Senior Program Manager — Heavy Civil Infrastructure

Luster National; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited flexible time off

Paid holidays

Paid parental leave

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with guaranteed employer a

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Luster National seeks Project Managers for large, complex heavy civil infrastructure programs across highways, bridges, transit, airports, and water projects. You will lead delivery from planning through construction, managing scope, budget, schedule, and risk while coordinating with designers, contractors, agencies, and utility owners.

We value candidates with 10+ years of PM experience on multi-hundred-million dollar packages, and proficiency in Primavera P6, MS Project, Unifier or Kahua, plus

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, construction engineering, or engineering management, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of project management experience for large (>$500M), complex, heavy-civil infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing scope, budget, schedule, and risk on capital projects from design through construction and closeout.
• Working knowledge of construction contract administration, including submittals, requests for information, change management, and progress payments.
• Experience coordinating designers, contractors, agencies, utility owners, and other third parties across the life of a project.
• Experience with industry standard project / construction management software (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project, Unifier, Kahua, etc.).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite/Office 365 (e.g., Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).

Responsibilities

• May lead delivery of assigned projects or task orders, from planning and design through construction and closeout.
• Oversee scope, budget, schedule, and risk, and give program leadership an early and honest read when any of the four starts to move.
• Oversee designers and contractors against their scope, design criteria, and schedule commitments, and elevate deviations while they are still cheap to fix.
• Administer construction contracts, including submittals, requests for information, progress payments, and time extension requests.
• Evaluate change proposals and claims for entitlement, cost impact, and schedule impact, and recommend a position to program leadership.
• Coordinate with program controls staff to develop and validate cost forecasts, CPM schedule updates, and earned value reporting.
• Coordinate across agencies, utility owners, railroads, adjacent contracts, and other third parties so decisions inside the package account for work outside it.
• Oversee construction staging and phasing that keeps existing operations running.
• Oversee quality and safety compliance, verifying that contractor programs are being followed and that installed work matches approved documents.
• Oversee commissioning, operations readiness, and transition to maintenance for completed facilities.
• Report project status, risk, and forecast to program leadership so funding and delivery decisions rest on current information.

Skills

Communication skills

Multi-tasking

Organizational skills

Collaborative mindset

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management / civil engineering / engineering management

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Unifier

Kahua

Microsoft Office

Job description

Luster National seeks Project Managers for large, complex heavy civil infrastructure programs across highways, bridges, transit, airports, and water projects. You will lead delivery from planning through construction, managing scope, budget, schedule, and risk while coordinating with designers, contractors, agencies, and utility owners.

We value candidates with 10+ years of PM experience on multi-hundred-million dollar packages, and proficiency in Primavera P6, MS Project, Unifier or Kahua, plus