Job Type
Full-time
Description
Westwood Professional Services, Inc. is seeking an ambitious and talented professional to join our team in Baton Rouge, LA as a Project Manager. This is an opportunity to join Westwood's highly experienced and dynamic team dedicated to providing high-level professional services to our clients.
Our ideal candidate will have 5+ years of civil engineering design and project management experience supporting design projects. This position is responsible for complex engineering design tasks as well as marketing, business development, client contact and growth of a team.
Requirements
Job duties may include, but are not limited to:- Management of projects from inception through completion
- Provide direction and manage work quality of a team of engineering designers, interns, and technicians
- Assist in preparing and managing proposals, contracts, invoicing, work in process and account receivables
- Represent clients and firm in meetings with governmental agencies
- Prepare, maintain, coordinate project schedules of multiple concurrent projects with clients and design team
- Communicate directly with clients and public governing agencies
- Developing and tracking project milestones to ensure on-time and on-budget project delivery
- Recruit, manage, develop, lead, inspire and coach design team
- Prepare plan documents and supporting design calculations
- Produce high-quality work and implement and maintain QA/QC procedures
- Be active in business development
- Resolve design conflicts and field construction issues
- Able to understand proposals and contract scope of services
- Able to identify scope creep, write and capture additional services in a timely manner
- Overseeing the technical and financial aspects of various projects
- Coordinate with other disciplines and support services
- Make decisions independently in regard to various issues and methods
- Able to accept and give performance feedback
Required Skills:- Organized with the ability to self-prioritize
- Demonstrates active listening techniques
- Outgoing, friendly, approachable (team player)
- Previous leadership experience or someone ready for a step up
- Strong communication skills with team members and clients
- Proposal writing, project budget management and schedule preparation with the ability to deliver projects on time and within budget
- Working knowledge and ability to QA/QC construction drawings
- Competent technical skills required to complete engineering tasks
- Capable of proactively pursuing design solutions
- Ability to delegate assignments and determine methods and procedures
- Self-motivated with the ability to balance multiple projects and deadlines without supervision
- Ability to be open to others' ideas and willing to compromise
- Detail-oriented but also flexible enough to be big picture/conceptual
- Able to compromise and accept other's ideas
- Capable of envisioning the client's goals
- Good reputation amongst peers, clients, and agencies
- Able to follow general directions and guidelines for the firm's policies, practices, and procedures
Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering from an accredited institution
- Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Louisiana (or capable of obtaining)
- Proficiency in computer-aided design software
- Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Project Engineer
- Management experience in AR, Invoicing, and overall duties involved in managing a design team
