Commercial Project Manager

Location: Denver, CO (HQ)

Job Type: Full-Time

Travel Required: Occasional travel to active project sites; not a live-on-site role

Business Entity: MCS (Magma Core Solutions), a Lava Island company

Welcome to Lava Island

Lava Island is an indoor play oasis where kids fly across trampolines, vanish into towering jungle gyms, dive into foam pits, and race down slides while families share pizza and celebrate birthdays in the party rooms. It is loud, bright, and full of energy.

Every one of those parks started as an empty space. Magma Core Solutions (MCS) is the team that builds them.

What You’re Really Building

An estimate is a plan on paper. You are the person who turns it into a real, bought-out, on-budget, on-schedule park. You hold the contracts, the money, and the changes from the start of each build through financial close-out.

Get it right and every build has a steady commercial backbone under it. The subs are bought out at the right price, the budget holds, the changes are clean, and the Superintendent can run the field knowing the business side is handled. When the park opens on time and on budget, that is your work.

These are commercial interior tenant improvement (TI) builds in leased retail space, not ground-up construction. It is also serious work: real budgets, fast schedules, and a hard opening date families are already counting on.

Why You’ll Love Working at Lava Island

In-house at a growing company. You are not chasing one project at a time. You are the PM for a company that opens more parks every year, with a steady pipeline of builds ahead.

Own the commercial side of the whole build, end to end, not one slice of it.

Run multiple builds at once from a Denver home base, with real authority over buyout, budget, and change orders.

A repeatable park that gets sharper every build. The lessons from one project make the next one cleaner.

Denver home base. An office role with occasional trips to active sites, not a live-on-site grind.

Competitive pay and full benefits.

What You’ll Do

You take the job from the estimate through financial close-out as the commercial and contractual owner of the build.

Buy out the job

Take the estimator’s pricing and scope and buy the job out: select, negotiate, and contract subcontractors and suppliers across every trade.

Issue subcontracts and purchase orders, and manage scope, terms, insurance, and compliance on each one.

Manage procurement of long-lead materials and equipment so they land ahead of the field need.

Own the budget and the changes

Own the project budget from buyout through close-out. Track commitments, actuals, and forecast, and flag variances early.

Own the change order process. Price and process changes, work pricing back through the estimator, and keep the budget reconciled to what is approved.

Run subcontractor pay applications, vendor invoices, and end-of-project financial close-out in partnership with Finance.

Coordinate and hand off

Build and hold the project schedule with the Superintendent and the Program Director.

Hand the bought-out job to the Superintendent, then stay engaged through construction as the commercial owner without taking over the field.

Coordinate across Design, APS, Real Estate, NPO, and Operations on dependencies and milestones.

Run the work through Procore and the company’s systems, and manage multiple concurrent builds without losing track of any one.

Who We’re Looking For

This is an experienced project management seat. The PMs who do well at MCS are:

Experienced. You have bought out and managed commercial, tenant improvement, or interior build-out projects end to end and owned the budget and the contracts.

Commercially sharp. You buy out at the right price and protect the budget through change orders and close-out.

Highly organized. Many builds, many contracts, many deadlines, all kept straight.

A strong negotiator who holds subs accountable while building relationships that last across projects.

An honest communicator. You surface budget and schedule risk early, and you bring options.

A cross-functional collaborator who works cleanly with the estimator, the Superintendents, Design, and Real Estate.

Calm under pressure, with the discipline to keep several builds on track at once.

Comfortable with technology. Procore, scheduling tools, spreadsheets, and cloud tools are part of the daily job.

What You’ll Need

Several years of construction project management experience, typically seven or more, ideally in tenant improvement, interior build-out, commercial retail, hospitality, or themed environment work.

A track record buying out and managing subcontracts and purchase orders across all trades.

Experience owning project budgets, cost tracking, change orders, pay applications, and financial close-out.

Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, and lease exhibits.

A strong understanding of construction means, methods, sequencing, and cost drivers.

Comfort with Procore, scheduling tools, spreadsheets, and cloud collaboration tools. MCS runs on Microsoft 365 and Outlook.

Strong attention to detail, organization, and time management.

Procore experience preferred. Willingness to become a Procore power user is required.

Bilingual (Spanish / English) is a strong plus.

A full job description will be shared and walked through with you during the process, so you have the complete picture before moving forward.

Ready to Turn the Plan Into a Park?

If you can keep a build on budget and on schedule, we want to meet you. Apply today.