About the Role
The Construction Project Manager I coordinates construction and facilities-related projects from start to finish, ensuring projects stay on track by managing schedules, budgets, documentation, and communication. This role collaborates with clients, field teams, and internal staff to resolve issues and advance work, ensuring projects are completed safely, on time, within budget, and according to client requirements.
Responsibilities
- Manage assigned projects from kickoff through closeout, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client requirements are met.
- Serve as the primary day-to-day point of contact for assigned projects, providing status updates, documenting decisions, communicating risks, and coordinating next steps.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, work plans, action-item trackers, status reports, and closeout plans to ensure milestone and completion dates are achieved.
- Track and update project budgets, expenses, forecasts, invoices, change orders, and not-to-exceed amounts, and escalate financial risks or variances promptly.
- Coordinate project meetings, document discussions and decisions, assign action items, and follow up to ensure commitments are completed on time.
- Coordinate inspections, surveys, audits, leak investigations, repair activities, quality assurance reviews, and other field-related project work, ensuring issues are documented, tracked, and resolved.
- Manage safety and life-safety related project items by tracking identified issues, coordinating scope development and pricing, supporting client review, and overseeing implementation through closeout.
- Maintain complete and accurate project records in designated systems, including schedules, budgets, communications, reports, photos, quality documentation, warranty information, and closeout deliverables.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience managing or coordinating construction, facilities, engineering, asset management, or similar project work.
- Experience managing project schedules, budgets, documentation, client communication, and cross-functional project follow-up.
- Ability to read and understand construction-related documents, including plans, specifications, reports, photos, or similar project materials.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document decisions, communicate risks, track open items, and follow up on action items.
- Ability to travel for client meetings, site visits, inspections, project coordination, and issue resolution.
- Experience supporting recurring client accounts, public-sector or institutional client programs, multi-site project portfolios, or long-term facilities maintenance programs.
- Commercial roofing, building envelope, pavement, restoration, construction monitoring, quality assurance, or facilities-related field experience, including experience coordinating leak response, repair closeout, warranty documentation, safety-related project follow-up, or quality assurance documentation.
Skills
- Project management
- Schedule management
- Budget management
- Documentation
- Client communication
- Cross-functional coordination
- Construction document interpretation
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Risk communication
- Action item tracking
- Travel coordination
- Public sector client programs
- Institutional client programs
- Multi-site project portfolios
- Facilities maintenance programs
- Commercial roofing
- Building envelope
- Pavement
- Restoration
- Construction monitoring
- Quality assurance
- Leak response coordination
- Repair closeout
- Warranty documentation
- Safety project follow-up
Location
- Remote
- Office
- Client-site
- Field
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Entry Level
- Mid Level
Salary/Compensations
- $85,000 - $110,000 a year
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- FSA
- HSA
- 401k Matching
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement
About the Company
- Mantis Innovation provides managed facility services and turnkey program management with technology-enabled solutions that target the entire building footprint.
- We look at the entire facility—inside and out—and can impact 70% of what a building operator allocates critical budget dollars toward, including: Strategic electricity and natural gas procurement, renewable energy, and demand response; climate impact reduction and reporting, net zero strategies, and sustainability planning; roofing, solar, HVAC assessment management, pavement, building envelope, data center optimization, and EV charging; lighting/LED retrofits, HVAC/mechanical systems, and BMS/BAS improvements and implementation.
Equal Opportunity
- Mantis Innovation is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
