Project Manager

Overview:

The Project Manager leads residential design-build projects from preconstruction through closeout, with accountability for financial performance, client communication, team coordination, change management, and overall project execution.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Project Financial Leadership

• Own project budgets, forecasting, and cost control.
• Maintain accurate financial oversight from launch through closeout.
• Develop and manage budgets, forecasts, and job cost reporting.
• Monitor committed costs, labor, subcontractor spending, and contingency usage.
• Identify risks early and take corrective action to protect margin.

What Success Looks Like

• Project meets or exceeds target gross profit.
• Forecast is accurate and current.
• Costs, commitments, and contingency are controlled.
• Financial risks are identified and addressed early.
• Client is aware of current financial standing.

2. Client Leadership & Communication

• Serve as the primary client relationship owner.
• Lead communication, set expectations, and keep the client experience proactive and professional.
• Lead client meetings and progress updates.
• Manage expectations around schedule, scope, and budget.
• Communicate decisions, risks, and solutions clearly; resolve issues quickly.

What Success Looks Like

• Client is consistently informed and confident.
• Expectations around scope, budget, and schedule are clear.
• Issues are communicated proactively and resolved quickly.

3. Design-to-Field Coordination

• Align design intent with field execution.
• Keep design, estimating, procurement, and production teams coordinated and moving decisively.
• Coordinate design, estimating, procurement, and field teams.
• Drive clarification of plans, details, submittals, and RFIs.
• Support field leadership with timely decisions and accurate information.

What Success Looks Like

• Design, estimating, procurement, and field teams stay aligned.
• RFIs, decisions, and information are resolved before they impact the field.
• The team knows what needs to happen next and who owns it.

4. Change Management

• Manage scope, pricing, and approvals with discipline.
• Own the process for identifying, pricing, documenting, and communicating project changes.
• Identify scope changes and assess cost and schedule impact.
• Prepare and present change order pricing; secure approvals as required.
• Maintain organized documentation and protect project margin.

What Success Looks Like

• Changes are identified early, priced accurately, and approved promptly.
• Scope creep and unapproved work are minimized.
• Change orders protect project margin.
• Clear documentation of all changes.

5. Project Success & Accountability

• Deliver projects that meet schedule, financial, and client goals.
• Lead teams with accountability, remove barriers, and drive organized closeout.
• Develop and maintain schedules with field leadership.
• Monitor milestones, anticipate risks, and lead recovery plans when needed.
• Lead coordination meetings and ensure complete, organized closeout.

What Success Looks Like

• Key milestones are achieved.
• Problems are anticipated and recovery plans are implemented.
• Project finishes with an organized punch list, closeout, and handoff.

Required Skills & Abilities:

• Strong knowledge of residential building codes and ability to interpret architectural and engineering plans
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong collaboration skills with clients, team members, and trade partners
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; Buildertrend, PlanGrid, or Bluebeam experience preferred

Education & Experience:

• Degree in architecture, engineering, construction management, or a related field preferred
• 5+ years of project management or direct supervision experience; high-end residential experience in the San Francisco Bay Area strongly preferred

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to work safely on active construction sites in varied conditions
• Ability to climb ladders and navigate stairs throughout all stages of construction