Job Description
Position: Senior Project Manager – Construction / Owner’s Representative
Location: Chicago, IL
Pay: $70–$85/hour
Duration: This is a long-term contract with potential for direct hire - must be eligible to accept a permanent offer.
Pay: $70–$85/hour
Duration: This is a long-term contract with potential for direct hire - must be eligible to accept a permanent offer.
Sterling Engineering is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team supporting a major healthcare construction project.
This role requires a hands-on construction PM who can represent the owner’s interests and take direct responsibility for project execution—from design and planning through construction, commissioning, and turnover.
Responsibilities
- Lead architectural, engineering, and construction activities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Coordinate architects, engineers, contractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
- Manage project scope, budgets, schedules, risks, changes, and deliverables.
- Lead project meetings, resolve issues, and maintain accountability for commitments.
- Monitor construction progress and coordinate activities with facility stakeholders.
- Oversee commissioning, closeout documentation, and final turnover.
Qualifications
- Must have 10+ years of construction project management experience with direct accountability for execution.
- Must have healthcare or large institutional construction experience.
- Experience as a an Owner’s Representative
- Experience managing projects from design through construction and turnover.
- Must have sub-contractor management, budgeting, scheduling, and communication skills.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $70–$85 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
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