Project Manager - Airport Terminal Projects

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to independently lead assigned workstreams for complex terminal and airport capital projects at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). This role will manage scope, design, construction, budget, schedule, risk, operational requirements, and stakeholder decisions while serving as a key owner-side interface with airport representatives, designers, contractors, and adjacent project teams. The Project Manager will be expected to drive issues to resolution, maintain clear project controls, and keep assigned work aligned with broader operational and program requirements.

Note: This opportunity is available at multiple levels. Final placement will be determined based on the selected candidate’s experience, skills, and alignment with business needs. We are committed to providing fair and equitable consideration for all applicants.

Organizational Responsibilities

• Lead assigned project workstreams from planning and design through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Establish and maintain project scope, requirements, responsibilities, interfaces, deliverables, schedules, dependencies, constraints, and key decision dates.
• Lead design and stakeholder coordination, ensuring comments, approvals, decisions, and interfaces among airport representatives, designers, contractors, operational teams, and adjacent projects are resolved.
• Monitor budgets, forecasts, proposed changes, risks, and potential commercial impacts and escalate significant issues as appropriate.
• Coordinate permitting, inspections, approvals, acceptance requirements, and other activities necessary to advance project delivery.
• Evaluate construction phasing, logistics, access, and sequencing with particular attention to airport and airline operational impacts.
• Prepare concise project reporting that communicates status, risks, issues, required decisions, and recommended actions to leadership.
• Coordinate operational readiness and transition activities, punch-list completion, and project closeout.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant project management experience delivering complex aviation, terminal, transportation, or comparable capital projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related technical discipline required.
• Demonstrated owner-representative experience managing the full project lifecycle in an active airport or similarly complex operational environment.
• Advanced ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, risk, project controls, stakeholder requirements, and complex project interfaces independently.
• Strong written and verbal communication, meeting leadership, issue-resolution, and executive-reporting skills.
• Direct SFO or airline project experience preferred.
• Major terminal renovation or expansion experience preferred.
• Experience coordinating airport-led and airline-led project scopes preferred.
• California Professional Engineer (PE) license, CCM, PMP, or other relevant professional certification or credential preferred. 

The salary range for this position is $149,833 to $212,719.

A hired employee will be placed within this salary range based on a variety of legitimate business reasons, including but not limited to the individual’s scope of relevant experience and geographic location.

Location and Commitments

• Overtime work may be required occasionally to ensure certain deliverables are completed on time
• Weekend work is rare but occasionally may be necessary

Physical Requirements & Working Conditions

An employee must meet the physical demands described here to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Please note that physical requirements may vary based on client needs.

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office environment including the use of stairs.
• Ability to adjust focus, especially due to concentration on a computer screen.
• Must communicate frequently with other departments and employees both verbally and in writing.
• May need to lift and carry up to 15 pounds and/or position the body to reach items on the floor/below knee level or overhead.

Additional Requirements

Physical: Standing or sitting for long periods; must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times and spend extended hours in front of a computer screen.

Cognitive: Problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills; computer and software skills; and ability to read and interpret text online or in printed form.

About PMA

At PMA, employee well-being is a daily priority. We offer a combination of workplace options that include a PMA office location; work-from-home; or a client site. Wherever we work, we openly share knowledge as we believe that collaboration with peers improves our work product and that pursuing subject matter expertise is a lifelong endeavor.

We are committed to a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion. We affirm and respect diverse backgrounds and opinions because we believe they yield the best solutions for our clients. We promote emotional intelligence and trust by nurturing these values within our new hires.

We encourage staff to develop rewarding, long-term careers at PMA, and we implement formal leadership development programs that help you attain your goals. At PMA, shared success is a core value. Every employee who contributes is recognized, celebrated, and rewarded. We look for self-driven candidates eager to assume responsibility and join a community of respect founded on collaboration and accountability, not titles. If you aim to transform the project management practice toward continuous improvement of project outcomes, the profession, and yourself, PMA looks forward to warmly welcoming you to our team.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, wellness programs for you and your family, and career development opportunities to advance your professional goals.

As a PMA professional, you will be empowered to make timely and effective decisions and significant daily contributions to complex facets of project delivery. Join a team that has achieved a world-class reputation in the construction industry and has been voted a “Best Place to Work.”

PMA offers competitive wages and comprehensive benefits, including medical, prescription, dental, vision, time off with pay, 401(k) with company match, life, disability, and professional development reimbursement for qualifying employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), disability, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. Qualified female and minority applicants are encouraged to apply.

EOE, including persons with disabilities and veterans.

VEVRAA federal contractor.