Project Manager

Custom Scope Under the general direction of the Associate Director, Campus Design and Construction, the incumbent is accountable for project management services to ensure design and construction projects are on schedule, within budget, high-quality, cost-effective, and appropriate to client program needs. Projects focus on renovation work within world-class research facilities and the administrative spaces that support them. The incumbent has a first-line responsibility for communicating effectively with project stakeholders, ranging from departmental administrators to highly technical researchers and facilities support staff. Excellent customer service skills are essential at all phases of the project. The incumbent organizes, plans, and controls the design and construction efforts on projects ranging from $5,000 - $70,000,000. Services include all elements of project management from concept through project closeout, including initial scoping, budgeting, funding, procurement, impact mitigation, construction management, and closeout of large and small projects. This involves selecting professional design staff (architects and engineers), general contractors and subcontractors, coordinating the activities of clients, construction inspectors, and others associated with the projects; managing project progress to achieve overall project objectives consistent with department standards and in alignment with customer expectations including, budget, cost and quality; resolving problems that arise in the projects; working with state agency officials to ensure compliance and safety. Emphasis is placed on the incumbent's ability to complete the following in a complex research environment: analyze available information to provide conceptual-level estimates at early stages of project development, review constructability and suggest alternative solutions, and proactively manage the design phase to ensure efficient and cost-effective project delivery. Project managers may be responsible for coordinating the activities of Real Estate Assistant Project Managers as directed. Department Overview The organization of UCSF Real Estate is focused on the development, planning, delivery, and management of physical space for UCSF. Key responsibilities include a unified approach to oversee the active UCSF growth planned on a multi-site campus and to manage the complex metropolitan environments affecting capital assets and projects, and efforts to align municipal challenges with maximum effectiveness in support of the UCSF mission. UCSF Real Estate is an integrated unit that enables the alignment of development, planning, design, construction, and management of facilities and a lease portfolio of 1M square feet across UCSF. Services are provided through the following departments: Building Permit Services, Campus Design and Construction, Campus Planning, Construction Contract Administration, Health Design and Construction, Health Major Capital Projects, Real Estate Services, Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Capital Program Management and support through Business Intelligence, and Finance, Administration and Operations. The UCSF Campus Design & Construction department is responsible for providing comprehensive capital project delivery services to the research, academic, administrative, campus life services units on the Parnassus, Mt Zion, ZSFG (Zuckerberg San Francisco General), Mission Center, Mission Bay, campuses including leased properties and satellite locations in San Francisco and throughout the greater Bay Area and Fresno. Project types include new “ground up” buildings, seismic upgrades of existing buildings, major infrastructure & technology upgrades, major facilities investment and deferred maintenance programs, renovations and upgrades of existing labs, offices, education space, student and faculty housing facilities, and full floor renovations. The team is responsible and accountable to assure projects are delivered in acc…

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