Senior Construction Project Manager - $235M Design-Build Student Union (CSULB)

California State University, Long Beach is renovating and expanding its University Student Union, a $235 million project delivered through collaborative design-build, where one team designs and builds the project and works through the design with the University. The project runs from July 2024 to July 2028. It renovates 180,000 gross square feet of the existing building, including 160,000 square feet of indoor space and 20,000 square feet of covered outdoor walkways and seating, and adds 50,000 gross square feet of new space. The program includes food service, resource centers, offices, lounges, event spaces, conference and meeting rooms, recreation and sports spaces, accessibility upgrades, and new site work.

As Senior Construction Project Manager, you are the University's senior leader on site for the project. You manage the design and construction process from scope development and contracting through construction administration and closeout, supervise the project team, and keep day to day leadership of the project for its full life.

You manage and monitor the contract budgets, reconciling contracts and budgets with the Division Fiscal Manager and reporting monthly cash flow. You guide stakeholder design decisions to keep the scope within the approved budget, coordinate value engineering, and take the design submittals through review by CSU Capital Planning, Design and Construction and the CSU Board of Trustees. You also obtain the plan reviews the project needs before bidding and keep the project in compliance with every agency that approves or inspects the work.

What You Will Own

• The design and construction process, with day to day leadership from scope development and contracting through construction administration and closeout
• Documentation for post-performance reviews, audits, and inspections by governing agencies
• Contract budgets, reconciled with the Division Fiscal Manager, and monthly cash flow reporting
• Stakeholder design decisions kept within the approved budget, and the value engineering process, meaning changes that lower cost without reducing what the building has to do
• Schematic, preliminary, and construction document submittals for review by CSU Capital Planning, Design and Construction (CPDC), the CSU Board of Trustees, and other boards as required
• Presentation materials for the twice-yearly Campus Planning Committee meetings, monthly project updates, and executive presentations
• Plan reviews required before bidding, including the State Fire Marshal, DSA (the Division of the State Architect, the state office that reviews plans for public schools and state buildings), life safety and code plan check, seismic peer review, mechanical systems review, and commissioning where needed
• Compliance with regulations and with every agency that approves or inspects the work
• Leadership and supervision of the project team

What You Bring

• About 10 years of experience on public works projects (required for this role)
• Design-build or progressive design-build experience (required for this role)
• Senior level project leadership, including supervising and leading design and construction teams (required for this role)
• Availability to work on site at the Long Beach campus, in person only (required for this role)

Preferred

• CSU experience
• Professional licenses, which the University weighs along with expertise and experience when it selects

Benefits:

• health, dental, and vision at low cost
• 401k
• three weeks of PTO
• an ESOP (employee stock ownership) at no cost to you, with a 3% Safe Harbor contribution vested on day one.

Why MAAS

MAAS has spent nearly 40 years earning the trust of 50+ educational institutions across California, managing over $10B in projects. That track record means the work here is stable, funded, and consequential. You are not chasing the next contract.

As a MAAS employee, you are also an owner. The company is 100% employee-owned through an ESOP, a retirement benefit provided at no cost to you, on top of your salary. MAAS is a profitable, well-run organization and our share price has more than doubled since the plan's inception, with continued growth year over year. Your ownership stake builds the longer you stay, and ESOP participants nationally tend to accumulate 2.5x more in retirement savings than employees at non-ESOP companies.

In an industry not known for prioritizing culture, 96% of MAAS employees say it is a great place to work, and 100% say people genuinely care about each other.