Nestor Maldonado Jr.
Alexandria
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager, Senior Project Engineer, Assistant Project Manager
Rand Construction Corporation
Alexandria
06.2024 - Current
- Managed multiple projects ranging from $1M to $10M, including high-profile buildings such as a large-scale restaurant, a luxury social club, and corporate interior spaces.
- Strong background in project financials, change order management, and budget tracking on schedule and under budget.
- Successfully negotiated change orders with owners and subcontractors, aligning expectations, resolving scope disputes, and maintaining overall budget goals.
- Organized and managed weekly owner meetings for multiple projects to review progress, finances, change orders, and schedules, enhancing transparency and trust.
- Facilitated and tracked over 100 change orders on a single project, including detailed scope narratives and pricing breakdowns while updating project forecasts and ensured alignment with committed vs. actual costs.
- Collaborated with subcontractors to reconcile invoices and ensure accurate, timely payments in line with project budgets and contract terms, while also preparing and submitting timely owner invoices.
- Led a team of 5 by assigning tasks, tracking progress, and ensuring all project deliverables were completed on schedule and to quality standards.
- Partnered closely with the estimating team to develop accurate cost proposals for new projects by providing field insights and scope clarifications.
- Attended site walks for potential projects, assessing site conditions and scope while fostering new client and subcontractor relationships to support business development.
- Delivered a successful design-build restaurant, overseeing all phases from concept to completion.
- Created and continuously updated detailed construction schedules for multiple projects concurrently, ensuring on-time delivery and proactively communicating any schedule issues or risks to the client.
Instrumentation Field Engineer
Kiewit Company
Cameron
06.2021 - 04.2022
- Worked directly with the Instrumentation Superintendent and Management Team to complete the scope of work and prioritized the delegation of punch list items.
- Completed site walk-downs of critical subsystems to meet quality inspection processes, manage efficient resolution of instrumentation issues, and support the verification and handoff of completed subsystems to the Commissioning team.
- Collected, coordinated and analyzed pipe and instrumentation drawings, design specifications, material requirements and project data through the duration of the project to ensure quality and contract-specific compliance.
- Collaborated with General Foreman to prioritize and delegate tasks to meet schedule-sensitive milestones.
- Monitored weekly project progress by submitting completion claims of instrument components, and anticipate the prioritization of man hours and productivity.
- Met daily with project crew to review production schedule and confirm all materials, equipment and resources are readily available for production to continue on schedule.
- Managed project document control and maintained procedures including internal RFIs, client vendor RFIs, and condition reports.
- Executed safety procedures and mitigation plans for potential field hazards.
Electrical & Instrumentation Estimating
Kiewit Company
Denver
08.2020 - 06.2021
- Prepared project bid proposals with detailed scope of work, clarifications, and pricing utilizing various estimating softwares.
- Proficient at Utilizing Microsoft Excel to build spreadsheets that can calculate and analyze construction material and labor costs.
- Assessed contract documents to understand the scope of work, construction tolerances, and material type specifications.
- Coordinated with the estimating team to execute the takeoff and quantity comparison of a project’s construction components in a timely manner.
- Maintained and updated Productivity Factors (PF) within databases.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration And Management
High Point University
High Point, NCSkills
- Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Project, Bluebeam, Procore, TimberScan, Matterport, DroneDeploy, StructionSite
Timeline
Project Manager, Senior Project Engineer, Assistant Project Manager
Rand Construction Corporation
06.2024 - Current
Instrumentation Field Engineer
Kiewit Company
06.2021 - 04.2022
Electrical & Instrumentation Estimating
Kiewit Company
08.2020 - 06.2021
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration And Management
High Point University