Project Manager Design Build (Aviation)

About the role

The Project Manager – Design Build leads day-to-day management of the full multi-discipline project team on design-build aviation projects, overseeing architecture, structural, mechanical, electrical, civil, and other subdiscipline coordination from a management standpoint alongside the Project Architect, who retains technical authority within the architecture scope.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates directly with the design-build entity’s project executive, superintendent, and trade contractors to align design decisions across all disciplines with a fast-track schedule where design and construction proceed concurrently.
• Buils and maintains the workplan for the full project team, sequencing design package releases against procurement and construction milestones across architecture, structural, mechanical, electrical, civil, and specialty aviation subdisciplines, including those engaged for airfield, security, and FAA-related scope, to keep every discipline’s deliverables synchronized with the broader project schedule.
• Schedules and runs project meetings and agendas across all disciplines, serves as the day-to-day client and design-build-entity contact for project management matters, and partners with the Project Architect and other discipline leads to confirm that staffing and production plans remain aligned with the schedule and fee budget.

Qualifications

• Registered Architect (RA) required; NCARB certification preferred
• 10+ years of progressively responsible project experience, including experience on design-build or progressive design-build/GMP delivery
• Demonstrated experience managing or coordinating multi-discipline project teams, including architecture, structural, mechanical, electrical, and civil, in a fast-track delivery environment
• Demonstrated experience coordinating directly with a design-build entity’s project executive and trade contractors
• Proficiency in Revit production workflows and BIM coordination

Requirements

• Aviation or airport-environment project experience, including terminal, airside, or landside facilities
• Familiarity with FAA, TSA, and airport authority design and security requirements
• CSI or DBIA certification

Skills

Technical authority within each discipline remains with that discipline’s technical lead — the Project Architect for architecture, and the corresponding lead for structural, mechanical, electrical, and other subdisciplines; this role’s licensure supports informed, real-time coordination of the full team rather than independent technical decision-making in any one discipline.

Benefits

Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable)
Disability insurance
Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
401(k) Plan
Retailing Counseling
Employee Assistance Program
Paid Time Off (starting at 16 days)
Paid Holidays (9 days)
Back-Up Dependent Care (up to 10 days per year)
Parental Leave (up to 80 hours)
Continuing Education Program
Professional Licensure and Society Memberships

Pay

$149,671.54 - $171,053.19

Schedule

Hybrid schedule with travel to active airport project sites as required