Development Project Manager

POSITION SUMMARY

Denton Floyd Real Estate Group is a vertically integrated real estate firm headquartered in Jeffersonville, Indiana, serving the Louisville metro and surrounding markets. Our platform spans development, capital markets, architecture and engineering, general contracting, and property management — with in-house divisions delivering multifamily, senior living, mixed-use, and industrial assets from site selection through stabilization.

We are seeking a Development Project Manager to bring formal, disciplined project management to the active project portfolio within DF Development. This role is the owner-side project management function for the development team: accountable for schedule, budget, scope, and risk across multiple concurrent projects moving through due diligence, entitlements, design, permitting, construction, and turnover.

This position is deliberately distinct from our Development Manager role, which owns deal-level underwriting and project execution. The Development Project Manager is a credentialed project management professional who establishes and enforces the standards, schedules, controls, and reporting cadence that keep every project in the pipeline on time and on budget — and who serves as the connective tissue between DF Development, Vector Design Group, Forge Construction, Capital Markets, and DF Property Management.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Planning & Controls

• Build and maintain the master project schedule for each active development — integrating due diligence, entitlement, design, financing, construction, turnover, and lease-up milestones into a single critical path.
• Develop work breakdown structures, milestone gates, and predecessor logic; monitor float, identify slippage early, and drive documented recovery plans.
• Establish and maintain standardized project artifacts across the portfolio — project charters, RACI matrices, risk registers, decision logs, action item trackers, and change logs.
• Run recurring project team meetings with clear agendas, documented decisions, and owner-assigned action items with due dates.

Budget & Cost Control

• Track development budgets against the approved pro forma across hard costs, soft costs, and contingency; maintain cost-to-complete forecasting and variance reporting.
• Administer a formal change control process — evaluating, documenting, and routing scope changes with their full cost and schedule impact before approval.
• Coordinate with Capital Markets and Accounting on draw schedules, lender requisitions, and funding milestones so capital timing aligns with the construction schedule.
• Review and reconcile consultant and vendor invoices against contracted scope and completed work.

Entitlements, Design & Pre-Development

• Drive the entitlement and permitting critical path — rezoning, variances, site plan approval, and permit issuance — coordinating municipalities, legal counsel, and outside consultants against hard deadlines.
• Manage Vector Design Group and third-party consultants (civil, structural, MEP, landscape, geotechnical, environmental) through schematic design, design development, and construction documents.
• Scope, contract, and track consultant deliverables; hold design milestones accountable to the project schedule and budget.
• Coordinate utility, easement, and jurisdictional approvals that carry long lead times and outsized schedule risk.

Construction Interface & Delivery

• Serve as the owner’s representative to Forge Construction from preconstruction and GMP development through construction execution, turnover, and warranty.
• Attend OAC meetings; ensure owner decisions, selections, and approvals are returned within the timeframes the schedule requires.
• Maintain visibility into RFIs, submittals, and change orders for schedule and budget impact, escalating issues that threaten milestones.
• Coordinate turnover to DF Property Management or Triple Crown Senior Living, including certificate of occupancy sequencing, punch list closeout, and lease-up readiness.

Reporting, Risk & Stakeholder Communication

• Maintain an active risk register for each project, with mitigation plans, owners, and escalation thresholds.
• Produce executive-level status reporting and portfolio dashboards for the VP of Development, executive leadership, and capital partners on a defined cadence.
• Serve as the single source of truth for project status — schedule position, budget position, open ris…