Project Manager Sports Facilities

Sports Facilities Planning & Project Consultant

| Columbus / Dublin, Ohio | Full-Time

This COMPANY helps clients move from field and facility problems to clear plans, realistic budgets, aligned stakeholders, and implementable projects.

This COMPANY helps schools, parks and recreation agencies, municipalities, and sports organizations make better decisions about their athletic facilities. We work at the intersection of sports, turf, design, construction, operations, and public process. Our clients bring us in when the issue is bigger than just a bad field, a failing track, or a frustrated user group. Often, there is a deeper gap between expectations, funding, operations, maintenance, and long-term planning.

Our job is to help clients identify the real issue, define it clearly, and create a practical path forward. They are hands-on, practical, and low ego. We focus on getting the details right because those details determine whether a facility performs well for the next ten years or becomes a problem again in two. We do not just help clients build projects.

We help them prepare to operate, sustain, and justify those projects over the long term.

We are seeking a Sports Facilities Planning & Project Consultant who can help lead the work that happens between the initial client conversation and a clear, defensible plan of action.

This role is part project manager, part analyst, part client advisor, and part on-the-ground facility strategist
.

You should be comfortable sitting in meetings with city managers, public works directors, recreation staff, and passionate user groups—understanding both what is being said and what is not being said—and helping translate that into productive next steps.

One day you may be walking a site evaluating grading, drainage, wear patterns, and field layout.

Another day you may be reviewing maintenance costs, fee structures, and usage data.

The next day you may be preparing a report or presentation for a school board, city council, or community stakeholder meeting.

This is not purely a design role
, not purely operations
, and not an entry-level coordinator position
.

It is a client-facing consulting role for someone who can connect technical, financial, operational, and political factors and help move projects forward.

This role is also well suited for someone with meaningful experience in sports facilities, parks and recreation, public-sector projects, construction, or a related field who is looking to grow further.

We brings deep experience in sports field planning, construction, operations, and maintenance. This role will work closely with senior leadership and technical staff who will provide guidance, mentorship, and hands-on training.

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• Attend client meetings, site visits, and stakeholder sessions to gather information and understand the operational, social, and political context of projects
• Conduct sports facility and field assessments including natural grass and synthetic turf conditions, grading, drainage, irrigation, infrastructure, circulation, and safety
• Analyze maintenance practices, operational costs, fee structures, agreements, schedules, usage levels, staffing, and cost recovery
• Benchmark facilities, usage levels, and operational models against peer communities and accepted standards
• Identify root causes behind field and facility issues—not just visible symptoms
• Develop project budgets, implementation schedules, and scope frameworks as part of planning and feasibility studies
• Prepare written assessments, recommendations, and presentations that are clear, practical, and defensible
• Coordinate with engineers, landscape architects, contractors, and owner representatives during project development
• Review drawings, specifications, and technical documents and flag potential issues between plans and real-world conditions
• Help guide clients through conversations about priorities, funding, phasing, expectations, and long-term sustainability
• Support procurement and project development, including scopes of work, RFP support, and consultant coordination
• Manage multiple active projects with strong communication, follow-through, and sound judgment