Project Manager - Airport Terminal Projects

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to independently lead assigned workstreams 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 workstreams 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 escalate 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.