Construction Manager

SALARY DETAILS

APPLICATION FILING DATES

Open: 9/19/2025

Close: 10/10/2025

INFORMATION ABOUT LAUSD

We are LAUSD. We are at the forefront of innovation in public education, focused on a clear and inspiring vision of the future for all of our students as they venture forward on their journey as lifelong learners. Here, you will have the opportunity to exercise your potential in a role supporting the business of education. Our work directly contributes toward the goal of ensuring that our students graduate ready for the world – ready to thrive in college, career and life. LAUSD is the second largest school district in the tion with an enrollment of nearly 575,000 students. We serve an area totaling 710 square miles, with over 1,190 schools and educatiol centers, and we employ over 74,000 individuals, making us one of the largest employers in our city.

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DEPARTMENT OR SCHOOL SITE

The Facilities Project Execution branch is responsible for the construction, repair and modernization of existing schools as part of a multi-year bond funded capital improvement program. Project Execution is dedicated to the twin goals of providing relief from overcrowding and returning students to a traditional two-semester calendar as well as ensuring that existing campuses are modernized and repaired in support of the education and safety of our students utilizing cost efficient and sustainable materials. For more information, please visit http://www.laschools.org/new-site/project-execution/

BENEFITS

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

A Construction Manager provides administrative oversight to multiple Senior Resident Construction Engineers and Resident Construction Engineers by monitoring overall performance of assigned new construction, modernization, and repair projects.

Additional duties include:

• Resolving complex construction project related issues, disputes, and disagreements.

• Developing, assigning, and monitoring performance of Resident Construction Engineers and Senior Resident Construction Engineers relative to assigned construction projects.

• Reviewing status and overall construction project progress relative to submitted construction schedules.

• Reviewing all change orders from all construction projects and assessing their impact on the District.

• Assisting Regional Construction Directors and other Facilities management staff with bid and contract planning.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

PROMOTIONAL STATUS IS REQUIRED. You must be a current or retired employee of LAUSD with 130 paid days in regular status in the Classified Service or permanent status in the Certificated Service or

have been laid-off within the past 39 months from a regular, permanent LAUSD position in which you passed probation.

At a minimum, this job classification requires graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, planning, facilities management, construction management, business, or a related field, and five years of executive or administrative

experience managing large programs or projects in construction value excess of $50 million involving construction of new facilities, or the planning and coordinating of capital projects and/or facilities

maintenance and/or operations.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate will have exceptional capabilities as a leader as well as a manager, and will be comfortable in a team-oriented working environment. He or she will have strengths as a negotiator and

consensus-builder, and will have an open and accessible management style with successful experience partnering with project management staff and construction contractors to bring creative and cost effective

solutions to field discovered deficiencies.

A successful candidate will have:

• 17 years of full-time professional project/construction management experience.

• 5 years of experience in managing large programs with projects having construction values in excess of $100 million.

• 5 years of experience in education facility construction or public works projects.

Additionally, the successful candidate will preferably have:

• Design Build Experience

• Experience utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM)

• Experience in Leadership and Environmental Design (LEED) certified projects and/or the Collaborative for High Performing Schools (CHPS)

• Experience in Formal Construction Partnering

• Experience with DSA construction/design processes

• A valid Certificate of Registration as a Professional Engineer by the California State Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors

• A valid Certified Construction Manager (CCM) credential by the Construction Manager Certification Institute (CMCI)

• A valid Certification of Project Management Professionals (PMPs) or Program Management Professionals (PgMPs) by the Project Management Institute

• A valid Certificate of Registration as a licensed architect by the California State Architects

If you have any of the aforementioned preferable professional experience or credentialing, we request that you please indicate this information clearly in your application and on your resume or cover letter:

EMPLOYMENT SELECTION PROCESS

Please be sure to include correspondence from @lausd.net and @successfactors.com as an approved sender so that messages aren't accidentally placed into your spam/junk e-mail folder. We anticipate receiving a number of well qualified applicants for this position; therefore, there will be a competitive process. The hiring departments have requested that we proceed with the selection process in an expeditious and timely manner. To honor this request we will be adhering to a pre-planned employment assessment schedule. If you are uble to attend the scheduled dates, please note that we recruit for this position on a regular basis. We encourage you to visit our website, http://www.lausdjobs.org periodically to check for the next recruitment and we encourage you to apply again. For more information about the LAUSD employment assessment process, visit the hiring process section of our website at http://www.lausdjobs.org.

If you have questions regarding the employment selection process, please contact Jason Kim at jason.p.kim@lausd.net. 

APPLICATION PROCESS

ADDITIONAL POSTING INFORMATION

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