Junior M&O Project Manager, FETU

The Work

LAUSD's Facilities Environmental Technical Unit (FETU) manages the environmental side of school construction and repair: asbestos abatement and lead remediation that has to happen before campuses can be demolished, renovated, or repaired. As the Junior M&O Project Manager, you help plan, coordinate, and expedite these projects across schools, administrative buildings, and other District facilities.

You are the liaison among the District's project management units, the Maintenance and Operations areas, environmental consultants, and abatement contractors. You review Requests for Assistance with FETU technical staff to set the scope, review project drawings, prepare funding request packages, and request and evaluate cost proposals from environmental consultants for accuracy and viability.

Day to day you initiate and execute abatement work through A&B, task order, and JOC contracts, schedule lead and asbestos abatements around demolition, renovation, and the temporary housing of students and staff, review contractor submittals, daily logs, and certified payroll to approve invoices, analyze change orders, run the bid and contract award process, and support closeout and certification.

You keep the FETU tracking sheet current and document job start meetings.

What You Will Own

• Planning, coordinating, processing, and expediting FETU projects across District facilities
• Liaison duties among project management units, M&O areas, environmental consultants, and abatement contractors
• RFA scope reviews with FETU technical staff, project drawing reviews, and funding request packages
• Cost proposal requests and reviews, and abatement cost estimates with technical personnel
• Execution of asbestos abatement and lead remediation through A&B, task order, and JOC contracts
• Abatement scheduling around demolitions, renovations, and temporary student and staff housing
• Invoice approval through review of submittals, daily logs, and certified payroll
• Change order merit and cost analysis, bid processing, and contract award coordination
• Project tracking, job start meeting minutes, and closeout and certification support

Requirements

What You Bring

• 3 or more years of full-time professional project or construction management experience across all project phases: preconstruction and planning, construction monitoring, and closeout
• Educational facility or public agency project experience preferred
• A bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or an environmental field; or, without a degree, additional experience on a year-for-year basis
• The organization to run funding, contracts, invoicing, and scheduling across many small, fast-moving projects at once

Preferred

• Construction safety protocols, Cal OSHA requirements, and environmental procedures
• Asset and work management systems, specifically Maximo
• Asbestos and lead abatement exposure

Benefits

Compensation

Salary range

$99,000 to $130,000 per year, based on experience.

Benefits

health, dental, and vision at low cost; 401k; three weeks of PTO; and an ESOP (employee stock ownership) at no cost to you, with a 3% Safe Harbor contribution vested on day one.

Why MAAS

MAAS has spent nearly 40 years earning the trust of 50+ educational institutions across California, managing over $10B in projects. That track record means the work here is stable, funded, and consequential. You are not chasing the next contract.

As a MAAS employee, you are also an owner. The company is 100% employee-owned through an ESOP, a retirement benefit provided at no cost to you, on top of your salary. MAAS is a profitable, well-run organization and our share price has more than doubled since the plan's inception, with continued growth year over year.

Your ownership stake builds the longer you stay, and ESOP participants nationally tend to accumulate 2.5x more in retirement savings than employees at non-ESOP companies.

In an industry not known for prioritizing culture, 96% of MAAS employees say it is a great place to work, and 100% say people genuinely care about each other.