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🏗️ Project Manager | Large-Scale Warehouse & Cold Storage Construction (NY Metro) ❄️
📍 New York Metro · Full-Time
Help launch a builder into a brand-new sector, and own it from day one.
A growing New York General Contractor and Construction Manager, known for delivering technically demanding commercial, hospitality, and residential projects with real in-house fabrication and self-perform capability, is moving into industrial and cold storage construction. They’re hiring a Project Manager to lead that push.
This is the rare seat where you’re not slotting into an established machine, you’re helping build the division. You’ll take a technically complex project from preconstruction through completion, working shoulder to shoulder with ownership, the design team, Superintendents, and trade partners, and your fingerprints will be on how this new sector runs.
✨ Why this role
- 🚀 Ground-floor impact: help shape a company’s entry into industrial and cold storage, with the visibility and ownership that come with building something new
- 🔧 A builder that actually builds: in-house fabrication and self-perform capability means more control over schedule, quality, and the technical scopes that make or break a cold storage job
- ❄️ Genuinely complex work: refrigeration, heavy MEP, structural and architectural coordination, the projects that reward a sharp PM
- 🧩 A design-driven, detail-obsessed team that brings diverse perspectives to hard problems
- 📈 Room to grow alongside the sector you help establish
🔧 The role
You’ll own overall project delivery, working closely with ownership, the design team, Superintendents, subcontractors, vendors, and consultants.
- Manage projects from preconstruction through closeout
- Lead planning, scheduling, procurement, and execution
- Own budgets, cost control, forecasting, and change orders
- Coordinate subcontractors, consultants, vendors, and field teams
- Review drawings, specifications, and contract documents
- Lead constructability reviews and resolve coordination issues
- Manage RFIs, submittals, payment applications, and documentation
- Develop and maintain project and procurement schedules
- Coordinate complex MEP, refrigeration, structural, and architectural scopes
- Spot and manage project risks before they become issues
- Lead project meetings and keep client relationships strong
- Oversee punch list, commissioning, turnover, warranties, and closeout
🎯 What they’re looking for
- 5 years of construction project management experience
- A track record on large-scale warehouse, distribution, industrial, or logistics projects
- Cold storage, refrigerated, or temperature-controlled facility experience (strongly preferred)
- Experience across the full construction lifecycle
- Strong grasp of scheduling, cost control, and subcontractor management
- Comfort coordinating complex MEP and refrigeration scopes
- Solid contract administration and documentation skills
- Confidence working directly with owners, architects, engineers, and subcontractors
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Procore or similar software experience (preferred)
- Bachelor’s in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field (preferred)
🌟 Especially relevant experience
Cold storage · refrigerated facilities · distribution centers · warehouses · logistics · fulfillment centers · food & beverage · industrial · manufacturing · temperature-controlled facilities · ground-up industrial
👉 Interested? Apply directly, or reach out for a confidential conversation about the role, the projects, and the company.