Sr. Healthcare Project Manager

CORE Construction is seeking an experienced Healthcare Project Manager to lead healthcare construction projects throughout Arizona and, as projects require, the broader Mountain West. The role has primary responsibility for the financial, technical, operational, and client-service success of multiple concurrent projects, typically ranging from $500,000 to $50 million. Projects may include renovations, tenant improvements, additions, expansions, and new construction within hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging facilities, laboratories, medical office buildings, clinics, rural and critical-access facilities, tribal healthcare environments, and other occupied or operational healthcare settings.

Responsibilities

Project Management & Financial Performance

• Lead multiple healthcare projects from preconstruction and planning through construction, commissioning, closeout, turnover, and owner training.
• Maintain responsibility for project budgets, General Conditions, cost forecasts, schedules, procurement plans, project controls, change management, pay applications, and financial reporting.
• Review plans, specifications, and contract documents for constructability, scope coordination, sequencing, completeness, and risk.
• Develop detailed schedules incorporating trade activities, owner milestones, inspections, shutdowns, equipment installations, commissioning, licensing requirements, and turnover.
• Negotiate and administer subcontracts and purchase orders; manage trade-partner performance, procurement, submittals, RFIs, and closeout documentation.
• Partner closely with the Superintendent and field leadership to align safety, quality, schedule, budget, logistics, and owner expectations.
• Coordinate architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire-protection, controls, and specialty healthcare systems.

Healthcare Construction & Operational Coordination

• Lead construction planning within occupied and operational healthcare environments while maintaining continuity of patient care and facility operations.
• Coordinate Preconstruction Risk Assessment (PCRA), ICRA 2.0, infection-control barriers, negative-air and HEPA requirements, protected pathways, construction access, and interim life-safety measures (ILSM).
• Plan critical shutdowns, utility interruptions, tie-ins, demolition, above-ceiling work, temporary conditions, emergency egress, and fire/life-safety activities with facility stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Infection Prevention, Facilities/Engineering, clinical leadership, Security, Risk Management, Safety, design teams, equipment vendors, authorities having jurisdiction, and other project partners.
• Manage coordination of medical equipment and specialty systems such as imaging, medical gas, nurse call, controls, TAB, commissioning, inspections, owner training, and turnover documentation when applicable.
• Support compliance with applicable FGI Guidelines, NFPA 99, NFPA 101, CMS requirements, accreditation standards, owner standards, and state and local requirements.
• Anticipate activities that may affect patients, critical systems, emergency operations, infection prevention, licensing, or facility continuity and implement mitigation plans before work begins.

Preconstruction, Market Growth & Client Leadership

• Support conceptual and detailed budgeting, ROM estimates, constructability reviews, value analysis, procurement strategies, logistics plans, and phased implementation planning.
• Participate in proposal development, interviews, client presentations, project pursuits, and early owner and design-team engagement.
• Help develop qualified healthcare trade-partner relationships and market intelligence throughout Arizona and in other emerging Mountain West markets.
• Serve as a primary client contact and communicate project status, financial performance, schedule, risk, changes, and upcoming critical activities.
• Build trusted relationships with healthcare owners, facility leaders, clinical stakeholders, design professionals, consultants, and trade partners.
• Lead, develop, and mentor Assistant Project Managers, Project Engineers, and other project-team members.
• Demonstrate CORE's values of Integrity, Fairness, Continuous Improvement, and Results in every client, employee, and building-partner interaction.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of commercial construction project-management experience, including at least 3 years directly managing healthcare construction projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing construction within occupied and operational healthcare facilities.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent small- to mid-sized projects, including renovations, tenant improvements, additions, expansions, and/or new construction.
• Advanced understanding of construction documents, healthcare MEP and specialty systems, scheduling, budgeting, cost control, procurement, contracts, change management, commissioning, and turnover.
• Experience with CMAR and/or Design-Build delivery methods preferred.
• Strong leadership, judgment, organization, problem-solving, negotiation, client-service, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Bluebeam, and Procore; familiarity with other scheduling and construction-management platforms is beneficial.
• Valid driver's license and ability to travel regularly throughout Arizona and occasionally across the Mountain West based on active project assignments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, Construction Technology, Business Administration, or a related field preferred; equivalent directly applicable healthcare construction experience may be considered.
• Working familiarity with Arizona Department of Health Services medical-facility requirements, local building officials and fire marshals, and healthcare licensing inspections preferred.
• Familiarity with The Joint Commission, DNV, CMS, FGI, NFPA, and other healthcare regulatory or accreditation requirements as they relate to construction activities preferred.