Capital Projects Manager/Renovation Manager

The role

This role delivers Success Academy's New York City renovation and capital program across 59 schools. The person will plan, procure, and deliver projects including recurring lifecycle programs and school openings.

What you will do

• Own the annual project list from scope development through construction, punch list, closeout, and turnover to operations.
• Build and hold the summer calendar, including sequencing, access windows, and long-lead items.
• Develop standardized scopes and specifications for recurring work types.
• Run competitive procurement, bid leveling, exclusion review, and award recommendations.
• Review drawings, specifications, scopes, estimates, and change requests.
• Coordinate architects, engineers, contractors, school leaders, agency partners, and internal teams.
• Require documented scope, pricing, technical justification, and schedule impact before change-order commitments.
• Track cost, schedule, quality, risk, and dependencies across the whole program.
• Inspect work in progress and verify completed work is safe, functional, and documented.
• Confirm each completed project hands over with as-built information, warranties, and maintenance requirements.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated delivery of a high-count construction or renovation program.
• Experience delivering work in occupied buildings within fixed access windows.
• Ability to read and challenge drawings, specifications, estimates, schedules, bids, and change orders.
• Command of project budgets, forecasting, procurement, bid leveling, change control, closeout, and warranty administration.
• Practical knowledge of core building systems, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, controls, fire and life safety, accessibility, and envelope.
• Experience standardizing scopes or specifications.
• Strong field judgment, willingness to inspect conditions directly, and disciplined documentation.
• Clear communication with school leaders, contractors, and internal partners.
• The credibility to hold a contractor to a commitment.

Nice to have

• Experience with term contracts, job-order contracting, or similar mechanisms

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting your first day
• Free One Medical membership
• Confidential mental health support via EAP/Talkspace
• 403(b) retirement plan with a 3% employer match
• Up to $2,400/year in employer HSA contributions
• Employer-paid life/disability insurance
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligibility
• Generous paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• 50/month cell phone stipend
• Pre-tax commuter benefits

Before you apply

• Success Academy Charter Schools does not offer employment-based immigration sponsorship.

About the company

Success Academy is a large, fast-growing, and high-performing network of public charter schools. They work to ensure children have access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education.