Project Manager II

MAAS Companies; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

MAAS Companies in Los Angeles seeks a senior Construction Project Manager to run multiple campus projects ranging from $5M to $100M, ensuring work matches drawings and complies with DSA.

You will report on schedule, cost, budget, staffing, delays, disputes, and changes to the College Project Director and program office, and you will manage risks and mitigation plans.

Qualifications

• 7 years managing more than one construction project at a time.
• 2 of those 7 years on school or college design and construction.
• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, urban planning, construction management, or a close field.
• 11 years of related experience without a degree.

Responsibilities

• Oversee multiple campus projects from $5M to $100M each.
• Perform field checks that construction matches drawings and DSA requirements.
• Report to College Project Director and program office on schedule, cost, budget, staffing, delays, disputes, and changes.
• Maintain the risk list, name potential issues, propose fixes, and keep records current.
• Coordinate construction phasing and swing space plans with college and design team.
• Resolve complex construction problems with design team, contractors, inspectors, and DSA.
• Manage closeout with sign-offs by DSA, District, and program office.
• Coordinate with relocation project manager on furniture, equipment, surplus, and the move.
• Support planning, programming, and design across the college project team.

Skills

Construction project management

On-site leadership

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, urban planning, construction management, or a close field

11 years of relevant experience without a degree

Current California Certificate of Registration as an Architect

Professional Engineer license

Certified Construction Manager credential (CMCI)

Tools

Division of the State Architect processes

California Public Contract Code

Job description

The Work

You run several campus projects at once, anywhere from $5 million to $100 million each, for a community college district rebuilding its campuses with bond money.

You are in the field. You walk the job and check that what is being built matches the drawings and meets the Division of the State Architect, the state office that approves public school and college construction. Then you report what you found to the College Project Director and the program office: where the project stands, the schedule, the costs, the budget, the staffing, any delays, any disputes, any changes, and whether the work follows the District’s written procedures.

Because you are the one on site, you are also the one who sees trouble first. You name the risks, propose what to do about them, and keep the running list of risks and mitigation plans up to date.

You work with the college and the design team on construction phasing and on swing space plans, meaning where students and staff go while their building is being worked on, and you track whether the plan is holding.

When something complicated goes wrong, you are the one who gets it resolved. You work it through with the design team, the contractors, the inspectors, and the Division of the State Architect, and you do it without blowing the budget.

You own closeout. Getting each project signed off by the Division of the State Architect, the District, and the program office, and coordinating with the college’s relocation project manager on furniture and equipment, on what happens to the old equipment, and on the rest of the move.

This is a senior seat, so you also help the rest of the college project team through planning, programming, and design, and you report to the college, the District, and the program office.

What You Will Own

• Several campus projects at the same time, $5M to $100M each
• Field checks that the construction matches the drawings and meets Division of the State Architect requirements
• Status reporting to the College Project Director and the program office on schedule, cost, budget, staffing, delays, disputes, and changes
• The risk list. Naming what could go wrong, proposing the fix, and keeping the record current
• Construction phasing and swing space plans, worked out with the college and the design team, and tracked against
• Resolving the complicated construction problems with the design team, contractors, inspectors, and the Division of the State Architect
• Closeout, including sign off by the Division of the State Architect, the District, and the program office
• Coordinating with the college’s relocation project manager on furniture and equipment, surplus, and the move
• Helping the rest of the college project team through planning, programming, and design

What You Bring

• 7 years managing more than one construction project at a time
• 2 of those 7 years on school or college design and construction
• A bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, urban planning, construction management, or a close field
• Another way to qualify: 4 more years of the same kind of experience, on top of the 7, takes the place of the degree. That is 11 years with no degree

Preferred

• Work inside a large capital improvement program, and familiarity with the California Public Contract Code, the state law that governs how public agencies buy construction
• Formal construction partnering, where the owner, the contractor, and the design team agree up front how they will work together and settle disputes
• A current California Certificate of Registration as an Architect, or a Professional Engineer license
• A current Certified Construction Manager credential from the Construction Manager Certification Institute
• Division of the State Architect construction and design processes, or something similar
• All four parts of a project: planning, design, construction, and closeout
• Alternative delivery methods, meaning ways of contracting a job other than straight low bid, such as design build or lease leaseback
• Health, dental, and vision coverage at low cost
• 401(k)
• Three weeks of PTO
• ESOP (employee stock ownership) at no cost to you, with a 3% Safe Harbor contribution vested on day one

Why MAAS

MAAS has spent nearly 40 years earning the trust of 50+ educational institutions across California, managing over $10B in projects. That track record means the work here is stable, funded, and consequential. You are not chasing the next contract.

As a MAAS employee, you are also an owner. The company is 100% employee-owned through an ESOP, a retirement benefit provided at no cost to you, on top of your salary. MAAS is a profitable, well-run organization and our share price has more than doubled since the plan’s inception, with continued growth year over year. Your ownership stake builds the longer you stay, and ESOP participants nationally tend to accumulate 2.5x more in retirement savings than employees at non-ESOP companies.

In an industry not known for prioritizing culture, 96% of MAAS employees say it is a great place to work, and 100% say people genuinely care about each other.