Senior Airport Terminal Projects Manager

PMA Consultants Careers; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

PMA Consultants is seeking an experienced Project Manager to independently lead assigned workstreams for complex terminal and airport capital projects at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

The role will manage scope, design, construction, budget, schedule, risk, and stakeholder decisions while serving as a key owner-side interface with airport representatives, designers, contractors, and adjacent project teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant project management experience delivering complex aviation, terminal, transportation, or comparable capital projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or related technical discipline required.
• Demonstrated owner-representative experience managing the full project lifecycle in an active airport or similarly complex operational environment.
• Advanced ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, risk, project controls, stakeholder requirements, and complex project interfaces independently.
• Strong written and verbal communication, meeting leadership, issue-resolution, and executive-reporting skills.
• Direct SFO or airline project experience preferred.
• Major terminal renovation or expansion experience preferred.
• Experience coordinating airport-led and airline-led project scopes preferred.
• California Professional Engineer (PE) license, CCM, PMP, or other relevant professional certification or credential preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned project workstreams from planning and design through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Establish and maintain project scope, requirements, responsibilities, interfaces, deliverables, schedules, dependencies, constraints, and key decision dates.
• Lead design and stakeholder coordination, ensuring comments, approvals, decisions, and interfaces among airport representatives, designers, contractors, operational teams, and adjacent projects are resolved.
• Monitor budgets, forecasts, proposed changes, risks, and potential commercial impacts and elevate significant issues as appropriate.
• Coordinate permitting, inspections, approvals, acceptance requirements, and other activities necessary to advance project delivery.
• Evaluate construction phasing, logistics, access, and sequencing with attention to airport and airline operational impacts.
• Prepare concise project reporting that communicates status, risks, issues, required decisions, and recommended actions to leadership.
• Coordinate operational readiness and transition activities, punch-list completion, and project closeout.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Budgeting

Scheduling

Communication

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Construction Management/Architecture

Job description

PMA Consultants is seeking an experienced Project Manager to independently lead assigned workstreams for complex terminal and airport capital projects at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

The role will manage scope, design, construction, budget, schedule, risk, and stakeholder decisions while serving as a key owner-side interface with airport representatives, designers, contractors, and adjacent project teams.