Construction Manager

LivCor, a Blackstone portfolio company, is a real estate asset management business specializing in multi-family housing. Formed in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, LivCor is currently responsible for a portfolio of over 300 Class A and B properties comprising more than 100,000 units in markets across the United States.

Our business is focused on making real estate more valuable. But for us, it’s more than that. It’s people first, community always. It’s a life-filled career, not just a career-filled life. It’s doing good work, with good humans, and making a difference. It’s excellence in all its forms. Ultimately, we create great places to work, live, and grow. We do that by focusing on leaving people – and places – better than we found them.

Whew! Still with us? Cool. Let’s talk about where you’d fit in:

The Construction Manager (Central Region) is responsible for daily coordination and oversight of multi-family Capital Expenditures, construction projects including successful budget development and tracking, scope and planning, cost management, reporting, execution, and closeout.  The Construction Manager is a key member of the leadership and asset management team and will coordinate with all departments of the asset management teams and corporate office, operating partners, vendors, stakeholders and senior management. The position requires a dynamic person with strong leadership skills and a wide range of executive management skills. Strong multifamily management experience and a proven track record of successful construction project management, asset preservation, property redevelopment and repositioning of multifamily, the candidate will report to Regional Sr. Director - Construction. Strong written and oral communications, organizational and computer technical skills are part of the overall requirements.

Only read further if you are:

• Kind
• Humble
• Honest
• Relentless
• Smart with Heart

You should be:

• Authentic. You do you. Together, we’ll do something amazing.
• A passionate person with a love for real estate and investing; and believes that helping others win is a noble cause, essential to our success.
• An excellent team player who enjoys working with others and has strong interpersonal skills.
• Highly motivated, energetic, and organized
• Gumby. Things change.

What you will do:

• Provide oversight and manages all current capital expenditure budgets, monitor and review reporting guidelines.
• Develops and maintains successful oversight and build strong business relationships with the property management teams (Community Manager, Regional Property Manager, construction managers, vendors, Architects, engineers and consultants)
• Executes, manages and provides oversight with all operating partners in accordance with company guidelines and operations manuals.
• Aid in due diligence on new acquisitions.
• Aid with disposition and sale of assets.
• Aid with risk management and insurance loss guidelines.
• Develop and manage successful relationships with architects and engineers.
• Verifies that quality of finished work meets expectations set forth within the executed contracts, company policy and procedures.
• Provides oversight and direction of project engineer(s) and other members of project teams.
• Coordinate with our Owners representative/ Architect of record.
• Coordinate and act as liaison with local municipality for processing of architectural and engineering drawings reviews and provide direction in the preparation of submittal packages.
• Review qualifications and provide input of potential General Contractors candidates capable of managing a turnkey process for all assigned projects.
• Review and provide feedback as Owners representative in all high-profile bidding and qualifying process.
• Provide oversight with the preparation and execution of construction contracts.
• Oversee and provide approvals for project scheduling, phasing plans, project staging, startup and progress of the project.
• Monitor, provide feedback on reporting guidelines within the assigned systems to track budgets, forecast, schedules.
• Review and provide feedback in conjunction with the project teams, General Contractor/Contractors, daily logs, weekly meetings and updates, track the progress of the schedule, budget and field changes.
• Provide oversight of planned forecast, schedule pencil draws to include Owners representative, LivCor personnel and will verify the timely delivery and submittal of all payment applications and to verify payment affidavit, lien releases, conditional and unconditional waivers and all or any documentation related to payments of the project. Prepare a complete package submittal for processing and payment.
• Coordinate the necessary communications with the site property management team.
• Provide oversight, feedback and establish guidelines for daily updates of activities that impact the site, buildings and residents.
• Provide oversight and guidelines for QA/QC.
• Provide final oversight of a successful completion of all assigned projects and final inspections.
• Review successful closeout procedures, documentation for completed project.
• Travel to assign portfolios and markets

What you should have:

• 8+ years’ construction management experience in multi-family related construction or equivalent combination of technical training and related experience

What we offer:

We know that if we take care of our team everything else will fall into place. We aren’t perfect, but we will try to set very clear expectations, always let you know where you stand, and do everything in our power to help you get where you want to go.

Our culture and values matter to us. A lot. We’re definitely not serious but we take this stuff seriously, if you get what we mean. We want a place that is an ego-free zone. A place where good people do good things together. It shouldn’t be rocket science in workplaces, but for some reason it still is? We’re absolutely determined to be different, and we think we’re doing a pretty good job at it. We have a CEO who makes fun of himself, and who will encourage you to tell him when he is wrong. In fact, he needs people to – we all do. Supportive challenge is good, it’s how we get better. We like getting better. We also love diversity, of all kinds. We need people who look, sound, speak, love, and exist differently from one another. This isn’t at the end of this paragraph because it’s an afterthought. It’s SO important to us we want it to stand out.

Right. On to the technical stuff that we know matters to you. We offer competitive pay that is commensurate with the market and relevant experience, and a full slate of benefits that even includes things like paid parental leave.

If any of this sounds interesting, then maybe we are a fit. Life is too short to work with people you don’t like. So whatever you do, don’t make that mistake.

The LivCorian Values

1. Be you. Be Real. Be Open. You do you. Together, we will do something amazing.
2. Care, Always. We don’t want to let anyone down.
3. Courageously Curious. We love to learn, even when it hurts.
4. Help Others Win, Be A Good Neighbor. This is about ‘We, not Me.’
5. Relentless Hustle, Heart & Humility. Work hard. Be Kind. Make Better.

EEO Statement

Our company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, job requirements and business needs without regard to race, color, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, religion, disability, citizenship status, national origin, pregnancy, veteran status and or any other legally protected characteristics. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations, if you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email us.