Senior Project Manager

Rider Levett Bucknall

$111K — $148K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in architecture, construction management, engineering science, or related field.
  • 5-10 years of project management experience, overseeing major projects and staff.
  • Strong background in developing and monitoring project contracts.
  • Proven ability to create and assess project goals and timelines.
  • Experience managing diverse project teams.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise and direct a large project team throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Oversee development and execution of project goals and strategies.
  • Manage project budgets and contracts, authorizing expenditures as necessary.
  • Coordinate with program committees and advisory groups to align project objectives.
  • Train and advise project staff and participants to enhance team effectiveness.
  • Plan and facilitate project meetings to ensure team alignment and communication.
  • Evaluate and report on project performance metrics and stakeholder engagement.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Dynamic work environment promoting collaboration.
  • Engagement with diverse project teams and interdisciplinary stakeholders.
Full Job Description
Title: Senior Project Manager

Reporting to: Office Director

Salary Ranges:

Los Angeles: $111,500 - $148,500

San Francisco: $123,000 - $163,500
Overview of Role
The Senior Project Manager will act as client's representative in managing a project through its design stages from concept through construction within the client's time and value constraints. The role is defined as a planned undertaking with defined goals, work plans, timeliness, and implementation strategies to correspond to client needs. The Senior Project Manager should have the ability to identify opportunities within a project that will add value and help successfully accomplish the client's desired project outcome.

Essential Functions
  • Supervise project staff and provide direction to a large and diverse project team.
  • Direct the development of project goals, work plans, timeliness, and implementation strategies.
  • Manage and account for project budgets and contracts.
  • Identify and coordinate with program committees and advisory groups.
  • Administer project budgets, authorize expenditures, develop, and monitor contracts.
  • Train and advise staff, project advocates and program participants.
  • Plan, facilitate and conduct meetings.
  • Measure, evaluate and communicate project performance.
  • Identify decision-making issues and key stakeholders, develop and implement strategies to encourage and obtain stakeholder and/or community awareness and support and identify project partners.
  • Contribute to team performance by collaboration and effective communication.
  • Contribute to and understand the client's desired project outcomes, identify opportunities to add value to accomplish the desired outcomes.
  • Add to team effort by accomplishing other duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements:
  • 4-year college degree in architecture, construction management, engineering science or a related field.
  • 5-10 years relevant experience of management of staff including project professionals and/or technicians, managing major projects including development of project scope, goals, work plans, timeliness, and implantation strategies, developing measurement processes/methods for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes.
  • Prior experience with developing and monitoring contracts.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Expert in project management, including planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of large, complex projects.
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
  • Often work in an indoor office environment. Equipment used includes computers and standard office machines. Essential physical tasks include: the ability to work on a computer and the ability to answer and speak on a telephone.
  • May work on site location to include ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary motion and ability to lift 50lbs.
  • May also require:
o Sitting
o Standing for long periods of time
o Walking, carrying, pushing, stooping, crouching, and pulling

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