Construction Project Manager

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🐎 Kentucky, Ohio, +1 more states – Remote

🐎 Kentucky – Remote 🏈 Ohio – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote

💵 $150k - $280k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Wawa, Inc.

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1964

🛒 Retail

Retail • Food & Beverage

Wawa, Inc. is a popular convenience store chain known for its wide variety of fresh food options, beverages, and grocery items. The company offers customers the ability to customize chicken sandwiches, choose from a range of coffee, breakfast, lunch, and dinner options, and enjoy freshly baked goods and snacks. Wawa is also engaged in community initiatives and is committed to responsible business practices.

📋 Description

• Manage the construction build process from permitting through project closeout. • Implement existing construction processes and identify improvements to processes to build efficiency and/or cost savings. • Manage a capital spend budget of $15M-$28M annually. • Understand the associated budget for each store and ensure project is completed on budget. • Mitigate change orders to eliminate project overages where possible. • Forecast and accrue project spend throughout the year and communicate any budget to be carried over a fiscal year. • Create and manage individual project schedules ensuring all contractors, vendors and installers are included and scheduled so the project time line can be met or accelerated. • Identify risks and challenges to the schedule to re-phase work and ensure timely completion/opening. • Serve as primary liaison between Wawa, governmental agencies and approval authorities from building permits to final certificate of occupancy. • Manage developers thru the turnover process for pad ready and pad complete sites and fulfilling any contract requirements. • Manage and schedule all third party vendors throughout the construction process. • Coordinate with Landlords on all lease requirements. • Identify risks, challenges, and disruptions to projects. • Develop recommendations for alternate solutions, communicate out and escalate concerns. Solutions should include all tangential impacts as well as cost analysis. • Using current market values and historical unit cost data, negotiate project cost changes (adds or deducts) to deliver the best cost value to Wawa. • Manage contract and change order process to 5% or less on each project. • Deliver enterprise productivity savings by streamlining cost and creating efficiencies for owner and contractor supplied items. • Review all drawings and specifications to ensure accuracy and thorough knowledge of jobs assigned. • Implement new store design initiatives into stores projected and under construction. • Provide feedback to the Construction Services team to improve design, constructability, cost or quality on projects. • Evaluate and analyze trends in projects to evaluate opportunities with specific contractors, geographical markets, or design to impact the overall performance in cost, quality, schedule, or safety. • Leverage project level data to improve performance across multiple projects. • Provide construction bid management (conduct bid walks, issue bid notes, collect and analyze bids, make recommendations regarding contractor selection and negotiate pricing) for remodels and additions & improvements. • Develop unique and accurate equipment orders for each project and schedule and order all equipment. • Perform all field inspection and approve work as necessary to ensure compliance with drawings, specifications and quality standards. • Inspect and enforce Wawa’s safety policy on all job sites. Ensure that jobsites are inspected for safety violations and are kept in a clean and safe condition. Coach opportunities accordingly. • Approve all invoices and change orders as appropriate within 1-week of receipt; efficiently identify discrepancies and coordinate changes with the vendors and contractors. • Produce weekly or multi-week project updates as required to communicate project status, issues, and risks. • Develop an “items to complete” punch list and manage full completion and turnover process to operations. • Manage warranty period for equipment and construction items. • Stay abreast of new construction technologies that impact future work. Be curious and learn and evaluate new systems as they become available. • Maintain knowledge of project management and document management software. Adapt and learn new systems with ease. • Manage special projects as assigned (ex: training center redevelopment, cost savings initiatives, specification updates and automation, etc.) • Implement any alternative fuel projects as assigned. • Responsible for monitoring Clean Fill activities to ensure local regulations are met during Construction. • Implement the "Fuel Up" program on projects.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline preferred • Minimum 5 years’ experience in Commercial Construction Management, Engineering or Project Supervision • Strong knowledge of project scheduling and management, construction disciplines and techniques, drawings and specifications, and risk management • Proficient in Microsoft Office • Must be located within the Wawa Midwest Region (OH, KY, IN, & or TN) or have experience with managing commercial ground up construction projects in the region and willing to relocate.

🏖️ Benefits

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) • Tuition Reimbursement • 401(k) Plan • Medical/Dental/Prescription Coverage • Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care) • Employee Assistance & Wellness Programs • Employee Credit Union • Paid Time Off • Employee Resource Groups • eligibility requirements may apply