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Project Manager | Utility Construction – Southwest Region in Alamosa, Colorado at Push Inc

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Push Inc
Alamosa, Colorado, 81101, United States
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Job Description

Project Manager | Utility Construction – Southwest Region

The Project Manager owns the financial, contractual, and customer-facing success of assigned utility construction projects. This role ensures scope, schedule, cost, change orders, and customer communication are managed with discipline and clarity, while maintaining proactive risk visibility, forecast credibility, and dependable execution.

The Project Manager partners closely with the Operations Manager and Superintendent to maintain schedule integrity, near-term readiness, and strong field alignment so projects are executed safely, efficiently, and according to plan. This role protects margin, entitlement, cash flow, and customer trust through disciplined forecasting, billing control, change order execution, documentation accuracy, and early identification of risks, delays, and scope gaps before they impact schedule, margin, or customer confidence.

JKL Associates Inc., a Division of PUSH Inc. is a privately owned premier communications and power utility contractor who has been providing telecom infrastructure for 50 years through its dedicated team members who have integrity and continually strive for excellence.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

Financial and Cost Management

  • Own project financial performance including margin protection, cost control, and cash flow awareness
  • Track project costs weekly and identify potential variances, fade, or cost exposure early
  • Maintain accurate cost-to-complete forecasting and revenue projections
  • Ensure project billing is accurate, timely, fully supported, and converted within the required billing cycle

Contract Administration

  • Maintain a clear understanding of project scope, contract requirements, and obligations
  • Capture, document, price, and submit scope changes early and accurately
  • Ensure compliance with contract terms including notice requirements and documentation standards
  • Protect company entitlement through accurate documentation and proactive communication
  • Identify field-driven inefficiencies, delays, owner-caused impacts, and scope gaps early to preserve claims and change-order entitlement
  • Ensure complete understanding of scope through handoff meetings, document reviews, and site walkthroughs before execution

Project Planning and Scheduling

  • Develop, maintain, and actively drive project schedules in alignment with field execution plans
  • Coordinate with Superintendents to ensure crews have clear direction and constructible work
  • Ensure materials, permits, locates, subcontractors, and inspections are coordinated in advance
  • Identify risks, delays, scope gaps and readiness constraints early and drive mitigation / contingency plans before schedule or margin are impacted
  • Review upcoming work with Superintendent and Operations regularly to maintain near-term readiness and milestone recovery plans

Customer Communication

  • Serve as the primary customer contact for project updates, coordination, and issue resolution
  • Maintain consistent communication regarding project status, risks, and schedule expectations
  • Provide professional and timely responses to customer inquiries
  • Provide proactive customer transparency updates on schedule status, risks, change items, and recovery actions

Field Coordination

  • Partner closely with Superintendents and the Operations Manager to align schedule, production, and resources
  • Maintain active awareness of field conditions, risks, production performance, and readiness barriers through regular project and customer field engagement
  • Support field leadership in removing barriers that impact project progress

Documentation and Reporting

  • Ensure all project documentation remains organized and complete including RFIs, change orders, as-builts, permits, and closeout packages
  • Review project reports, validate WIP, percent-complete, and forecasting inputs against actual production quantities and field conditions
  • Ensure project records remain audit-ready and accurate

Team Leadership

  • Lead and support Project Coordinators and project administrative staff
  • Provide direction, coaching, and accountability to ensure documentation, billing support, forecasting inputs, and reporting standards are met
  • Foster strong collaboration between office and field teams
  • Delegate documentation and administrative workload appropriately while holding accuracy and timeliness fully accountable.
  • Additional Duties may be assigned

What This Role Owns:

  • Project financial performance and margin protection
  • Forecast accuracy and cost-to-complete visibility
  • Contract compliance and entitlement protection
  • Customer communication and relationship management
  • Schedule integrity and alignment with field execution
  • Change order execution
  • Project documentation completeness, billing conversion, and audit readiness
  • Proactive risk visibility and mitigation planning

Success In This Role Looks Like:

  • Projects run predictably with clear control of cost, schedule, and scope
  • Forecasts remain accurate and reliable throughout the project lifecycle
  • Change orders are captured and priced early rather than reactively
  • Customers receive proactive communication and consistent updates
  • Field teams operate with clear direction and adequate resources
  • Projects close out cleanly with complete documentation and strong customer satisfaction
  • Billing stays current with installed work, with no preventable lag in earned revenue conversion
  • Risks, delays, and scope issues are surfaced early with clear contingency or recovery actions — no surprises
  • Projects close with strong customer confidence, reference-ready execution, and repeat-work credibility

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  • Strong understanding of construction project management and utility-construction execution workflows
  • Strong planning, scheduling, and milestone-control capability
  • Financial understanding of budgets, cost tracking, cost-to-complete, WIP logic, revenue recognition, margin management, and billing conversion
  • Ability to interpret contracts, project plans, technical specifications, and field production data
  • Ability to identify risks early and build mitigation / contingency plans
  • Ability to write clear, accurate change orders, RFIs, scopes, schedules, and customer updates
  • Working understanding of field construction methods, production rates, and crew workflows
  • Experience managing multiple concurrent projects or scopes in a utility-construction environment
  • Ability to coordinate effectively across field teams, customers, subcontractors, and internal departments

Requirements:

  • High school diploma or equivalent required
  • Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field preferred
  • Valid driver’s license required
  • Experience managing construction projects, project teams, or utility construction scopes in a fast-paced environment preferred
  • Ability to work extended hours or travel to project sites as required
  • Working knowledge of broadband OSP and/or power distribution construction preferred
  • 5+ years of PM or comparable field-heavy construction management experience

Physical and Environmental Factors:

  • Ability to work indoors, outdoors, and in all types of outdoor weather and ground conditions.
  • Ability to walk, sit, stand, bend, twist, stoop, push, pull, carry and lift as needed.
  • Ability to coordinate eyes, hands, feet and limbs in performing skilled movements.
  • Ability to travel and be away from home.

Benefits of Joining the PUSH Team:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability – Industry Leading!
  • Free Teladoc, No-Cost Care Options
  • 401K with Company Match up to 3%
  • Competitive pay, weekly checks
  • Paid PTO and Holidays
  • Bonus Potential
  • Training & Advancement Opportunities
  • Apprenticeship Opportunities
  • In-house CDL Program
  • Unlimited Referral Bonus Program
  • And Much More!

PUSH Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer (EEOC/M/F/D/V)

Job Location

Alamosa, Colorado, 81101, United States

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