Project Coordinator

Cresleigh has been constructing new homes in the Sacramento Metropolitan Area since 1991. Cresleigh has since entered into the multi-family urban homebuilding market and continues its trend of seeking out urban, transit-oriented sites in San Francisco.

We are seeking a Project Coordinator to join our team and assist with our exciting new development projects! 

The ideal candidate will be a creative, organized, and communicative individual who displays a general understanding of the acquisition, entitlement, architecture, and construction processes. This individual will assist with project execution, which would include the planning, design, execution, monitoring, and completion of office, residential, hotel, and mixed-use projects. The Project Coordinator will be setting up contracts with architects, contractors, and external consultants, and will collaborate with these teams to successfully design and build development projects.

The Project Coordinator will be located in San Francisco and report to the Development Manager. 

The Project Coordinator will also manage interaction with city agencies, communities, and political entities, as well as doing risk analysis, value analysis and solving both internal and external blockers. Additionally, the role will involve architecture and construction experience to make the right decisions and collaborate with a variety of industries needed to effectively navigate projects in the interest of the project schedule, budget, and pro forma.

• Successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, and closure of projects.

• Coordinate and execute on multiple high-quality, high-profile, developments, simultaneously
• Attend OAC’s (Owner + Architect + Contractor + external team Meetings) for each managed project on 1 or 2 week intervals, depending on the phase of the project.
• Identify action items with clear and direct timelines, and expectations to internal and external team members in order to meet schedules and budgets for every project.
• Ability to manage diverse teams with diverse skill-sets, resolve conflicts, and produce solutions to keep teams moving on budget and on schedule.
• Ability to review and mark-up project plans, specifications, contracts, both construction and design, scopes, bids, RFI’s, Submittals, and change orders. 
• Create, execute, maintain and track project pro forma, schedule,  and budgets

• Create Project Budgets and Schedules
• Create Project Pro Forma
• Manage, update, and report variances to each development’s pro forma model on a weekly basis.
• Continuously perform risk analyses and value analyses in all decisions that are based on changes to the drawings and specifications, budget, schedule or pro forma, and shall prepare for approval from their direct manager.

• Ensure that there is a signoff on the  proforma, schedule, budget variances prior to any design/project milestones being signed off, or changes to the design and construction of the project. 
• Provide support with city agencies, communities, politicians throughout the development process.
• Navigate through political, community, and City engagement during the project. 
• Identify, solve, and execute on mitigating external blockers that cause an impact to project budget or schedule (i.e., Environmental, PG&E, City Planning, etc.).
• Attend functions, dinners, meetings, and other related items, needed to solve external blockers.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in an industry related to Construction, Architecture, Engineering or Real Estate.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in an industry related to Construction, Architecture, Engineering or Real Estate.
• General knowledge of acquisition, entitlements and permitting, architecture, and construction.
• Knowledge and experience working with federal, state, and local codes, ADA, zoning, and other applicable laws.
• Good decision-making skills and a highly resourceful and creative problem solver.
• Excellent organizational skills, including but not limited to writing effective and clear emails, with clear titles, context, and follow-up, Box drive folder organization with clear file naming and locations, calendar invites, agendas with notes and action items for all internal and external team members.
• Experience or interest with political engagement, including having conversations with council members and local committees.
• Experience or interest with community engagement, including hosting and running community meetings, meeting with local stakeholders, and putting together community benefits agreements.
• Ability to build, run, and track a project budget, schedule, and financial proforma.
• Ability to manage internal and external team members.
• Familiarity with the following programs: Google-based platforms, Microsoft Projects, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Bluebeam, and Wrike.
• Highly preferred skills: entitlements expertise, financial modeling, expediting, construction/architectural/ management, managing external/internal teams to hit realistic and aggressive deadlines.

Cresleigh Homes is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. If you need accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, let us know the nature of your request. The employer will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in the manner required by the FCO.