Construction Materials Testing Project Manager

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The Construction Materials Testing Project Manager is responsible for coordinating a construction project to make sure it’s completed correctly, on time, and within budget. This position ensures compliance with engineering specifications, regulatory standards, and project requirements. This position requires close collaboration with engineers, contractors, and project managers to verify quality control, material testing, and adherence to construction best practices.

• Manages, oversees and presides over construction projects and service operation schedules, prioritization, and requirements.
• Reviewing the project in-depth to schedule deliverables and estimate costs
• Confirms that construction projects and efforts stay within specified budget constraints and that additional budget requests are submitted to appropriate administrative bodies.
• Documents and handles hazards, problems, and concerns onsite that impede the schedule of a construction service or pose a safety hazard to construction staff.
• Directs the activities of construction personnel and subcontractors.
• Collaborate with project managers and related staff to develop roadmaps, milestones, resource requirements and cost estimations.
• Negotiates and applies for appropriate licensing and permits as required for projects.
• Collaborates with Facilities Management to determine long term plans of management and operation of the facilities, including potential future repairs, upgrades, or additions to the current construction project.
• Manage relationships with clients, customers, and public officials on complaints, queries and concerns related to current construction service projects.
• Conducting an in-depth analysis of the project to develop the budget and deliverables
• Coordinate staffing requirements to meet labor demands for projects.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in construction, Architecture, Engineering or Related Field
• 3+ years in a construction management role

• Certified Construction Manager (CCM) certification, preferred
• E.I.T. or P.E. preferred
• Solid grasp of construction methods, building compliance and safety regulations
• Comfort with technology and familiarity with construction management software programs
• Leadership skills, including task delegation and staff management

• Knowledge of basic accounting procedures, including making financial projections and creating project budgets
• Decision-making, analytical and negotiation skills
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Strong conflict resolution skills

● This position requires extensive travel, approximately up to 70% of the time, in support of business objectives and client engagements. Travel may be both scheduled and on short notice, depending on project needs. Destinations typically include job sites, field locations, or regional offices, where work may be conducted in outdoor or operational environments. Adherence to all company safety protocols and use of PPE is required during travel and on-site work.

Work is primarily conducted outdoors with exposure to outdoor conditions, including:

• Sites that may not be accessible by vehicle, requiring travel on foot through wetlands, swamps, grasslands, construction zones, and other uneven or rugged terrain with natural and man-made obstacles such as sand, brush, and debris.
• Moderate to loud noise levels due to lab equipment, field operations, and construction environments.
• Exposure to dirt, dust, chemicals, sun, heat, humidity, and varying weather conditions as part of field sample collection and testing.

Physical requirements include:

• Ability to lift and carry between 35 and 75 lbs. over distances up to 75 feet, involving regular repetitive motion.
• Ability to stand, walk, drive, and operate laboratory and field equipment for extended periods.
• Ability to bend, twist, reach, stoop, pull, kneel, climb, balance, lift, carry, and push as required for laboratory and fieldwork.
• Ability to use your senses to see (including close, distant, and peripheral vison, depth vision, and ability to focus) smell, hear, touch (use hands to reach climb or balance, crouch, stoop, crawl, kneel and sit).
• Ability to communicate effectively through verbal and written means in a lab and field environment, often requiring the use of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).

UES is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to recruit the most qualified candidates. Please see our full EEO Statement here