Airport Project Manager - Owner-Rep for Gates & Terminals

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

Job summary

PMA Consultants is seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide owner-representative planning for airport-led capital projects at San Francisco International Airport. The role focuses on aligning construction with operational needs, schedules, and stakeholder decisions, with potential to expand into related interior or tenant-improvement scopes.

Final placement depends on experience, with fair consideration for all applicants.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant project management experience supporting active-airport construction, aviation, terminal, or comparable capital projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related technical discipline 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 independently managing multiple priorities.

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 escalates 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

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Communication

Scheduling & planning

Risk management

Ability to manage multiple priorities

Owner-representative experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or related technical discipline

Job description

PMA Consultants is seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide owner-representative planning for airport-led capital projects at San Francisco International Airport. The role focuses on aligning construction with operational needs, schedules, and stakeholder decisions, with potential to expand into related interior or tenant-improvement scopes.

Final placement depends on experience, with fair consideration for all applicants.