5-10 years of construction management experience, ideally with public-sector projects.
Experience managing public facility construction projects from preconstruction to turnover.
Knowledge of construction contracts, drawings, specifications, and compliance.
Strong coordination skills with various stakeholders including owners and contractors.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills for managing field activities and documentation.
Responsibilities
Advise public agency clients throughout all project phases.
Conduct design reviews and constructability evaluations to identify issues.
Manage field-level construction and monitor compliance with contract documents.
Administer RFIs, submittals, change orders, and project documentation.
Review contractor schedules and identify impacts to project milestones.
Coordinate with designers, contractors, and inspectors to resolve issues.
Support project closeout and ensure operational readiness.
Benefits
Work on large-scale, impactful projects like data centers and transit systems.
Ownership of project outcomes, not just tasks.
Access to advanced AI tools for program control.
Join a global team with a personal touch.
Investment in professional development and certifications.
Create lasting infrastructure that benefits communities for decades.
Full Job Description
THE WORK:
You'll represent and advise public agency clients throughout preconstruction, construction, commissioning, closeout, and turnover.
You'll participate in design reviews and constructability evaluations to identify potential conflicts, coordination issues, operational concerns, and construction risks.
You'll provide field-level construction management and monitor construction progress, workmanship, quality, and compliance with contract documents.
You'll administer and coordinate RFIs, submittals, change orders, contractor correspondence, meeting minutes, and project documentation.
You'll review contractor schedules, progress updates, sequencing, and recovery plans, and identify potential impacts to project milestones.
You'll coordinate with designers, contractors, specialty consultants, inspectors, and facility end users to resolve construction issues.
You'll support cost management, change order evaluations, progress payment reviews, and project reporting.
You'll coordinate manufacturer startups, testing, commissioning, specialized system integration, Owner training, punchlist completion, and operational readiness.
You'll support project closeout, including as-built documents, O&M manuals, warranties, final inspections, and facility turnover.
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
Minimum 5-10 years of progressively responsible construction management experience, preferably representing public-sector owners.
Demonstrated experience managing public facility construction projects, including municipal buildings, public safety facilities, and other institutional or government facilities throughout the full project lifecycle, from preconstruction and constructability reviews to bidding/procurement, construction administration, commissioning, closeout, and turnover.
Working knowledge of construction contracts, drawings, specifications, project schedules, submittals, RFIs, change orders, quality management, project documentation, and contract compliance.
Ability to coordinate effectively with owners, architects, engineers, contractors, inspectors, authorities having jurisdiction, and facility end users to resolve issues and support project delivery and strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to independently manage field activities, document issues, recommend resolutions, and support schedule management, cost control, change management, and quality assurance.
BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:
Experience managing construction of essential services facilities, particularly fire stations, police stations, emergency operations centers, or similar public safety facilities; direct fire station construction management experience is highly desirable.
Familiarity with specialized fire station systems and their integration, including station alerting, emergency power, communications/IT, apparatus bay systems, vehicle exhaust extraction, security, HVAC controls, and related operational equipment; experience coordinating multidisciplinary system integration, testing, commissioning, operational readiness, and Owner training.
Experience conducting constructability reviews and identifying design coordination, sequencing, constructability, and operational issues prior to construction; familiarity with California public works construction requirements, applicable building codes, and public agency contracting procedures.
Certified Construction Manager (CCM) or other relevant professional certification preferred.
$145,000 - $175,000 a year
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia or Washington as set forth below.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU
The biggest builds going. Hyperscale data centers, grid and generation, transit and rail, chip fabs, mines, water. If it's complex and it matters, it's on our list.
You own the outcome. Not a workstream. Not a deliverable. Whether the program lands.
AI that shows up on site. Program control that predicts instead of records. You'll use it, and you'll help shape it.
Scale without the distance. More than 5,000 practitioners across the Americas, EMEA and APAC, on a team small enough that people know your name.
Serious investment in you. Leadership development, technical upskilling and certification support.
Work that outlasts you. People will use what you build for forty years without knowing your name. That's the point.
About Accenture
Accenture plc is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. The company has more than 537,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries. Accenture operates across five business segments: Communications, Media & Technology; Financial Services; Health & Public Service; Products; and Resources. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has offices worldwide.
