Senior Project Manager - Engineering & Design Coordination Santa Clara, CA Posted today

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Job Summary

The Senior Project Manager – Engineering & Design Coordination provides leadership for BrandSafway’s engineering, design coordination, and project delivery activities supporting major infrastructure projects, including the Golden Gate Bridge Project. This role is responsible for managing project scope, schedules, technical deliverables, stakeholder coordination, risk management, and engineering execution from planning through field implementation. Working closely with engineering teams, operations, contractors, owners, and design partners, the Senior Project Manager ensures engineering and design deliverables are completed safely, accurately, and on schedule to support successful project execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead BrandSafway’s engineering and design coordination efforts as the primary project management representative for assigned projects.

• Develop and maintain project execution plans, including project objectives, deliverables, milestones, responsibilities, communication protocols, and escalation paths.

• Manage day-to-day project execution across engineering teams, work packages, and access system scopes while maintaining accountability for deliverables and deadlines.

• Develop, monitor, and communicate integrated project schedules aligned with engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation, construction sequencing, and owner-review milestones.

• Monitor project scope, schedule, budget, staffing, forecasts, risks, and commercial exposure; identify and mitigate issues impacting safety, quality, cost, or schedule.

• Manage scope development, change control processes, and documentation of project assumptions, decisions, exclusions, and impacts.

• Coordinate engineering, operations, estimating, procurement, fabrication, field teams, and technical subject matter experts to support project execution.

• Serve as the primary liaison between contractors, owners, engineers of record, and external design stakeholders to facilitate reviews, approvals, and issue resolution.

• Manage RFIs, submittals, design revisions, technical reviews, and approval workflows to ensure timely completion and documentation.

• Maintain project controls including action logs, decision registers, risk assessments, issue tracking, change records, and engineering deliverable schedules.

• Prepare and deliver project status reports highlighting progress, milestones, resource needs, risks, and corrective actions.

• Lead project meetings, design reviews, and engineering coordination sessions while documenting decisions and follow-up actions.

• Support constructability reviews, installation planning, field verification activities, and engineering responses to facilitate safe and efficient field execution.

• Provide leadership and direction to engineers, designers, VDC coordinators, and project personnel assigned to project work.

• Review engineering and design deliverables for accuracy, constructability, quality, coordination, and compliance with applicable codes, regulations, contract requirements, and BrandSafway standards.

• Utilize Revit, Navisworks, and related tools to support model review, clash detection, constructability assessments, interface coordination, and design issue resolution.

• Coordinate model exchanges, drawing revisions, and design workflows with VDC specialists and engineering teams.

• Maintain strict adherence to safety requirements and promote safe project execution throughout all phases of the project lifecycle.

• Perform engineering assignments within delegated authority, including structural analysis, design review, calculations, bills of material, application drawings, and site inspections as required.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.

• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in engineering, construction management, design management, or infrastructure project delivery, including leadership of large and complex projects.

• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, risk, resources, stakeholder relationships, and technical deliverables from planning through field execution.

• Strong knowledge of project controls, scheduling, forecasting, risk management, change management, and executive reporting.

• Experience leading design review processes and managing RFIs, submittals, revisions, technical reviews, and approval cycles.

• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and coordinate stakeholders across multiple organizations and functions.

• Strong communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.

• Working knowledge of construction sequencing, constructability reviews, temporary works, procurement, installation planning, and field execution.

• Professional Engineer (PE) license required for positions involving the independent practice of engineering.

• Proficiency with Microsoft 365, project management platforms, document control systems, and scheduling software such as Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.

• Intermediate proficiency with Autodesk Revit, Navisworks, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, and related design coordination tools.

• Familiarity with structural analysis and design software such as STAAD, RISA, SAP, TEDDS, Enercalc, SCIA, or similar platforms.

• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, meeting facilitation, and executive reporting skills.

• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced project environment.

• Ability and willingness to travel and maintain a regular construction project-site presence.

• Ability to work in office, remote, and active construction-site environments, including climbing access systems, working around construction operations, and lifting up to 50 pounds as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• California Civil or Structural Professional Engineer (PE) license.

• Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related field.

• Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Construction Manager (CCM), or similar project management certification.

• Experience delivering major bridge, steel rehabilitation, seismic retrofit, transportation, or other large-scale infrastructure projects.

• Experience with engineered access systems and temporary works, including scaffolding, hoists/elevators, mast climbers, suspended access systems, work platforms, temporary bracing, fall protection, or netting.

• Experience supporting projects performed while bridges, transportation assets, or facilities remained operational.

• Familiarity with Caltrans, AASHTO, Cal-OSHA, and Federal OSHA requirements.

• Experience with design-build, CM/GC, or other collaborative project delivery methods.

• Experience with BIM coordination, common data environments, model coordination standards, BIM execution plans, and structured drawing/model revision workflows.

• Experience developing or reviewing model-based constructability studies and construction sequencing visualizations.

BrandSafway offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance along with a generous 401k plan.

About Us:

BrandSafway is a leading global provider of access, specialized services, and forming and shoring solutions to the industrial, commercial and infrastructure markets. Through a network of ~340 strategic locations across 25 countries and ~40,000 employees, BrandSafway delivers a full range of industrial service solutions. BrandSafway supports maintenance and refurbishment projects as well as new construction and expansion plans with unmatched service from expert local labor and management. Today’s BrandSafway is At Work For You — leveraging innovation and economies of scale to increase safety and productivity, while remaining nimble and responsive.

BrandSafway, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, special disabled or veteran status.

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$250000-$300000/year