Airport Terminal Project Manager

Overview

Cordoba Corporation is a leading engineering and design firm based in California. We are seeking an Aviation Project Manager to support our Facilities Sector. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing the scope, cost, schedule, and operational interfaces of design and construction activities for the Terminal 5 Renovation and Reconstruction Project. The role focuses on schedule certainty, budget delivery, and ensuring construction work meets required quality standards while enforcing a strong health, safety, and environmental culture.

The Project Manager ensures the development and implementation of design, construction, testing, commissioning, turnover plans, operational impact mitigation, stakeholder coordination, and adherence to the client’s standards.

• Primary liaison and airport/owner representative responsible for directing and managing the project
• Responsible for scope development and scope management of the project to meet project goals and objectives
• Develop the RFP and oversee the procurement process for designers and contractors
• Providing direction and management for the assigned project and ensuring on‑schedule completion within or below budget in accordance with contractual obligations
• Planning and defining program goals and devising methods to accomplish them, developing in‑depth knowledge of owner objectives, contract terms, and airport policies
• Planning, directing, supervising, and controlling the execution of all technical, fiscal and administrative functions of the assigned project
• Working with team members and airport management to develop budgets, schedules, and plans for the various elements of a project
• Oversees the owner’s staff that manages full project delivery, including stakeholder interfaces
• Managing project scope to meet or exceed project goals and objectives
• Ability to identify and study options to complex design, operational, or constructability issues
• Ability to conduct field surveys and investigations to capture detailed and accurate field conditions. This information shall be used to enable strategic design and construction decisions
• Maintaining documentation on the approved scope of work for the project, including all related agreements, authorizations, reports, drawings, and specifications. This documentation shall include narratives for all scopes of work, as well as a coordinated CAD representation, including all projects for key disciplines
• Managing the project during design and construction, including resolution of technical design issues, issuing design non‑compliances, issuing field non‑conformances, timely processing of RFI’s, coordinating shop drawing reviews, participation in and approval of factory and site acceptance tests, coordinating material approvals, coordinating mock‑up approvals, providing reports, drawings, and specification interpretation, participation in testing and commissioning activities, managing the punch list process, and other activities as required to ensure the design process supports the project goals
• Overseeing the design process, including managing the Design Review Team (DRT) design review process for assigned project(s) through all phases of design, including significant design changes during construction
• Monitoring and leading efforts related to the permitting process required by the design team and contractor
• Overseeing the construction process to remove and mitigate obstacles that cause inefficiencies in the construction process
• Becoming thoroughly familiar with the required contractual obligations and technical aspects of all facilities to be erected
• Ensuring all work is being performed with and inspected to the latest versions of plans and specifications, including approved changes, submittals, and RFI’s
• Working with the designer, contractor, and stakeholders to develop the overall planning of construction activities and identify critical milestones and priorities
• Keeping alert to possible problem areas and taking preventative action to ensure critical milestones are met for each phase of the project
• Ensuring the use of safe and sound construction practices
• Preparing reports summarizing the progress…