Are you a Residential Construction Project Manager or Production Manager who thrives on bringing order to complexity—and wants to play a key role in scaling a growing company?
Highland Build is a tight-knit, fast-growing residential construction company in the San Francisco area. We deliver high-quality projects and build long-term relationships with clients, vendors, designers, and architects. We’re looking for a long-term production manager to own, manage and continuously improve our processes, including AI.
Visit our website to learn more about us and view some of our recent projects:
https://www.highland-build.com/
About the Role
As Production Manager, you’ll lead all aspects of production and offer deep support to our three lead/site supervisors.
This is a high-impact leadership role. We need you to provide high-level strategic thinking alongside the smallest details - whatever is needed in the moment.
What You’ll Be Doing
This role oversees production across multiple high-end residential projects, ensuring schedule, budget and client experience area executed at a high level.
· Weekly 1:1 meetings with members of the team
· Weekly meetings with clients
· Visit job sites
· Manage and coach project leads
· Own successful outcomes for 3-6 active residential projects at a time
· Own and ensure accurate project schedules
· Own and ensure accurate invoicing and change orders weekly and on time
· Identify and implement process improvements across production
What We’re Looking For
Highland build needs someone with 3+ years of experience in the following:
· Coaching direct reports
· Providing ‘white glove service to clients, team members, architects, designers, and vendors
· Experience in residential construction project management; Design-Build experience is strongly preferred
· Management of multiple projects simultaneously
· Experience with JobTread, Buildertrend, Procore, or similar
Who You Are
You’ll be a great fit for this role if you…
· Have developed and used processes and systems
· Are organized
· Thrive in a fast-moving environment
· Are a good communicator and can clearly explain how you do things
· Are open to leveraging technology and new tools (including AI) to improve efficiency and processes
· Like structure—but aren’t rigid
· Seek out problems because you enjoy solving them
· Can pivot easily as priorities shift
· Have a successful history of helping others perform at their highest level
· Take pride in delivering great work
If you checked most of the above - or maybe all - we want to meet you.
What to Expect
· Hybrid role (mix of job site visits, remote work, and occasional office time)
· Flexible schedule (typical hours around 8:00–4:30, but adaptable)
· Local travel to job sites (~30–40 minute radius)
What We Offer
· $130,000 - $160,000 base salary + performance-based bonus
· Health Insurance
· Paid Time Off
· Phone reimbursement & vehicle allowance
If this opportunity feels like a fit, we encourage you to apply with your current resume—we’d love to connect and share more about what makes Highland Build such a great place to grow your career.
Our recruiting process is managed in partnership with Zephyr Connects LLC, whom we use for the screening and hiring process. If you are selected for the next step you will get instructions from Sara within 3 business days of your submission. Everyone will be contacted.
Highland Build provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Highland Build complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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