Senior Project Manager

Goppion Museum Workshop Inc. is the United States subsidiary of Goppion S.p.A. With offices in Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C., we work alongside the country's foremost cultural institutions - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Getty Museum, - as well as select private collections. Our ambition is to safeguard the masterpieces of human culture and pass them on, intact, to the generations that follow. Goppion designs, builds, and installs museum display cases, each one made to measure. We do not simply deliver a product; we realize the microenvironment in which a unique work lives, is seen, and is kept safe. What sets us apart is not the drawing but its execution: the invisible quality that separates a container from an act of custody. The U.S. organization manages a diverse portfolio of roughly 10–15 active museums and exhibition projects at any given time, and continues to widen its scope of exhibit fabrication services nationwide.

About the Role

The Senior Project Manager provides leadership for the delivery of all U.S. projects, with full accountability for financial performance, technical execution, risk management, and client satisfaction. This role ensures that projects are executed in alignment with contractual obligations, institutional expectations, and Goppion’s global standards.

Responsibilities

• Contractual compliance: working with the Italian PM, ensure full compliance with contractual, technical, and scope requirements through close reading of contract documents, specifications, and drawings; manage Variation Orders and other contractual modifications.
• Planning & Scheduling: lead the teams to meet contractual milestones; coordinate with engineering, procurement, estimating, and fabrication to hold schedules; identify and escalate client-side delays that threaten delivery.
• Budget & Financial Control: own project budgets in coordination with US and Italian project managers; track costs, surface risks and variances early, and oversee financial reporting to the Milan cost-accounting team.
• Site Coordination & Installation: plan and direct on-site installations through Site Managers, in coordination with Supply Chain and Assembly; confirm site-readiness before installation begins.
• Documentation & Reporting: oversee the preparation, maintenance, and archiving of all project documentation, including notices on schedule, compliance, and deliverables.
• Closeout & Handover: guide the production and delivery of closeout documentation: O&M manuals, as-built shop drawings, certifications, and formal completion records.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, or a related field.

Required Skills

• Minimum 10 years of project-management experience, preferably in museums, exhibitions, exhibition fabrication, or cultural-institution construction.
• A track record of delivering technically and contractually complex projects in which several disciplines converge.
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead project-management teams, and to develop the people on them.
• Proven ability to read and interpret architectural plans and fabrication drawings.
• CAD proficiency (GMW Solidworks and Vectorworks preferred).
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project.
• Experience managing project budgets up to $10M.
• Maturity and credibility in dealing directly with sophisticated institutional clients — curators, conservators, and architects.
• Strong written and verbal communication; demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making.
• OSHA safety training, including risk management and compliance.
• Experience working with subcontractors and union labor.
• Working knowledge of US electrical codes.
• Ability to pass US government background checks required for museum credentials.
• Valid driver’s license and passport.