Project Manager - Healthcare (Construction)

Build Environments That Support Better Care with Team Roncelli

Roncelli is seeking an experienced Project Manager – Healthcare to lead the successful delivery of complex healthcare construction projects from preconstruction through closeout.

The ideal candidate is a collaborative, solutions-focused construction professional who understands the unique requirements of healthcare construction, including work within occupied facilities, active patient-care environments, phased renovations, critical shutdowns, infection-control requirements, and technically complex building systems.

This role requires a Project Manager who can lead multidisciplinary teams, manage project financial and contractual performance, coordinate sensitive construction activities, and deliver exceptional results while minimizing disruption to patients, staff, visitors, and facility operations.

What to Know Before You Apply

Travel Expectations: This is an onsite, field-based position requiring daily presence at assigned project sites. Travel to other project locations may be required based on assignment, along with occasional travel to Roncelli’s headquarters in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Overnight or extended travel may be required depending on project location and business needs.

Application Materials: Candidates should submit a current resume and project list outlining relevant project types, approximate construction values, project locations, and their role on each project. Candidates should identify any experience with healthcare construction, occupied facilities, phased renovations, shutdowns, infection-control requirements, or other technically complex projects. Candidates should also indicate their availability and preference for local, regional, overnight, or extended project travel.

About the Opportunity

The Project Manager – Healthcare is responsible for leading the planning, coordination, financial management, and successful delivery of healthcare construction projects.

Projects may include new hospitals and medical facilities, major additions, outpatient and ambulatory care environments, renovations within occupied facilities, infrastructure upgrades, clinical-space improvements, equipment installations, utility shutdowns, and technically complex mechanical, electrical, plumbing, life-safety, and medical systems.

The Project Manager works closely with clients, hospital administrators, facility and engineering teams, infection-prevention personnel, clinical stakeholders, architects, engineers, subcontractors, vendors, field leadership, Safety, and other project partners.

This position is accountable for project safety, quality, schedule, financial performance, contract administration, change management, subcontractor performance, client relationships, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.

What You Will Do

Project Leadership and Execution

• Lead assigned healthcare projects from preconstruction and mobilization through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.

• Develop and maintain project execution plans, communication protocols, logistics plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, and reporting requirements.

• Coordinate Project Engineers, Assistant Project Managers, Superintendents, Safety personnel, subcontractors, vendors, design partners, and project-support personnel.

• Ensure project activities are completed safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with contract requirements and Roncelli standards.

• Monitor project performance related to safety, quality, cost, schedule, productivity, client satisfaction, and operational impact.

• Identify project risks, constraints, and emerging issues and implement timely corrective actions.

• Lead the resolution of technical, operational, contractual, financial, and field-execution concerns.

• Maintain regular communication with Healthcare leadership regarding project status, risks, opportunities, staffing needs, and required decisions.

Healthcare and Occupied-Facility Coordination

• Coordinate construction activities within active hospitals, medical facilities, clinical environments, and other occupied spaces.

• Develop execution strategies that minimize disruption to patients, clinical staff, visitors, facility operations, and critical building systems.

• Coordinate phased construction, temporary conditions, access routes, containment requirements, shutdowns, utility interruptions, tie-ins, and after-hours work.

• Work closely with hospital facilities, infection prevention, security, life-safety, environmental services, information technology, clinical leadership, and other operational stakeholders.

• Coordinate work around sensitive environments, including patient-care spaces, procedure areas, laboratories, imaging areas, pharmacies, mechanical rooms, and critical infrastructure.

• Ensure project teams understand and comply with facility-specific conduct, access, credentialing, safety, and work-hour requirements.

• Communicate planned impacts, interruptions, and milestones clearly and in advance to affected stakeholders.

Financial and Commercial Management

• Establish and manage project budgets, cost codes, commitments, forecasts, cash flow, contingency, and financial reporting.

• Monitor labor, materials, equipment, subcontractor commitments, vendor expenditures, general conditions, and project profitability.

• Prepare and maintain accurate monthly cost forecasts and cost-to-complete projections.

• Prepare and review owner billings, subcontractor pay applications, invoices, purchase orders, and supporting documentation.

• Manage change events, potential change orders, approved changes, time-and-material work, and associated cost or schedule impacts.

• Identify potential cost variances, uncommitted costs, billing concerns, margin risks, and commercial exposure.

• Develop and implement corrective actions when financial performance differs from plan.

• Partner with Finance and Accounting to maintain accurate, complete, and timely project information.

• Monitor accounts receivable, retainage, unbilled work, and other financial concerns requiring follow-up.

Contract Administration and Change Management

• Administer owner contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, amendments, and change documentation.

• Develop and review subcontractor scopes of work and procurement packages.

• Monitor contractual requirements, notices, reporting deadlines, deliverables, and approval processes.

• Identify scope gaps, exclusions, contractual risks, and potential disputes.

• Prepare pricing, supporting documentation, and schedule-impact information for project changes.

• Maintain organized records of correspondence, notices, change requests, approvals, and contractual commitments.

• Ensure project changes are communicated clearly to the client, design team, field leadership, and affected subcontractors.

• Support claims avoidance through timely communication, documentation, planning, and issue resolution.

Scheduling, Phasing, and Shutdown Planning

• Develop, maintain, and monitor baseline schedules, milestone schedules, procurement schedules, phasing plans, shutdown schedules, and short-term lookahead schedules.

• Coordinate schedule activities with field leadership, subcontractors, equipment suppliers, design partners, commissioning teams, and hospital operations.

• Develop detailed plans for utility shutdowns, tie-ins, temporary services, relocations, clinical impacts, and facility notifications.

• Track project progress, installed quantities, labor productivity, equipment utilization, and milestone completion.

• Monitor long-lead equipment, engineering deliverables, permits, inspections, owner decisions, shutdown approvals, and other schedule constraints.

• Identify potential delays, sequencing concerns, and resource conflicts before they affect project commitments.

• Develop and implement mitigation, recovery, acceleration, or resequencing plans when necessary.

• Maintain schedule documentation supporting client, operational, and contractual requirements.

Design, MEP, and Technical Coordination

• Coordinate architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire-protection, medical-gas, low-voltage, controls, and specialty-system design activities.

• Participate in constructability reviews and ensure alignment between design documents, facility standards, equipment requirements, and field execution.

• Manage requests for information, submittals, design clarifications, technical correspondence, and drawing updates.

• Track engineering deliverables, reviews, approvals, and outstanding technical decisions.

• Coordinate complex building-system interfaces, equipment requirements, utility capacities, and commissioning needs.

• Work with design partners, facility engineers, vendors, equipment manufacturers, and authorities having jurisdiction.

• Identify design conflicts, incomplete information, constructability concerns, and potential cost or schedule impacts.

• Support value engineering and alternative-solution development without compromising patient safety, regulatory compliance, quality, or operational needs.

Procurement and Subcontractor Management

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with subcontractors, suppliers, vendors, and specialty healthcare partners.

• Support subcontractor prequalification, procurement strategy, bid leveling, scope review, and selection.

• Coordinate subcontractor performance, staffing, sequencing, logistics, documentation, and completion requirements.

• Track long-lead equipment, specialty systems, materials, owner-furnished equipment, and required approvals.

• Monitor vendor submittals, manufacturing information, delivery schedules, storage requirements, and onsite receipt.

• Hold project partners accountable for safety, quality, schedule, documentation, infection control, and contractual performance.

• Address performance concerns promptly and develop corrective-action plans when needed.

Safety, Infection Control, and Regulatory Compliance

• Champion Roncelli’s safety culture and ensure compliance with company, client, OSHA, MIOSHA, and project-specific requirements.

• Partner with Safety leadership to develop and implement project-specific safety plans and high-risk work procedures.

• Coordinate Infection Control Risk Assessments, infection-control permits, containment plans, Interim Life Safety Measures, and related facility requirements.

• Ensure appropriate dust, noise, vibration, air-quality, housekeeping, and barrier-control measures are implemented and maintained.

• Support pre-task planning, job hazard analyses, orientations, inspections, safety meetings, and corrective-action follow-up.

• Coordinate with hospital infection-prevention, safety, facilities, and compliance personnel regarding construction activities and changing conditions.

• Ensure subcontractors comply with facility policies, credentialing requirements, background requirements, and approved work procedures.

• Support compliance with applicable healthcare, life-safety, fire-protection, environmental, and regulatory requirements.

Quality Control, Commissioning, and Turnover

• Establish and support project-specific Quality Assurance and Quality Control requirements.

• Coordinate inspections, testing, nonconformance resolution, deficiency correction, and punch-list completion.

• Verify work complies with contract documents, facility standards, codes, specifications, and approved submittals.

• Coordinate with authorities having jurisdiction, testing agencies, facility representatives, design partners, and commissioning teams.

• Support commissioning planning, systems startup, functional testing, integrated testing, owner training, and final acceptance.

• Ensure quality, testing, commissioning, operation and maintenance, warranty, as-built, and turnover documentation is complete and accurate.

• Coordinate phased turnovers and occupancy requirements when portions of the project must be returned to clinical or facility use before overall completion.

Client and Stakeholder Leadership

• Serve as a primary project contact for clients, hospital administrators, facility teams, architects, engineers, consultants, subcontractors, and other key stakeholders.

• Lead owner meetings, project reviews, coordination discussions, shutdown-planning meetings, and issue-resolution activities.

• Maintain professional, transparent, and timely communication throughout the project lifecycle.

• Understand client operational priorities and ensure project commitments align with facility and patient-care needs.

• Communicate project risks, required decisions, schedule impacts, and proposed solutions clearly.

• Build relationships that support client satisfaction, repeat business, and long-term partnerships.

• Represent Roncelli professionally in all project, facility, and client interactions.

Team Leadership and Development

• Lead and develop Project Engineers, Assistant Project Managers, coordinators, interns, and other project-support personnel.

• Establish clear responsibilities, performance expectations, deadlines, and accountability.

• Provide coaching, mentorship, feedback, and professional-development opportunities.

• Partner closely with Superintendents and field leadership to maintain alignment between project-management activities and onsite execution.

• Promote collaboration between Project Management, Field Operations, Safety, Preconstruction, Finance, and shared-service teams.

• Foster a professional, accountable, client-focused, and high-performing project culture.

• Demonstrate Roncelli’s values of Safety, Family, Integrity, Adaptability, and Community.

Project Closeout

• Lead project closeout, punch-list completion, commissioning, owner training, documentation, and final turnover.

• Coordinate warranties, operation and maintenance manuals, as-built documentation, test reports, permits, and required closeout records.

• Ensure outstanding changes, commitments, billing, documentation, and financial items are resolved.

• Support final client acceptance and post-completion obligations.

• Participate in lessons-learned reviews and communicate opportunities for future improvement.

Qualifications

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field preferred. Equivalent combinations of education, training, and relevant construction experience may be considered.

• Minimum of five years of progressive construction project-management experience preferred.

• Demonstrated experience managing projects through preconstruction, construction, commissioning, and closeout.

• Experience managing project budgets, forecasts, owner billings, subcontractor commitments, change orders, schedules, and financial reporting.

• Experience leading Project Engineers, Assistant Project Managers, Superintendents, subcontractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary project teams.

• Strong understanding of construction contracts, project controls, procurement, scheduling, risk management, and field operations.

• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, contracts, scopes of work, schedules, and technical documents.

• Strong leadership, communication, organization, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and make timely decisions in a sensitive, fast-paced construction environment.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and construction-management platforms such as Procore, Bluebeam, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, SharePoint, or similar systems.

• OSHA 30 certification required or ability to obtain within 30 days.

• First Aid, CPR, MUST Safety, Certified Storm Water Operator, and healthcare construction credentials preferred.

• Valid driver’s license required.

• Ability to complete required pre-employment and annual drug testing and any client-required background, credentialing, health-screening, or driving-record requirements.

Preferred Experience

• Hospital, healthcare, outpatient, ambulatory, laboratory, medical-office, or clinical construction.

• Construction within occupied facilities or active patient-care environments.

• Infection Control Risk Assessments, infection-control permits, Interim Life Safety Measures, and healthcare-specific containment requirements.

• Phased renovations, utility shutdowns, after-hours work, temporary services, and critical-system tie-ins.

• Complex mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire-protection, medical-gas, low-voltage, controls, and life-safety systems.

• Commissioning and turnover of technically complex healthcare spaces.

• Familiarity with healthcare-related requirements and standards, including FGI, NFPA, Joint Commission expectations, and facility-specific compliance requirements.

Why Join Team Roncelli?

At Roncelli, you will have the opportunity to contribute to complex, meaningful projects while building a long-term career with a company that invests in its people.

We offer:

• Competitive, market-informed compensation

• Performance-based incentive opportunities for eligible positions

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits for eligible Team Members

• Paid time off and company holidays

• Training, mentorship, and professional-development opportunities

• Clear career paths and opportunities for advancement

• Exposure to complex projects across diverse construction markets

• Approachable leadership and a collaborative, people-first culture

• A workplace grounded in Safety, Family, Integrity, Adaptability, and Community

At Roncelli, your work is recognized, your development is supported, and your contributions help shape the future of our company, our clients, and the communities we serve.

Compensation

Actual compensation within the posted range will be determined based on relevant qualifications, experience, demonstrated competencies, project complexity, healthcare-market expertise, and internal equity. This position may also be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation and applicable vehicle or project-related programs in accordance with company policy.

Working Environment and Physical Requirements

This position operates in both professional office and active construction-site environments and requires regular onsite presence at assigned projects. Work may be performed within occupied healthcare facilities, active patient-care environments, mechanical and electrical spaces, and areas adjacent to clinical operations.

The employee must be able to safely walk active jobsites, navigate uneven terrain, climb stairs or ladders when necessary, and wear required personal protective equipment. The role requires periods of sitting, standing, walking, driving, meetings, and computer use. Occasional bending, reaching, kneeling, crouching, and lifting of materials weighing up to 25 pounds may be required.

Work hours may vary based on project schedules, shutdowns, clinical operations, inspections, commissioning activities, and facility requirements. Evening, overnight, or weekend work may occasionally be necessary to support healthcare operations and minimize disruption to patient care.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. Roncelli does not provide or take over employment visa sponsorship now or in the future for this position.

Notice to Staffing Agencies and Search Firms

Roncelli is not accepting unsolicited resumes or candidate submissions from staffing agencies, recruiting firms, or search firms for this position. Please do not submit resumes to Roncelli employees, hiring managers, or company locations without a current, written agreement authorized by Roncelli’s Human Resources Department. Roncelli is not responsible for fees associated with unsolicited resumes or candidate submissions.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Roncelli, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other status protected by applicable law.