Senior Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager (SPM) will play a critical leadership role in the delivery of a highly complex, ground-up ultra-luxury hotel, resort, and branded residential development on a remote island in the Caribbean. Qualified candidates must demonstrate extensive experience delivering large-scale, ground-up ultra-luxury hospitality projects, along with strong technical construction expertise and experience managing projects in remote or logistically challenging environments.

Candidates based in South Florida are strongly preferred due to the geographic proximity to CMD's current projects.

Under the general direction of the Project Director, the SPM will independently lead day-to-day project execution, including planning, design management, construction oversight, and coordination of multidisciplinary international teams.

Acting as an extension of the client's team, the SPM will deliver CMD's Owner's Advisor Services throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring alignment with schedule, budget, quality, and client objectives while upholding CMD's core values of Stewardship, Collaboration, and Professionalism.

• Assume primary responsibility for independently directing daytoday project execution, establishing project specific objectives, priorities, policies, and procedures, and ensuring accountability across all project disciplines.
• Serve as a senior representative of the client in coordinating with ownership, internationally recognized architects and designers, engineering consultants, contractors, operators, and regulatory agencies. Lead highlevel project meetings, drive critical decisions, and provide executive level briefings on project milestones, financial performance, risks, and strategic recommendations.
• Exercise independent judgment in anticipating and resolving complex project challenges, proactively identifying risks, evaluating technical and commercial implications, and implementing effective solutions while escalating major strategic matters to the Project Director.
• Provide leadership and direction to multidisciplinary project teams, holding consultants and contractors accountable for performance, deliverables, and project objectives. Mentor junior project staff in technical coordination, design management, and project management methodologies and standards.

• Lead early planning efforts, including site analysis, feasibility studies, land planning, area programming, master planning, infrastructure assessments, and conceptual design, ensuring alignment with the client’s development objectives and ultraluxury hospitality expectations.
• Direct technical due diligence of site conditions, infrastructure, environmental constraints, and development risks to inform project decisions.
• Lead preliminary budgets, cost estimates, financial models, and master schedules; assess design feasibility and construction approaches.
• Recommend project delivery, contracting, procurement, phasing, and bid packaging strategies suited to remote island logistics and available resources.
• Coordinate entitlements, permitting, and regulatory approvals, identifying potential obstacles early.
• Challenge early design solutions to align architectural vision with constructability, infrastructure, cost, and schedule.

• Establish project communication, document control, roles, and accountability across international teams; lead design coordination and project control meetings.
• Direct the multidisciplinary design process from concept through construction documentation, managing internationally recognized architects, engineers, interior designers, and specialty consultants to ensure coordinated, technically sound deliverables that meet project quality, schedule, and budget objectives.
• Critically evaluate architectural and engineering designs for technical feasibility, interdisciplinary coordination, constructability, regulatory compliance, and alignment with the client's vision and luxury hospitality brand standards. Identify deficiencies, challenge proposed solutions, and direct appropriate corrective measures.
• Evaluate detailed budgets, schedules, cash flow, and design cost exposure; identify cost and schedule impacts of design decisions and recommend mitigation.
• Direct comprehensive design reviews, value engineering initiatives, peer reviews, and constructability assessments, balancing architectural integrity, technical performance, construction feasibility, cost, and schedule without compromising the intended…