Project Manager
Hey! We’re Skender, nice to meet you.
Simply put, we’re builders. We build communities, relationships, dreams, and careers. If asked, “how would Skender describe itself?” We’d say we are an ambitious, humble, and compassionate company, looking for the right people to build a true partnership with for the long-term. The reason for our success is our people. We look for dynamic, high-energy, and fun teammates that are hungry for knowledge, ready to take charge of their career, and willing to have a blast while doing it.
Oh, we didn’t introduce ourselves…
About 70 years ago, Skender got its start in the basement of our founder’s family home. Now, Skender has two locations, our Chicago headquarters and our Indianapolis office, with over 300 employees. From humble basement beginnings to now, Skender has become one of the nation’s top 100 construction firms building dream spaces for many of the world’s leading brands. In more recent history (the past 15 years), we’ve won 28 best-place-to-work awards from three different organizations, each based on comprehensive workplace evaluations and employee input.
Wait, who are you?
We’re looking for an Assistant Project Manager who is ready to take their career to the next level. Do you know about project management best practices, establishing budgets, and innovating through construction technology? Great. Are you someone with a go-getter attitude who can assume responsibility and communicate effectively with your team, partners, and clients? Even better.
Our team is driven by three core values:
- Proactive: You’ve got the eye of a tiger and the drive of a Ferrari. You are self-motivated, a hard-worker, and are ready to learn.
- Refreshing: Teamwork makes the dream work, right? Your success is your team’s success. You don’t shy away from giving credit where it’s due.
- True Partner: You jump at opportunities to collaborate/knowledge-share, you like to ask questions and actively listen, and you stay actively engaged with your team.
If our values align with yours, this could be a great match. We love meeting new people, so we can’t wait to hear about you!
What will I do as a Project Manager?
Our Project Managers are the foundation of our Operations team. In tandem with Senior Project Managers and Project Executives, you’ll be responsible for maintaining project profit, quality, safety and schedule for your assigned project workload. You will also nurture professional working relationships with owners, architects, and other related project players.
Your main responsibilities will include…
- Provide guidance and ensure compliance for your team’s project documentation, carefully review contract documents and shop drawings, oversee document control entities, lead preconstruction efforts, and track + communicate milestones throughout the project life cycle,
- Review shop drawings for compliance with contract documents, accuracy, and coordination of interfacing materials.
- Prepare, maintain, and distribute various document control entities, including: submittals, RFIs, drawings/specifications, meeting minutes, punchlist/closeout, and issue logs.
- Submit shop drawings and samples of all pertinent materials and equipment to the architect or engineer, expedite approval of them, coordinate the distribution of shop drawings and expedite delivery as necessary to avoid project delays.
- Maintain dates published in procurement log for project duration.
- Maintain and distribute weekly construction status reports.
Your educational background & prior experience:
We’d like you to have a four-year degree in Construction Management or Engineering, plus at least five (5) years’ experience working in the field of building construction.
What skills will we require?
- Proactive and pleasant communication habits with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong documentation tendencies – organized, prompt, and meticulously detailed
- Understanding of contract language as it relates to construction activities and planning
- Advanced knowledge of project management and scheduling software for estimating and project management
- Proficient in building construction components and systems for conceptual budgets
- Fluency in the bidding process based on contract documents
- Strong understanding of quantity take-offs, qualification of subcontractor bids, scheduling, general conditions, and any project constraints or coordination issues
- Uses production management principles based on Lean philosophies, and coaches team members on best practices of Lean philosophy
- Possesses a fundamental understanding of planning phase schedules, lookahead schedules, and the key concepts of the last planner system
- Understands planned percent complete (PPC) to track daily tasks
What's included in our Employee-First Benefits package?
- Industry-leading compensation
- Skender pays 100% of the premium for health insurance (medical, dental, & vision)
- Annual deposit into health savings account
- Dependent care FSA
- Retirement with 100% match up to 5% of gross earnings
- Generous vacation and sick time
- Tuition reimbursement for continued learning opportunities
- Wellness incentives
- Parental leave for mothers and fathers
- Employee referral program
- Free employee assistance program services
- Free short- & long-term disability insurance
- Gym reimbursement
- Charitable gift matching and volunteer events
- New hire mentorship program
- All of this, and more!