Senior Design & Construction Lead – Northern CA

Hines; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 199,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Hines is seeking a Senior Manager – Design & Construction to lead development and capital projects across Northern California. You will coordinate budgets, schedules, and procurement while guiding design teams through preconstruction, entitlement, bidding, construction, and turnover.

The role requires 8+ years in CRE project management, strong communication, and the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a multidisciplinary environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field required.
• Experience with a general contractor, developer, owner's representative, architecture, engineering, or related commercial real estate organization.
• Approximately 8–10+ years of progressively responsible experience supporting the planning, design, and construction of commercial real estate projects.
• Experience delivering ground-up developments, tenant improvements, capital improvement projects, or other technically challenging construction projects.
• Experience supporting larger or more complex projects is beneficial but not required.
• Strong understanding of preconstruction, design management, budgeting, scheduling, procurement, and construction administration.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while working effectively within multidisciplinary project teams.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Bay Area experience is beneficial but not required.
• Work indoors approximately 75% of the time and outdoors approximately 25% of the time.
• Regular site visits requiring climbing stairs, ladders, scaffolding, and navigating active construction sites.
• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds.
• Travel throughout Northern California and occasional extended hours as business needs require.
• Compensation: $199,000 - $229,000

Responsibilities

• Support the planning and execution of development and capital projects from preconstruction through construction and project closeout.
• Coordinate project budgets, schedules, procurement activities, reporting, and project documentation.
• Partner with Development Managers during design, entitlement, permitting, bidding, construction, and turnover.
• Support the design process by coordinating architects, engineers, consultants, and contractors throughout each phase of the project.
• Assist with budgeting, constructability reviews, value engineering, procurement strategies, and project planning during preconstruction.
• Monitor project progress through regular site visits, helping maintain project objectives related to safety, quality, schedule, and budget.
• Support contract administration, change management, project reporting, and closeout activities.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders, consultants, contractors, ownership groups, and public agencies to facilitate project delivery.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across project teams while contributing to a collaborative and solutions-oriented culture.

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Project management

Budgeting

Scheduling

Procurement

Construction administration

Design management

Preconstruction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field

Job description

Hines is seeking a Senior Manager – Design & Construction to lead development and capital projects across Northern California. You will coordinate budgets, schedules, and procurement while guiding design teams through preconstruction, entitlement, bidding, construction, and turnover.

The role requires 8+ years in CRE project management, strong communication, and the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a multidisciplinary environment.