About the Role
Cumming Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support an established K-12 school district in South San Francisco. This role involves leading the planning, design, and delivery of capital improvement and modernization projects from pre-construction through closeout. You will oversee project strategy, manage consultants and contractors, facilitate stakeholder coordination, and ensure projects are delivered on schedule, within budget, and in compliance with district standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead a project team, either a large project or multiple projects or a whole program.
- Define technical scope of project.
- Promote opportunities for repeat business and create highly favorable references through the effective coordination, administration, and communication of project tasks.
- Review cost estimates.
- Manage project level conflict resolution.
- Maintain monthly project budgets for current and forecasted expenditures.
- Facilitate and maintain communications with the client in addition to providing monthly/weekly/daily reports.
- Achieve the client’s objectives by successfully managing the client’s project, goals, and objectives.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Attendance at work during normal business hours.
Requirements
- Extensive experience managing California K-12 projects with DSA oversight.
- Strong understanding of public procurement and construction delivery.
- Leadership skills to effectively collaborate with district staff, design teams, contractors, and regulatory agencies to successfully execute complex school facilities projects.
- Manage and monitor team members' activity in alignment with organizational goals.
- Delegate providing clear instructions and ongoing feedback.
- Monitor metrics and course correct as necessary while holding self and others accountable.
- Provide feedback to senior leaders and clearly communicate organizational direction to team members.
- Build relationships with key internal resources (peers, direct reports, & senior leaders).
- Create development opportunities and plan for direct reports and teams; provide ongoing feedback.
- Exercise creativity and resourcefulness in independently managing the project effectively in a compressed timeframe.
- Ability to distinguish between cause and effect of problems.
- Actively listen and communicate effectively, clearly, unambiguously, and completely in both written and oral formats.
- DSA/ California K-12 project experience required.
Location
- South San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience in Project Management, engineering, or construction management
- Senior Project Manager
Education Level
- BS in Construction Management, Engineering, QS, Architecture, or related field
- CCM, PMP, PE, AIA, LEED
Salary/Compensations
- $150,400.00-$210,533.36 per year
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- 401(k) Matching
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Short and long-term disability
- Employee Assistance Program
About the Company
- At Cumming Group, we are passionate about helping our clients execute large-scale, complex projects on-time and within budget. Our project and cost-management services are specifically tailored to each client’s needs and add meaningful value at every step of a project’s development. Drawing on deep expertise in the communities and sectors we serve, we anticipate and solve problems, deliver solutions, and drive results. Since opening our doors in 1996, Cumming Group has grown to 50+ offices globally, and is now home to more than 3,000+ team members – including many of the brightest minds in the industry.
Equal Opportunity
- Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity in its personnel policies and practices. It is Cumming Group’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, marital status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender (including gender expression and gender identity), pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions, including breastfeeding), military service, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical disability, mental disability, veteran status or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. All such decisions are based on (1) individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and (2) promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity. All other terms and conditions of employment, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoff, return from layoff, training, education, and social and recreational programs, are administered without regard to the characteristics described above. To this end, Cumming Group complies with all provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, all of the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor, and all similar state and local laws.
