Deputy Project Manager

Dewberry is seeking a Deputy Project Manager in Birmingham, AL. In this role, you'll lead projects and client relationships from concept through construction, helping clients bring their visions to life while delivering exceptional engineering solutions. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, proactively address challenges, and ensure projects meet client expectations, schedules, budgets, and regulatory requirements. Beyond project delivery, you'll play an important role in growing the practice by expanding existing relationships, developing new business opportunities, and building the trust that fosters the long-term relationships that create a true "Client for life" experience.

• Organize and direct frequent in-house design meetings.
• Primary responsibility for the approval and oversight of design and construction documents within the applicable area of progressive technical experience, including signing and sealing of documents as Engineer or Record.
• Prepare detailed personnel loading by task, interfaced with the detailed schedule.
• Coordinate with Design Discipline Managers to schedule, plan, and assign appropriate personnel.
• Prepare storyboards and a detailed project timeline.
• Organize and maintain the project design folder.
• Document meetings and telephone conversations.
• Provide quality control to ensure that all the clients' needs and requests have been accommodated. Ensure and coordinate among all the disciplines involved, including outside consultants.
• Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions to Owner.
• Advise on project billing and assist in collections.
• Supervise and coordinate the submission of documents to the appropriate reviewing authorities.
• Coordinate the responses to reviews. Ensure that responses are, in fact, reflected in the drawings and specifications.
• Arrange for in-house quality review in a timely fashion.
• Arrange and attend pre-bid conferences and issue meeting minutes and addenda.
• Conduct bid openings and prepare / issue certified bid tabulation. Coordinate as required to ensure the CA phase of the project always puts Dewberry in positive standing with Client.
• Perform site visits, inspections activities as required to support the Construction Administration requirements.
• Assist with recruiting, evaluating, and making recommendations regarding new employees to support MEP building services practice.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Accomplished Professional Engineer (PE) with 5+ years of experience preferred.
• Knowledgeable of construction process, familiar with AIA contracts.
• Self-motivated with highly developed verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Well organized, with good understanding of plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and life safety systems with general knowledge of applicable codes, national standards, client design standards, system operation, space requirements, and cost.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employees. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

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