About the Opportunity

Join one of Northern California's leading structural demolition and remediation contractors, a firm with decades of work on complex bridge, wastewater, industrial, and heavy infrastructure projects across Northern California and Northern Nevada. This is heavy, technical work where safety leads. The company holds a .51 EMR and expects every Project Manager to lead to that same standard.

Role Summary

The Project Manager owns projects from contract award through owner acceptance. Working alongside field superintendents who run field operations, you own the contract, protect project margin, hold the schedule, manage change orders, and serve as the client's primary point of contact. Most projects run around $500k, while bridge and infrastructure work typically ranges from $1.5M to $3M. This is a hands-on role: time splits between job sites, client meetings, and project administration, with roughly one to two days a week at a base office, most likely Roseville or Stockton. Project Managers run work across multiple regions and can operate from whichever office is most convenient.

Key Outcomes
  • Protect project margin. Own cost-to-complete on active work, track actuals and estimated hours against budget, and catch margin threats early: scope creep, labor overruns, sub scheduling issues, and budget variance.
  • Turn field changes into authorized revenue. Know the contract scope well enough to spot changes as they happen, price them quickly with the superintendent, and carry each change order through authorization and billing so absorbed costs are intentional, not missed.
  • Keep the client ready to hire again. Serve as the client's main point of contact for the life of the project, stay ahead of status updates and schedule risk, and handle delays, disputes, and field surprises professionally.
  • Hold an honest schedule. Keep look-ahead schedules current, push clients when their delays put the job at risk, and resolve sequencing and resource conflicts with superintendents before they become schedule problems.
  • Set the job up right before crews mobilize. Read the contract, specs, and scope; flag risky or contradictory items early through RFIs or preconstruction conversations; and line up schedule, budget, subcontracts, and safety coordination up front.
What You'll Bring
  • Experience in structural demolition, heavy civil, bridges, highways, wastewater or water treatment, industrial work, earthwork, heavy equipment, or similar technical scopes. GC-side Project Managers who have run structural or infrastructure scopes fit well too.
  • Public infrastructure experience is a strong plus, especially Caltrans or other public-agency work where documentation, change management, and contract discipline matter. Residential or light commercial demolition is not the right match for this role.
  • Comfort in a smaller-company environment: resourceful, hands-on, and effective without layers of support.
  • The judgment to read a cost report and separate revenue problems from cost problems, hold a job to budget under pressure, read contracts and know which clauses matter, and build client trust while pushing difficult change orders through.
  • A quick study on construction technology. Procore helps, since many GC clients use it, and the company is rolling out DocumentCrunch for contract review and moving toward more mobile field and project tools.
Compensation & Benefits
  • Base salary of $130,000 to $180,000 depending on experience.
  • Medical: five plan options across Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health Plus, and Anthem BlueCross. On the base plan, the company covers 100% of the employee premium and 85% for dependents, with buy-up plans available.
  • Dental and vision: 100% covered for employees and dependents.
  • Retirement: Safe Harbor 401(k) with a match up to 5%, fully vested from day one.
  • Life and AD&D coverage company-paid, with supplemental coverage available.
  • Healthcare and dependent-care FSAs available.
  • Employee assistance program at no cost.