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Job Title: Senior Manager - Construction
Company Name: Stanford Health Care
Location: PLEASANTON, CA
Position Type: Full Time
Post Date: 01/31/2026
Expire Date: 03/02/2026
Job Categories: Construction, Mining and Trades, Healthcare, Other, Healthcare, Practitioner and Technician, Hospitality/Tourism, Science
Job Description
Senior Manager - Construction
1.0 FTE Full time Day - 08 Hour R2552350 Hybrid 108460019 Construction Management Facilities & Hospitality PLEASANTON, 3571 Andrews Dr., California

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

Build the Future of Healthcare Construction at Stanford
Join a team shaping world-class facilities that support cutting-edge research and patient care. With significant capital investments planned through 2030, your contributions will shape the future for years to come.

As Senior Construction Manager, you'll lead complex healthcare construction projects in Pleasanton, CA, and it is onsite five days a week. This is a high-visibility role managing scope, schedule, and budget for initiatives ranging from major ground-up builds to intricate renovations. Success means driving collaboration across contractors, architects, and regulatory agencies while ensuring safety and compliance.

What You'll Do:

  • Oversee all onsite construction activities

  • Review design submittals, RFIs, contracts, and change orders

  • Manage budgets, schedules, and stakeholder communication

  • Ensure compliance with California healthcare regulations

What We're Looking For:

  • 10+ years of construction experience preferred (healthcare in CA strongly preferred)

  • Expertise in large-scale projects ($100M+)

  • Strong negotiation, coordination, and leadership skills

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

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

Facilities Construction provides long-range construction and planning services for medium-to-large multi-year capital projects at Stanford Medicine. Facilities Construction oversees medical planning, capital improvement projects, and project delivery alignment with the Stanford Integrated Master Plan.

Bring your expertise to a team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional growth. Ready to make an impact? Apply today.



A Brief Overview
The Senior Construction Manager is primarily responsible for advocating Stanford Health Care's interests by over-seeing construction, executed by a general contractor, during all phases of construction. Extensive knowledge of both new construction and renovation practices is required. The Senior Construction Manager oversees multiple projects at once and communicates directly with the management team. The Senior Construction Manager is responsible for ensuring completion of construction projects within budget, on schedule, meeting all program objectives and applicable regulations while providing leadership, coordination and support to Project and Construction Managers, and construction trades specific to a construction project.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

  • Employees must abide by all Joint Commission requirements including, but not limited to, sensitivity to cultural diversity, patient care, patients' rights and ethical treatment, safety and security of physical environments, emergency management, teamwork, respect for others, participation in ongoing education and training, communication and adherence to safety and quality programs, sustaining compliance with National Patient Safety Goals, and licensure and health screenings.
  • Ensures the completion of construction within budget, on schedule, and meets all program objectives and appropriate government regulations.
  • Implements quality control measures to ensure construction project compliance with department, hospital, and university policies, government codes and regulations; also ensures conformance to the requirements of all project participants.
  • Manages communications on a regular and timely basis, ensuring that all project participants are informed of project status, problems, and required actions.
  • Manages the selection process and contract negotiations for contractors, and construction related vendors. Manages, assesses, and documents construction scope, describing the objectives, physical requirements, parameters, and constraints of the project, including not only the user's functional needs but also hospital and external jurisdictional criteria for health and safety, operation, maintenance, energy efficiency, quality standards, contextual issues, and aesthetics.
  • Prepares and maintains accurate, coherent, timely, and auditable project records/files, and cost estimates with department procedures.
  • Provides leadership, coordination, and support to the Project Managers and all the construction trades specific to a construction project.


Education Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a work-related field or discipline from an accredited college or university.
  • Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying


Experience Qualifications

  • Minimum of seven (7) years of directly related work experience and level of responsibility in a comparable role.
  • Preferred experience of ten plus (10+) years.


Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with widely diverse groups, including: individuals at senior levels both within and outside the organization and gain their cooperation.
  • Ability to handle potentially sensitive situations by applying consultative skills in working with internal and external constituent groups.
  • Ability to plan, organize, motivate, mentor, direct and evaluate the work of others.
  • Ability to prioritize work by making informed judgments and to develop solutions for complex problems.
  • Ability to work within a regulated environment such as a hospital to ensure adherence to the policies and procedures of the facility including but not limited to: infection control procedures, utility shutdown procedures, etc.
  • Demonstrate commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety, communicates safety concerns, uses and promotes safe behaviors based in training and lessons learned.
  • Ability to review plans and specifications for constructability, quality, code compliance, and budget.
  • Ability to review contracts for services to be performed prior to execution, negotiate terms and conditions, and enforce contract provisions.
  • Ability to determine entitlement and negotiate any change order or potential change order for a project.
  • Ability to resolve disputes and or claims that may occur.
  • Ability to budget, make financial projections and write reports.
  • Ability to work with and create CPM schedules.
  • Knowledge of managing projects in CPMS environments.
  • Knowledge of technical, professional and business practices in the fields of healthcare delivery, architecture, construction, and building design process.
  • Knowledge of legal, technical and regulatory documents.


Licenses and Certifications

  • None .


These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience


Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.



You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

  • Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
  • Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
  • Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $83.98 - $111.27 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

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Company Name: Stanford Health Care
Website:https://careers.stanfordhealthcare.org/us/en/job/R2552350/
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