Education Renovation Project Manager – Capital Programs

Successacademycharterschool; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

403(b) match

Paid time off

Hybrid work

Parental leave

Job summary

Success Academy Charter Schools seeks a Renovation Project Manager to lead the NYC renovation and capital program across 59 schools, delivering 25–60 projects annually. You will own scopes, procurement, schedules, and closeout, coordinating architects, engineers, and school leaders while ensuring life safety and instructional continuity.

The role requires field presence across campuses, with summer peaks and occasional evenings/weekends during active construction. Hybrid, NYC-based work.

Qualifications

• Delivery of a high-count construction or renovation program.
• Experience delivering work in occupied buildings within fixed access windows, ideally schools.
• Ability to read and challenge drawings, specifications, estimates, schedules, bids, and change orders.
• Command of project budgets, forecasting, procurement, bid leveling, change control, closeout, and warranty administration.
• Practical knowledge of core building systems, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, controls, fire and life safety, accessibility, and envelope.
• Experience standardizing scopes or specifications so repeat work is not redesigned every time.
• Strong field judgment, willingness to inspect conditions directly, and disciplined documentation.
• Clear communication with school leaders, contractors, and internal partners, and the credibility to hold a contractor to a commitment.
• Experience with term contracts, job-order contracting, or similar mechanisms that reduce procurement time on repetitive work is preferred.
• Credentials are valued but do not substitute for a record of delivering the work.

Responsibilities

• Own the annual project list from scope development through construction, punch list, closeout, and turnover to operations.
• Build and hold the summer calendar, including sequencing, access windows, long-lead items, and the dates past which a project cannot start and still finish before scholars return.
• Develop standardized scopes and specifications for recurring work types so each project is not designed from scratch.
• Run competitive procurement, bid leveling, exclusion review, and award recommendations within approved policy.
• Review drawings, specifications, scopes, estimates, and change requests for technical completeness, constructability, operational impact, and alignment with approved standards.
• Coordinate architects, engineers, contractors, school leaders, agency partners, and internal teams so decisions are timely and work is sequenced to protect life safety and continuity of instruction.
• Require documented scope, pricing, technical justification, and schedule impact before any change-order commitment, and route unbudgeted scope through a separate approval rather than the contingency line.
• Track cost, schedule, quality, risk, and dependencies across the whole program, maintaining credible baselines, a rolling forecast, and decision-ready reporting.
• Inspect work in progress and verify completed work is safe, functional, documented, and ready for school use before final acceptance.
• Confirm each completed project hands over with as-built information, warranties, operations and maintenance material, and preventive-maintenance requirements the operations team can execute.
• Hold contractors to contract requirements, schedule commitments, workmanship, and timely resolution of defects, and maintain a qualified contractor bench with performance tracked across projects.

Skills

Project management

Procurement

Budgeting

Change management

Facilities experience

Reading drawings

Tools

CAD drawings

Job description

Success Academy Charter Schools seeks a Renovation Project Manager to lead the NYC renovation and capital program across 59 schools, delivering 25–60 projects annually. You will own scopes, procurement, schedules, and closeout, coordinating architects, engineers, and school leaders while ensuring life safety and instructional continuity.

The role requires field presence across campuses, with summer peaks and occasional evenings/weekends during active construction. Hybrid, NYC-based work.