Project Manager

Description

We seek to hire a Project Manager who will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing activities on single or multi-discipline projects involving architecture, engineering, planning, interior design or other areas of the firm's practice.

General responsibilities include but are not limited to the following :

• Leading, motivating, and effectively communicating with a project team during scope and project execution
• Working with the Managing Principal and Design Manager to develop and present projects to clients, contractors, project team members, authorities having jurisdiction, and members of the public through all stages of the project
• Coordinating with clients to ensure successful completion of projects that may involve either new construction or renovation
• Facilitating a professional and successful relationship between client, contractors, and the project team
• Running project meetings and participating in management meetings
• Actively support Managing Principals and Marketing in the Company's marketing and business development activities
• Preparing contracts and fee proposals for Managing Principal's review and participating in contract negotiations
• Ensuring staff compliance with quality control policies and procedures
• Developing and managing project planning, budgeting, and critical project objectives
• Verify project consultants are properly licensed and insured
• Assemble staff for project teams with input and concurrence from Managing Principals, Department Directors, and Department Heads
• Working with, responding to, and taking direction from Managing Principals and Senior Project Managers
• Ability to travel is required

Project responsibilities include but are not limited to the following :

• Perform Managing Principal duties as assigned
• Monitor scope / schedule creep for potential additional services
• Provide weekly progress reports to the Client
• Maintain project documentation in electronic files and Newforma
• Assemble and maintain design discipline sheet mock-ups and work plans
• Prepare and monitor project budgets and schedules with input from each discipline and consultants
• Facilitate project team meetings to review project scope, project progress, and schedule issues as well as team coordination, coordination with consultants, and problem solving
• Review RFI and shop drawing submittal responses for appropriateness and completeness
• Prepare draft monthly invoices, 12 month invoice projections and monitor accounts receivable
• Review and approve project related expenses and consultant invoices
• Assemble and review design "milestone" submittal deliverables and ensure completeness and quality of the submittal
• Perform project closeout and archiving tasks
• Schedule QC / QA reviews
• Schedule and / or conduct periodic site visits during construction

Education, Technology, and Experience

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, interior design or planning is preferred
• Licensure as a Professional Engineer, Registered Architect, or Interior Designer is preferred
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) is desirable
• Understanding of sustainable design principles and design practices with LEED AP accreditation is preferred
• Additional certifications such as CDT, CCS, or CCCA are encouraged to reflect personal growth in the profession and an ever increasing knowledge base to enhance the design and documentation process
• A Project Manager should be able to effectively utilize current company software programs for word processing, e-mail, accounting, and information management.
• Working familiarity with design and production software to a point of being able to understand the capabilities and limitations of the programs and interact with the support staff in their use of the software is highly desirable.
• A Project Manager should typically be a licensed professional or have 12 years or more of significant design and practice experience in a leadership role in the areas of the firm's practice.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to prepare effective and concise documents
• Possess technical precision and creative design skills
• Ability to make presentations to a variety of groups
• Have a client-oriented attitude with a desire to provide outstanding professional services
• Be dedicated to his or her professional development as well as the success of colleagues and the firm as a whole
• Demonstrated recognized leadership within the firm and outside the firm
• Possess excellent team leadership capabilities and abilities
• Specialized experience in one or more areas of the firm's practice
• Demonstrated ability to consistently deliver projects on-time, on-budget and exceeding client and firm expectations

Physical Requirements

Work is sedentary and often performed in an office setting. Work area is lighted, heated, and ventilated. This position may require extended periods of standing, sitting, as well as some repetitive movements, bending and lifting of minimal weight.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Workplace Flexibility

We have selected two as common days in the office to nurture collaboration and innovation and to support learning and growth through engagement with colleagues.

We are asking everyone to be present on Mondays and Thursdays, with a required third day that will provide additional flexibility and be set between you and your supervisor (with consideration given to your project team members and clients).

Our hope is that this schedule will offer the work-life balance that is desired by all, while providing consistent opportunities for face-to-face collaboration and mentorship.

Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Together we discover, inspire, and shape ideas that transform our world. We design for a greater purpose. Our culture results from a collective effort to innovate and inspire, to support and challenge, to impact and transform.

Great ideas are the result of collaboration between individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and passions. Our process advances communities through discovery and design.

We believe ideas have the power to change the world.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)