Construction Manager

The Construction Manager role supports the VP, Transactions in the design, permitting, construction, and suite turnover of residential development projects for Mancal Properties in Calgary. A key member of the developer team, this person will coordinate teams of consultants and contractors through the design, permitting, construction, occupancy and customer service phases of multifamily residential projects. They will contribute to the successful performance of the construction team including meeting the financial, scheduling, quality and customer service objectives.

The successful candidate will assume responsibility for the following:

• Construction

  • Act as Owners Representative and manage 3^rd party Construction Manager.
  • Project management and oversight of construction contracts.
  • Provide management and control of change orders and site instructions.
  • Assume responsibility for Division 1 -16 project cost report including projected changes.
  • Monthly budget update input and report preparation including management of 3^rd party site reports.
  • Budgeting, scheduling and management of tenant improvement contracts.
  • Review and approve invoices, track and manage budgets.
  • Ownership of construction schedule and critical dates to occupancy including managing occupancy permit process.
  • Site meeting participation and owner representation.
  • Understanding and management warranty requirements.
  • Overseeing the coordination of purchaser pre-delivery inspections, purchaser occupancy and deficiency inspections.
  • Coordination with property management for building turnover and leasing preparation.
  • Electronic file and drawing management.
  • Other administrative support as required.

  Post Construction

  • Deficiency and warranty management with construction manager for in-suite and common area elements.
  • Management of close out documents, building reports and operations manuals for warranty and operations management
  • Manage letter of credit recovery and development completion requirements.
  • Management of property manager in building turnovers.

  Design Development

  • Review contracts for contractors, construction managers and consultants.
  • Attend pre-application meetings with local authorities.
  • Involvement in the development permit design and application process.
  • Lead value engineering exercises and coordination of consultant, general contractor and trade input.
  • Tracking of servicing agreements and securities with local authorities.
  • Coordinate the building permit design and application process.
  • Manage building permit submissions and timing.
  • Involvement in mixed use commercial leasing, landlord and tenant work.

  Pre-Development

  • Due diligence support and investigation for prospective land acquisitions.
  • Review of proposals for contractors, construction managers and consultants.
  • Maintain reporting formats for pre-development and initial baseline budgets.
  • Coordination of sales centre construction.
  • Prepare and update preliminary design and construction schedules.
  • Assist in preparation of project sales launches including liaison with property manager to compile budgets and warranty provider set up
  • Co-ordination of multiple project consultants including architects, engineers, planners, interior designers, etc.

To meet the challenge of this role, we are seeking an enthusiastic, energetic, self-starter who works well in high levels of autonomy.

• A post secondary education related to building or construction industry.
• Minimum 5 to 10 years’ related experience as a experience in multifamily project management and/or construction management in the real estate industry.
• Experience must include competently delivering on all phases of the construction process from project startup to project closeout. 
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
• The ability to efficiently assist and administer multiple tasks. 
• Analytical thinker to interpret information in order to understand issues and solve problems.
• Knowledge of project management, construction and estimating skills are required.
• Proficient using the Microsoft Office Suite. 

WHY MANCAL PROPERTIES INC.:

MPI's willingness to embrace a thoughtful, measured acquisition and development strategy, enables us to be nimble, and respond prudently to ever changing market conditions.  At MPI, we support and celebrate diversity, provide a workplace that is recognized as inclusive for all, regardless of ethnic origin, nationality, gender, age, or family situation. MPI prioritizes the communities we work in and promote environmental, social and governance issues as part of our core values. As such, MPI is pleased to offer:

• Hybrid work environment with a combination of in-office and work from home hours.
• Exposure to rewarding career opportunities, tuition or professional development reimbursement plan(s) and access to scholarships for dependents.
• Teambuilding and other social activities including casual Fridays.