Workplace Design and Construction Project Manager

fuseglobalpartners; Solon (OH); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortune 100 Food & Beverage Manufacturing in Solon, OH is seeking a Workplace Design and Construction Project Manager to act as the owner's representative within Workplace Solutions, leading capital projects across corporate, manufacturing, and distribution environments.

You will manage projects from concept and planning through design, procurement, construction, turnover, and closeout with emphasis on safety, quality, financial discipline, and continuity.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering workplace, facility, and infrastructure projects in active operational environments.
• Working knowledge of interiors, building systems, site work, and controls.
• Ability to manage budgets, schedules, and governance with minimal disruption to operations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as owner's representative and coordinator among stakeholders, design partners, and contractors.
• Develop project strategy, scope, schedules, high-level estimates and business cases for capital planning.
• Prepare and manage budgets, funding requests, and executive-level project recommendations.
• Lead design and pre-construction activities with in-house teams and external partners.
• Coordinate construction phase through schedules, invoices, approvals, and contractor safety plans.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Capital planning

Cross-functional leadership

Budget management

Risk management

Job description

Title: Workplace Design & Construction Project Manager

Location: Solon, OH

Company: Fortune 100 Food & Beverage Manufacturing (FuseGlobal has worked with this company for 20 years)

Initial term: 12 months (position expected to run longer)

Schedule: Mon-Fri 8 AM - 5 PM; onsite Tue-Thur; up to 30% travel

About This Role:

The Workplace Design and Construction Project Manager serves as an owner's representative within the Workplace Solutions department, leading capital projects across corporate, manufacturing, and distribution environments. This role manages projects from early concept and capital planning through design, procurement, construction, turnover, and closeout, with a focus on safety, quality, financial discipline, stakeholder alignment, and operational continuity. Reporting to the Director of Construction and Project Management within the Workplace Solutions Team, the Project Manager leads cross-functional internal and external teams to deliver disciplined, predictable project execution with minimal disruption to the business. The successful candidate will bring experience delivering workplace, facility, and infrastructure projects in active operational environments, with working knowledge of interiors, building systems, site work, building envelope, controls, estimating, scheduling, programming, procurement, and project governance.

What You’ll Do:

Preliminary Stage:

• Serve as the owner's representative and primary point of coordination among business stakeholders, site leadership, Workplace Solutions, Procurement, Finance, Legal, Risk Management, Safety/EHS, design partners, contractors, and vendors.
• Work with business stakeholders and design and construction partners to evaluate project feasibility, site constraints, operational impacts, safety requirements, and potential execution risks.
• Develop project strategy, scope definition, programming requirements, preliminary schedules, high-level estimates, and business cases that support capital planning and approval decisions.
• Prepare detailed budgets and partner with Finance to develop capital approval packages, funding requests, forecasts, and executive-level project recommendations.
• Partner with Procurement to create RFPs, solicit bids, evaluate proposals, compare scope alignment, identify exclusions or gaps, and present recommendations to Workplace Solutions Leadership, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Distribution Teams, Procurement, Risk Management, Legal, and Safety teams.
• Lead regular project updates, document key decisions and action items, maintain stakeholder alignment, and escalator risks or constraints that may affect scope, budget, schedule, safety, or operations.
• Evaluate trends in workplace design, construction delivery, materials, cost savings, sustainability, standardization, and process improvement, and present recommendations to improve existing design and project delivery standards.

Design and Pre-Construction:

• Partner with in-house teams, design consultants, furniture providers, branding partners, site stakeholders, and other vendors to develop final plans, define workplace requirements, and confirm special areas required for the business.
• Prepare detailed bid analyses, savings logs, value-engineering recommendations, scope clarifications, and commercial comparisons to support informed award decisions.
• Coordinate design-related contracts, purchase orders, change orders, exhibits, schedules of values, allowances, alternates, insurance requirements, and other commercial documentation.
• Prepare final budgets and executive submissions for review and approval by the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and other governance bodies as required.
• Ensure required permits, certificates of insurance, safety documentation, applicable letters of credit, and site-specific compliance requirements are obtained before work begins.
• Coordinate with design partners and contractors to develop, maintain, and execute scopes of work, specifications, drawings, schedules, and construction deliverables.
• Identify, document, monitor, and mitigate risks related to scope, schedule, budget, procurement, safety, food/manufacturing site requirements, business continuity, and stakeholder alignment.

Construction:

• Maintain current construction documents, drawing logs, field records, approved submittals, RFIs, shop drawings, and other project controls documentation.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, cost forecasts, drawing logs, meeting cadence, and regular progress meetings with internal stakeholders, site teams, consultants, contractors, and vendors.
• Ensure timely review and processing of GC, subcontractor, furniture, flooring, décor, branding, consultant, and vendor invoices and applications for payment.
• Write and coordinate construction-related RFPs, contracts, purchase orders, and change orders; maintain records of field work, scope changes, cost impacts, schedule impacts, and decisions.
• Coordinate contractor safety plans, site access, badging, sh