Drywall Project Manager

Build More with Your Career at Christman Constructors, Inc.

With projects throughout the Midwest, Christman Constructors, Inc. (CCI) is a great place to begin, continue or grow your career. We're searching for the next generation of innovative minds who want to shape the world and live to build. CCI is looking for a Drywall Project Manager in our Livonia, Michigan region. This role requires both estimating and managing drywall projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the company's quality standards.

What You Will Do:

As Drywall Project Manager, your primary daily responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Estimate Development: Analyze project plans and specifications to develop comprehensive estimates for drywall scopes.
• Project Management: Oversee all aspects of assigned projects, including scheduling, budgeting, and coordination with subcontractors and suppliers.

• Risk Documentation: Draft and submit project correspondence to document issues such as delays, claims, extra work, and safety hazards.
• Material Quantification: Survey and quantify materials and assemblies from drawings to ensure accurate ordering and budgeting.
• Team Collaboration: Communicate project goals with field leadership and coordinate planning efforts to achieve project objectives.
• Budget Development: Develop project budgets based on current estimates and proposals and oversee vendor and subcontractor invoice approval.
• Change Management: Estimate and quote extra work, document changes, and ensure extras are logged and tracked appropriately.
• Project Controls: Ensure that project controls such as safety forms, work plans, submittals, RFIs, logs, and documents are organized, submitted, closed, and complete.
• Scheduling: Work with the project team to develop project and look-ahead schedules, providing periodic reviews to ensure milestone dates are met and schedule delays are documented.

What You Will Bring to the Team:

Required experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, or other relevant course work.
• Six (6) or more years of work experience in construction or related job field.
• Experienced in computer knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Proficiency in reading and interpreting blueprints, specifications and advanced knowledge of Bluebeam or similar programs.
• Experience with Advanced Estimating - The Edge software platform.
• -or-
• Equivalent combination of the above education, training, and experience.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Ability to maintain stable performance under pressure or opposition.
• Excellent data entry skills, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities, with the capacity to multi-task.
• Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application.
• Effectively meets customer needs, builds productive customer relationships; takes responsibility for customer satisfaction and loyalty.
• Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
• Ability to develop and create a vision for the future in which long range goals can be achieved.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and prioritize responsibilities to consistently meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and quickly to a variety of audiences from leadership to team members.
• Proven understanding of compliance and quality assurance guidelines and best practices.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work well with supervision and peers.
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance.

Why Christman?

At Christman, everyone is an owner. Through our employee stock ownership plan, each employee-owner shares in the collective success and wealth of our nationally recognized company and is eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance, 401K contribution, professional development and tuition reimbursement, and more.

CCI is a premier full-service construction contractor with a tradition of excellence spanning more than a century. We are passionate about constructing facilities that drive our economy, improve our public infrastructure, and create the spaces that enable our clients to do what they do best.

With offices in Detroit, Lansing, and Livonia, Michigan, CCI specializes in:

• Carpentry & General Trades
• Concrete
• Earthwork and Site Utilities
• Demolition and Restoration
• Mass Timber
• Fireproofing
• Service
• Metal Studs, Drywall, and Acoustical
• General Contracting

Learn more about how you can grow as a Christman Expert, Leader and Partner and build more with us.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

This position generally operates in an office environment but may require flexibility in adapting to deadlines, changing schedules, priorities, and unpredictable events. Occasional unscheduled overtime and weekend support may be required. Travel is limited and primarily local during the business day, although some projects may require more out-of-area and overnight travel

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, tolerate heights, able to talk and hear others speaking, use hands and fingers to handle or feel, and to operate a computer keyboard and phone while maintaining visual acuity. The employee must be able to lift and/or move objects up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and 25 pounds constantly.

The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Notice to Recruiting Agencies (Unsolicited Resumes): The Christman Company does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our applicant tracking system, website, or to any Christman employee/affiliates. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Christman employees or its' affiliates will be considered property of The Christman Company and will be processed accordingly. Christman will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume without an executed agreement and assigned to a specific search.

The Christman family of companies is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.