Senior Project Manager – Transit & Building Systems Lead

Luster National; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited flexible time off

Paid holidays

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with employer contribution

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Luster in San Francisco seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead complex heavy civil programs, focusing on station fit-out and building systems. You will coordinate mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection work, aligning with traction power, signaling, and vertical transportation, while managing budgets and schedules across multiple contracts.

The role demands extensive experience in large-scale transit or infrastructure projects, strong contract administration skills, and proficiency

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil, mechanical, electrical engineering, construction management or equivalent.
• 10+ years of project management for large heavy-civil infrastructure projects.
• Experience overseeing building systems or interior fit-out from design through turnover.
• Experience with contract administration, submittals, RFIs, change orders, payments, claims.
• Experience reviewing CPM schedules and time impact analyses.
• Knowledge of building and life-safety codes governing systems installation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day delivery of station fit-out and building systems packages, maintaining scope, budget, and schedule.
• Review design submittals, shop drawings, and coordination models for MEP work against program standards and codes.
• Perform constructability and biddability reviews and support bid phases and addenda.
• Coordinate interfaces between civil, architectural fit-out, and follow-on systems packages.
• Verify conduit, cable tray, power, grounding, and mechanical provisions are installed and tested.
• Manage change proposals, RFIs, and design change notices for merit, cost, and schedule impact.
• Maintain the integrated package schedule and analyze contractor updates and time impact analyses.
• Administer package contracts, payments, verifications, submittals, RFIs, and claims defense.
• Oversee testing, commissioning, turnover readiness, and closeout items across packages.
• Audit safety, quality, and risk; coordinate with agencies and owners to sequence outages and access.

Skills

Project management

Contract administration

CPM scheduling

MS Office

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Civil/ME/EE engineering degree

Construction management degree (preferred)

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Unifier/Kahua

Power BI

Oracle Cloud Analytics

Job description

Luster in San Francisco seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead complex heavy civil programs, focusing on station fit-out and building systems. You will coordinate mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection work, aligning with traction power, signaling, and vertical transportation, while managing budgets and schedules across multiple contracts.

The role demands extensive experience in large-scale transit or infrastructure projects, strong contract administration skills, and proficiency