Project Manager, Renovations & Capital Projects

Success Academy Charter Schools; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Success Academy Charter Schools in New York is seeking a Project Manager, Renovations & Capital Improvements to lead a high-volume program across 59 schools. You will plan, procure, and deliver yearly renovation projects, coordinating architects, engineers, and contractors while ensuring safety and continuity of instruction.

The role emphasizes standardized scopes, term contracts, and a disciplined bid/award process, with heavy summer workloads and some after-hours work.

Qualifications

• Delivery of a high-count construction or renovation program.
• Experience delivering work in occupied buildings within fixed access windows, ideally schools.
• Ability to read and challenge drawings, specifications, estimates, schedules, bids, and change orders.
• Command of project budgets, forecasting, procurement, bid leveling, change control, closeout, and warranty administration.
• Practical knowledge of core building systems, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, controls, fire and life safety, accessibility, and envelope.
• Experience standardizing scopes or specifications so repeat work is not redesigned every time.
• Strong field judgment, willingness to inspect conditions directly, and disciplined documentation.
• Clear communication with school leaders, contractors, and internal partners, and the credibility to hold a contractor to a commitment.
• Experience with term contracts, job-order contracting, or similar mechanisms that reduce procurement time on repetitive work is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the annual project list from scope development through construction, punch list, closeout, and turnover to operations.
• Build and hold the summer calendar, including sequencing, access windows, long-lead items, and the dates past which a project cannot start and still finish before scholars return.
• Develop standardized scopes and specifications for recurring work types so each project is not designed from scratch.
• Run competitive procurement, bid leveling, exclusion review, and award recommendations within approved policy.
• Review drawings, specifications, scopes, estimates, and change requests for technical completeness, constructability, operational impact, and alignment with approved standards.
• Coordinate architects, engineers, contractors, school leaders, agency partners, and internal teams so decisions are timely and work is sequenced to protect life safety and continuity of instruction.
• Require documented scope, pricing, technical justification, and schedule impact before any change-order commitment, and route unbudgeted scope through a separate approval rather than the contingency line.
• Track cost, schedule, quality, risk, and dependencies across the whole program, maintaining credible baselines, a rolling forecast, and decision-ready reporting.
• Inspect work in progress and verify completed work is safe, functional, documented, and ready for school use before final acceptance.
• Confirm each completed project hands over with as-built information, warranties, operations and maintenance material, and preventive-maintenance requirements the operations team can execute.
• Hold contractors to contract requirements, schedule commitments, workmanship, and timely resolution of defects, and maintain a qualified contractor bench with performance tracked across projects.

Skills

Program delivery

Renovations in schools

Reading drawings

Budget & procurement

Building systems

Change control

Stakeholder communication

Job-order contracting

Job description

Success Academy Charter Schools in New York is seeking a Project Manager, Renovations & Capital Improvements to lead a high-volume program across 59 schools. You will plan, procure, and deliver yearly renovation projects, coordinating architects, engineers, and contractors while ensuring safety and continuity of instruction.

The role emphasizes standardized scopes, term contracts, and a disciplined bid/award process, with heavy summer workloads and some after-hours work.