Premier Full Service Construction and Development Leader
Clayco stands as a premier full-service real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm delivering comprehensive turnkey solutions across North America. Since 1984, this privately held industry leader has generated over $7.6 billion in annual revenue while maintaining an unwavering commitment to what they call the "art and science of building."
Comprehensive Construction Excellence
Specializing in fast-track, efficient solutions for industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential projects, Clayco offers integrated services that set them apart in the industry. Their collaborative design-build approach enables teams to work on creative, complex, award-winning projects ranging from $20 million to over $200 million-projects that shape skylines and communities nationwide.
People Centered Innovation
What truly distinguishes Clayco is their holistic philosophy: seeing projects through the eyes of people who will use them daily. This human-centered approach drives innovation throughout project delivery, creating environments for healing, progress, research, industry, and entertainment. The company culture emphasizes creativity, exceeding client expectations, and making meaningful impacts that extend far beyond construction.
Award Winning Workplace Culture
- 2025 Best Places to Work recognition across St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Phoenix
- ENR Midwest's #1 Contractor and Top 5 Design-Build Firm nationally
- Top 3 Green Contractors and Data Center Builders designations
- Fast-paced environment with high-profile, innovative projects
- Strong commitment to safety and quality across all operations
Comprehensive Benefits and Growth
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) retirement planning
- Generous PTO and paid company holidays
- Discretionary annual bonuses based on performance
- Learning and development programs for career advancement
- Employee assistance programs and flexible spending accounts
Career Development Opportunities
With over 1,000 professionals across multiple markets including Chicago, St. Louis, Phoenix, Culver City, and beyond, Clayco offers the stability of an established industry leader combined with dynamic growth opportunities. Team members gain diverse experience across different construction sectors while working alongside marketing, pre-construction services, and business unit leaders. Safety remains paramount in all operations, ensuring the highest workplace protection standards while mentoring the next generation of construction professionals.
Mission
To safely deliver the highest quality real estate development and construction solutions on time, on budget, and above expectations through the art and science of building.
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Project Manager, Steel Procurement
Description
About Us
Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $7.6 billion in revenue for 2024, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast-track, efficient solutions for industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential-related building projects.
The Role We Want You For
This position serves as the overall Project Leader for the jobs in which they are involved. Responsibilities range from project set up, project buy out, contract execution and compliance, material procurement, progress tracking, material invoice approval, responsible for project sequencing and scheduling, maintaining and updating schedules, coordination and communication with General Contractor, change order distribution/tracking, coordination with Estimators, cost report job forecasting, overall project fiscal responsibility.
The Specifics of the Role
- Serve as primary contact to customers on projects.
- Establish and maintain schedules with regard to both drawings and delivery. Work with suppliers to ensure that internal schedule is consistent with job schedule and manage schedule changes internally.
- Work closely with accounting to establish and manage a schedule of values for progress billing.
- Coordinate with subcontractors.
- Maintain project budget throughout each project, with profit and loss accountability.
- Identify opportunities for change orders and establish cost where applicable.
- Prepare, issue and track change order status for material above and beyond the original contract.
- Review purchase orders and specifications on new jobs to ensure the scope of work is consistent with the estimate.
- Minimize job site and schedule problems wherever possible and minimize cost impact of potential back charges.
- Ensure department achieves goals through management and leadership mentality.
- Coordination with GC/Owner.
- Mentoring Project Coordinator's.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience.
- Bachelors degree in Construction management or Engineer recommended.
- Knowledge of construction principles/practices required.
- Problem-solving skills, with an adaptable and flexible style in working with all types of individuals.
- Project set up, budget planning, buy out, and cost reporting experience is a must.
- Good understanding of critical path scheduling.
- Energetic and highly motivated with a strong sense of urgency.
- Entrepreneurial and self-motivated, with the ability to work equally well on own as well as in a team environment.
- Knowledge and understanding of building construction combined with steel design concepts presented on architectural and engineering drawings.
- Ability to understand construction drawings and specifications.
- Ability to work with Microsoft Office Suite, On-Screen Estimating software and ACC Build.
- Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills.
- Ability to identify, assimilate and comprehend the critical elements of a situation to extract and interpret implications of courses of actions to attend to details of a problem.
- Effectiveness in planning and controlling work, motivating and developing subordinates, improving work methods and results, encouraging and supporting suggestions for work improvements, etc.
- Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.
- Plans for and uses resources efficiently, always looks for ways to reduce costs.
- Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
- Knows and projects costs to complete accurately. Proactively adjusts budgets and develops solutions to maximize profits.
- Leads through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.
- Operates within the organization's formal and informal structures, builds allies and relationships across departments, uses allies to build consensus and create results, is appropriately diplomatic, understands others' roles and perspectives, can sell projects and ideas across the organization.
- Anticipates and resolves conflicts, turns team diversity into an advantage, uses unique team talents, defines processes and goals, works for consensus.
- Establishes project goals, milestones, and procedures, defines roles and responsibilities, acquires project resources, coordinates projects throughout company, monitors project progress, and manages multiple projects.
- Inspires and stimulates the best efforts of subordinates in the accomplishment of identified goals.
Some Things You Should Know
- Our clients and projects are nationwide - Travel will be required.
- No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
- We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
- The pace is fast!
- This position is classified as a safety-sensitive role in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Candidates selected for this position will be subject to a comprehensive background check, which includes mandatory drug testing.
Why Clayco?
- 2024 Best Places to Work - Crain's Chicago Business, St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
- 2024 ENR Midwest - Midwest Contractor (#1).
- 2024 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms - Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
- 2024 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors - Green Contractor (Top 5).
Benefits
- Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!
Compensation
- The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
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