Senior Facilities Project Manager

Requisition Number: 67410

Location: Boulder, Colorado

City:
Boulder

State: Colorado

Employment Type: University Staff

Schedule: Full-Time

Posting Close Date: 30-Sep-2025

Date Posted:
16-Sep-2025

Job Summary

The Housing Facilities Services (HFS) department with
CU Boulder is currently accepting applications for a Senior Facilities Project Manager! This position
plays a critical role in delivering clean, safe, comfortable, and well-maintained living, working, and learning environments for students,
faculty, and staff in support of CU Boulder’s educational mission. This position serves as the Owner’s Representative for Student Affairs
(SA) and HFS on capital construction, renovation, and infrastructure modernization projects, ensuring projects are completed efficiently,
sustainably, and in alignment with university standards.

This position manages the entire lifecycle of facility projects, from
initiation and planning to design, construction, and close-out of facility projects, with a specific focus on complex renovations of
historic buildings, large-scale modernizations, and infrastructure improvements.

Key responsibilities include developing project
scopes, supervising architectural, engineering, and construction work, and ensuring adherence to campus and regulatory standards,
particularly in historic preservation, fire/life safety, and sustainability initiatives.

This position is responsible for 15 to 25
ongoing capital construction and maintenance projects within the HFS portfolio of 24 residence halls, 6 family housing complexes, 7
dining/retail venues and auxiliary buildings.

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state,
and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with
respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with
disabilities.

Who We Are

The Division of Student Affairs consists of 30
departments that provide student support and services dedicated to helping students become successful, curious, competent individuals during
their time at CU Boulder.

The work in Student Affairs supports all factors of the student experience, no matter what department a
staff member may work in. This includes where students live, eat, make friends, build professional skills and find help if they need it.
Many departments provide involvement opportunities, educational resources and support services to help students find their community and
build lifelong skills. Student Affairs also has shared services departments that support the work and staff of our student-facing areas,
including areas like assessment, business services, financial planning, human resources, marketing communications and information technology
(IT).

With over 800 staff members in the Division of Student Affairs, our diverse team is uniquely positioned to personalize the
student experience and advocate for students, enhancing their success inside and outside the classroom.

Housing Facilities Services
(HFS) is a comprehensive facility management operation that provides around-the-clock support to over 10,000 residents and 20,000 conference
guests annually. Services include maintenance, repair, renovation, project management, capital construction, housekeeping and
grounds-keeping operations. HFS has approximately 190 full-time employees and approximately 80 part-time and student staff, who all strive
to give residents the best living experience possible.

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

Project Management:

• This position helps determine facility upgrades,
  improvements, and collaborates with partners across campus to define project scope, develop strategic plans, and establish key performance
  benchmarks.
• Serve as the front-line liaison between the HFS Design & Project Management team and
  various groups within SA and other campus departments (i.e., EH&S, FM, OIT, Parking Services, etc.) ensuring compliance with campus
  standards and requirements.
• Determine alternatives, make recommendations, and gather data and
  information in response to proposed remodels, repairs and capital improvement.
• Facilitate the
  incorporation of selected changes in consultation with the project consultants and communicate these changes to the contractor for
  implementation.
• Prepare State of Colorado contractual project documents, agreements, change orders and
  review of invoices and applications for payment.
• Coordinate and partner with groups across the
  University to ensure efficient and successful programmatic results.
• Interview potential consultants and
  contractors, and team with others to select the most appropriate consultant or contractor for the project.
• Review and implement project requests from various Departmental units.
• Produce project scope
  documents on smaller projects, seek funding sources or investigates alternate funding sources with SA units (i.e., HFS, Finance).
• Review all drawings with various campus partners, lead review meetings with HFS staff to ensure compliance with
  project and material requirements.
• Ensure incorporation of all review comments into the construction
  documents.

Owner’s Representative/Liaison:

• Act as the Owner’s
  Representative for SA and HFS, coordinating with regulatory agencies, external contractors, internal facilities teams, and campus partners
  to ensure compliance with all state, local, and university standards.
• Supervise and analyze proposed
  project scope change revisions generated by regulatory requirements for programmatic and budgetary impact. Clearly communicate those impacts
  to senior unit and departmental staff.
• Demonstrate exceptional skill in coordination of multiple tasks
  and prioritization of activities.
• Display excellent interpersonal skills by providing honest, clear,
  and timely feedback while also demonstrating good listening and questioning skills.
• Chair all bid
  openings and meetings, site walks
• Propose and implement addenda to contracts and schedules and
  coordinate design consultant and contractor interaction.
• Maintain and foster a close working
  relationship with HFS Zone Operations Managers to ensure proper coordination of the work with HFS requirements.
• Act as the construction manager on smaller projects – coordinating and scheduling all trades, reviewing shop drawings and
  submittals.

Budget, Finance, and Analysis:

• Maintain accurate
  electronic and hard copy files, project files, project timelines, files of data, project manuals, warranty documents, contract documents,
  and drawings for HFS.
• Responsible for generating preliminary costs, budgets and schedules on various
  projects and regularly updating the above, and occasionally requesting additional funding or proposing alternate funding sources. Work with
  SA Finance on budgets and required funding scenarios.
• Review and ensure consultant and contractor
  compliance with schedule and approved budget requirements.
• Manage project budget development in concert
  with the customer, reviews change order requests, assists in setting the final project budgets, maintains up-to-date project budgets and
  changes, recommends alternatives to budgetary constraints. Oversees, coordinates, and ensures consensus with campus partners to proposed
  Owner generated or required change documents.
• Analyze and ensure proper project scope revisions for
  programmatic success, budgeting compliance and coordination of consultant / contractor implementation.
• Has a working understanding of various software; Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point, etc. facilitating distribution of information
  on budgets, schedules, work plans and various other informational data bases to various interested parties.
• The use of a University vehicle is required for the performance of some of these duties.

What You Should Know

• The schedule for this onsite position is from Monday through Friday, 7:30am – 4:30pm
• This position will operate University vehicles; a Driver’s License in good standing is required.

What We Can Offer

The salary range for this position is $89,000 – $99,000 per year.
Onboarding assistance
is available within Student Affairs division guidelines.

Our outstanding benefits include:

• Paid days off: 22 vacation days,
  15 sick leave days and 11 holidays per year.
• Access to medical, vision, dental and life insurance.
• Tuition
  reimbursement.
• A 10% employer contribution retirement plan.
• EcoPass for free RTD rides.
• Opportunity for career
  growth within the division of student affairs and the CU Boulder campus!

Benefits

The University of
Colorado offers excellent benefits, including
medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass. The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers
in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. Learn more about the University of Colorado Boulder.

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collaborative. Be excited. Be Boulder.

What We Require

• Bachelor’s
  degree in architecture, construction management, or engineering, or bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with
  equivalent experience in a related field. Equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute.
• Five years project management and/or construction management experience.

What You Will Need

• Experienced with PC based information, financial and word processing systems and software. i.e. MS Outlook,
  Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project.
• Demonstrated track record of exemplary customer service and client
  satisfaction.
• Exemplary communication, organization, interpersonal, and leadership skills.

What We Would Like You to Have

• Demonstrated construction project management experience with historic renovation
  and adaptive reuse projects.
• Demonstrated construction project management experience with large-scale multi-year capital projects
  exceeding $100 million.
• Must have a proven track record of planning, organizing and coordinating the work activities of outside
  consultants and contractors with the needs of institutional protocols and customer requirements.
• Fire life safety and building code
  knowledge and experience.
• Demonstrated construction project management experience with dormitory, residence hall, hotel, or
  multi-family residential renovation projects.
• Certification as a project manager by a recognized national
  program.
• Experience using Oracle Primavera Unifier Project Management software.

Special Instructions

To apply, please submit the following materials:

1. A current resume.

2. A cover letter that specifically tells us how your background and experience align with the
requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.

We may request references at a later
time.

Please apply by September 30, 2025, for consideration.

Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For
consideration, please apply through CU Boulder Jobs.

In compliance with the Colorado Job
Application Fairness Act, in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or
dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.