Pre-Opening Restaurant Development Lead

Major Food Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

Progressive PTO

Tuition Reimbursement

Unlimited Referral Program

TransitChek Discount

401K Plan with Employer Contribution

Job summary

Major Food Group is seeking an experienced Development Project Manager to oversee restaurant openings, budgets, schedules, and cross-functional coordination. You will collaborate with Culinary, Design, Legal and external partners to drive timely openings and maintain quality standards.

The role combines on-site and office responsibilities across NYC and Miami, requiring strong organizational and analytical skills, travel readiness, and a hands-on approach to project management in hospitality

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and up to 4 years of restaurant/hospitality development experience.
• Willingness to travel 5–6 trips per year.
• Experience with project budgets, schedules, and change management.

Responsibilities

• Pre-Opening Project Management: coordinate stakeholders to meet key dates and share information.
• Maintain development dashboards, track timelines and costs, own development deal folders.
• Develop and manage scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and opportunities.
• Monitor progress, identify risks, escalate issues to leadership.
• Run coordination meetings and be on-site as needed.
• Review bids and make strategic recommendations balancing cost, quality, and execution.
• Process change orders and RFIs.
• Monitor quality and ensure compliance with drawings/specs.
• Oversee punchlist activities.
• Oversee vendor appointments, purchasing needs, FF&E budgets and deliveries.
• Restaurant Openings and On-site Support: handover packages, on-site execution, installations, scheduling.
• Travel to support site-specific tasks.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Multi-tasking

Self-starter

Google Suite

Excel

PowerPoint

Travel readiness

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Smartsheet

Bluebeam

Job description

Major Food Group is seeking an experienced Development Project Manager to oversee restaurant openings, budgets, schedules, and cross-functional coordination. You will collaborate with Culinary, Design, Legal and external partners to drive timely openings and maintain quality standards.

The role combines on-site and office responsibilities across NYC and Miami, requiring strong organizational and analytical skills, travel readiness, and a hands-on approach to project management in hospitality