Project Executive- VA

Serving clients throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond, Warfel Construction Company is widely regarded in the industry for its efforts in sustainable building practices, ethical standards, and innovative construction solutions.

Warfel’s mission is to develop Clients for Life® by striving to understand our client’s goals intimately, promoting collaborative teamwork, and delivering projects efficiently. Warfel services offer a full spectrum of construction solutions, including preconstruction planning, general construction, construction management, design-building, facility maintenance, and real estate development.

Warfel Construction Company is currently seeking a Project Executive to support our team in Winchester, VA. As a Project Executive, you will provide executive oversight on the project level to ensure client satisfaction while establishing and leading a highly performing Project Management Team, with defined responsibilities and direction. The Project Executive will communicate with the Client on a regular basis to assist with issue resolution and to ensure satisfaction and repeat business in line with our Clients for Life mission.

Requirements

Job responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide Executive oversight of the project to ensure overall client satisfaction and client expectations are met or exceeded.
• Executive contact with the client from Preconstruction, as applicable, through the construction process. Available for the Client calls if the Client wishes to discuss an issue with an Executive.
• Establish team revenue and margin goals in alignment with Warfel strategic plan. These goals will align with the overall organization goals to ensure proper team size and company performance.
• Assist Client Experience teams to find new client relationships and project opportunities, as necessary, to ensure team revenue and margin goals are met.
• Encompasses strong interview and presentation skills. Have strong planning ability to prepare and respond to RFPs (request for proposal) and RFQs (request for qualifications).
• Strong ability to work with Preconstruction teams to prepare logistics plans, conceptual schedules and constructability reviews at varying stages of project design.
• Assure projects are completed on time and on or under budget to ensure team revenue and margin goals are met.
• Organize and lead multiple Project Teams. Foster internal project team chemistry and relationship building. Ability to effectively work through personnel conflict resolution, internally and externally.
• Visits job sites as required. Reviews job status against CPM schedule, quality control, and jobsite appearance. Actively discusses job status with field supervisor. Identifies inconsistencies between CPM schedule and construction progress, and reviews with field supervisor and project manager to implement a recovery plan if needed.
• Actively discusses quality control with field supervisor. Identifies potential issues, ensures the team has a recover plan in place for any quality control issues, and takes an active role in resolution of major quality control issues.
• Proactively review project communication, schedule progression, change management, and team dynamics (internal and external) to identify and help eliminate potential client relationship issues.
• Active involvement with project turnover and procurement process. Responsible for ensuring procurement of key critical path trades and early packages to support project team and project success.
• Review major project issues with the Operations Staff to assure Warfel’s best interests are being considered.
• Active involvement with project completion process, ensuring project team completes punch list in a timely manner and all outstanding project items are completed on or before scheduled turnover to the client.
• Attending Owner/Architect meetings as project and client relationship may require.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Must have a minimum of a four-year college degree majoring in construction management, engineering, architecture or similar program or similar related career experience.
• Proven record of successfully leading project teams and managing projects consistent with those built by Warfel Construction Company.
• Knowledge of building systems and the construction process
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to work efficiently as a leader of a team
• Ability to communicate effectively with all members of the client, design, and construction teams

This position may require job-site visits occasionally. Hours may vary depending on project schedules. Warfel Construction Company is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan and Company Match (401k)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Parental Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term Disability