Senior Project Manager
pts advanceSignal Hill, CA
$110,000 - $150,000 per year
APPLY (opens in a new tab)Senior Project Manager
pts advanceSignal Hill, CASenior L5
$110,000 - $150,000 per year
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APPLY NOW (opens in a new tab)Senior Project Manager Our client, a Southern California-based heavy civil engineering and construction contractor, is seeking an experienced Project Manager or Senior Project Manager to join their team. The company specializes in maintenance and new construction projects across oil refineries, oil fields, heavy industrial facilities, ports, renewable energy, and commercial and institutional sectors.
The role:
The Senior Project Manager runs a $12M+ annual book of business (about $1M in monthly billing) across multiple projects, owns key client relationships, and develops the APMs and PMs around them. You keep hands-on execution responsibility while making decisions that affect several projects at once. This role is the path to Project Executive.
Responsibilities:
- Portfolio execution and financial results
- Deliver multiple complex projects at 30%+ margin on lump sum and 25%+ on T&MOwn portfolio-level profitability, forecasting and risk; explain margin performance clearly
- Ensure every project meets the company's standards for pre-job setup, weekly cost and schedule updates, monthly billing and closeout
- Spot systemic issues across jobs and put repeatable fixes in place
- Clients and growth
- Own strategic client relationships and generate repeat business
- Represent the company at a senior level with owners, GCs and partner contractors
- Support proposal strategy and bring in new work
- Bid review and preconstruction
- Review bids before handoff to identify scope gaps and pricing risk
- Give estimating feedback on what we can staff and execute
- Ensure a clean estimate-to-execution handoff for your PMsPeople leadership
- Develop APMs into validated PMs and coach PMs toward Senior PMHold regular 1:1s, delegate for growth and hold the team accountable
- Lead AI adoption on your projects and teach your PMs and APMs to use AI tools well
- Work across estimating, accounting, safety and field operations to raise team performance
- Performance standards$12M+ annual book of business with consistent profitability on every project
- Margin targets met: 30% lump sum, 25% T&MMeasurable progress in the people you develop
Qualifications:
- 10+ years as a Project Manager on industrial, energy or heavy civil work
- Track record managing $12M+ per year across multiple concurrent projects
- Has developed APMs or PMs who now run their own work
- Deep understanding of bids and estimates, with the judgment to spot scope gaps and pricing risk
- A real drive to use AI: hands-on with AI tools today and eager to lead others in using them
- Established relationships with Southern California owners or contractors in refining, oil and gas, ports or energy
- Proficient in Excel, Bluebeam, Outlook, Word and SharePoint; will learn JOL, our proprietary project management system, plus Ramp for vendor invoices and Sage for accountingOSHA 30 and refinery site credentials (TWIC, RSO) preferred
- Bachelor's degree in construction management or engineering preferred; equivalent experience
Salary range: $110,000 - $150,000 Apply now for immediate and confidential consideration!
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Level
Senior L5
Salary
$110,000 - $150,000 per year
Location
Signal Hill, CA
Occupation
Project Management Specialists
Industry
Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
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