A Fresh Approach To Great Results.
Charlotte-based Compass Group North America is the leader in foodservice management and support services. By combining fresh ideas with the industry’s greatest talent, we continue to set the standards for food and service excellence. Our vision for success is a powerful one – to continue to rise above the competition in every aspect of our business – from leading-edge technology, to purchasing, to foodservice, to catering and vending, to facilities management and support services. That kind of commitment commands only the best, and it’s our great people providing great service that generates our great results. In turn, it’s important to us that our talented employees be given the proper resources to achieve their fullest potential. Play a key role in our future success:
Morrison Healthcare is a leading national food and nutrition services company exclusively dedicated to serving more than 600 hospitals and healthcare systems. Morrison's hospital kitchens, restaurants, and cafés feature socially responsible practices and exceptional guest experiences. The company's comprehensive Mindful Choices® wellness and sustainability platform includes the latest in healthful eating and an understanding of behavioral change in food consumption. Morrison's alignment with Partnership for a Healthier America's (PHA) Hospital Healthy Food Initiative positively impacts up to 41 million patients and 500 million hospital meals annually. Morrison has been named one of Modern Healthcare's "Top 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare" for the past five years, and Training Magazine’s Top 125 organizations for the past six consecutive years. The company is a division of Compass Group and has more than 1,200 registered dietitians, 300 executive chefs, and 17,000 professional food service team members.
Morrison started over a half century ago with the idea of bringing our retail expertise to hospitals. Today, we are an industry leader with national reach. We are guided by values that we call The Morrison Way: trust, team, customer focus, learning, and profit. Since the beginning, our strategy hasn’t changed…we achieve our goals by helping our
Summary:
Sr Strategic Project Manager, home office, 60% travel
Project Manager will lead all activities associated with the concept development, design, construction and delivery of capital investment projects representing and coordinating the interests of Morrison Healthcare and our Clients for assigned projects in Client facilities.
Job Description:
- Leads and is accountable for all aspects of conceptual planning through construction coordination
- Interfaces with clients to define project requirements and establish project work plan
- Develops initial construction budgets and schedules; identify all hard and soft costs, establish and implement purchase schedules
- Develop and issue RFP’s to architects, engineers, specialty consultants, contractors, or vendors as may be required
- Initiates and administers contracts with necessary design professionals, strategic vendors and contractors to meet project delivery requirements
- Coordinates acquisition of necessary permits from relevant regulatory departments, municipalities and authorities having jurisdiction
- Conducts regular progress meetings with design team, contractor and operations to drive process and identify value enhancing opportunities
- Facilitates Owner/Architect/Contractor (OAC) progress meetings to monitor progress against schedule and budget
- Directs communications to and requests engagement of Morrison and Client management as necessary to implement problem solving and decision making
- Conducts regular site visits to monitor coordination, quality and schedule
- Facilitates coordination of FF&E designs with overall project documents
- Monitors and forecasts project costs and remaining budget to ensure final costs are within prescribed budget
- Review and approval of all invoices and change orders associated with the assigned projects, including tracking and monitoring of project manager time and expense resource commitments
- Communicates and consults with supervisor about any anticipated project variances in advance to coordinate necessary decisions
- Manages project team by providing direction and leadership as required to achieve milestones and commitment results
- Communicates regularly with supervisor and other Morrison management members, about projects status and progress.
Qualifications:
- Four (4) year Degree required with a focus on building construction, architecture, engineering or a related field
- Minimum of five (5) years proven track record of management of similar responsibilities
- Food industry development experience from design through construction preferred
- Experience managing construction in healthcare environment, Required
- Knowledge of construction and design process and terminology, understanding of scheduling and project management techniques associated with design and construction in health care environments
- Strong project management skills coordinating deliverables from multiple team members.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills using
- Able to communicate effectively with clients and vendors
- Strong ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in addition to multiple stakeholders, while meeting deadlines
- High degree of discretion in handling confidential client and company information
- High degree of attention to detail
- Assertive, action and results oriented
- Ability to work independently, initiate and deliver projects
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Demonstrated knowledge and competency using Microsoft Office, Excel, Word PowerPoint and Microsoft Project
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD and Adobe
- Capable of traveling 80% of the time to meet with customers and operators
Great People. Great Service. Great Results.
At Compass Group North America, our superior balance of efficiency and quality attract the highest caliber level of service our clients deserve. We retain the finest workers with a highly competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits plan. If you’re looking for a career where you set the standard for personal advancement, then Compass Group North America is for you! Working together, we will continue to experience success as the industry’s best.
Achieving leadership in the foodservice industry
Compass Group North America is a diversity growth-oriented organization. Our goal is to improve the quality of work life by using fair and consistent treatment and providing equal growth opportunities for ALL associates. EOE & AA Employer M/F/D/V
Job ID: MAW06181549059