Airport Project Manager: Gates & Terminal Upgrades

Pmaconsultants; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PMA is seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide owner-representative planning and coordination for airport-led capital projects at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The role focuses on aligning construction activities with operational requirements, schedules, and stakeholder decisions.

Initial assignments may include passenger boarding bridge improvements, with potential growth into related interior or owner-led scopes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant project management experience in airport construction, aviation, terminal, or related capital projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related technical discipline is required.
• Demonstrated owner-representative experience coordinating airport authorities, airline stakeholders, designers, contractors, and operational teams.
• Strong experience integrating operational requirements with construction planning, phasing, logistics, schedules, and project controls while managing multiple priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, meeting facilitation, issue resolution, and project reporting skills.
• Direct SFO or airline project experience is preferred.
• Passenger boarding bridge, gate, apron, or terminal project experience is preferred.
• Experience coordinating airport-led projects with airline-funded or airline-impacted improvements, as well as interior renovation or tenant-improvement work, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary day-to-day owner-side contact for assigned airport-led projects and coordinate requirements among airport representatives, airline stakeholders, operations, facilities, design teams, and contractors.
• Review project scope, design, phasing, logistics, and schedules to identify conflicts and impacts to gates, aircraft operations, passenger processing, airline facilities, and adjacent work.
• Coordinate gate closures, passenger boarding bridge outages, temporary operating conditions, construction access, security requirements, shutdowns, and related operational mitigations.
• Track stakeholder requirements, comments, approvals, decisions, actions, schedules, risks, issues, and decision deadlines needed to maintain project progress.
• Prepare regular project reporting and escalate significant risks, conflicts, or decisions requiring leadership involvement.
• Support transition into related owner-led interior renovation, tenant improvement, or capital project assignments as project needs evolve.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project coordination

Construction planning

Communication

Schedule management

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or related)

Job description

PMA is seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide owner-representative planning and coordination for airport-led capital projects at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The role focuses on aligning construction activities with operational requirements, schedules, and stakeholder decisions.

Initial assignments may include passenger boarding bridge improvements, with potential growth into related interior or owner-led scopes.