We’re looking for a Project Manager who can help make building in our city easier, faster, and better. In this role, you'll be the driving force behind collaboration and efficiency—bringing people together, streamlining slow or ineffective processes, and ensuring complex projects stay on track and move forward smoothly.
You’ll work on exciting projects like Treasure Island, Mission Rock, Pier 70, and more. This will shape the future of our city. Your job is to ensure city teams and private partners work smoothly together.
If you enjoy solving challenges, improving how things get done, and making a big impact on your community, this role is for you.
Building on the 2023 One City: A Housing for All Action Plan (Executive Directive 23-01) and Public Works’ 2025–2028 Strategic Plan, this role plays a critical part in driving process improvement initiatives that support faster, more efficient project delivery. Reporting directly to the Bureau Manager, you will lead the analysis, design, and implementation of enhancements to both internal operations and cross-agency workflows that impact permitting and infrastructure development. Working collaboratively with City departments and private development partners, you will identify systemic bottlenecks, design practical solutions, and help establish consistent standards and accountability measures to streamline coordination on major capital and development projects.
Important and Essential Duties
As Project Manager II, your duties may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Serve as lead technical advisor in developing strategies to advance key operational and strategic objectives; create plans, tactics, and implementation programs to support the Bureau’s project delivery and permitting functions.
- Analyze bureau and interagency development projects and permitting workflows; conduct complex studies, surveys, and focus groups; collect information on interagency and development-related issues; compile and analyze data; and prepare recommendations for review by the Bureau Manager to improve efficiency and optimize public benefit delivery.
- Manage cross-departmental initiatives to align standards, streamline processes, and coordinate reviews with City and other Stage governmental agencies such as Department of Building Inspection (DBI), the Permit Center, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), SF Planning, San Francisco Recreation and Parks (RPD), San Francisco Assessor – Recorder (ARS), Department of Technology (DT), Caltrans, Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), and others.
- Lead citywide interagency housing coordination and permit tracking meetings with housing delivery agencies (Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD), Treasure Island Development Authority (TIDA), San Franscisco Port, Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII)) and infrastructure agencies (Public Works, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), San Franscisco Fire Department (SFFD)).
- Develop and implement tools such as dashboards, checklists, and guidebooks to improve transparency, accountability, and program reporting.
- Help the Bureau in coordinating infrastructure projects and development permits to ensure they are effectively aligned and managed.
- Improving our infrastructure acceptance process by creating workflows to strengthen data and asset input and tracking across multiple internal and external systems.
- Track and report performance metrics to demonstrate bureau impact, progress and opportunities for improvement.
- Provide training and guidance to staff on new processes, standards and coordination practices.
- Support implementation of the Department’s Strategic Plan goals related to citywide development and reduce permitting timelines.
- Manage and track consultant contracts, scopes, budgets, and expenditures.
