Project Manager - Affordable Housing

FDN Partners Search; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

FDN Partners Search represents a leading development and investment group seeking an experienced Project Manager to take full ownership of a ground-up multifamily project in Brooklyn from inception to completion. You will lead field operations, manage the schedule, and coordinate with design teams to ensure the client vision is realized.

Applicants should have 5+ years of NYC residential PM experience and a strong grasp of NYC DOB permits, inspections, and HPD/regulatory frameworks, with proven

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management experience delivering on-ground up multifamily or affordable housing.
• Strong working knowledge of NYC DOB permit and inspection process.
• Experience within HPD or New York state regulatory frameworks.
• Proven ability to manage cost, schedule, and trade coordination on large-scale residential projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects end-to-end, ensuring strict compliance with the NYC DOB permit process and all relevant regulatory requirements
• Direct field operations, logistics planning, and trade coordination to ensure safe and efficient construction sequencing
• Manage the project schedule, overseeing critical path activities and implementing recovery plans to protect key milestones
• Oversee cost control, change management, and subcontractor buyout - negotiating scope, pricing, and risk allocation across all trades
• Work closely with clients and design teams to ensure delivery aligns with programme requirements and client vision
• Produce monthly project reports, schedule updates, and cost forecasts for ownership and lenders

Skills

Project management

Construction coordination

Schedule management

Cost control

Stakeholder management

Job description

We are exclusively representing a leading development and investment group with over $9 billion in assets under management/development over the past 20 years. With an active pipeline of large-scale, high-density residential and mixed income schemes across New York City.

They are seeking an experienced Project Manager to take full ownership of a ground up new construction project in Brooklyn from inception through to completion.

Responsibilities

• - Lead projects end-to-end, ensuring strict compliance with the NYC DOB permit process and all relevant regulatory requirements
• - Direct field operations, logistics planning, and trade coordination to ensure safe and efficient construction sequencing
• - Manage the project schedule, overseeing critical path activities and implementing recovery plans to protect key milestones
• - Oversee cost control, change management, and subcontractor buyout - negotiating scope, pricing, and risk allocation across all trades
• - Work closely with clients and design teams to ensure delivery aligns with programme requirements and client vision
• - Produce monthly project reports, schedule updates, and cost forecasts for ownership and lenders

Requirements

• - 5+ years of project management experience delivering onground up multifamily or affordable housing
• - Strong working knowledge of the NYC DOB permit and inspection process
• - Experience within HPD, or New York state regulatory frameworks
• - Proven ability to manage cost, schedule, and trade coordination on large-scale residential projects
• - Proactive Project Manager with experience managing and collaborating with ownership, design professionals, lenders, and public agencies

This is a platform role at a well-capitalised, fast-growing firm with a serious long-term pipeline. You will work on projects that matter - at scale, in a city that needs them.