Principal Construction Manager and Program Controls - FAA (Orlando, FL)

Parsons; Florida; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking an experienced On-Site Construction Manager and Program Controls Lead to support FAA-focused advisory work on a major aviation facilities program. This role emphasizes field oversight, regulatory compliance, and coordination with FAA stakeholders, project leadership, designers, contractors, and subcontractors.

The position requires translating FAA requirements into actionable guidance while monitoring schedule, quality, and safety to ensure operational readiness and successful

Responsibilities

• Provide site-based construction-management and FAA standards expertise during design, preconstruction, construction, testing, commissioning, turnover, and closeout activities.
• Review project plans, specifications, design submissions, feasibility information, logistics plans, phasing concepts, schedules, cost assumptions, and technical deliverables for alignment with FAA requirements.
• Advise stakeholders on FAA facility standards, construction requirements, security considerations, and operational continuity constraints.
• Translate FAA requirements into practical project constraints, technical guidance, review comments, coordination requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Participate in FAA and project stakeholder workshops addressing operations, security, facilities, telecommunications, construction, logistics, phasing, access, and readiness.
• Support development and review of execution plans, procedures, logistics plans, work sequencing, outage plans, inspection pathways, and documentation requirements.

Job description

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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking an experienced On‑Site Construction Manager and Program Controls Lead to support our Program Management / Construction Management advisory team on a major aviation and mission‑critical facilities program. The selected candidate will provide field‑based construction‑management expertise focused on FAA requirements, facility standards, compliance, operational continuity, logistics, phasing, quality, inspection, acceptance, and turnover. The position will work closely with FAA stakeholders, Parsons project leadership, designers, contractors, subcontractors, technical specialists, and other project partners to help ensure that project requirements are identified early, properly interpreted, and effectively incorporated into project. The Site Construction Manager will support the FAA and Parsons project leadership in an owner‑agent PM/CM advisory capacity. The role will provide field oversight, technical guidance, coordination, compliance review, and recommendations without assuming the Progressive Design‑Builder's responsibility for construction means and methods, site safety management, contractor quality control, design‑of‑record responsibilities, or contract authority execution.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide site‑based construction‑management and FAA standards expertise during design, preconstruction, construction, testing, commissioning, turnover, and closeout activities.
• Review project plans, specifications, design submissions, feasibility information, logistics plans, phasing concepts, schedules, cost assumptions, and technical deliverables for alignment with applicable FAA requirements and project objectives.
• Advise the Program Manager, Project Manager, construction‑management team, A/E partners, scheduler, commercial manager, and technical discipline leads on FAA facility standards, construction requirements, security considerations, and operational continuity constraints.
• Help translate FAA requirements into practical project constraints, technical guidance, review comments, coordination requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Participate in FAA and project stakeholder workshops addressing operations, technical operations, security, facilities, telecommunications, construction, logistics, phasing, access, and operational readiness.
• Support development and review of the Project Execution Plan, construction‑management procedures, logistics plans, work sequencing, outage plans, inspection pathways, acceptance processes, and documentation requirements.
• Monitor field activities and construction progress from an owner‑agent perspective to assess alignment with approved plans, specifications, contract requirements, schedule commitments, quality expectations, and FAA standards.
• Coordinate with the Progressive Design‑Builder, designers, subcontractors, vendors, utilities, authorities having jurisdiction, FAA representatives, and other stakeholders to resolve field issues and maintain project momentum.
• Support review and tracking of submittals, requests for information, requests for deviation, requests for substitution, inspection requests, testing documentation, and other construction‑related records.
• Coordinate field quality‑assurance activities, inspections, testing, deficiency tracking, nonconformance resolution, corrective actions, and re‑inspections in accordance with project requirements.
• Support coordination of construction interfaces involving building systems, security, telecommunications, utilities, ATC/NAS equipment, commissioning, shutdowns, outages, and work in or adjacent to operational areas.
• Monitor construction logistics, site access, material and equipment deliveries, work sequencing, phasing, temporary conditions, and construction impacts to project operations.
• Identify potential design conflicts, constructability concerns, compliance gaps, quality issues, schedule risks, cost impacts, and conditions that could affect operational readiness.
• Provide technical and field input to schedule reviews, cost evaluations, change assessments, risk‑management activities, payment reviews, claims‑avoidance efforts, and recovery planning.
• Help define and monitor inspection, testing, acceptance, turnover, and closeout requirements for building systems, life‑safety systems, mission‑critical systems, and related facility infrastructure.
• Support commissioning, integrated systems testing, operational‑readiness, beneficial occupancy, substantial completion, phased turnover, final completion, and warranty activities.
• Prepare concise, defensible technical guidance, field repor