Project Manager - Airport Terminal Projects

PMA Consultants Careers

$149K — $212K *
Transportation
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of project management experience in complex aviation or transportation capital projects.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related field.
  • Experience as an owner-representative managing entire project lifecycle in an airport setting.
  • Advanced skills in managing project scope, schedule, and budget independently.
  • Strong communication and leadership skills for reports and issue resolution.
  • Preferred experience with SFO or major terminal renovations.
  • Professional certifications like PE, CCM, or PMP are preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead project workstreams from planning through construction and closeout.
  • Establish project scope, deadlines, and deliverables.
  • Coordinate design and stakeholder interactions for approvals and resolutions.
  • Monitor budgets, risks, and elevate significant issues when needed.
  • Manage permitting and inspection processes for project advancement.
  • Assess construction logistics for operational impact on the airport.
  • Prepare concise project status reports for leadership communication.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and certification support.
  • Potential for flexible work hours based on project needs.
  • Engagement with a diverse range of stakeholders in a dynamic environment.
Full 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.


$149,833 - $212,719 a year

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.

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at PMA Consultants Careers

More Transportation Jobs

Find similar Project Manager - Airport Terminal Projects jobs: