Senior Construction Project Manager

BRPH is a technically focused, creative architecture, engineering, and construction company with over six decades of expertise in helping mission-driven clients in the aerospace, defense, manufacturing, commercial, education, entertainment, hospitality, and federal markets identify gaps in their program delivery and develop innovative solutions to their most challenging problems across the U.S. and around the world. Consistently ranked among the nation’s top firms, we take pride in solving complex challenges with forward-thinking solutions.

As an employee-owned company, BRPH is known for its collaborative culture, technical excellence, and client-focused approach, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to design and build environments that are functional, efficient, and future-ready.

SUMMARY:

The Senior Construction Project Manager provides overall leadership for large, complex, high-risk, or multiple construction and design-build projects within Construction and Integrated Services (C&IS). The role is accountable for project execution and financial outcomes, Owner relationships, team performance, risk and change governance, and integration of preconstruction, design, procurement, construction, quality, safety, commissioning, turnover, and closeout. In addition to leading assigned work, the Senior Construction Project Manager guides other project leaders, resolves escalated delivery issues within delegated authority, supports pursuits and client development, and provides clear recommendations to the Project Executive and C&IS leadership on decisions requiring higher approval. The Senior Construction Project Manager is typically assigned to projects that exceed $25 million in value or involve increased complexity not found in traditional construction.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead execution of large, complex, high-risk, or multiple projects and confirm that project plans, resources, controls, and decision paths align with contractual obligations and approved business objectives.
• Direct development and implementation of integrated project execution plans covering scope, budget and margin, cash flow, schedule, staffing, procurement, design management, safety, quality, risk, communication, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Lead Healthy Start, project validation, and major phase-gate reviews; verify that project roles, deliverables, systems, controls, constraints, and escalation paths remain current as the work evolves.
• Serve as a senior Owner and stakeholder contact for contractual, commercial, delivery, and relationship matters while coordinating decisions and approvals with the Project Executive, Contracts, Finance, and other authorized leaders.
• Direct project financial strategy and performance, including baseline conversion, forecasts, job-cost reporting, commitments, cash flow, billings, changes, contingency use, recovery actions, and communication of material variances.
• Lead project risk and opportunity management; challenge mitigation plans, evaluate cost and schedule exposure, and elevate risk acceptance, contractual exceptions, and consequential decisions to the Project Executive or authorized leadership.
• Provide senior oversight of project schedules, procurement and release strategies, design and quality gates, commissioning, and closeout; intervene when trends threaten contractual milestones or project outcomes.
• Ensure safety is integrated into planning and execution and that accountable field and safety leaders have the resources, coordination, and management support needed to perform their responsibilities.
• Ensure project-specific Quality Control Plans are implemented, quality-release requirements are satisfied, unresolved issues are escalated, and quality records support Owner acceptance and project closeout.
• Lead integration among the Design Manager, Architect of Record, Engineer of Record, Preconstruction Manager, construction team, and trade partners to maintain design-to-cost, constructability, procurement, schedule, quality, and field alignment while preserving licensed authority.
• Provide senior oversight of bid packages, award recommendations, contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, trade-partner performance, claims avoidance, change management, and commercial issue resolution within approved authority.
• Build and lead high-performing project teams; assign leadership responsibilities, coach Construction Project Managers and project staff, provide timely performance input, support development planning, and resolve cross-functional conflicts.
• Review project reporting and lead executive-level communication of financial status, schedule, risk, change, safety, quality, client matters, resource needs, and recommended corrective actions.
• Support pursuits, interviews, proposals, preconstruction planning, and client-development activities by translating delivery experience into credible execution, risk, staffing, and commercial strategies.
• Promote consistent use of Procore and approved BRPH systems, conduct lessons-learned reviews, and recommend improvements to project-management standards, tools, controls, and training.
• Verify that commissioning, turnover, closeout, final financial reconciliation, record documentation, and remaining contractual obligations are completed and that unresolved items have an accountable owner and escalation path.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• Required: Bachelor's degree in construction management, construction engineering, construction science, engineering, architecture, quantity surveying, OR a related discipline plus twelve years of relevant construction project-delivery experience, including at least four years in the Construction Project Manager role.
• Required: Minimum 4 years’ experience leading large, complex, high-risk, or multiple construction or design-build projects through planning, design management, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Required: Minimum 4 years’ experience managing project financial performance, contracts, schedules, risk, change, procurement, trade partners, quality, safety integration, client relationships, and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Required: Ability to lead and coach Construction Project Managers and project staff, resolve escalated delivery issues, advise executives and clients, and distinguish delegated project authority from approvals reserved for the Project Executive or other authorized roles.
• Required: Minimum 12 years’ knowledge of construction methods and systems, contract and commercial administration, project controls, critical-path scheduling, cost and cash-flow management, procurement, commissioning, and integrated design-build delivery.
• Required: Minimum 8 years’ proficiency with Procore, project scheduling, financial, document-control, reporting, and collaboration tools applicable to assigned work.
• Preferred: OSHA 30-Hour Construction Outreach Training Program course completion card.
• Preferred: Construction Quality Management for Contractors (CQM-C) certificate issued through a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command recognized course, or a BRPH-approved equivalent quality credential; BRPH must confirm universal applicability and accepted equivalents.
• Preferred: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Construction Manager (CCM), Designated Design-Build Professional (DBIA), or another credential relevant to assigned project work.
• Preferred: Working experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and platforms.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to navigate and move around the construction site, which may involve walking, climbing ladders and scaffolding, and standing for extended periods on uneven surfaces.
• Ability to lift to 50 pounds.
• Ability to handle tools, equipment, and perform tasks that require coordination and manual skills.
• Manual dexterity, hearing, mental acuity, typing, reaching, repetitive motion, speaking, talking, and visual acuity.
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle.
• Ability to stand and sit for periods longer than 30 minutes but not to exceed two hours consecutively.
• Ability to produce clear, accurate, and legible written text, numbers, symbols, and drawings. Ability to learn complex tasks and remember how to complete tasks without assistance once trained.
• Ability to remain composed, focused, and professional while effectively managing high-pressure situations and tight deadlines. Quick thinking and decision-making ability to address issues and challenges that may arise during construction.
• Ability to work in various weather conditions and handle the physical demands of supervising a construction project.
• Strict adherence to safety protocols and the ability to enforce safety standards on the construction site.
• Adherence to personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements when on the construction site, such as hard hats, safety vests, and steel-toed boots.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job description may be changed to include new responsibilities and tasks or change existing ones as management deems necessary.

EOE, including Disability/Vets