Project Management Operations Manager
The Haskell Company Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Construction · 1,001-5,000 employees
About the role
The Operations Manager oversees project staffing, recruitment, and the professional development of construction team members across various regions. They implement company standards, monitor project team productivity, and ensure consistent execution of construction projects through frequent site visits and support.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree in engineering or construction with 7 to 10+ years of relevant supervisory experience. Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills are essential for managing teams and coordinating project requirements.
Full description
At Haskell, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a nationally recognized Top Workplace where diverse perspectives and inclusive thinking drive stronger outcomes. Whether you’re starting out, growing your expertise, or leading the way, you’ll find a culture grounded in trust, driven by excellence, and built to support your goals. Here, you’ll have the opportunity, flexibility, and sense of belonging to grow your career your way—while making a real impact.
Scope of Position
Manages project staffing, recruitment and development of office and field-based construction team members including Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, and Assistant Project Managers. Actively engages and supports construction team members from project start-up through completion. Implements standards, policies and best practices concerning procedures, technology, safety, and quality and engagement with entire construction teams.
Job Responsibilities
- Identifies the construction personnel required to meet various project staffing, teams, and synergies, which are required in regions throughout the country. This includes Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, and Assistant Project Managers.
- Coordinates with Directors of Construction and/or Market Construction Leaders to forecast field staffing requirements. Maintains contact with project teams and assists with mobilization and demobilization activities and requirements of team members and their assignments.
- Monitor the workload of each team member to assure that the entire team is working productively and efficiently.
- Assure that proper communication and documentation procedures are adhered to on all projects engaged with.
- Communicate company policies and procedures to team members on a regular basis.
- Encourage new ideas from team members and communicate them to the Vice President of Construction.
- Exhibits leadership qualities by setting a good example of the type of behavior that is expected from all Haskell employees.
- Further develop, engage, and train team members.
- Liaise with Supervisors and Direct Reports.
- Engages with Project Management Teams consistently for support and engagement.
- Actively engages with project management teams throughout the course of construction to clearly understand, identify, monitor, and support team members, to ensure a consistent and high level of execution aligning with Haskell expectations and values.
- Maintains a frequent level of travel to projects, and Haskell offices regularly engaging with project management teams to understand individual and project needs.
- Responsible for recruiting, interviewing, and managing new hire procedures for construction project management positions. Facilitates orientation and onboarding of all new hires.
- Mentors construction project management team members to support growth and development. Manages performance review process and evaluations.
- Works with the Director of technical training to develop, implement and maintain individual development plans for project management teams. Coordinates with project teams to facilitate various training opportunities.
- Remain current with new developments in the construction industry in general and communicate them to team members.
- Travel as required.
- Other duties which may be assigned as needed.
- Supervises others.
Education & Years of Experience
Bachelor's degree in engineering or construction is preferred with 7 - 10+ years applicable experience; or Bachelor's degree with 7-10 years of supervisory or experience. Four-year degree may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for applicable construction experience.
Qualifications
- Good organizational and verbal communication skills; attention to detail.
- Carry out detailed written and verbal instructions independently.
- Provide effective verbal and written instructions.
- Good leadership and management skills.
- Collaborate with others to accomplish organizational goals, identify and resolve problems.
- Actions demonstrate consideration to others - participation in team projects.
- Retrieve information from technical sources.
- Ability to understand and execute the company vision and values of team, Excellence, Service and Trust.
Foundational Competencies
- Strategy - Planning for the Future: Developing talent, organizational alignment, strategic networking, and strategic thinking.
- Delivery - Achieving Results: Analytical thinking, problem solving and decision making, results driven, flexible thinking, managing resources, teamwork and team leadership.
- Interpersonal - Building Relationships: Customer focus, influencing, negotiating, organizational knowledge, communication and presence, and diversity and inclusion.
Values
- Team: Collaborate and demonstrate respect for team members, partners and everyone with whom we do business; ensure open communication.
- Excellence: Strive for quality and safety; execute best in class work; creative and innovative; dedicated to continuous improvement.
- Service: Passionate about customer service to internal and external clients as well as to the community; creates superior value.
- Trust: High standards of ethics and personal accountability; transparency; credibility; fairness.
Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements
While performing the duties of this job, team members may be required to visit alternate locations and therefore must have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to do so. This position requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds. Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand, and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application/form information. The team member is frequently required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.
Haskell will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and marginal job functions are subject to modification.
Haskell is a Drug-Free Workplace, and an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.