Program Manager

Program Manager

Regular Full Time Colorado Springs, CO, US

Salary Range: $125,000 – $140,000 Annually

Matrix Design Group, Inc. is an award‑winning, employee‑owned engineering, planning, and consulting firm that values diversity, respect, and excellence. We offer a full range of benefits including an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and a 401(k) plan.

Matrix is seeking a Program Manager with project controls experience to support complex facilities, infrastructure, and design/construction programs. This role serves as a centralized coordination point for schedule, budget, contract, and financial performance, enabling project and program leadership to make informed decisions.

• Create, maintain, and continuously update a project‑specific tracker that captures major schedule, budget, contract, vendor, design, construction, and financial control items.
• Track design‑phase activities including design schedules, permit schedules, major milestones, budget categories, consultant/vendor commitments, and timely issuance of consultant, general contractor, and vendor contracts.
• Track design sign‑offs and phase‑gate milestones, including 100% Schematic Design (SD), Design Development (DD), and Construction Documents (CD), before projects move to the next phase.
• Track construction‑phase activities including construction schedules, major milestones, budget categories, contractor/vendor commitments, and timely issuance of consultant, general contractor, and vendor contracts.
• Maintain and update project forecasts in coordination with the owner’s project management and finance teams.
• Support financial administration by processing purchase orders, pay applications, invoices, and change orders in a timely and accurate manner.
• Monitor budgets by category and identify variances, risks, or items requiring follow‑up with consultants, contractors, vendors, or the client team.
• Coordinate with consultants, general contractors, vendors, and client representatives to gather status updates, resolve tracking gaps, and maintain accurate project records.
• Prepare recurring status updates, reports, dashboards, or briefing materials that clearly communicate schedule, budget, contract, and financial status.
• Support project execution to include budgeting, scheduling, organizing teams, prioritizing multiple projects and deadlines, quality assurance, invoicing, reporting, and contributing to project deliverables.
• Meet with clients and their representatives as an individual or part of a team to present status, resolve issues, answer questions, and maintain strong client relationships.
• Project controls experience supporting design and construction projects, preferably in healthcare, hospital, campus, or complex facilities environments.
• Working knowledge of design milestones, permit schedules, construction schedules, budget tracking, forecasts, purchase orders, pay applications, invoices, and change orders.
• Ability to build and maintain detailed trackers, logs, dashboards, and status reports across multiple project phases and stakeholder groups.
• Strong organizational management with exceptional communication, writing, and follow‑through skills.
• Ability to synthesize and distill schedule, budget, contract, and financial information into concise reports and presentations.
• Strong skillset in Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams; experience with project management, scheduling, or financial tracking systems is preferred.
• Ability and willingness to travel to project sites, client offices, and other facility offices as needed.

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• Degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, facilities management, business, finance, project management, or related field of study.
• Minimum of 10 years of work‑related experience in project controls, construction administration, owner’s representative support, program/project management, facilities management, or related work.
• Experience supporting healthcare, hospital, higher education, campus, commercial, or other complex facilities design and construction projects is preferred.
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