Project Manager – Project Management Consulting Services

Job  : OOJ - 8063

Posted Date : 09/28/2026

Experience : 5-10

Job Type :
Contractual

Location :
Columbus, OH

Overview :

Position: Project Manager – Project Management Consulting Services
Employment Type: Full-Time / Contract
Location: Columbus, Ohio / Hybrid
Company: Guru Consulting Services LLC
Project: City of Columbus – Office of Construction Management

Guru Consulting Services LLC is seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide project management consulting services supporting the City of Columbus Office of Construction Management. The Project Manager will be responsible for coordinating and managing projects from initiation through closeout, including planning, scheduling, cost and budget management, risk management, stakeholder coordination, documentation, quality oversight, and project reporting.

The successful candidate should have experience managing complex projects and working with owners, consultants, contractors, vendors, technical professionals, and other stakeholders.

• Lead project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closeout activities.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, milestones, deliverables, and project plans.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate project activities between the owner, consultants, contractors, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Conduct project meetings and maintain meeting minutes, action-item logs, decision logs, and project records.
• Monitor project progress and provide regular status reports and management updates.
• Identify potential schedule, cost, scope, quality, and resource issues and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Support project cost estimating, budget tracking, forecasting, and cost-control activities.
• Review and track change orders, project changes, claims, and potential cost or schedule impacts.
• Coordinate design and construction-related activities as applicable to assigned projects.
• Review project deliverables, documentation, submittals, RFIs, and other project correspondence as required.
• Support construction administration, field coordination, project observation, and contractor coordination when required.
• Coordinate with architects, engineers, construction managers, contractors, inspectors, and specialty consultants.
• Support quality assurance and quality-control activities.
• Maintain project documentation through electronic document-management systems.
• Support BIM coordination and technology-enabled project management activities when applicable.
• Monitor contractor compliance with project requirements, safety requirements, schedules, and deliverables as assigned.
• Assist with procurement, contract administration, funding coordination, and project closeout activities.
• Support dispute resolution, issue resolution, and claims-management activities when required.
• Prepare project dashboards, reports, presentations, schedules, risk registers, and other management deliverables.
• Conduct project closeout, lessons-learned, and post-occupancy/project evaluation activities.
• Ensure assigned projects are delivered in accordance with approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of project management experience
  , preferably involving construction, facilities, infrastructure, engineering, public-sector, or other complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, and stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating multiple project teams and external consultants/vendors.
• Strong written and verbal…