Project Manager - MEP

Role Summary:
The Project Manager (PM) serves as the owner’s representative responsible for leading, coordinating, and governing the full project lifecycle—from design through commissioning, handover, and close‑out. This role ensures alignment between all stakeholders, drives project execution, and safeguards scope, schedule, budget, and quality.

Key Responsibilities:
Project Governance & Leadership

• Lead full project lifecycle governance, reporting, communication, and stakeholder coordination.
• Maintain project controls, documentation standards, and decision-making structure.

Requirements & Design Management

• Manage project requirements, including the Requirements Register, Project Brief, Interface Register, Demarcation List, and Decision/Change Logs.
• Oversee all design coordination activities: design deliverables, technical reviews, comment resolution, and interface management.

Procurement Support

• Develop tender schedules and procurement documentation.
• Manage RFI/Q&A processes and support bid evaluations.

Construction Management (Onsite Full-Time)

• Oversee construction progress, logs, risk tracking, issue escalation, and contractor coordination.
• Manage Early Access activities, including area releases, equipment installation sequencing, and temporary utility planning.

Commissioning & Turnover

• Coordinate commissioning prerequisites, functional testing, deficiencies tracking, and verification activities.
• Lead Substantial Completion and Handover deliverables: punch lists, as-builts, O&M manuals, warranties, and training requirements.

Close-Out

• Support defect resolution, commercial closure, documentation completion, and final project reporting.

Schedule & Cost Oversight

• Maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), including monthly updates, critical path analysis, and variance reporting.
• Review and analyze change orders, payment applications, and claims.

Quality, EHS & Controls

• Monitor implementation of quality plans and escalate deficiencies as needed.
• Support EHS coordination, site monitoring, and reporting.
• Administer the Common Data Environment (CDE) including document control, logs, versioning, and workflow management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of project management experience in industrial or manufacturing environments.
• Strong knowledge of MEP systems, utilities, and commissioning processes.
• Experience with Design‑Build or EPC delivery models.
• Prior experience as an owner’s representative or within a Program/Project Management Consultancy (PMC).
• Familiarity with PMI/PMBOK methodologies; PMP certification preferred.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, complex technical interfaces, and fast‑paced project environments.

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