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About the Role

As a Project Manager, you will interface with PMA clients and project teams through a successful process of strategic real estate planning, design, and construction of new buildings, tenant improvement buildouts, and facilities assignments.

Responsibilities

• Manage successful projects and consistently meet/exceed client expectations and deadlines.
• Review and evaluate qualitative program aspects with the owner and verify program conformance with project goals.
• Establish partnerships and serve as a liaison between the client and design and construction professionals.
• Initiate and manage the procurement of design, construction, and consultant services.
• Draft, review, communicate, negotiate, and enforce contractual documents for design, construction, and consultant professionals.
• Direct and monitor project budget and schedule, including updating and maintaining web-based project controls.
• Create meaningful analysis of budgets and schedules and their effect on the financial objectives of the project.
• Oversee and review the development of architectural and engineering construction drawings and bid documents.
• Establish, direct, and/or document project meetings.
• Engage with clients, city officials, architects, engineers, contractors, and consultants to present project status and anticipate issues.
• Anticipate potential changes to the budget or schedule and provide solutions.
• Organize and review value engineering alternatives with the owner.
• Determine requirements and facilitate procurement of peer reviews and specialty consultants.
• Motivate and direct internal resources (Assistant Project Managers and Project Managers), as required.
• Oversee the architect in their review of contractor and vendor onsite activities to verify they are in contractual compliance with design specifications, schedules, and workmanship standards.
• Authorize the issuance of contracts, purchase orders, and develop and process scheduled progress draw packages for payment.
• Observe and report on the construction process and construction-related issues.
• Manage the project close-out process to a successful completion.
• Proactively seek out and represent PMA in networking and business development opportunities, and assist PMA leadership in project proposals and interviews.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in the real estate design and construction industry, including large-scale Life Sciences and/or Mission Critical campus projects, with deep expertise in civil engineering and site development coordination and delivery.
• Motivated self-starter with a positive attitude.
• Operate with a high level of personal integrity and business ethics, thriving in a collaborative team environment.
• Polished presence and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills (i.e., high emotional intelligence).
• Exercise enthusiasm and curiosity, committed to seeking creative solutions.
• Practice diligence and discipline to refine options into the optimal result.
• Exude confidence and courage to cultivate yourself as a leader.
• Value fairness, understanding that it is fundamental to transparency and consensus building.

Skills

• Civil engineering
• Site development coordination
• Project management
• Client relations
• Contract negotiation
• Budget management
• Schedule management
• Financial analysis
• Value engineering
• Team leadership
• Communication
• Interpersonal skills
• Emotional intelligence
• Problem-solving
• Business development

Location

• San Francisco Bay Area

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Architecture, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Urban Planning, Real Estate Finance, or a related field

Salary/Compensations

• $100,000-150,000

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus program
• Formal and informal training
• Leadership development programs
• Mentoring programs
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Education reimbursement
• 401(k) plan with employer match

About the Company

• Project Management Advisors, Inc. (PMA) is a national real estate advisory firm providing consulting services as the owner's representative, including development management, project management, program management and investor representation.
• Recognized among the commercial real estate industry's top professional services firms, including being named to Engineering News-Record top CM firms for the past four years in a row.
• PMA partners with clients as their unbiased advocate to provide leadership and strategic guidance for increasingly sophisticated real estate needs and challenges, minimizing risk while maximizing outcomes.
• PMA has merged with Brailsford & Dunlavey as of December 2025.
• PMA is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Tampa, San Diego, and San Francisco.
• PMA is comprised of over 150 project professionals experienced and licensed in nearly every aspect of the real estate industry with multi-disciplined backgrounds that are heavily rooted in the built environment, including architecture, development, asset management, brokerage, construction, engineering, finance, and urban planning.
• PMA's local market knowledge and ability to leverage broad and diverse experience across a national portfolio of projects is unmatched in the industry, including assignments in civic, cultural, education, healthcare, hospitality, industrial, life sciences, multi-family residential, office and retail.
• PMA delivers expertise to a broad range of clients from developers to institutional investors based on 30 years of practical experience, allowing our teams to consistently anticipate issues, understand potential impacts and provide proactive solutions.

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