Senior Project Manager - Construction (San Francisco)

Join to apply for the Senior Project Manager - Construction role at Cresa

2 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Join to apply for the Senior Project Manager - Construction role at Cresa

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.

Direct message the job poster from Cresa

The Senior Project Manager (SPM) Construction Project Management will work with Cresa leadership and business partners in support of the organization's strategic goals. The Senior Project Manager may supervise one or more project managers, assistant project managers, and or project coordinators. Additionally, they will work closely with and provide detailed progress reports to the business unit director. This role is responsible for the coordination of all project efforts, administrative and technical, to ensure the most efficient and cost-effective execution of projects. They are responsible for estimating fees, scoping work, preparing proposals, and oversight of the contract process. The Senior Project Manager will also initiate strategic plans, managing the design, development, and implementation of commercial real estate projects on behalf of the client, using established processes, experience, and expertise.

This individual has an ability to communicate clearly with all parties involved in a project, including key stakeholders, internal customers, and team members to lead a project team to meet or exceed a common set of goals. They must be able to demonstrate exceptional customer service, teamwork, and attention to detail to ensure client satisfaction. They can deal with ambiguity and conflict while maintaining professionalism and focus on the project goals. This role includes business development and a focus on expanding current and future client opportunities. The Senior Project Manager must be a strong leader who contributes to Cresas values and team-oriented environment, with a positive, proactive, integrated, people-centric approach, with the ability and experience to motivate and keep the project delivery team aligned. This position can sit in San Francisco or San Jose.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 2+ direct reports (if applicable).
• Lead day to day operations and deliver on strategy and operational plans against the strategic vision for the company and client.
• Provide day-to-day leadership to various technical, professional, and/or administrative personnel engaged in specified project activities.
• Identify and develop existing and new client opportunities, client engagements, proposal writing, interviews, and follow-up.
• Assist the company in growing accounts horizontally and vertically by outstanding project delivery, client service, process improvements, and support.
• Maintain schedule of upcoming projects and activities needed to implement plan for identified clients using Cresa/Client platforms and technologies.
• Communicate directly with client to define project goals, budget, schedule, scope, and provide project status and variance reports, successfully negotiate solutions to problems focused on delivering value to the client.
• Manage relationships with external partners and vendors with a clear understanding of processes and deliverables, and review invoice and change orders.
• Demonstrate capability to read and understand project documents such as lease agreements, work letters, contracts, drawings, client work requests, and vendor proposals.
• Utilize Cresa and / or client project tools and templates to maintain accurate project documentation files.
• Track and manage value logs monthly for qualitative and quantitative value adds to the client projects, client operations, and team.
• Quality control of project outcomes.
• Facilitate project meetings and ensure that all meetings are accurately documented, and meeting minutes are distributed.
• Ensure that onsite field audits are conducted before, during and after completion of project.
• Provide measurable and timely response to client and team inquiries and concerns.
• Supervise, develop and train employees, to include organizing, prioritizing, and scheduling work assignments to provide development for career growth.
• Work with internal Cresa teams as an internal customer facing point of contact.
• Build productive positive relationships across the organization at all levels to drive influence.
• Report out on projects to Director on agreed basis.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing between projects and associate teams.
• Execute new initiatives, document best practices, drive efficiencies and streamline internal processes.
• Manages and reports on all project metrics for projects; prepare performance data, customer data, and other insights. Identify needed actions and capture lessons learned and plans to improve or leverage strengths.
• Maintain various data sources and dashboards to track key project milestones standards, and lessons learned.
• Lead responses to patterns, turn data into information, information into action, and action into value.
• Fully support team in resolving project issues and/or escalations.
• Integrate with program initiatives and objectives.
• Act as liaison between program and project teams to ensure best practices are applied.
• Work directly with leadership on regional strategy, growth projections, and risk assessment.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, management, and integrations skills.
• Manage and approve project scope, timeline, and budget for team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS/BEng/BArch) preferred.
• Minimum of 9 - 10 years of related experience in project management, business management, or related area of study.
• Minimum of 3 years of supervisory experience in a project management capacity with experience in leading, motivating, and developing employees.
• PMI or PMP certification or similar from an accredited organization is preferred.
• Experience in managing delivery of customer-facing and internally facing products or services.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio.

Physical Requirements

• The person in this role needs to be able to occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.
• Flexibility to travel as needed for individual projects.

NOTE: The job description is an overview of the functions and requirements for this position. This document is not intended to be an exhaustive list encompassing every duty and requirement of this position; supervisors may assign other duties as deemed necessary.

Cresa is committed to developing and maintaining a diverse workforce. Cresa strongly believes in equal opportunity extended to all individuals in all aspects of the employment relationship without regard to race, color, religion, belief, creed, age, sex, pregnancy or maternity (including childbirth and related conditions), family responsibility (e.g. child care, elder care), nationality, ethnic or national origin or ancestry, citizenship, marital status, civil partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status, veterans status, genetic information, political view or status as a qualified individual with a disability, protected leave status or any other protected characteristic in accordance with applicable law.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Cresa by 2x

Get notified about new Project Manager jobs in San Francisco Bay Area .

Senior Program Manager II, Talent Strategic Initiatives

Sunnyvale, CA $134,000.00-$218,000.00 1 week ago

San Francisco, CA $94,000.00-$136,000.00 4 days ago

Mountain View, CA $134,000.00-$221,000.00 1 week ago

San Francisco, CA $65,000.00-$75,000.00 22 hours ago

Menlo Park, CA $142,000.00-$202,000.00 2 weeks ago

Program Manager, Distribution Partnerships

San Francisco, CA $118,400.00-$212,800.00 2 weeks ago

Sr. Project & Program Manager, Workplace

Sr. Director, Strategy & Program Management (PMO)

Program Manager, Executive Customer Programs

San Mateo, CA $125,000.00-$145,000.00 6 days ago

San Jose, CA $200,000.00-$225,000.00 1 week ago

San Jose, CA $97,000.00-$117,000.00 1 week ago

Program Manager I, Launch Operations, Platforms and Devices

Mountain View, CA $105,000.00-$151,000.00 1 week ago

San Francisco, CA $41.37-$43.79 3 days ago

San Francisco, CA $120,000.00-$160,000.00 3 days ago

Program Manager II, Product Operations, Platforms and Devices

Mountain View, CA $126,000.00-$181,000.00 1 week ago

Sunnyvale, CA $134,000.00-$196,000.00 6 days ago

San Francisco, CA $129,000.00-$185,000.00 6 days ago

Oakland, CA $198,097.48-$229,559.00 2 weeks ago

Alameda, CA $151,000.00-$218,000.00 2 weeks ago

Associate Project Manager - Full Time - Onsite Role (US Citizen or Green Card Holders Only)

Sunnyvale, CA $167,000.00-$230,000.00 1 week ago

Were unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.