Senior Project Manager - Concrete Construction

Job Posted 2/27/2025
Christman Constructors, Inc
Livonia, MI
United States
Job Description
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. is looking for a Senior Project Manager based in our Livonia, Michigan region. This position will provide overall leadership of civil and concrete projects including but not limited to responsibility for overall safety, profitability and quality of projects. In addition to giving support Civil and Concrete Strategic Planning initiatives, effectively implement and ensure compliance with strategic plan.

What You Will Do:

As Senior Project Manager, your primary daily responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:
  • Ensure that safety goals are achieved for responsible projects and identify safe work practices and areas for improvement
  • Provide professional conduct on behalf of Christman Constructors
  • Forecast project cost to completion, and project gross profit for each monthly close
  • Coordinate directly with Chief of Civil/Concrete Estimating for estimate and bid support including take-off, estimates, proposals and pricing
  • Communicate project goals with field leadership and coordinate planning effort
  • Project planning including conceiving of civil and concrete means/methods, schedules, change order time and costs, as well as coordinate subcontractors
  • Determine subcontractor/vendor buyout, commitments and scope execution
  • Develop project budgets based on current estimates and proposals
  • Vendor and subcontractor invoice approval
  • Develop Schedule of Values (SOV), Owner invoices and ensure timely Owner payments
  • Estimate and quote extra work and document changes, ensure extras are loaded into Viewpoint/logs and track/act on Owner contract changes
  • Ensure that project controls such as safety forms, work plans, submittals, RFI's, logs and documents are organized, submitted, closed and complete
  • Work with project team to develop project and look-ahead schedules. Provide periodic review of schedules to ensure milestone dates are met and schedule delays are documented
  • Draft and submit project correspondence in order to document risk-related issues such as delays, claims, extra work and safety hazards

What You Will Bring to the Team:

Required experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:
  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, civil engineering, or a related field
  • Minimum of ten years of construction project leadership experience
  • Or equivalent combination of the above education, training, and experience

Why Christman?

At Christman, everyone is an owner. Through our , 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

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

Work Environment and Physical Demands: The majority of work is completed outside at the construction site and in an office trailer where the project is monitored, and daily decisions are made about construction activities. The position is often exposed to sounds and loud noises, such as construction equipment. The job requires the wearing of protective equipment when on the construction site (hardhats, safety glasses, and highly visible clothing). Temperatures and conditions may vary depending on the weather and seasons. As part of our focus on being a Great Place to Work, we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics we expect:
  • Ability to occasionally stand, walk, sit, reach (with hands and arms), climb, balance stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  • Must be able to talk, hear, use hands and fingers to handle or feel, be able to use a telephone and operate a keyboard.
  • Be able to frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds.

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.