VP, Design & Construction — Lab Facilities Leader

SRGNC NEW; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Sares | Regis benefits

Job summary

SARES | REGIS is seeking a high-energy Vice President to lead a team delivering highly-technical research laboratories for a confidential, global technology client. The role combines hands-on delivery with strategic leadership, balancing client needs, budgets, and schedules.

Based in California with travel to Santa Barbara preferred, you will mentor project managers, establish processes, and navigate a complex stakeholder landscape to keep programs moving and aligned with objectives.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in real estate development or construction project management, including substantial experience delivering laboratory, research, or other technically complex facilities.
• Bachelor’s degree; engineering or construction background strongly preferred (Construction Management, Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering, Architecture, or related field).
• Strong knowledge of complex MEP systems and the technical depth to support PMs.
• 5+ Years managing and developing teams of project managers.
• Experience representing corporate owners/users with multiple internal stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated success in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of several project managers; set clear expectations and hold the team accountable for delivery to project budget, schedule, quality, and client satisfaction.
• Continually evaluate staffing and reallocate resources across projects as needs shift.
• Establish and enforce processes, standards, and reporting that keep projects moving and scale as the program grows.
• Lead as a hands-on contributor: work alongside the team to produce deliverables (budgets, schedules, reports, and client presentations), dig into technical issues directly, and spot problems early.
• Identify schedule, cost, technical, and stakeholder risks early, and drive mitigation before they become problems.
• Oversee funding requests; ensure contracts have no scope gaps and risk is appropriately allocated.
• Plan ahead for long‑lead equipment, phasing, and operational impacts in occupied research environments.
• Oversee design team selection, contracting, and management from concept through construction documents and permitting.
• Guide integration of complex MEP and process systems, which may include precise temperature and humidity control, vibration‑ and EMI/RF‑sensitive spaces, cryogenics and specialty gases, process cooling water, specialty exhaust, and redundant power.
• Oversee construction across multiple concurrent projects, including change management, pay applications, and contractor performance.
• Maintain rigorous budget control through design and construction: track costs against approved budgets, manage contingency, and produce accurate, regularly updated cash flow projections.
• Provide reliable, timely reporting on budget, schedule, and risk to keep multiple stakeholder groups informed and aligned.
• Ensure effective commissioning, start‑up, and turnover of complex systems to client users and operations teams.
• Secure entitlements and approvals as needed (zoning, CEQA, coastal, city approvals); Santa Barbara County or Central Coast experience is a plus.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

SARES | REGIS is seeking a high-energy Vice President to lead a team delivering highly-technical research laboratories for a confidential, global technology client. The role combines hands-on delivery with strategic leadership, balancing client needs, budgets, and schedules.

Based in California with travel to Santa Barbara preferred, you will mentor project managers, establish processes, and navigate a complex stakeholder landscape to keep programs moving and aligned with objectives.