Project Manager, Real Estate Project Design & Delivery

Work Details

Job Title: Project Manager, Real Estate Project Design & Delivery

Job ID:898-1|DB-77908

Work Timing: Regular Hours Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

Reporting Location:San Francisco,CA

Duration:6 month(s)

Pay Rate: $53.47 / hr

Summary

• Client is looking for a Project Manager to support the delivery of multiple workplace capital construction projects on Databricks' behalf.
• You will be the connective tissue between the people who will use the space, the Databricks teams that enable it, and the third-party professionals who design and build it.
• This role calls for an end-to-end view of the project lifecycle, sound technical judgment, and the ability to see around corners.
• You will anticipate how today's decisions affect future downstream design, cost and schedule decisions and turn complex project detail into clear recommendations for executives and other non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Databricks' internal project representative and owner-side integrator, representing the combined needs of internal business users and partner functions to the third-party execution teams.
• Build strong working relationships and partner early with Workplace Services, Security, IT, AV, Finance, Procurement and Legal so their requirements, approvals, budget and schedule are incorporated into the overall project plan.
• Translate Databricks business and operational needs into actionable functional program project briefs and scopes of work with the third-party project team.
• Coordinate the third-party project team, including construction project managers, architects, MEP engineers, code consultants and general contractors. Establish clear ownership of deliverables, the project communication process and escalation pathways to decision makers.
• Establish and maintain project controls for project scope, schedule, budget, and adherence to internal Databricks procurement process and compliance tracking.
• Coordinate internal stakeholder design and functional program reviews and document approvals affecting procurement and construction schedule milestones.
• Monitor project progress against the approved project plan and schedule. Surface emerging risks early, identify root causes, and recommend mitigations before they affect critical milestones such as budget or first day of business readiness.
• Represent Databricks at project governance meetings and communicate status, decisions needed, potential risks and impacts to REWS leaders. Turn detailed project information into concise executive summaries informing REWS leaders about what is happening, why it matters and what action is needed.
• Coordinate project handover and first day of business readiness with the project team, workplace services and internal partners. Confirm that handover as-built documentation, training, warranty and maintenance information is complete.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience in project or program management, construction, architecture / engineering, corporate real estate or a related field, including delivery of complex workplace or capital projects.
• Working knowledge of the commercial office construction process, including design coordination, construction documentation, permitting, schedules, budgets, procurement, change management, commissioning and handover.
• Experience translating varied stakeholder needs into clear requirements, decisions and execution plans-and navigating competing priorities without losing sight of the project's objectives.
• Familiarity with project-controls and financial skills, including budget development, cash-flow forecasting, change control, risk management and approval tracking.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, including the ability to tell a concise, accurate story about complex technical project topics for non-technical audiences.
• Strategic judgment: you look beyond the immediate task and possess the ability to operate with autonomy in a fast-moving environment, balance detail with the larger project objectives, and adapt as project needs evolve.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience delivering corporate workplace projects in a technology or other high-growth, matrixed organization.
• Bachelor's degree in design, construction management, architecture, engineering, real estate or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with technical workplace requirements and with integrating IT, AV, security, building systems or other specialist scopes into construction delivery.
• Experience representing an occupier / owner and managing external consultants, project managers, landlords, vendors or general contractors.
• Project-management, construction-management or sustainability credentials (for example, PMP, CCM or LEED) are a plus.

Skills

• program management
• construction
• corporate real estate