Sr. Construction Project Manager

Company: CBRE
Location: San Diego
Posted on: May 1, 2025

Job Description:

Sr. Construction Project Manager

Job ID

213511

Posted

08-Apr-2025

Service line

GWS Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Construction, Project Management

Location(s)

San Diego - California - United States of America

Global Workplace Solutions (GWS)-Local is a hard services-led, tailored facility management solution. We self-perform hard services while partnering with best-in-class soft service providers to offer custom facility and project management solutions to our clients. We focus on empowering our team with a high level of downstream accountability, resulting in agile and efficient service delivery.

In addition to our core facility and project management capabilities, our platform offers direct access to our Best-in-Class services, including ESG, Security Consulting, Workplace Strategy, and Workplace Experience.



JOB SUMMARY

The purpose of this position is to lead construction and real estate project solutions with direct accountability for project delivery.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages all facets of project management (budget, schedule, procurement, quality, and risk) for individual real estate projects, including planning, design, construction, occupancy, and closeout. Responsibilities also include expanding business regionally among existing and new clients.
• Demonstrates capability to read, understand, and apply standards to complex documents affecting real estate projects, including but not limited to agreements/contracts, leases, work letters, project charters, surveys, and drawings.
• Interfaces directly with clients to define project requirements. Prepares scope of work, project delivery resource requirements, cost estimate & budget, cash flow, work plan schedule & milestones, quality control, and risk identification.
• Identifies project delivery resources from pre-qualified lists or through individual project qualification processes; conducts standard to complex requests for proposals; completes bid analysis; leads evaluation interviews
• Leads project delivery resources/team (typically larger, more experienced team), providing project guidance and direction to achieve project goals.
• Implements a meeting communication plan and writes reports/meeting minutes to keep clients and project resources informed. Facilitates project meetings.
  
• Implement project documentation governance that is aligned with company and client requirements. Ensure project data integrity and documentation are accurate, timely, and coordinated.
• Tracks each project's progress against goals, objectives, approved budgets, and approved timelines. Reports status and variances. Creates action plans to meet objectives, budget, and schedule.
• Implements change management routines to assess change requests, make recommendations, secure client approvals, and issue change orders. Assesses change requests to determine scope, budget, schedule, quality, and risk impacts.
• Demonstrates ability to identify complex project risks, lead constructability reviews, develop risk mitigation and contingency plans, and implement action plans to reduce or eliminate project risks.
• Demonstrates a knowledge of projects & project management within the context of business results (business case, larger economic implications, business risk, etc)
  SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
  
  
  • Provides formal supervision to individual employees within a single functional or operational area. Approves subordinate's recommendations for staff recruitment, selection, promotion, advancement, corrective action, and termination. Effectively recommends same for direct reports to next-level management for review and approval. Plans and monitors appropriate staffing levels and utilization of labor, including overtime. Prepares and delivers performance appraisals for staff. Mentors and coaches team members to further develop competencies. Leads by example and models behaviors consistent with the company's values. Manages 3rd party project delivery resources/team (typically larger, more experienced team). Responsible for identifying training needs, tracking performance, coaching, and motivating team members.
    
    QUALIFICATIONS
    
    To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
    
    The requirements below represent the required knowledge, skill, and/or ability.
    
    Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential
    
    functions.
    
    EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE
    
    
    • Bachelor's degree (BA/BS/BEng/BArch) from a College or University in a technical area of study.
    • Minimum six years of related experience and/or training. Prior experience in a supervisory position (direct report responsibilities) required if specific duties include direct report responsibilities.
      
      CERTIFICATES and/or LICENSES
      
      
      • PMP (US and/or Canada) and LEED AP preferred
        
        Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future
        
        California Residents: CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate's education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for the Sr. Construction Project Manager position is $130,000 annually, and the maximum salary for the Sr. Construction Project Manager position is $160,000 annually. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
        
        Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE has a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
        
        Candidate Accommodations: CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our company's success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at recruitingaccommodations@cbre.com or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada).
        
        CBRE GWS
        
        CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a meaningful contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry's most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.
        
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