Senior Project Manager at SUMMIT MATERIALS LLC in Denver, Colorado

Job Description:

Senior Project Manager

Denver, CO.

COMPENSATION

Salary Range: $115,000 - $135,000

FLSA: Exempt

STIP/BONUS OPPORTUNITY

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Ready for a fast-paced job where you can provide the literal groundwork that connects communities together? Join Summit Materials - a construction materials company leading the industry - where we build the foundation for a better tomorrow.

Summit Materials consists of more than a dozen local companies that supply aggregates, cement, ready-mix concrete, asphalt paving, and construction services in the United States and western Canada. At Summit Materials, we support our teammates who lay the groundwork for our communities and live by our core values: Safety, Integrity, Sustainability, and Inclusivity. We're passionate about our teammates, our work, and our communities. Each of Summit's companies celebrates their individual legacies, but together - we are Summit Materials.

Benefits

We care for you and your family: We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans to support the health of you and your family.

We prepare for the unexpected: We offer life insurance, long-term disability, and short-term disability coverage at no cost to you.

We invest in your career growth with Summit Materials and beyond: Get access to our Discover Learning catalog with thousands of available courses to support your professional and personal development. You can learn on-demand, at your own pace, and from any device.

We embrace your well-being: We know that your well-being is more than just physical. We're here to provide teammates with the resources and tools they need to stay healthy and feel supported, including an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free counseling, financial resources, and more.

We support your personal goals: We provide a financial foundation as you plan for the future. Our programs, like our 401(k) plan where we match up to 4% of your annual income, are designed to help you prepare and reach your goals for you and your family.

We give you time to recharge: We offer our teammates Paid Time Off (PTO) so they can recharge and relax with family and friends.

POSITION OVERVIEW

This role manages cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined project outputs on time, within budget, and with quality results.

Project Managers plan, organize, monitor, and oversee one or more projects to meet project objectives. They work closely with the Executive Sponsor and PMO to guide efforts toward achieving intended business results. They report to the Program Manager responsible for acquisitions.

Project Managers have primary responsibility for defining scope, planning, tracking and managing the project, for identifying resource requirements and providing the direction they require in order to meet project objectives. They also ensure appropriate management, stakeholder and supplier involvement throughout the life of the project.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

PM & Portfolio Governance

• Ensure implementation of project management standards, processes, and support services.

• Represent project in a variety of communication formats, both written and verbal. The Project Audience will include a variety of staffing levels, including, but not limited to, external consultants, departmental and senior management, including C-Level leadership, and other project team members. The Project Manager will assure that priorities are communicated and understood, and that progress/delays/issues are reported in an agreed upon formant and schedule.

• Determine project goals and priorities with management, including the Executive Sponsor.
• Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all requirements and deliverables.
• Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project objectives, and motivate the team to achieve them; create an environment that enables peak performance by team members.
• Support requirements of the project stakeholders to provide necessary information and support for successful project delivery.
• Leads, plans, schedules, tracks, and manages project deliverables, goals, and milestones; adjusts project plans and/or resources to meet changing needs and requirements
  
  
  • Assesses risks and creates strategies for risk mitigation and project contingency planning
  • Designs and maintains technical and project documentation
  • Identifies and resolves project issues; ensures appropriate communication to project stakeholders
  • Creates and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate
• Negotiate the performance of activities with team members and their managers if operating in a matrix environment.
• Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables.
• Organize the work into manageable activity clusters (stages) and determines an effective approach to completing the work.
• With Core and Extended team members, compile a complete and accurate estimate of a project effort; using reserves appropriately.
• Prepare project plan and schedule and obtain management approval.
• Track and report on progress to plan, cost and schedule reporting, and change control.
• Provide routine updates to cost plan and resource requirement forecasts.
• Identify and analyze risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigating action. Oversee activities of risk management. Gather stakeholder input and rank top project / project risks in terms of impact, probability, overall severity, and priority.
• Analyze the actual performance against the plan and make adjustments consistent with plan objectives.
• Arbitrate and resolve conflicts and problems within the project.
  
  
  • Manage vendor relations and procurement related to the project.
  • Communicate project status, risks and issues to appropriate managers on a timely basis
    
    
    • Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties. Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when closure is attained.
    • Resolve issues related to client relations, governmental relations, quality, risk and safety.
    • Ensures project plans and all project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored
    • Keeps track of lessons learned during the life of the project and facilitates a discussion/review at the end of project as part of closing the project out
    
    
    • Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned including but not limited to:
      
      
      • Holds/attends team meetings, phone conferences, and training as needed
      • Knows, understands, and follows teammate guidelines, employment policies, and department or company procedures

• Project Managers provide performance input to team members' functional managers.

• Ability to build teams and generate a spirit of cooperation while coordinating diverse activities and groups; people management and negotiating skills within a team environment.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear, concise and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff.
• Adaptability and flexibility including ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change.
• A clear vision of what determines a successful project for the customer and for the company.
• Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Negotiating skills within a context of political sensitivity and conflicting interests.
• Presentation and written communication skills.
• Ability to plan and facilitate meetings.
• Ability to advise on complex matters to non-specialists; ability to communicate effectively with senior management.
• Ability to negotiate consensus amongst diverse groups and impact the activities of others not in own reporting structure.

• Extensive knowledge of project management methodology and demonstrated competency in project management processes, including planning tasks and allocating resources, risk management, issues management, time management, financial management, HR management, working in teams, quality management, monitoring and reporting, documentation and record keeping.
• Budget management skills; Ability to analyze and review financing plans and related budgetary information to determine the impact on a project is required.
• A background in a related industry sufficient to understand the technologies and issues involved with the project and the industry, to be able to anticipate and identify obstacles, and to make sound decisions.
• Knowledge of the strategic and operational issues of the project or business unit.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Project required; intermediate proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Outlook required

• Strong knowledge of overall organizational structure and department interdependencies, especially the business areas impacted by the project goals and objectives.
• Personal integrity and courage to escalate issues about the project to management when necessary and to advocate for responsible solutions to project problems.
• Willingness to travel 25% with periodic increased spikes of travel up to 75% in response to changing business activity

Education Requirements

• College degree, preferably in a technical subject; minor or advanced degree in business or industry-related subject is a plus. In some industries, work experience may be substituted for educational
• PMP® certification and/or other industry and project management certifications.

• Minimum 5 years of extensive experience working in management of projects including demonstrated ability to manage large, complex projects on time and within budget.
• Industry experience preferred.
• P roficiency with project management software tools used by Summit.

• Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining deliverables such as, project plan, status reports, timesheets, estimates, communication plan, reports, risk management plan, budget (work hours and cost), milestone/deliverable charts.
• Demonstrated experience in managing issues, scope, and quality while bringing project projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements.

• Demonstrated expertise in teambuilding and leading teams.

• Ability to lift minimum of 2 pounds to a maximum of 15 pounds unassisted; able to sit for extended periods of time with some standing, stooping, walking, stretching, reaching, lifting; moderate range of body motions
• Ability to hear and interact by phone, in person, and in presentations clearly and efficiently
• Ability to use computer and all peripherals as needed to meet goals

Build a lasting career with us. Apply now!

At Summit Materials, we provide the foundation to connect our communities today and build a better tomorrow. We value all our communities - including our diverse internal community of teammates that make us stronger. No matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, or anything that makes you who you are...you belong.