Boulder, Colorado

The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

HFS is a comprehensive facility management operation that provides around-the-clock support to over 10,000 residents and 20,000 conference guests annually. Services include maintenance, repair, renovation, project management, capital construction, housekeeping, and grounds-keeping operations. HFS has approximately 190 full-time employees, as well as approximately 80 part-time and student staff, who all strive to give residents the best living experience possible.

Project Management

• Determine needs regarding facility upgrades, improvements, and develops an action plan to achieve the customer’s goal with defined scope, schedule and budget.
• Serve as the front-line liaison between the HFS Design & Project Management team and various groups within SA and other campus departments (i.e., EH&S, FM, OIT, Parking Services, etc.) ensuring compliance with campus standards and requirements.
• Determine alternatives, make recommendations, and gather data and information in response to proposed remodels, repairs and capital improvement. Facilitate the incorporation of selected changes in consultation with the project consultants and communicates these changes to the contractor for implementation.
• Preparation of state of Colorado contractual project documents, change orders and review of invoices and applications for payment.
• Review and analyze all project change documents during the life of the project.
• Coordinate and partner with various SA & CU team members to ensure efficient and successful programmatic results.
• Interview potential consultants and contractors, teams with others to select the most appropriate consultant or contractor for the project.
• Review and implement project requests from various Departmental units.
• Produce project scope documents on smaller projects, seeks funding sources or investigate alternate funding sources with SA units (i.e., HFS, Finance).
• Review all drawings with various partners, runs review meetings with HFS staff to ensure compliance with project programmatic and material requirements, and incorporation of all review comments into the construction documents.

Owner’s Representative/Liaison

• Serve as the Owner’s Representative for SA and various campus departments, code authorities, contractors, subcontractors, internal customers, supervisory personnel, physical plant personnel and trades people, as well as, outside consultants and contractors ensuring the inclusion and implementation of State, Departmental, and University required standards and criteria.
• Coordinate and manage the various requirements of the state of Colorado and various regulatory entities of CU with the contractors and subcontractors performing the work; analyze proposed project scope change revisions generated by regulatory requirements for programmatic and budgetary impact; clearly communicate those impacts to senior unit and departmental staff.
• Demonstrate exceptional skill in coordination of multiple tasks and prioritization of activities; provide honest, clear, and timely feedback; exhibits good listening and questioning skills; sets an example as a great teammate; excellent interpersonal skills.
• Chair all bid openings and meetings, site walks; propose and implement addenda to contracts and schedules; coordinate design consultant and contractor interaction.
• Maintain and develop a close working relationship with HFS Zone Operations Managers to ensure proper coordination of the work with HFS requirements.
• Act as the construction manager on smaller projects – coordinating and scheduling all trades, reviewing shop drawings and submittals.

Budget, Finance, & Analysis

• Maintain accurate electronic and hard copy files, project files, project schedules, files of data, project manuals, warranty documents, contract documents, and drawings for HFS.
• Responsible for generating preliminary costs, budgets and schedules on various projects and regularly updating the above, and occasionally requesting additional for proposing alternate funding sources; work with SA Finance on budgets and required funding scenarios.
• Review and ensure consultant and contractor compliance with schedule and approved budget requirements.
• Manage project budget development in concert with the customer, reviews change order requests, assists in setting the final project budgets, maintains up-to-date project budgets and changes, recommends alternatives to budgetary constraints; coordinate and ensure collaborator agreements to proposed Owner generated or required change documents.
• Analyze and ensure proper project scope revisions for programmatic success, budgeting compliance and coordination of consultant / contractor implementation.
• Distributes information on budgets, schedules, work plans and various other informational data bases to various interested parties.

• All University of Colorado Boulder employees are required to follow the campus COVID-19 vaccine requirement. New employees must provide proof of vaccination or receive a medical or religious exemption within 30 days of employment.
• The use of a University vehicle (or personal vehicle) is required for the performance of some of these duties; an active Drivers License is required.
• 100% in-person on-campus. This position is 100% on-campus and not a remote/hybrid opportunity.

• The annual salary range for this position is $63,000 - $66,000.
• Onboarding assistance is available within Student Affairs division guidelines.

The University of Colorado offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass. The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. Learn more about the University of Colorado Boulder.

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• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, construction management, or engineering, or degree from an accredited college or university with equivalent experience in a related field. Equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute.
• Two years project management (construction/facility maintenance related) and/or construction management experience.

• Experienced with PC based information, financial and word processing systems and software. i.e. MS Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project.
• Demonstrated track record of exemplary customer service and client satisfaction.
• Exemplary communication, organization, interpersonal, and leadership skills.

• Proven ability to plan, organize and coordinate the work activities of outside consultants and contractors with the needs of institutional protocols and customer requirements.
• Fire life safety and building code knowledge and experience.
• Knowledge of project management policies and processes within the CU or state of Colorado system.
• Four years project management experience (construction/facility maintenance related).
• Certification as a project manager by a recognized National program.
• Extensive knowledge of, or a demonstrated ability to quickly learn, the state of Colorado State Buildings Program architectural and construction standard agreements, professional services procurement procedures, general contractor procurement procedures and project management control processes.
• Experience using Oracle Primavera Unifier Project Management software.

To apply, please submit the following materials:

• A current resume.
• A cover letter that specifically tells us how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.

We may request references at a later time.

Please apply by April 9, 2023, for consideration.

Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, please apply through CU Boulder Jobs.