Senior Project Manager - Aviation
About The Position
STV is seeking a highly experienced Senior Project Manager to join its national aviation group. The position supports major aviation capital improvement programs onsite in Denver, Colorado, and Phoenix, Arizona. This leadership role oversees the overall picture of construction and logistics activities while project managers and their teams manage day-to-day project work. The role focuses on schedule certainty, budget delivery, quality standards, and a strong health, safety, and environmental culture. The Senior Project Manager coordinates construction, logistics, quality assurance and control, risk management, technical interfaces, testing and commissioning, scheduling, and cost and change management across program projects. The role also supports project teams, facilitates information flow and coordination meetings, reviews design and technical documents, and assists with estimates, negotiations, and contractual reviews.
Requirements
- At least 15 years of experience, preferably on airport projects, leading groups of staff.
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Construction Management, Planning, or another related technical field.
- Demonstrable specialized experience or area of expertise.
- Experience with projects valued at more than $250 million.
- Experience with delivery methods including Design-Bid-Build, Design+CMAR, and Design/Build.
- Demonstrated ability to perform in a management capacity.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and thorough knowledge of industry practices and regulations.
- Self-starter attitude with a proactive, results-oriented focus and willingness and capability to assume additional responsibilities.
- Ability to interface with people with varied technical levels and educational backgrounds.
- Detail-oriented and highly organized.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree.
- Relevant professional licensure and/or certification; examples include AAAE, LEED, PE, PMP, and AICP.
- Experience supporting aviation owners, such as airports or airline clients.
- Experience working on projects exceeding $250 million in construction value.
- Experience supporting alternative delivery methods, including CMAR, Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, or similar approaches.
Responsibilities
- Monitor program construction activities to ensure work is completed on time and within budget and meets applicable codes and standards.
- Ensure implementation of a quality assurance plan and monitor construction activities through a robust quality control process across project phases.
- Oversee, manage, and mitigate technical construction interface risks involving projects, contractors, and third parties.
- Supervise and guide project teams in conjunction with program leadership and project managers.
- Implement, supervise, guide, and monitor logistics activities across construction phases, including construction, operations, and maintenance considerations.
- Oversee and monitor testing and commissioning.
- Monitor dispute resolution for inspection deviations.
- Facilitate information flow and technical liaison between program and project teams.
- Identify and resolve potential design and construction issues across leases, contracts, and other projects.
- Review and comment on design plans and technical documents for constructability and logistics.
- Assist with program risk management and mitigation to support schedule and cost containment.
- Coordinate the program schedule with schedules of other projects affecting the program.
- Facilitate interface coordination meetings among project teams.
- Work with project teams to verify that interface elements and integrated systems function as expected.
- Monitor schedule progress and anticipate issues that could affect key milestones.
- Develop, track, and manage sequencing of work across program projects.
- Coordinate quality and safety requirements with inspection.
- Coordinate reviews of design-builder estimates for contractual compliance and, where required, alignment with fair market value.
- Oversee reviews of change proposals for contractual compliance and, where required, alignment with fair market value.
- Coordinate conceptual estimates for new scopes of work.
- Coordinate assistance to project managers with change order negotiations and preparation of negotiation records.
- Ensure pricing sources used in preparing estimates are cited and recorded.
Benefits
- Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and transit and parking where applicable
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
- 401(k) Plan
- Retirement Counseling
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Back-Up Dependent Care
- Parental Leave
- Continuing Education Program
- Professional Licensure and Society Memberships
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
