Construction Manager

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

If you’re energized by work that keeps hospitals running safely behind the scenes, this role puts you where impact is immediate and meaningful. As a Project Manager, your decisions directly protect patients, staff, and critical care environments every day.

In this role, you will manage infrastructure upgrades, repairs, and special projects from planning through closeout, partnering closely with engineering, operations, and clinical stakeholders to deliver safe, reliable outcomes in a highly regulated healthcare setting. You’ll succeed by balancing scope, schedule, and risk while keeping safety and continuity front and center.

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Lead multiple infrastructure projects across hospital, ambulatory, and administrative spaces

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Coordinate consultants, contractors, and internal partners through all project phases

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Monitor budgets, schedules, and risks to ensure on-time, compliant delivery

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Work primarily onsite in Menlo Park and across the Bay Area; this is not a people manager role

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Bring experience from healthcare, facilities, engineering, or construction, with strengths in communication, problem-solving, and project controls

The  Facilities Services division  enhances health through leadership, collaboration, and innovation. Our team offers essential non-clinical support 24/7, ensuring safe operations and planning for future needs. We represent the intersection of planning, construction, general services, and facilities operations. Learn more about Facilities Services at:  Facilities Services | Stanford Health Care .

The  Facilities Infrastructure & Safety (FIS)  business unit is vital in ensuring the safety, security, and operational integrity of Stanford Health Care facilities while also managing disaster preparedness and complex building systems to foster a secure healthcare environment. FIS is made up of multiple departments aligned in focus: Environmental Health & Safety, Facility Field Services, Protective Services, Security Services, Office of Emergency Management, Facilities Engineering - Systems, Operational Technology, Facilities Engineering- Infrastructure, Facilities Services Response Center, and Facilities Administration and Operations.

Facilities Engineering – Infrastructure (FEI)  is responsible for infrastructure upgrades, repairs, and special projects across SHC hospital, ambulatory, and administrative spaces. FEI ensures timely renewal of critical assets, maintaining reliable facilities that support high-quality care and efficient operations.

If you are interested in joining Stanford Health Care, please read the job description below and apply online.

A Brief Overview
The Construction Manager is an individual contributor responsible for supporting the execution of healthcare construction projects in the field. This role coordinates daily on-site construction management services as the owner's representative and is accountable for administrating project controls, field coordination, quality assurance, safety oversight and regulatory compliance. The Construction Manager coordinates daily site activities, chairs and documents required project meetings, oversees contractor performances, and ensures construction activities comply with approved plans, specifications, schedules, and Authority Having Jurisdictions requirements while reporting to construction leadership. This role requires presence at multiple Stanford Health Care facilities and regular presence on active construction sites across the Bay Area to lead field execution, coordination, and compliance activities.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Support General Contractor procurement for construction projects, including development of the Request for Qualifications and Request for Proposals from the General Contractors. Support of bid evaluation, scope alignment, cost comparisons, and documentation required for award and contract execution.

• Coordinate and facilitate weekly construction progress meetings under the direction of Facilities Construction leadership, prepare agendas, capture decisions and action items, and promptly prepare and distribute meeting minutes that document schedule, cost and risk impacts.

• Track, coordination and help resolve project documentation and workflow items, including RFIs, submittals, substitutions, shop drawings, change orders, and punch lists; maintain accurate logs of construction logs of construction progress, safety incidents, inspections, compliance checks, and cost-related actions and follow up with responsible parties to ensure timely responses.

• Support schedule management and cost control by collecting updates from contractors/consultants, maintaining look-ahead schedules, and flagging variances, identifying cost and schedule risks and assisting with recover or mitigation plans as directed by Facilities Construction leadership.

• Conduct routine site walks and field inspections to monitor construction progress, quality, and work-in-place; document observations with photos and daily field reports; escalate safety, infection prevention, quality, or scope issues that may result in cost or schedule impacts to construction projects.

• Assist with cost management activities: collecting and reviewing contractor pay applications for completeness and accuracy, reconcile billing against verified work-in-place, tracking commitments, contingencies and pending cost exposures.

• In collaboration with Facilities Services Business Operations & Strategic Initiatives (BOSI), support cash flow forecasting and cost reporting by maintaining accurate logs of approved, pending and potential change orders and assisting leadership with quarterly cost projections.

• Interface with Project Managers, clients/users, consultants, contractors, vendors, and jurisdictional agencies to coordinate access, inspections, permits, and testing and sequencing while maintaining clear documentation of cost, scope and responsibility.

• Manage the Change Order Process in the construction project management system, including review of pricing, scope validation, cost backup evaluation, and coordination of negotiations, with recommendations routed for approval by the Director of Construction.

• Prepare and maintain accurate, auditable project files and records including meeting minutes, logs correspondence, drawings/specifications, permits, inspections, cost documentation, change logs and closeout materials in accordance with department policies and procedures.

• Coordinate regulatory readiness and compliance activities (e.g., Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) and Office of Statewide Hospital Planning and Development (OSHPD) submissions, testing, inspection & observation (TIO) documentation, and coordination with the Inspector of Record (IOR)) to ensure documentation is organized and accessible for audits and surveys.

• Support quality assurance and quality control processes, including mock-ups, first-of-kind reviews, inspections, commissioning and activation; assist with packaging operations & maintenance (O&M) manuals, as-built drawings, warranties, training documentation, and other close out deliverables required for construction project turnover.

• Manage assigned project logistics, including badging parking, deliveries, laydown spaces, safety orientations, job hazard analyses (JHA), and ICRA compliance to minimize disruption to patient care and unplanned costs.

• Help plan and communicate operational impacts (shutdowns, access changes, infection control barriers) with Facilities Management, Facility Field Services, Environmental Health & Safety, Infection Prevention, and Clinical partners, ensuring impacts are documented and coordinated to avoid cos