Project Manager

About Cref

Cref is dedicated to providing strategic real estate solutions, focused on helping organizations maximize their physical infrastructure. By enhancing resiliency, improving user experiences, reducing costs, and unlocking capital, Cref plays a critical role in ensuring facilities are not just spaces but strategic assets that drive organizational success.

Redefining real estate management through innovation and strategic partnership, we specialize in offering long-term, integrated solutions tailored to address industry specific complexities. By partnering with leading operators, we focus on resolving our clients’ challenges and ensuring a streamlined approach to real estate. This approach not only fosters growth and innovation but instills a sense of purpose and achievement across all of our clients’ business objectives.

About Planning, Design & Construction

The Planning, Design & Construction team partners as a strategic owner’s representative across all operational and capital initiatives, collaborating with stakeholders, managing risks and timelines, and maximizing overall value delivery.

This division creates clearly defined workplans and builds teams with detailed performance metrics to execute projects with precision. These plans translate our client’s business goals into well executed projects that exceed all levels of operational, regulatory, and financial standards.

Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for managing multiple healthcare projects to successful outcomes. This effort extends across the life span of a project, including planning, design, construction and operationalizing of all types of healthcare capital projects.

Core Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing multiple new and renovation healthcare projects.
• Ensure a high level of accountability on all projects.
• When overseeing a team, provide support and guidance on all projects.
• Understand contracts for all parties (consultants, general contractors, vendors, suppliers, etc.); communicate effectively to team members, ensure team members are communicating effectively with each other, resolve conflicts, develop trustworthy relationships with clients, solve problems, and be able to conceptually provide/analyze total project budgets and schedules (design, permitting, regulatory approvals, construction, equipment, furniture, etc.).
• Follow the project management process from the beginning. Every project must follow a standard and organized path from project initiation to project completion. Be able to identify opportunities to expedite the process without compromising the goal or final product.
• Manage and oversee duties related to planning, design, and construction of new and existing facilities.
• Manage and oversee projects progressing from concept development through construction, commissioning, and occupation.
• Employ a diverse set of skills and assist in resolving project, client, and people management issues.
• Manage and oversee the project definition, external team assembly, design resolution, documentation, budget and cost management, value engineering, scheduling, quality, change order management, move-in coordination, and other responsibilities.

• Play an integral role in establishing collaborative and productive relationships with project teams, including architects, engineers, consultants, commissioning agents, contractors, and internal hospital partners.

Deliverables

• Develop and/or review Feasibility Study Proposals and Reports prior to final approval by the Director
• Ensure the project database and project TPCs are kept up to date (dates, costs, cashflows, etc.)
• Harvest client relationships. While building new relationships, find key opportunities to become an integral piece to their team. Form trust and complete reliability.
• Develop and/or review monthly Charters prior to final approval by the Director
• Develop internal and external Monthly Reports

Essential Skills and Experience

• Healthcare Project Management/Construction experience required
• 5+ years of experience in technical field related to health care planning, architecture, construction, hospital capital project management, or equivalent
• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Experience managing all phases of a project (conceptual planning through close-out)
• Demonstrated experience planning simultaneous, multiple capital projects of various sizes in a large, complex organizational setting
• Demonstrated experience working on high performing, service-focused teams
• Familiarity with FGI Guidelines, Joint Commission and state Health Department licensing requirements, OSHA, NFPA, ADA, State and National Building Codes
• Demonstrated ability to bring a “best practice” approach to processes and foster a responsive service orientation
• Solid technical knowledge of building systems, constructability, and infrastructure
• Excellent communication, team building, organization, and negotiation skills
• Demonstrated leadership experience with a focus on quality, efficiency, and customer service

Reporting Structure

Reports to: Client Executive

Work Location

Salt Lake City, Utah

Travel

Up to 25%

Why Cref?

Cref is committed to finding the best talent to support our growth.  Our success is rooted in our commitment to remain the leader in providing strategic real estate solutions through our dedication to continuous improvement, engaging our people, and delivering on our promise to help organizations more efficiently and productively manage their real estate assets.

At Cref, we want our employees to have a peace of mind when caring for themselves and their families. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits package, and the opportunity to work on a growing and innovative team.

Cref is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation due to a disability in order to complete the application process, please contact Human Resources at 508-562-4181 or submit a request in writing to jchace@cref.com. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, parental and marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: Cref is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and represents employees across a variety of skill sets. We are dedicated to the standard of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to creating and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination and harassment.

Cref is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.