Construction Project Manager

The Construction Project Manager will play a vital role in supporting preconstruction planning, scheduling, and estimating, ensuring regular updates and effective project management. This role involves developing and issuing project projections, managing RFIs and submittals, drafting scopes of work for contracts, and controlling project budgets.

Responsibilities

• Support preconstruction planning, scheduling, and estimating with regular updates.
• Develop and issue project projections and look-ahead schedules.
• Manage RFIs and submittals, including maintaining logs.
• Draft scopes of work for contracts and manage project risks.
• Assist in the development and growth of other project managers.
• Monitor and control project budgets effectively.
• Prepare and process subcontractor and owner change orders.
• Conduct occasional site visits to projects.

Essential Skills

• Construction management experience.
• Project management expertise.
• Scheduling proficiency.
• Commercial construction knowledge.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in commercial construction management.
• Familiarity with estimating and project scheduling.

Work Environment

This role offers an excellent opportunity to progress to a direct position, with four additional builds scheduled for this year and twelve for the next year. The work environment will involve overseeing multiple projects, requiring occasional site visits, and collaborating with a dynamic team.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $85000.00 - $120000.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in West Des Moines, IA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 21, 2025.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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