Airport Cargo Construction Lead (Owner-Side)

PMA Consultants Careers; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

PMA seeks an experienced Construction Manager to provide owner-side field leadership for a cargo facility relocation project at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The role oversees contractor coordination, safety, quality, schedule, and turnover while coordinating around ongoing cargo operations.

The successful candidate will manage multiple workstreams in a complex airport environment, ensuring compliance, safety, and timely project closeout.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant construction management experience including oversight of complex commercial, industrial, aviation, or similar capital projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated field leadership in an active airport or complex operational environment with independent oversight of contractors and multiple workstreams.
• Strong working knowledge of safety, quality management, scheduling, inspections/testing, document control, field change management, commissioning, and project closeout.
• Experience coordinating operational shutdowns and phased construction.
• Cargo/logistics/warehouse facility construction experience preferred.
• Prior SFO or airline owner-representative experience preferred.
• PE/CCM/PMP or similar credential preferred.

Responsibilities

• Participate in preconstruction and ongoing field planning, including constructability, phasing, site logistics, sequencing, shutdowns, tie-ins, and coordination around active cargo and airport operations.
• Provide day-to-day oversight of contractor activities and document progress, field conditions, constraints, deficiencies, staffing, and items requiring follow-up or recovery action.
• Monitor compliance with project safety, security, access-control, quality, inspection, testing, and corrective-action requirements.
• Manage field documentation and facilitate resolution of RFIs, submittals, design clarifications, unforeseen conditions, and record-document requirements.
• Review proposed field changes and assist in validating scope, installed quantities, constructability, and potential schedule impacts.
• Coordinate commissioning, turnover, punch-list completion, closeout documentation, and final acceptance requirements.
• Maintain effective coordination with contractors, consultants, airport stakeholders, and project team members while independently advancing assigned workstreams.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

10+ years construction management

Field leadership in airport/complex

Contractor coordination

Safety & quality management

Scheduling & document control

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management or related field

Tools

Primavera / MS Project

Job description

PMA seeks an experienced Construction Manager to provide owner-side field leadership for a cargo facility relocation project at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The role oversees contractor coordination, safety, quality, schedule, and turnover while coordinating around ongoing cargo operations.

The successful candidate will manage multiple workstreams in a complex airport environment, ensuring compliance, safety, and timely project closeout.