Airport Projects Manager: Gates & Terminal Upgrades

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

Job summary

PMA Consultants seeks an experienced Project Manager to provide owner-representative planning and coordination for airport-led capital projects at San Francisco International Airport. The role aligns construction with operational needs, schedules, stakeholder decisions, and mitigation plans.

Initial assignments may include passenger boarding bridge and gate-related improvements, with the opportunity to transition into related terminal interior or owner-led scopes as project needs evolve.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant project management experience supporting active-airport construction, aviation, terminal, or comparable capital projects.
• 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.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, meeting facilitation, issue-resolution, and project-reporting skills.
• Direct SFO or airline project experience preferred.
• Passenger boarding bridge, gate, apron, or terminal project experience 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 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

Owner-Representative

Airport Construction

Stakeholder Coordination

Schedules & Logistics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management

Bachelor’s degree in Architecture

Job description

PMA Consultants seeks an experienced Project Manager to provide owner-representative planning and coordination for airport-led capital projects at San Francisco International Airport. The role aligns construction with operational needs, schedules, stakeholder decisions, and mitigation plans.

Initial assignments may include passenger boarding bridge and gate-related improvements, with the opportunity to transition into related terminal interior or owner-led scopes as project needs evolve.