Healthcare Construction Project Manager
CORE Construction · Remote
POSITION DESCRIPTION
PROCEDEO is seeking an experienced Healthcare Construction Project Manager to lead healthcare construction projects in Colorado. This position is responsible for the successful planning, coordination, execution, and closeout of healthcare construction projects, including work within occupied and operational healthcare environments.
The Healthcare Construction Project Manager has primary responsibility for the financial, technical, operational, and client-service success of assigned projects. This individual will lead project teams and trade partners while coordinating closely with healthcare owners, facility leadership, Infection Prevention, Facilities/Engineering, clinical stakeholders, design professionals, and other project partners.
The successful candidate will bring strong commercial construction project management experience combined with demonstrated knowledge of the unique requirements associated with healthcare construction, including infection-control practices, occupied-facility construction, critical system shutdowns, life-safety requirements, phased construction, and maintaining continuity of patient care and healthcare operations.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain ultimate responsibility for the financial and technical success of assigned projects.
- Review plans, specifications, and contract documents for accuracy, constructability, scope coordination, sequencing, and potential risk.
- Establish and maintain baseline and detailed project schedules, including subcontractor activities, owner milestones, inspections, shutdowns, equipment installations, commissioning, and turnover.
- Track project costs and forecasts and manage change orders, RFIs, owner pay applications, subcontractor pay applications, and other financial controls.
- Oversee document control, shop drawings, submittals, procurement logs, closeout documentation, and other required project records.
- Write, negotiate, and administer subcontracts and purchase orders.
- Manage subcontractor performance and relationships and conduct regular project and jobsite coordination meetings.
- Lead construction planning and coordination within occupied and operational healthcare environments, including hospitals, medical centers, outpatient facilities, clinics, laboratories, surgical facilities, and other clinical settings.
- Understand and support implementation of Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) requirements, including barriers, containment, negative air, HEPA filtration, dust control, pressure relationships, temporary partitions, protected pathways, and construction access controls.
- Coordinate construction activities with healthcare Infection Prevention, Facilities/Engineering, clinical leadership, Security, Risk Management, owners, and other facility stakeholders.
- Plan and coordinate construction phasing around active patient-care areas while minimizing disruption to patients, visitors, healthcare personnel, and ongoing facility operations.
- Coordinate critical shutdowns, utility interruptions, tie-ins, demolition, above-ceiling work, temporary conditions, emergency egress, and fire/life-safety requirements.
- Ensure project planning accounts for sensitive clinical environments such as operating rooms, emergency departments, ICUs, imaging areas, laboratories, pharmacies, and procedural spaces when applicable.
- Coordinate required shutdown plans, Safe Work Plans, ICRA documentation, interim life-safety measures, and other healthcare-specific construction documentation with the project team.
- Proactively identify construction activities that could affect patient care, infection prevention, critical systems, emergency operations, or healthcare facility continuity and develop appropriate mitigation plans before work begins.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for healthcare clients and maintain proactive, consistent communication throughout the project.
- Build credibility and trusted relationships with healthcare owners, facility leadership, Infection Prevention teams, design professionals, consultants, trade partners, and other project stakeholders.
- Lead project meetings and communicate project status, schedule, financial performance, risks, changes, and upcoming critical activities.
- Anticipate client needs and proactively resolve issues that could affect project delivery or healthcare operations.
- Promote collaboration between project management, field operations, safety, quality, preconstruction, and trade partners.
CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 5 years of commercial construction project management experience, with significant experience managing healthcare construction projects.
- Demonstrated experience managing construction within occupied and operational healthcare facilities strongly preferred.
- Experience with hospital renovations, additions, expansions, new healthcare facilities, outpatient facilities, medical office buildings, clinics, laboratories, or similar healthcare environments.
- Working knowledge of healthcare construction requirements, including ICRA, infection-control practices, life-safety requirements, construction phasing, shutdowns, utility interruptions, and work adjacent to active patient-care areas.
- Detailed understanding of construction project sequencing, scheduling, budgeting, cost control, procurement, and change management.
- Advanced understanding of construction drawings, specifications, constructability, and coordination between architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and specialty healthcare systems.
- Ability to negotiate, write, execute, and administer subcontract agreements and purchase orders.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and competing operational priorities.
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, organizational, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to build effective relationships with healthcare owners, design teams, facility personnel, clinical stakeholders, subcontractors, and internal project teams.
- Must work effectively in a team environment and demonstrate a strong commitment to client service.
- Experience with CMAR and/or Design-Build delivery methods preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Bluebeam, and Procore.
- Valid Driver's License.
- Travel and/or relocation may be required based on project assignments.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, Construction Technology, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
- Equivalent education and substantial directly applicable healthcare construction experience may be considered.
PREFERRED HEALTHCARE EXPERIENCE & CREDENTIALS
- Formal ICRA healthcare construction training or certification.
- Experience coordinating with healthcare Infection Prevention and Facilities/Engineering departments.
- Knowledge of applicable NFPA and healthcare fire/life-safety requirements.
- Familiarity with The Joint Commission, DNV, CMS, and other healthcare regulatory or accreditation requirements as they relate to construction activities.
- Experience managing construction in highly sensitive clinical environments.
- OSHA 30-Hour Construction certification preferred.
Employment Benefits:
Employee Benefits include a negotiable salary, 401K (with company match), full medical/dental/vision insurance, paid time off, life and disability insurance, paid maternity and paternity leave, tuition reimbursement, HSA and FSA medical plans as available to fulltime company employees.
About the PROCEDEO Group:
PROCEDEO is a national leader in alternative project delivery methods for architecture and construction, as well as cutting-edge construction technology within the education and municipal sectors. We oversee full portfolios of capital projects for K-12 districts, municipalities and universities from conception through all phases of procurement to completion. Our team prides itself on providing exceptional service while remaining attentive to client needs. We specialize in delivering projects efficiently and effectively, maintaining a client-focused approach. PROCEDEO is an equal employment opportunity company. For more information on our culture, history and portfolio of work and services, please visit www.procedeogroup.com.
Procedeo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.