Project Manager

SPS is actively seeking Project Managers. The Project Manager is responsible for the overall management and successful execution of assigned construction projects. This position oversees project safety, cost, quality, and scheduling while ensuring work is completed in accordance with contract requirements and project plans. The Project Manager serves as a key point of contact for owners, design professionals, subcontractors, suppliers, and internal project teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Promote and enforce company safety standards and procedures, including the timely reporting of accidents, incidents, and near-misses. Support the company’s commitment to making safety the highest priority.
• Review project scope, plans, specifications, and other relevant information with the Estimating Department during project turnover.
• Partner with the Project Engineer and Superintendent to establish, monitor, and update the project schedule to support successful project completion.
• Prepare and submit required project startup documentation, including submittals, introductory correspondence, subcontractor approvals, work-item breakdowns, affirmative action documentation, and other contract-required materials.
• Establish and maintain project tracking systems, including submittal logs, organizational charts, material storage plans, and other project controls.
• Coordinate project startup and closeout procedures and ensure all required project documentation is properly organized and maintained.
• Review and approve the project budget before construction activities begin and monitor financial performance throughout the project.
• Manage project costs, commitments, forecasting, and financial reporting to ensure the project remains within budget.
• Provide quarterly cost updates and identify, document, and communicate significant budget variances.
• Maintain accurate change order documentation and provide monthly change order reports to the regional office.
• Work closely with the Project Superintendent/General Superintendent to coordinate field operations, maintain productivity, and ensure project milestones are achieved.
• Lead or participate in regularly scheduled project meetings and ensure follow-up items are addressed.
• Prepare, review, and coordinate periodic payment estimates with the Owner’s Representative/Resident Engineer. Submit approved estimates or pencil sheets to the regional office, including appropriate subcontractor quantity allocations.
• Monitor project progress and coordinate with project stakeholders to address issues that could impact schedule, cost, quality, or overall project performance.
• Participate in final inspections, punch list activities, and project closeout meetings.
• Ensure all required closeout documentation is completed and submitted in a timely manner.
• Maintain ongoing communication with the Owner and Architect/Engineer regarding project completion, retainage reduction, final payment, and other closeout requirements.
• Oversee the final shutdown and organization of the project office and ensure project records are properly completed and archived.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible experience in civil construction.
• Strong understanding of construction operations, including project scheduling, cost control, budgeting, quality management, and project coordination.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple project priorities and communicate effectively with owners, subcontractors, suppliers, and internal teams.
• OSHA 10 certification required.
• Strong organizational, leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.

ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan):

SPS is an employee-owned company.  We are proud to offer eligible employees the opportunity to participate in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).  Employee-owners benefit from the success of the company and play a critical role in fostering an ownership culture within the organization, emphasizing the importance of employee engagement, and commitment to long-term success.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages, including participation in the ESOP for eligible employees, a collaborative work environment, and opportunities for professional growth within our expanding organization.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of SPS New England, Inc. to assure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, national origin, age or disability. Such action shall include: employment, upgrading, demotion, or transfer; recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection for training, including apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, and/or on-the-job training. It is also the policy of SPS New England, Inc. to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, recruitment advertising, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay, fringe benefits or other forms of compensation, and selection for training, including apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, on the job training, classification, and referral, at all levels of employment. Consistent with these obligations, SPS New England, Inc. also provides reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices.

Employees and applicants of SPS New England, Inc. will not be subject to harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status. Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited.

SPS New England, Inc. is seeking minority and female employees, and all employees are encouraged to recruit minority and females as well.