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MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions

Commercial building mechanical contractor

Project Manager - Healthcare Construction

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$100k - $140k/yr
Senior
Bachelor's
Portland, OR, USA
In PersonOn-site at the Portland office.
Architecture & Civil EngineeringConstruction Management

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 6 years of project management experience in the mechanical construction industry, with a track record of managing complex projects.
  • Experience managing healthcare construction projects, preferably in hospitals, medical centers, outpatient facilities, or other clinical environments.
  • Demonstrated success delivering projects on schedule, within budget, and in alignment with customer expectations.
  • Strong financial and commercial skills, including budgeting, forecasting, cost control, labor productivity, billing, change management, and contract administration.
  • Experience coordinating mechanical systems, construction schedules, subcontractors, procurement, and field installation activities.
  • Understanding of healthcare construction requirements, including infection prevention, life safety, occupied-facility work, shutdown planning, and coordination with healthcare facilities personnel.
  • Experience collaborating with project teams, resolving complex issues, and supporting the development of Project Engineers or other project professionals.
  • Strong communication, negotiation, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively with customers, design teams, General Contractors, and field personnel.
  • A bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
Responsibilities
  • Lead delivery of mechanical construction projects in healthcare environments from preconstruction through closeout, managing project financials, schedules, risks, and coordination while partnering with healthcare owners, General Contractors, design teams, and field leadership.
  • Manage mechanical construction projects from preconstruction through closeout, meeting established safety, quality, schedule, budget, and customer expectations.
  • Develop, monitor, and communicate project schedules, coordinating procurement, equipment lead times, prefabrication, commissioning, and field installation.
  • Coordinate project activities around infection prevention and control, interim life safety measures, facility access restrictions, shutdowns, and occupied-space work requirements, as applicable.
  • Manage project budgets, cost tracking, labor forecasting, billing, change management, subcontract administration, purchase orders, and financial projections to achieve project margin objectives.
  • Review drawings, specifications, contracts, and design documents to identify scope gaps, constructability concerns, risks, and opportunities; prepare, negotiate, and manage documented change orders.
  • Partner with design teams, VDC/Detailing, field leadership, and other trades to resolve coordination issues involving HVAC, plumbing, piping, controls, and related building systems.
  • Ensure work meets project specifications, applicable codes, healthcare facility requirements, and quality standards; coordinate testing, inspections, commissioning, and closeout documentation.
  • Maintain productive relationships with healthcare owners, facilities teams, General Contractors, consultants, and internal stakeholders through proactive communication and dependable follow-through.
  • Work with project leadership and field teams to align staffing, procurement, materials, and other resources with project needs.
  • Anticipate schedule, labor, procurement, coordination, and operational risks, and bring the appropriate people together to resolve issues before they affect project outcomes.
  • Work across all levels of the organization to contribute to customer partnerships, effective project execution, and growth in the healthcare market.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with hospital renovations, expansions, central utility plant projects, operating-room upgrades, imaging departments, or other technically complex healthcare environments.
  • Familiarity with healthcare construction guidelines and standards, including applicable FGI Guidelines, infection control risk assessments (ICRAs), interim life safety measures (ILSMs), and commissioning requirements.
  • Experience coordinating work in occupied healthcare facilities where shutdowns, noise, vibration, dust, utility interruptions, and patient safety must be carefully managed.
  • Experience with mechanical prefabrication, BIM/VDC coordination, and design-assist or design-build project delivery.

About the company

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MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions

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MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions operates as a Pacific Northwest commercial building mechanical contractor and facility-services company. It designs, builds, maintains, and optimizes HVAC, plumbing, controls, and related systems for complex buildings. In practice, engineering and construction teams work with fabrication, field trades, service technicians, controls specialists, and sustainability professionals. The profile is MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions and its regional operating business. Roles span mechanical engineering, project management, skilled trades, service, controls, estimating, safety, sales, and support.

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • MacDonald-Miller was named one of Washington’s best workplaces on September 3, 2026.
  • Its West Portland expansion improved coverage for the 217 corridor and downtown clients.
  • Regional revenue in the Inland Northwest grew 28% over five years under Pat Roberts.

What critics are saying

  • Portland Public Schools sued MacDonald-Miller in August 2026 over Benson High unpaid invoices.
  • The complaint alleges costs jumped from $2.4 million to $5.6 million, stressing margins.
  • One public-owner dispute can poison bonding, prequalification, and future school work for years.

What makes MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions unique

  • MacDonald-Miller pairs mechanical contracting with energy, controls, and building automation under one roof.
  • Its June 2026 Pat Roberts promotion formalized regional growth leadership across Oregon and Inland Northwest.
  • Microsoft Thermal Energy Center work shows BIM-led prefab execution on complex decarbonization projects.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Wellness Program
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays

Company News

Citybiz
Oct 13th, 2026
MacDonald-Miller appoints Matt Lambert Vice President of Construction Services, succeeding Bret Lovely.

MacDonald-Miller appoints Matt Lambert Vice President of Construction Services, succeeding Bret Lovely. October 13, 2026 Matt Lambert joins MacDonald-Miller as vice president, construction services, to lead project development, precon, estimating, and delivery. MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions, a Pacific Northwest provider of design-build mechanical, electrical and plumbing services, has appointed Matt Lambert as Vice President of Construction Services. Lambert will oversee construction development, pre-construction services and project delivery, bringing more than two decades of leadership experience in general contracting and construction operations. He succeeds Bret Lovely, a 38-year veteran of MacDonald-Miller's construction business who is scheduled to retire at the end of 2026. Lambert joins MacDonald-Miller after five years at Dycom Industries, where he served as Vice President, overseeing development and operations across multiple businesses. Previously, he spent 18 years at Howard S. Wright, managing complex construction projects and working closely with mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractors. During his tenure at Howard S. Wright, Lambert collaborated with MacDonald-Miller on several major projects, including City Center Plaza, Microsoft Building 87 and Microsoft's Redmond Campus Modernization program. His experience working with MacDonald-Miller as a general contractor is expected to support the company's efforts to strengthen project execution and relationships with construction partners. "Matt knows our teams, our work, and our customers from the other side of the table, and he knows firsthand the value MacDonald-Miller delivers on even the most demanding projects," said Ruben Cañas, President of Construction at MacDonald-Miller. Cañas added that Lambert's general contracting background and experience developing construction teams will help support the company's continued growth. The leadership transition comes as MacDonald-Miller continues serving commercial construction and infrastructure customers throughout Washington and Oregon. Founded in 1965, MacDonald-Miller provides mechanical system design, construction, installation, maintenance and facility services across multiple industries, including healthcare, biotechnology, commercial real estate, marine, technology and mission-critical facilities. The company employs more than 1,600 skilled professionals across Washington and Oregon and is among the larger design-build mechanical contractors in the United States. Lambert's appointment adds general contracting expertise to MacDonald-Miller's senior construction leadership as the company focuses on project delivery, operational performance and customer relationships.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 13th, 2026
MacDonald-Miller hires ex-Howard S. Wright executive Matt Lambert as construction services vice president

MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions, a Pacific Northwest design-build mechanical, electrical, and plumbing provider, has hired Matt Lambert as vice president of construction services. He will oversee construction development, pre-construction services, and project delivery. Lambert spent 18 years at general contractor Howard S. Wright, where he worked with MacDonald-Miller on projects including City Center Plaza and Microsoft B87. Most recently, he spent five years at Dycom Industries as a vice president. He succeeds Bret Lovely, a 38-year MacDonald-Miller construction leader who retires at the end of 2026. "His general contracting perspective, coupled with his expertise in developing people, makes him the right leader to grow our construction business," said Ruben Cañas, the company's president of construction.

Lumen Technologies
Dec 10th, 2025
Operational agility in action: MacDonald-Miller's journey to zero trust

Operational agility in action: MacDonald-Miller's journey to zero trust. For more than 60 years, MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions has been shaping the Pacific Northwest skyline - designing, building and optimizing mechanical systems that make buildings work better. But behind the scenes, their IT team faced a challenge as complex as any construction blueprint: how to keep a growing, distributed workforce connected and secure without slowing down the business. "We're not just sitting in offices," said Seth Henderson, Director of IT. "Our people are everywhere - at job sites, on customer networks and even in their cars. We needed technology that works wherever they work." A connectivity challenge: distributed workforce, rising risk. When Henderson joined MacDonald-Miller two decades ago, the IT team was just five people. Today, it's nearly 30 strong - but their mission hasn't wavered: be a technology partner to the business. That mission became harder to fulfill as the company expanded and embraced cloud services. Employees were moving between networks constantly, and MacDonald-Millers' old VPN solution couldn't keep up. "Someone would undock their laptop, switch to wireless and suddenly lose access," Henderson recalled. "They'd have to reboot just to reconnect. It was frustrating - and it slowed people down." The turning point came during a visit to a customer site. While connecting to their network, MacDonald-Miller's laptops detected malicious activity targeting their devices. This experience highlighted a critical truth: security must accompany the user. It accelerated their move to Zero Trust, ensuring protection wherever work happens. "We saw how quickly things could escalate," said Aaron Unger, Cloud System Administrator. "That was the moment we knew we needed zero trust." Zero trust bolsters operational agility. To modernize connectivity and reduce risk, MacDonald-Miller partnered with Lumen to deploy a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution - and the positive results were immediate. "The onboarding was the smoothest I've ever seen," Unger said. "Within hours, we had a working solution. By the end of the first day, the configuration was basically done." The ZTNA solution gave the IT team real-time visibility into connections, granular access controls and the ability to enforce security policies without sacrificing usability. "One of the biggest wins was flexibility," Henderson explained. "If someone needs to step into a different role, we can adjust their access in minutes. That's huge for a company like ours." Performance that drives real impact. The benefits weren't just technical - they enhanced how employees work every day. Remote engineers who once struggled to download large architectural files saw performance improve up to three times. "We had one user who couldn't get into the office," Unger shared. "After switching to the new solution, he said it was night and day. His productivity skyrocketed." The rollout was so smooth that Henderson calls it the company's most impactful IT change of the year. "Every single person in our technology advisory group said the same thing," he noted. "This solution changed how we work." Future-ready IT for a multi-cloud world. With zero trust in place, MacDonald-Miller is now prioritizing resilience and multi-cloud strategies to mitigate risks from outages and help ensure uninterrupted service. "Our goal is to make sure we're always available for our customers," Henderson said. "This solution is a foundational piece of that strategy." For a company that prides itself on making buildings work better, the partnership with Lumen enables their own infrastructure to be just as strong - secure, scalable and ready for whatever comes next. 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Morningstar
Mar 11th, 2025
Travis Eshpeter Promoted to President, Building Services at MacDonald-Miller

MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions, the Pacific Northwest's leading mechanical, energy and sustainable solutions contractor, announced today the promotion of Travis Eshpeter to President, Building Services.

Business Wire
Dec 10th, 2024
Rory Olson Appointed CEO of MacDonald-Miller

Thanks to Gus, MacDonald-Miller is consistently recognized as one of the best companies in the Pacific Northwest and I'm happy he will remain deeply involved in his new role as Executive Chair," said Rory Olson. "