Commercial Project Manager

Location:

Denver, CO (HQ)

Reports To:

Director of Construction

Job Type: Full-Time

Travel Required:

Occasional travel to active project sites; not a live‑on‑site role

Business Entity: MCS (Magma Core Solutions), a Lava Island company

Welcome to Lava Island

Lava Island is an indoor play oasis where kids fly across trampolines, vanish into towering jungle gyms, dive into foam pits, and race down slides while families share pizza and celebrate birthdays in the party rooms. It is loud, bright, and full of energy.

Every one of those parks started as an empty space. MCS (Magma Core Solutions) is the team that builds them.

An estimate is a plan on paper. You are the person who turns it into a real, bought‑out, on‑budget, on‑schedule park. You hold the contracts, the money, and the changes from the start of each build through financial close‑out.

Get it right and every build has a steady commercial backbone under it. The subs are bought out at the right price, the budget holds, the changes are clean, and the Superintendent can run the field knowing the business side is handled. When the park opens on time and on budget, that is your work.

These are commercial interior tenant improvement (TI) builds in leased retail space, not ground‑up construction. It is also serious work: real budgets, fast schedules, and a hard opening date families are already counting on.

• In‑house at a growing company. You are not chasing one project at a time. You are the PM for a company that opens more parks every year, with a steady pipeline of builds ahead.
• Own the commercial side of the whole build, end to end, not one slice of it.
• Run multiple builds at once from a Denver home base, with real authority over buyout, budget, and change orders.
• A repeatable park that gets sharper every build. The lessons from one project make the next one cleaner.
• Denver home base. An office role with occasional trips to active sites, not a live‑on‑site grind.
• Competitive pay and full benefits.

You take the job from the estimate through financial close‑out as the commercial and contractual owner of the build.

• Take the estimator’s pricing and scope and buy the job out: select, negotiate, and contract subcontractors and suppliers across every trade.
• Issue subcontracts and purchase orders, and manage scope, terms, insurance, and compliance on each one.
• Manage procurement of long‑lead materials and equipment so they land ahead of the field need.

• Own the project budget from buyout through close‑out. Track commitments, actuals, and forecast, and flag variances early.
• Own the change order process. Price and process changes, work pricing back through the estimator, and keep the budget reconciled to what is approved.
• Run subcontractor pay applications, vendor invoices, and end‑of‑project financial close‑out in partnership with Finance.

• Build and hold the project schedule with the Superintendent and the Program Director.
• Hand the bought‑out job to the Superintendent, then stay engaged through construction as the commercial owner without taking over the field.
• Coordinate across Design, APS, Real Estate, NPO, and Operations on dependencies and milestones.
• Run the work through Procore and the company’s systems, and manage multiple concurrent builds without losing track of any one.

This is an experienced project management seat. The PMs who do well at MCS are:

• Experienced. You have bought out and managed commercial, tenant improvement, or interior build‑out projects end to end and owned the budget and the contracts.
• Commercially sharp. You buy out at the right price and protect the budget through change orders and close‑out.
• Highly organized. Many builds, many contracts, many deadlines, all kept straight.
• A strong negotiator who holds subs accountable while building relationships that last across projects.
• An honest communicator. You surface budget and schedule risk early, and you bring options.
• A cross‑functional collaborator who works cleanly with the estimator, the Superintendents, Design, and Real Estate.
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