Brookfield Properties

Land Project Manager

Costa Mesa, California Full time

Location

Costa Mesa - 3200 Park Center Drive, Suite 1000

Business

At Brookfield Residential, a leading North American land developer and homebuilder for over 65 years, we have had one goal in mind – creating the best places to call home. From the development of award-winning, master-planned communities to the creation of well-designed homes, we are committed to cultivating exceptional life experiences for our customers, partners, employees, and members of the community.

As part of Brookfield — one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world — we harness our resources to bring a fresh approach, unparalleled creativity, relentless innovation, and sound Sustainability practices to the planning, development, and management of buildings everywhere. From offices, retail spaces, and logistics facilities to multifamily residences, hospitality establishments, and mixed-use structures — we are reimagining real estate from the ground up.

If you're ready to be a part of our team, we encourage you to apply.

Job Description

Your Team

The Land Project Manager is responsible to effectively move and actively track assigned development projects towards an end result of a finished lot community, with additional responsibility of ensuring properly documented turnover and bond release of community and common area.  Responsibilities are related to due diligence, entitlements, plan processing, regulatory and construction permitting processes and community turnover for projects throughout Southern California, and include regular and effective communication and coordination involving many project participants.

 

The Project Manager will be the point person in defining the scope of the project and project team members, developing and managing the project schedule, and developing and managing the project budget through completion. 

 

This role must take ownership of the project and have a strong understanding of all facets of the project in order to make business decisions and report status updates to the leadership team.

Your Key Deliverables

Due Diligence

  • Assist in the due diligence of land acquisition  including the preparation of feasibility studies, project budgets and entitlement and development schedules, as needed

Entitlement Phase

  • Manage all consultant interaction to formulate land use plan and work directly with various approval agencies related to all entitlement processes

  • Own, understand and negotiate the final project conditions of approval (COA), mitigation measures and development agreements, as applicable, with local public agencies

  • Create project schedules and soft cost budgets for management review

  • Represent Brookfield at public hearings in pursuit of project approvals with the city

Plan Processing

  • Own, develop, and maintain relationships with a broad range of consultants and negotiate contracts for services including scopes of work, design standards, cost, schedule and quality.

  • Manage implementation of COAs and other permitting requirements with a key emphasis on understanding significant and impactful conditions

  • Lead and provide direction to multi-discipline consultant teams in the coordinated development of public and private improvement plans through issuance of construction permits. Manage decision making processes with consulting team.

  • Manage and coordinate the preparation of civil improvement plans, landscape plans, architectural plans and other design drawings and documents to ensure the design intent and vision for various projects is complete, efficient and comprehensive.  Act as Point Person for plan check review process of regulatory agencies to maintain expected project schedules.

Project Development

  • Regularly meet with the land development team and public officials to discuss issues associated with the development process, which may include processing of RFIs and/or delta revisions to improvement plans.

Project Build Out/Close Out

  • Coordinate with the land development field team and the city to get the project accepted, site utilities turned over and bonds exonerated

  • Manage with HOA and land development field team to transfer ownership and maintenance obligations of all Land lots and amenities as soon as practical.

Community Customer Experience

  • Review Avid homeowner experience surveys with the neighborhood team and identify any trends in the customer experience needing improvement

General (not limited to) :

  • Take the lead with required documentation and applications with local agencies

  • Represent Brookfield and serve on the Homeowner Association board (HOA) of directors through the life of the community or as needed

  • Represent the company effectively with elected and public officials

  • Act as point person and foster relationships with external parties

Must Haves

  • Bachelor’s degree in planning or civil engineering is preferred

  • 5 - 10 years of relevant experience in the industry and strong record of accomplishment is required

  • Proficiency in the skill sets of project management is required

  • Prior residential homebuilding/ land development experience is required

  • Experience with master planned communities is a plus

  • Ability to read, edit, and QA/QC engineering and architectural plans

  • Proficiency in excel

  • Strong attention to detail

  • Strong writing, organizational and interpersonal skills

  • High degree of motivation, follow through and accountability is expected

  • Previous experience with project budgeting and scheduling is needed

  • Ability to prioritize tasks and work effectively alone or on teams is critical

  • Ability to multitask and meet multiple deadlines

  • Proven ability to problem solve

  • Willing to commute to project sites, consultant offices and public agency headquarters regularly

  • Willingness to serve on HOA board, which could be evening obligations

  • Willingness to attend city council meetings and public hearings, which could be evening obligations

Your Opportunity

We are proud to offer our employees what they value most:

  • Competitive compensation

  • Salary Range $120, 000 - $140,000

  • Bonus Eligible

  • Excellent extended medical, dental and vision benefits beginning day 1

  • 401(k) matching, vesting begins day 1

  • Career development programs

  • Charitable donation matching

  • Paid Volunteer Hours

  • Paid parental leave

  • Family planning assistance including IVF, surrogacy and adoptions options

  • Wellness and mental health resources

  • Pet insurance offering

  • A culture based on our values of Passion, Integrity and Community

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Brookfield Residential participates in the E-Verify process to confirm the eligibility of candidates to work in the United States.

We are proud to create a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are grateful for your interest in this position, however, only candidates selected for pre-screening will be contacted.