Senior Project Manager

Job Title Senior Project Manager

Location Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Employment Type Full-time, on-site

Reports To Managing Director of Development

Your Opportunity:

The Senior Project Manager leads Panther National construction across homes currently under construction, future residential product, and assigned amenity and infrastructure projects. The role is accountable for safe, high-quality, cost-disciplined delivery; accurate schedule and financial reporting; closeout, warranty, and defect resolution; and a professional homeowner experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Construction Leadership and Delivery

• Translate the development plan into project execution plans with clear scope, phasing, staffing, procurement, milestones, and accountable owners.

• Lead day-to-day construction across the residential portfolio and assigned community projects from preconstruction and permitting through punch, closeout, and turnover.

• Maintain a home-by-home delivery plan showing field status, critical path activities, inspections, procurement constraints, buyer impacts, and recovery actions.

• Lead constructability and value engineering reviews while preserving approved design intent and quality standards.

• Maintain a visible field presence and a disciplined weekly cadence for safety, schedule, quality, cost, procurement, and risk.

Project Controls and Commercial Management

• Own the master schedule, short-interval plans, milestone forecasts, and recovery plans; validate that dates reflect field conditions and available resources.

• Manage budgets, commitments, forecasts, contingency, cost-to-complete, cash flow inputs, pay applications, change orders, and variance reporting with Finance and Development.

• Establish clear contract administration, document control, RFI, submittal, procurement, and long-lead tracking across all projects.

• Evaluate contractor and consultant performance, confirm scope accountability, and recommend corrective action, supplementation, replacement, or reprocurement when performance is inadequate.

• Obtain required ownership or lender approvals before committing to material changes in scope, cost, schedule, contracts, claims, or external delivery dates.

Quality Closeout Warranty and Defect Management

• Implement project-specific QA and QC plans, inspection hold points, mockups, testing requirements, and luxury residential completion standards.

• Lead punch, certificate of occupancy, closeout documentation, homeowner orientation, and final turnover with clear owners and completion dates.

• Establish and enforce consistent warranty and turnover procedures, including intake, prioritization, response standards, documentation, closure, and homeowner communication.

• Maintain a construction defect plan of action that identifies root causes, recurring conditions, responsible parties, corrective scope, cost exposure, and closure status.

Team and Partner Leadership

• Lead the Panther National construction team, define decision rights, assign accountability, and maintain field coverage for each active project.

• Direct contractors, owner's representatives, design professionals, inspectors, vendors, and consultants through documented scopes, deadlines, and performance expectations.

• Maintain a qualified South Florida contractor and trade network capable of delivering luxury product at the required quality, scale, and pace.

• Require safe, clean, professional jobsites and prompt correction of unsafe conditions or quality deficiencies.

Stakeholder Communication and Reporting

• Provide concise weekly and monthly reporting on schedule, cost, procurement, quality, safety, closeout, warranty, defects, decisions, and material risks.

• Coordinate closely with Development, Finance, Legal, Realty, Club Operations, the HOA, and other ownership representatives so construction decisions support the broader Panther National business plan.

• Support clear and timely member and homeowner communication, ensuring that all external commitments are supported by validated field conditions, approved budgets, and authorized decision makers.

• Escalate material issues early with facts, alternatives, a recommended solution, and a defined decision deadline.

Measures of Success

• Reliable milestone forecasting and documented recovery plans for any schedule variance.

• Accurate cost to complete reporting, disciplined change control, and performance within approved budgets and authority levels.

• Consistent quality, inspection readiness, timely punch completion, and measurable reduction in recurring warranty and defect issues.

• Complete and current project records, procurement logs, decision logs, risk registers, and closeout documentation.

• Safe, clean, well managed jobsites and professional communication with members, homeowners, partners, and ownership.

Required Experience

• 10 or more years of progressive leadership experience in construction, development, or design build, with substantial responsibility for luxury residential or resort projects.

• Proven experience managing multiple concurrent homes or projects through preconstruction, permitting, procurement, field execution, closeout, warranty, and turnover.

• Demonstrated command of schedules, budgets, cost to complete, contracts, pay applications, change management, procurement, and risk reporting.

• Experience stabilizing projects in progress, resolving contractor performance issues, and restoring schedule, cost, documentation, and quality control.

• Strong working knowledge of South Florida construction practices, permitting, inspections, weather related risk, and the local contractor and trade market preferred.

• Experience in a private club, master planned community, golf, resort, luxury hospitality, or high end custom home setting preferred.

Skills and Competencies

• Decisive field leadership supported by sound judgment, disciplined follow through, and attention to detail.

• Ability to translate complex construction conditions into concise executive recommendations and clear assignments.

• Strong financial, contractual, scheduling, procurement, and document control capability.

• Professional communication with owners, members, homeowners, lenders, consultants, contractors, and internal teams.

• High standards for confidentiality, accountability, safety, quality, and the Panther National homeowner experience.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, Real Estate, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.

•Relevant contractor license, professional