality.
• Overall management of the Construction Check-Out process inclusive of system boundaries definition, flushing, testing and complete check-out with required documentation.
• Ensure a complete installation is turned over to Operations in a sequential manner to support Operational Check-Out and Start-Up.
• Schedule - Overall management of planning, scheduling and progress measurement processes for all project phases.
• Cost - Overall management of estimating / budgeting, value engineering, cost management, change control, forecasting and reporting processes
• Project Controls processes and tools shall ensure accurate project status communication and timely completions to support end-user requirements.
• Reports regularly to senior leadership on project status and works closely with production leadership to ensure accurate installation and application.

Action Oriented – Takes an enthusiastic approach to the job, is energetic and action oriented for the role's challenges, demonstrates insight, courage and a bias for decisiveness, recognizes and acts upon opportunities when they arise.

Approachability – Is approachable and amiable, invests the extra effort to put others at ease, can be warm, pleasant, and gracious. Is sensitive to and patient with the interpersonal anxieties of others, builds rapport, listens actively, is an early knower, working with informal and incomplete information in time to take appropriate action.

Compassion – Genuinely cares about people, conveys sincere concern, is available and ready to help, empathetic to employees and their situations.

Customer Focus – Understands and responds to the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; effectively mines for data and information and uses it for improvements in products, services and delivery; develops trust and influence in all relationships.

Ethics & Values – Projects and practices the highest level of propriety and serves as a model of ethics and integrity. Demonstrates and promotes the Company's core values and principles at all times, acts in line with those values, appropriately addresses employee behaviors at all levels, through reward, recognition and corrective action.

Hiring and Staffing – Possesses an intuitive eye for talent; hires the most qualified internal and external candidates; willing to select strong people; assembles talented staffs.

Integrity and Trust – Builds credibility and trust across the business; recognized as direct and truthful; constructively represents the truth; able to maintain confidences; acknowledges mistakes and presents him / herself openly and serves as a conscience to the organization.

Interpersonal Savvy

Managerial Courage – In serving as a conscience to the organization, has the appropriate insight and timing to speak and act when and where situations require. Provides constructive and effective feedback at all levels, especially to leadership. Ensures the work environment is respectful, constructive and motivational. Willing to confront unacceptable behaviors at all levels.

Relationship with Peers – Takes a 360 perspective in problem solving, can represent his / her own interests and yet be fair to other groups, can solve problems with peers constructively, is seen as a team player and is cooperative, gains trust and support of peers, encourages collaboration, delivers feedback candidly.

The ideal candidate should possess the following :

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Engineering, Design, and Manufacturing

Industries

Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid paternity leave

Paid maternity leave

Tuition assistance

Disability insurance

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