Sr. Project Manager, Real Estate and Facilities

About Wonder

About Wonder (company overview and mission are retained from the original content.)

The Wonder app is the premiere platform to feed every craving, all in one order. Our 25+ award-winning restaurant partners span every cuisine you can think of, from Greek to Thai, and come from the minds of the best chefs in the industry—Bobby Flay, José Andrés, Marcus Samuelsson, and more.

And our diners don’t have to choose just one: they can mix and match dishes from as many Made by Wonder restaurants as they’d like, or order from neighborhood gems near them. Everything is made to order at our brick-and-mortar locations across the East Coast and delivered fast and free, and more locations are opening every week.

The best in the business are coming to Wonder, working every day to make us the destination for every mealtime moment. Join a team of technology, culinary, and logistics pioneers, backed by top-tier venture capitalists, and help us make great food more accessible.

As the Project Manager of Rollouts, Remodels and Retro-fits Construction Project Manager will be joining the facilities team focusing on improving our existing restaurant portfolio. This position reports to the Head of Facilities. In this role you will be responsible for all remodel and retrofit rollouts. This includes small rollouts such as adding screens or painting the front of house and as big as systematic rollout of new equipment throughout our 100+ store portfolio.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a growing team where you will gain comprehensive exposure to our real estate, operations, and facilities team and have a direct impact on continual improvement of our restaurants.

• Design and construction project execution from site reviews to completion of construction
• Directly manage multiple projects at once
• Projects will be remodels and/or retrofit
• Travel to job sites as required
• Develop and adhere to the budget, timeline, and quality control plan; plan all phases of the construction lifecycle from initiation to completion
• Ensure projects are aligned with agreed-upon plans, communicate progress and challenges with stakeholders through reports and meetings
• Collaborate and direct architects, engineers, general contractors, vendors, suppliers, and other specialists
• Manage project design and implementation with internal stakeholders including Facilities, IT, FSQA, Health, Safety, Procurement, Culinary, and all others to ensure they meet their deadlines for the project
• Drive internal cross collaboration with subject matter experts for fast decision making and project execution
• Write and submit inspection logs and punch lists while ensuring all local, state, and national building codes and regulations are followed
• Negotiate contracts with external vendors, review proposals and invoices, track information, financially manage the project against the budget
• Plan all construction operations and schedule intermediate phases to ensure deadlines will be met; evaluate and hire vendors and allocate responsibilities
• Supervise the work of vendors and internal staff onsite including laborers, mechanics etc. and give them guidance when needed
• Ensure adherence to all health and safety standards and report issues
• Manage the transition to operations phase of the project after construction completion including service contract set-ups restaurant set ups and operations training on store systems

• Construction project management, multi-site, program management, retail, or restaurant build management
• Managing a team of external vendors, suppliers, internal team members and stakeholders
• Providing live on-site field direction and or supervision
• Negotiating agreements with 3rd parties including suppliers and sub-contractors
• Ability to review submittals, invoices, and proposals from 3rd parties
• Reading and understanding of construction drawings
• Creating reports and summarizing critical action items to internal team
• Experience hitting time-sensitive deadlines and budgets

• You operate autonomously in driving projects and stakeholders forward; acknowledge and request support or guidance when needed
• You solve problems and make decisions informed by data, insights, and good judgement
• You gain trust through open dialogue, collaborative problem solving, and actively seeking improvement
• You are biased towards action, and speed, and work through obstacles to maintain progress
• You are organized, have ability to prioritize and multi-task
• You are detailed oriented and adhere to time sensitive business milestones
• Willingness to travel regionally
• You solve problems and make decisions informed by data, technology trends and insights, and good judgement
• You have a strong eye for detail, able to identify potential risks or callouts for each potential site.
• You have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• You can work independently and…