Senior Project Manager - Millwork & Exhibits (Onsite Irvine)

Sage Search Partners; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Sage Search Partners is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a custom fabrication and design-build company in Irvine, California. This role leads complex, high-visibility custom projects from design handoff through delivery and serves as a trusted senior partner to clients, engineering, and production.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in millwork, exhibits, installations, or rollout programs, reads construction drawings confidently, and can manage budgets, schedules, and senior client

Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent with 5+ years of related project management experience.
• Experience in millwork, exhibits, installations, specialty construction or fabrication.
• Experience managing multiple projects or larger programs concurrently.
• Strong reading of construction drawings, materials, and estimating.
• Excellent math and analytical skills; polished written and verbal communication.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills.
• Proven track record of owning client relationships, budgets, and schedules.
• Willing to travel occasionally to client and project sites.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of custom projects, including trade show displays, museum exhibits, specialty fabrication, and multi-site rollouts, from handoff to final delivery.
• Identify risks across the portfolio early and drive mitigation plans that keep commitments intact.
• Act as the senior client contact, providing schedules, updates, samples, and photos while keeping approvals moving.
• Negotiate and line up internal and outside resources, balancing priorities across concurrent projects.
• Lead project kickoffs with engineering and operations, and represent project management in cross-department turnover meetings.
• Verify designs, dimensions, and materials against engineering and client specs, and sign off on quality before delivery.
• Set and manage project plans, budgets, and timelines so work is delivered on time and on budget.
• Work closely with manufacturing leadership to align project requirements with production capacity.
• Coordinate client-provided graphics and art files and keep project records, schedules, and samples current.
• Help adopt and improve the company's newly launched project systems and serve as a resource for other project managers.

Skills

Project management

Budgeting

Scheduling

Client relationship management

Reading construction drawings

Estimating

Communications

Travel readiness

Education

Associate degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Sage Search Partners is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a custom fabrication and design-build company in Irvine, California. This role leads complex, high-visibility custom projects from design handoff through delivery and serves as a trusted senior partner to clients, engineering, and production.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in millwork, exhibits, installations, or rollout programs, reads construction drawings confidently, and can manage budgets, schedules, and senior client