Design/Construction Project Manager IV - Pleasanton, CA

kp; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

KP in Pleasanton, CA, seeks a senior project manager to oversee all design and construction phases for moderately complex projects with $50-100 million budgets. You will guide facility staff, general contractors, and consultants to meet KP goals through scope, budget, and schedule management.

The role requires leadership across design through close-out, negotiating fees, reviewing invoices, and securing permits, while ensuring timely program status updates to KP leadership.

Qualifications

• Minimum four (4) years experience in construction and/or design project management.
• Minimum one (1) year experience in a leadership role.
• Bachelor's degree + five (5) years experience in project management or eight (8) years experience in project management or a directly related field.
• Experience managing large-scale projects with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Promotes learning by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and stakeholders; builds relationships across teams.
• Completes work autonomously and supports projects by applying expertise to generate creative solutions.
• Manages large-scale projects from initiation to close-out and develops project plans (scope, schedule, inter-dependencies, resources).
• Leads project teams, coordinates internal/external resources, and provides performance feedback.
• Proactively monitors risks, issues, and mitigation strategies; escalates as appropriate.
• Ensures adherence to KP policies and procedures and coordinates stakeholder alignment.

Skills

Negotiation

Applied Data Analysis

Financial Acumen

Conflict Resolution

Managing Diverse Relationships

Product Development Life Cycle

Project Management Tools

Risk Assessment

Quality Assurance Process

Service Focus

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Summary:

\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the responsibilities listed below, this senior individual contributor position is also responsible for all phases of the design and/or construction process of moderately complex construction and/or refurbishment projects, or series of projects, generally in the range of $50-100 million in cumulative budget responsibility; defining project parameters in terms of time, money, physical objectives and outside constraints; managing the work of project team(s) comprised of facility personnel, project staff, general contractors, and internal/external consultants; leading team(s) in establishing scope, budget and schedule, and maintains such commitments through design, construction, and close-out processes; and ensuring KP goals for client service are continuously met through the design and construction process.\u003cp\u003eThis role is also responsible for providing guidance during all design stages of medical and/or regional facilities, including making economic comparisons of development schemes and recommending options in conformance to master plan; negotiating fees, and reviewing and approving consultant and contractor invoices and change orders; managing the timely procurement of all permits required by regulatory authorities; and supervising on-site design and/or construction teams, and communicating goals and program status with KP leadership.\u003c/h3\u003e

Essential Responsibilities:

\u003cul>\u003cli\u003ePromotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members; builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers. Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations. Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.\u003cli\u003eCompletes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies. Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions; provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines. Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams; uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.\u003cli\u003eManages large-scale projects from initiation to close-out. Develops, analyzes, and manages moderately complex project plans which include scope identification and management, schedule, inter-dependencies, and resource forecast. Manages and monitors project financials for large projects. Monitors overall project performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope, and with quality) against plan, ensuring measurement of business benefits and outcomes, and makes adjustments as needed. Manages project activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the project. Drives allocation of resources, establishes schedules, and task assignments to ensure established project management practices are in place.\u003cli\u003eLeads the work of project team members. Requests and coordinates internal and/ or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands. Promotes project vision and objectives with project team. Delivers performance feedback to team members supervisors.\u003cli\u003eProactively monitors and identifies project risks, issues, and trigger events by developing mitigation plans and strategies; and resolving or escalating risks or issues as appropriate.\u003cli\u003eMonitors adherence of project activities to policies and procedures by ensuring project plans and team members follow KP, departmental, and/or business line policies and procedures.\u003cli\u003eEnsures the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse project stakeholders by building rapport with stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and senior management; and clarifying accountability and authority across stakeholders. Identifies and works closely with stakeholders, ensuring all appropriate stakeholders are represented and included. Provides insight to key stakeholders and project sponsors by developing project goals, setting the prioritization of deliverables, discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for project delivery. Communicates tough issues to stakeholders while maintaining an independent opinion, providing recommendations, delivering presentations, and providing reports to various senior audiences.\u003cli\u003eAssists with reviews of vendor performance levels and ensures service level agreements are met. Partners with Procurement and/or Legal to develop service level and/or scope of work agreements as appropriate. Assists with contract negotiations with vendors and reviews project invoices submitted by vendors for accuracy.\u003c/ul\u003e

Minimum Qualifications:

\u003cul>\u003cli\u003eMinimum four (4) years experience in construction and/or design project management.\u003cli\u003eMinimum one (1) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.\u003cli\u003eBachelors degree from an accredited college or university and minimum five (5) years experience in project management or a directly related field OR Minimum eight (8) years experience in project management or a directly related field.\u003c/ul\u003e

Additional Requirements:

\u003cul>\u003cli\u003eKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Negotiation; Applied Data Analysis; Financial Acumen; Conflict Resolution; Managing Diverse Relationships; Product Development Life Cycle; Project Management Tools; Risk Assessment; Quality Assurance Process; Service Focus\u003c/ul