Full-Time

Project Director

Construction

CRB

CRB

Life sciences design and construction

Compensation Overview

$170k - $230k/yr

Irvine, CA, USA

Hybrid

Weekly visits to project sites are expected.

Bachelor's

Category
Business & Strategy (1)
Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or an equivalent qualification.
  • A minimum of ten years of experience in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.
  • An industry-specific certification, including Project Management Professional, Associate in Engineering and Construction Project Management, or Design-Build Institute of America certification.
  • Demonstrated success in senior project management, managing a single large project or a portfolio of smaller projects.
  • An advanced understanding of core engineering disciplines, project execution, and delivery in design and construction.
  • Experience managing the design process and relationships between design and construction to ensure quality, budget-conscious, and complete documents are delivered on schedule.
  • The ability to lead and manage integrated teams, including subcontractors.
  • An understanding of integrated project delivery, including design, procurement, commissioning, qualification, validation, and construction processes.
  • Proficiency with typical software tools, including Microsoft Suite, as well as safety and scheduling.
  • Leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement plans to deliver projects and services effectively and efficiently.
  • Support business operations, negotiate contracts, work with estimating, bid projects, manage profit and loss for assigned projects, and supervise project staff.
  • Assume overall accountability for jobsite safety and meeting contract requirements.
  • Verify project financial forecasts, notice provisions, and billings to meet contract requirements and resolve potential claims and deviations.
  • Ensure project-specific quality and closeout plans are aligned with owner contracts and contract documents.
  • Direct and supervise project administration, project superintendents, and engineers to establish operational priorities and maintain relationships with owners, subcontractors, and unions.
  • Own subcontracting strategy and the integrity of the buyout process on projects.
  • Negotiate contracts, implement risk mitigation plans, and conduct final reviews of contracts, agreements, and purchase orders.
  • Ensure project compliance with insurance and bond requirements.
  • Manage the design phase of guaranteed maximum price or design-build projects and oversee guaranteed maximum price or lump-sum submissions.
  • Oversee schedule planning and execution across multiple projects and manage schedule risks.
  • Develop local market understanding and lead networking strategies.
  • Partner with business development on sales strategies, client capture plans, and account plans; optimize profit levers and gross-profit-margin tactics for new sales.
  • Provide career development and coaching for team members and foster an inclusive work environment.
  • Translate organizational strategy so teams understand their roles in achieving strategic goals.
  • Support recruiting and hiring processes.
  • Participate in estimate reviews and lump-sum bidding efforts, and potentially lead pursuits with estimating support.
  • Perform constructability, design, and project schedule reviews.
  • Assess project risks and monthly status to help teams identify paths to completion with trades and clients.
  • Participate in operational support, operational excellence, safety, quality, and strategic planning meetings.
  • Conduct quarterly project reviews with Operational Excellence.
  • Track requests for equitable adjustment and claim progress across projects and provide support and guidance.
  • Track self-performance needs and strategies to supplement underperforming trades.
  • Manage Builder's Risk events when project teams need additional support.
  • Drive building information modeling and virtual design and construction coordination efforts.
  • Evaluate talent across project roles and identify succession gaps.
  • Provide leadership and consistency with Quality Managers across project sites.
  • Travel weekly to project sites to support challenges, critical tasks, and business-unit leadership.

CRB is an engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting firm serving life-sciences organizations. The company plans, designs, builds, and improves laboratories, manufacturing facilities, food plants, and other technically complex environments. It serves biotechnology, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, advanced technology, and research organizations. Its operating model centers on integrated project teams combining consulting, design, engineering, construction, commissioning, and operational expertise. Teams work across architecture, engineering, construction, consulting, project management, commissioning, and technical operations. Work depends on specialist expertise, clear client coordination, practical delivery, and ongoing support across projects and operating teams.

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