Project Manager - Airport Terminal Projects

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to independently lead assigned work streams for complex terminal and airport capital projects at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). This role will manage scope, design, construction, budget, schedule, risk, operational requirements, and stakeholder decisions while serving as a key owner-side interface with airport representatives, designers, contractors, and adjacent project teams. The Project Manager will be expected to drive issues to resolution, maintain clear project controls, and keep assigned work aligned with broader operational and program requirements.

Note:

This opportunity is available at multiple levels. Final placement will be determined based on the selected candidate’s experience, skills, and alignment with business needs. We are committed to providing fair and equitable consideration for all applicants.

Organizational Responsibilities

• Lead assigned project work streams from planning and design through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Establish and maintain project scope, requirements, responsibilities, interfaces, deliverables, schedules, dependencies, constraints, and key decision dates.
• Lead design and stakeholder coordination, ensuring comments, approvals, decisions, and interfaces among airport representatives, designers, contractors, operational teams, and adjacent projects are resolved.
• Monitor budgets, forecasts, proposed changes, risks, and potential commercial impacts and escape significant issues as appropriate.
• Coordinate permitting, inspections, approvals, acceptance requirements, and other activities necessary to advance project delivery.
• Evaluate construction phasing, logistics, access, and sequencing with particular attention to airport and airline operational impacts.
• Prepare concise project reporting that communicates status, risks, issues, required decisions, and recommended actions to leadership.
• Coordinate operational readiness and transition activities, punch-list completion, and project closeout.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant project management experience delivering complex aviation, terminal, transportation, or comparable capital projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related technical discipline required.
• Demonstrated owner-representative experience managing the full project lifecycle in an active airport or similarly complex operational environment.
• Advanced ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, risk, project controls, stakeholder requirements, and complex project interfaces independently.
• Strong written and verbal communication, meeting leadership, issue-resolution, and executive-reporting skills.
• Direct SFO or airline project experience preferred.
• Major terminal renovation or expansion experience preferred.
• Experience coordinating airport-led and airline-led project scopes preferred.
• California Professional Engineer (PE) license, CCM, PMP, or other relevant professional certification or credential preferred.

$149,833 - $212,719 a year

The salary range for this position is $149,833 to $212,719.

A hired employee will be placed within this salary range based on a variety of legitimate business reasons, including but not limited to the individual’s scope of relevant experience and geographic location.

• Overtime work may be required occasionally to ensure certain deliverables are completed on time
• Weekend work is rare but occasionally may be necessary

An employee must meet the physical demands described here to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with…