4-year degree in architecture, construction management, or engineering science.
5-10+ years of project management experience with large-scale, complex projects.
Experience managing project professionals and technicians.
Must have prior experience developing and monitoring contracts.
Strong communication skills essential.
Responsibilities
Act as the client’s representative throughout all project design stages.
Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary project management team.
Manage project governance and executive reporting processes.
Facilitate executive meetings and stakeholder workshops.
Provide strategic guidance on project risks, budgets, and schedules.
Direct coordination with architects, engineers, and contractors to align project objectives.
Develop and oversee construction phasing plans for urban projects.
Benefits
Opportunity to lead major public-sector projects.
Engagement in a variety of complex developments including civic and entertainment.
Professional growth through leadership and mentorship opportunities.
A role that demands innovative problem-solving and strategic thinking.
Work in a dynamic, collaborative environment with diverse stakeholders.
Full Job Description
Title: Senior Project Manager Reporting to: Office Director
Salary Range: $101,500 - $135,000 USD 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:
Experience leading large, complex public-sector, civic, entertainment, convention center, sports, or mixed-use district development projects.
Comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of project management, including planning, design management, procurement, construction administration, project controls, scheduling, cost management, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary owner's project management team, establishing clear roles, priorities, and accountability.
Facilitate and lead executive meetings, stakeholder workshops, design reviews, public presentations, and coordination meetings.
Provide strategic guidance to the client on project risks, opportunities, budgets, schedules, procurement, phasing, and delivery strategies.
Direct and coordinate the work of architects, engineers, specialty consultants, contractors, and third-party stakeholders to ensure alignment with project objectives.
Oversee project controls including budget management, cost forecasting, scheduling, change management, risk management, and reporting.
Coordinate with multiple public agencies, utility providers, adjacent developments, and community stakeholders to minimize disruption and maintain project momentum.
Develop and oversee complex construction phasing and operational continuity plans, particularly for projects within active downtown or urban environments.
Navigate politically sensitive issues with professionalism, diplomacy, and sound judgment while maintaining strong relationships with elected officials, agency representatives, business leaders, and community organizations.
Ensure informed, timely decision-making while balancing competing stakeholder priorities and project objectives.
Represent the client in public forums, executive briefings, and stakeholder presentations with confidence and credibility.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence.
Minimum Education (or substitute experience) required: 4-year college degree in architecture, construction management or engineering science.
Minimum Experience required: 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 required.
Skills Required: Expert in project management, including planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of large, complex projects. Good communication skills required.
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:
Sitting
Standing for long periods of time
Walking, carrying, pushing, stooping, crouching, and pulling
