About Us
Clayco is a full-service turnkey real estate development master planning architecture engineering and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time on budget and above and beyond expectations. With $7.6 billion in revenue for 2024 Clayco specializes in the art and science of building providing fast track efficient solutions for industrial commercial institutional and residential related building projects.
The Role
We Want You For
The Project Manager will provide leadership to the project staff and ensure quality and timely execution of design-build projects from design to completion.
Working Under the Leadership of a Senior Project Manager
The Project Manager coordinates all aspects of the project including:
• Coordination with the project team, designers, engineers, production, assembly, site crews • Communication and coordination involving the customer and their project team, project managers, architects, engineers, consultants to ascertain contract time, cost, and quality objectives and organize project resources accordingly • Developing an understanding of the bid scope and contract documents, trade contract scope, drawings, specification, exhibits, bid pricing, and clarifications • Developing, tracking, and reporting on the detailed project schedule for design, engineering, mockups, production, and installation activities • Developing, tracking, and reporting on the contract schedule of values and payment requisitions, ensuring the project cash flow is met and payments received in a timely manner • Developing and understanding of the contract budget • Coordinating all aspects of project Quality Control, developing, tracking, and reporting on the contract quality control and assurance system • Pricing and purchasing of materials, equipment, and sub-contracts, ensuring that both budgetary and specified contractual cost, time, and quality requirements are met • Researching, substantiating, presenting, and reporting changes to the contract scope
Attending and Taking Meeting Minutes
• Attending and taking meeting minutes at all required external and internal meetings • Providing and submitting all required internal and external contract reports and submissions
Managing Maintenance and Warranty Work
• Managing maintenance and warranty work on completed projects
Communicating Effectively
• Communicating well both verbally and in writing, creating accurate and punctual reports, delivering presentations, sharing information and ideas with others, having good listening skills
Ability to Identify, Assimilate, and Comprehend
• Ability to identify, assimilate, and comprehend the critical elements of a situation, to extract and interpret implications of courses of actions, and address details of the problem • Effectiveness in planning and controlling work, motivating and developing subordinates, improving work methods and results, encouraging and supporting suggestions for work improvements • Breaking down problems into smaller components, understanding underlying issues, simplifying and processing complex issues, understanding the difference between critical details and unimportant facts • Planning for and using resources efficiently, always looking for ways to reduce costs, creating accurate and realistic budgets, tracking and adjusting budgets • Attentive to detail and accuracy, committed to excellence, looking for improvements continuously, monitoring quality levels, finding root cause of quality problems, owning and acting on quality problems
Preparing and Monitoring Construction Schedules
• Preparing and monitoring realistic construction schedules and achieving full cooperation of superintendents and subcontractors • Communicating expectations and importance of safety, following up and ensuring safety audits are completed accurately and timely • Identifying critical issues and assisting in the development of improvement procedures
Requirements
• Bachelors degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or other related discipline • 7-10 years of project management experience, large-scale subcontracting projects preferably • 2 years of experience in Glass and Glazing Project Management - Unitized Systems • Proficient using MS Office, Word, Excel, Project, with an aptitude to learn any required in-house software • Strong knowledge of construction principles and practices required • Excellent critical thinking skills with an adaptable and flexible style in working with all types of individuals • Project set-up, budget planning, buy-out, and cost reporting experience is necessary • Experience with scheduling, dealing with subcontracts, subcontractors, and/or self-perform work • Experience leading successful project teams, including development of employees and maintaining relationships with external entities • Creative and results-oriented with a strong sense of urgency • Successfully project-managed projects of at least $10 million dollars, design-build preferred • Highly entrepreneurial and self-motivated with the ability to work equally well on own as well as in a team environment • Ability to walk the job site, climb ladders, and multi-floor scaffolding • Ability to lift objects at least 50lbs
Some Things You Should Know
• Our clients and projects are nationwide - travel will be required • No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does • We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs • The pace is fast • This position is classified as a safety-sensitive role in accordance with applicable state and federal laws • Candidates selected for this position will be subject to a comprehensive background check, which includes mandatory drug testing
Why Clayco and Ventana 2025 Best Places to Work - St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal 2025 ENR Midwest - Midwest Contractor 1 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms - Design-Build Contractor Top 5 2025 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors - Green Contractor Top 3 2025 ENR Top 25 Data Center Builders - Data Center Contractor Top 3
Benefits
• Discretionary Annual Bonus, subject to company and individual performance • Comprehensive Benefits Package, including Medical, dental, and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO, and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs, and more • Compensation
The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.