Construction Manager III, ANS

Location: Costa Mesa, CA, United States. On-site.

Company

hirify.global Construct is hirify.global's global capital projects business, delivering complex infrastructure programs from strategy and engineering through construction and handover.

What you will do

• Represent and advise public agency clients through preconstruction, construction, commissioning, closeout, and turnover.
• Conduct design reviews and constructability evaluations to identify coordination issues, operational concerns, and construction risks.
• Manage field-level construction activities, monitoring progress, workmanship, quality, and compliance with contract documents.
• Administer RFIs, submittals, change orders, contractor correspondence, meeting minutes, project documentation, progress payments, and reporting.
• Review schedules, sequencing, recovery plans, and milestone impacts while supporting cost, change, and quality management.
• Coordinate designers, contractors, consultants, inspectors, manufacturers, and facility users through testing, commissioning, operational readiness, punchlist completion, and turnover.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of progressively responsible construction management experience, preferably representing public-sector owners.
• Experience managing public facility construction projects, including municipal, public safety, institutional, or government facilities, across the full lifecycle from preconstruction and constructability reviews through procurement, construction administration, commissioning, closeout, and turnover.
• Working knowledge of construction contracts, drawings, specifications, schedules, submittals, RFIs, change orders, quality management, project documentation, and contract compliance.
• Ability to coordinate with owners, architects, engineers, contractors, inspectors, authorities having jurisdiction, and facility end users to resolve issues and support project delivery.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to independently manage field activities, document issues, recommend resolutions, and support schedule management, cost control, change management, and quality assurance.

Nice to have

• Experience managing essential services facilities, especially fire stations, police stations, emergency operations centers, or similar public safety facilities; direct fire station construction management experience is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with fire station systems including station alerting, emergency power, communications and IT, apparatus bay systems, vehicle exhaust extraction, security, HVAC controls, and related operational equipment.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary system integration, testing, commissioning, operational readiness, and owner training.
• Experience conducting constructability reviews and identifying design coordination, sequencing, constructability, and operational issues before construction.
• Familiarity with California public works requirements, applicable building codes, and public agency contracting procedures.
• Certified Construction Manager (CCM) or another relevant professional certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on complex data center, grid, transit, rail, semiconductor, mining, water, and public infrastructure programs.
• Use AI and predictive program-control capabilities in construction delivery.
• Access leadership development, technical upskilling, and certification support.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; 401(k) with employer match; HSA and FSA; paid time off and holidays; paid parental, maternity, adoption, and surrogacy leave; supplemental insurance; employee assistance; legal resources; and identity theft protection.
• Benefits eligibility may vary by state, country, and role.