4-year degree in architecture, construction management, engineering, or related field.
5-10 years of experience in project management and staff supervision.
Proven track record in managing major projects with defined goals and implementations.
Experience in developing and monitoring contracts.
Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
Responsibilities
Supervise and direct a diverse project team to achieve project goals.
Develop project goals, work plans, timelines, and strategies for implementation.
Manage budgets and contracts effectively throughout the project lifecycle.
Coordinate with advisory groups to align project directions with strategic goals.
Conduct performance evaluations and communicate project progress to stakeholders.
Train and advise staff and participants to ensure project success.
Facilitate meetings to foster collaboration and decision-making among team members.
Benefits
Indoor office environment with standard office equipment.
Opportunities for outdoor site visits, including physical agility tasks.
Work requires lifting capabilities of up to 50 lbs.
Full Job Description
Title: Senior Project Manager
Reporting to: Office Director
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:
Sitting
Standing for long periods of time
Walking, carrying, pushing, stooping, crouching, and pulling
