Company Description:
DesignWise is a premier interior design, procurement, and FF&E installation company primarily in the hospitality industry located in White Bear Lake, MN.
We work across all hotel lodging brands as well as other commercial interior projects. We provide industry leading solutions for our customers in providing a single point of contact for all their interior needs. Our work takes us throughout the U.S. to serve our customers.
Position Summary:
Seeking energetic Commercial Project Manager with previous hospitality experience. Experience with hotel remodel and construction. Proven hospitality background will be required. Attitude, aptitude, ability, and commitment will be key traits of the successful candidate. Works closely with design, purchasing, vendors, and accounting.
Position Requirements:
Must have strong, documented background experience that includes preconstruction interface, value engineering, all phases of construction, budget management, scheduling and schedule maintenance, quality control, subcontract preparation and project closeout. Must be self-motivated, possess strong leadership, communication, organizational and computer skills. The successful candidate will have problem-solving skills and be able to lead a team. Experience in general office productivity software.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities:
- Preconstruction: Assist estimating department in reviewing plans and specifications for completeness and to define scopes of work required for a specific project, help generate sub bidder lists, work with estimating department, owners, and architects to assist with value engineering.
- Project Initiation: Negotiate subcontracts and purchase of all materials and equipment for project, prepare subcontracts and purchase orders, prepare construction schedule, work with estimating department to finalize construction budget, arrange for temporary site office and facilities, conduct pre-construction conference with trades.
- Project Management: Visit project as necessary and monitor quality of materials, workmanship and compliance with contract documents and building codes, conduct project meetings with Subcontractors and Superintendent at frequent intervals to discuss problems, progress, staging, and coordination of all trades, direct and oversee the activities of the Superintendent and field staff providing technical assistance as required, oversee job security and safety, implement and monitor the job close out check list in closing out construction.
- Accounting: Instruct the superintendent on all pertinent accounting procedures, weekly review and cost code all delivery tickets, monthly review all subcontractor draws, timely notify subcontractors of any revisions to their draws, approve all expenditures on project prior to accounting issuing payments, monitor monthly job cost detail analysis and detail transaction reports on each project under thier responsibility and perform maintenance to budget as necessary, review updated job costs with accounting department monthly. Generate all subcontractor nod owner change orders.
- Reporting to Division: Manager: Submit as requested updated construction schedule, all logs, status report, updated job costs, project manager’s forecast of overall project status.
We offer a competitive salary based upon experience and include benefits such as medical, dental and life insurance as well as 401K. We are an EOE, drug-free, and smoke-free company.
Job Type: Full-time
Education: Bachelor’s (Preferred)
Experience: Hospitality / Hotel: 5 years (Preferred)
Project Management: FF&E Hospitality: 3 years (Preferred)
Travel required: Yes
Should you feel you fit the above criteria, please contact us immediately with current resume, reference list, project listing and cover letter as we will be starting the interview process immediately. Interested candidates, please reply to: hr@designwiseinteriors.com