Project Manager - Luxury Home Construction

Westside Build LLC; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Part Time Off

Retirement

Job summary

Westside Build LLC is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead residential projects on LA's westside. You will coordinate trades, manage budgets, and ensure timely delivery while aligning with BIM workflows and Procore practices.

The role emphasizes strong vendor management, scheduling, and cost control, with a focus on just-in-time construction and first-pass quality. On-site leadership and collaboration with CPM, GC, and QC are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management or related field.
• 7+ years managing related construction trades in residential or light commercial construction; design-build experience preferred.
• 3+ years single family residential building experience required
• Procore (or equivalent) experience required; scheduling and cost-control tools (MS Project/Primavera, Excel) proficiency needed.
• Strong vendor management, bid qualification, and cost-control experience.
• Ability to read architectural/structural drawings and 3D models; BIM workflows experience; collaborate with BIM team.

Responsibilities

• Own procurement for assigned trades and materials and ensure their successful installation including bidding, buyout, and trade sequencing.
• Define scopes and bid packages; qualify bids with the PC, ensuring document compliance and alignment with standardized WBS/coding and templates.
• Direct the PC to identify conformance issues in related work and follow through to correction; elevate to GC/Quality/CPM as needed.
• Operate within Procore daily to manage scope, subcontracts, RFIs, submittals, and conformance tracking for assigned packages.

Skills

Operations mindset

Data literacy

Schedule management

Cost control

Vendor management

Team coordination

Procore

MS Project

Primavera

Excel

BIM workflows

Reading drawings

Revit

AutoCAD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management

Tools

Procore

MS Project

Primavera

Excel

Revit

AutoCAD

Job description

About Us

Westside Build is a team driven by innovation and efficiency, redefining how homes are designed and constructed on LA’s westside. In collaboration with Westside Design, our team brings together decades of high-end single-family residential experience, spec building expertise, and cutting-edge fabrication technologies to deliver exceptional homes at an approachable price point. The recent wildfires have left communities in urgent need, and we’re committed to getting people back home – faster, smarter and better. By integrating advanced technology, digitized fabrication and offsite construction, we cut through inefficiencies, reduce costs and accelerate timelines in partnership with our Design team. A modern approach to architectural design and construction, built for today’s world.

About You

You are an operations-minded Project Manager who drives throughput, first-pass quality, and predictable costs. You’re field-savvy and data-literate, and comfortable turning constraints and challenges into clear plans that keep work moving with zero-excuse schedules.

About the Role

The Project Manager role is a central coordinator and key steward for our residential projects. With primary focus on leading assigned trades during construction, this role ensures the proper performance of trade work and its sequencing with other projects and trades. Maximizing value through developing strong relationships with key subcontractors, this role helps balance trade partner capacity with cost and is the gatekeeper for ensuring that work quality is not sacrificed with our projects. Close engagement with the Construction Planning Manager (CPM), General Contractor (GC), Quality Manager and Project Coordinator (PC) are necessary for smooth building operations.

Documentation & Technical Coordination

• Own procurement for assigned trades and materials and ensure their successful installation including bidding, buyout, and trade sequencing.
• Define scopes and bid packages; qualify bids with the Project Coordinator (PC), ensuring document compliance and alignment with standardized WBS/coding and templates.
• Direct the PC to identify conformance issues in related work and follow through to correction; elevate to GC/Quality/CPM as needed.
• Operate within Procore daily to manage scope, subcontracts, RFIs, submittals, and conformance tracking for assigned packages; maintain clean, current records aligned to CPM standards.

Accuracy & Consistency

• Follow company planning standards and documentation best practices.
• Track commitments, cost-to-complete, and variances for assigned trades; propose cost-control options and value improvements.
• Maintain scope matrices and quality/conformance logs to ensure first-pass quality and reduce rework.

Schedule

• Build two- to six-week look-ahead plans for assigned trades; sequence with the GC to hit milestones.
• Monitor partner capacity, inspections, and lead times to ensure just-in-time delivery.
• Run weekly production huddles for assigned trades; track commitments and percent-complete; remove blockers early.

Team Coordination & Collaboration

• Lead the PC; set priorities, coach, and review outcomes. Coordinate with CPM, GC, Quality Manager, and other Project Managers to support cadence and dovetailing of work with others.
• Keep stakeholders aligned through decision logs, action trackers, and risk registers; elevate issues with options and impacts for further review.

What You Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management or related field.
• 7+ years managing related construction trades in residential or light commercial construction; design-build experience preferred.
• 3+ years single family residential building experience required
• Procore (or equivalent) experience required; strong proficiency with scheduling and cost control tools (e.g., MS Project/Primavera, Excel).
• Strong vendor management, bid qualification, and cost-control experience.
• Ability to read architectural/structural drawings and 3D models. Knowledge and ability to integrate with construction-phase BIM workflows; collaborate effectively with BIM Build Modeler and other BIM process team members.
• 2+ years of Revit and/or Autocad experience

Physical requirements:

• Walk, climb stairs, sit, and stand.
• Talk and hear at normal levels.
• See with close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and have the ability to adjust focus.
• Reach with hands and arms.
• Use hands and fingers to operate tools and other business machines.
• Lift and/or move up to 50 lbs

This a daily onsite role.

We are not able to sponsor visa's at this time.

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Part Time Off
• Retirement

Salary range is $95,000 – 137,000commensuratewith experience