Project Manager, Real Estate Planning & Development

About the role

At UL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagement, we know why we come to work. We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager, Real Estate Planning & Development.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate project workstreams across planning, design, procurement, construction administration, commissioning, and closeout, ensuring alignment with program objectives and owner requirements.
• Manage day-to-day coordination with architects, engineers, consultants, contractors, internal functional leads, end users, and operations stakeholders to keep decisions, reviews, and deliverables moving on schedule.
• Support development, maintenance, and compliance tracking of Owner Project Requirements (OPR), including identification, documentation, escalation, and resolution of departures from owner requirements.
• Track design deliverables through programming, schematic design, design development, and construction documents; maintain comment registers and ensure owner review comments are documented and closed.
• Review architectural, engineering, and technical design documents to identify coordination issues, incomplete scope, constructability concerns, and potential impacts to scope, schedule, cost, risk, or operations.
• Prepare agendas, facilitate project and design review meetings, document decisions and action items, and follow up with responsible parties to drive timely closure.
• Use the program management information system (PMIS) and document control processes to maintain drawing registers, meeting records, action logs, RFI/submittal records, and project documentation in accordance with program standards.
• Care for owner-furnished equipment planning and procurement interfaces, including design accommodation requirements, delivery schedules, and construction or site sequencing impacts.
• Identify issues that can be resolved at the project level and escalate matters with clear framing, options, and recommendations.
• Support project reporting by providing accurate status updates on deliverables, risks, decisions, action items, budget, schedule, scope, and stakeholder inputs.
• Maintain productive relationships with design and delivery partners while enforcing owner requirements, review cycles, quality expectations, and agreed project processes.
• Perform other duties as directed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in real estate, architecture, engineering, construction management, facilities planning, or related field.
• PMP certification preferred.
• A minimum of 8 years’ experience in real estate development, capital project delivery, owner’s representative services, design management, construction management, or related fields.
• Experience supporting technical, laboratory, research, higher education, healthcare, manufacturing, or similarly complex facilities preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to read and interpret architectural and engineering drawings, specifications, and construction documents.
• Experience coordinating owner requirements, design review cycles, comment resolution, document control, and PMIS-based project workflows.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of programming, schematic design, design development, construction documents, procurement, construction administration, commissioning, and closeout.
• Ability to read and interpret architectural and engineering drawings, specifications, and construction documents.
• Ability to translate owner needs into requirements, track compliance, identify departures, and coordinate timely resolution across design and delivery phases.
• Ability to manage review cycles, comment registers, deliverable schedules, and day-to-day coordination with design and consultant teams.
• Working knowledge of PMIS workflows, document control principles, drawing version management, action logs, RFI/submittal logs, and project recordkeeping.
• Ability to distinguish between project-level issues and matters requiring higher-level escalation; frames issues clearly with recommendations.
• Ability to coordinate internal functions, end users, operations stakeholders, and external partners while maintaining alignment with program priorities.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills; able to prepare concise meeting records, status updates, decision summaries, and action logs.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent review cycles, priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders with initiative and professional independence.

Skills

• Project Management
• Design Coordination
• Owner Requirements Management
• Document Control
• Procurement
• Construction Administration
• Commissioning
• Closeout

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$98,562.21 - $135,523.04

Schedule

Not specified.