Project Manager II

Description

The company is a worldwide firm offering architecture, engineering and geospatial services. It takes on complex client problems that affect communities, critical infrastructure and technology, and its teams work across disciplines on projects that matter.

The role sits within a team that is building a career path around growth, opportunity and impact for its people.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, monitor and report on specific mission-critical projects.
• Help build and strengthen client relationships, grow existing accounts and win repeat work.
• Guide the cross-functional project team in planning, directing and coordinating architecture and multidisciplinary work.
• Review the quality of deliverables from team members, such as fee plans, work plans, risk mitigation plans and contracts.
• Solve issues that threaten architecture and multidisciplinary project objectives.
• Help the team set scope and budgets for proposals and adjust project plans as conditions change.
• Support client relationships and business development that align with strategic plans.
• Serve as a main internal contact for project communications.
• Spot differences between planned and actual performance on architecture and multidisciplinary projects.
• Present the company as a leader in mission-critical practice and services to current and prospective clients.
• Work with market leads to negotiate schedules, fees, scope and contract terms for architecture projects.
• Find, address and resolve issues that affect client goals, objectives and satisfaction.
• Define and convey client needs and expectations.
• Keep stakeholders continuously informed, resolving current issues and anticipating new ones.
• Manage billion-dollar data center developments for hyperscalers and data center developers, including gigascale campuses.
• Act as prime architect across campus master planning, base-building design, tenant fit-outs and construction administration, leading architects, BIM staff, and internal and external consultants in structural, MEP, fire protection, civil, water and hydraulics, landscape, security, telecom and AV, and acoustics.
• Produce campus master plans, schematic design, design development and construction documents, BIM models, permit submissions, bulletins and addenda, RFI and submittal responses, site observation reports and closeout documents.
• Set up projects in the company financial system, including setup forms, fee plans, work plans and budgets.
• Write proposals, additional service requests and change orders.
• Review contracts, service agreements, purchase orders and notices to proceed with legal and leadership.
• Manage subconsultant agreements and invoices.
• Prepare monthly invoices and track work in progress, revenue, contingency and receivables.
• Lead monthly project financial reviews and resolve budget variances.
• Plan staff resources and utilization.
• Enforce quality control and quality assurance reviews.
• Lead client, consultant and contractor coordination meetings.
• Track schedules and milestones.
• Manage construction administration, including RFIs, submittals and site visits.
• Lead project closeout through the company Project Management Office lifecycle: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closeout.
• Prepare responses to multi-building client RFPs.
• Follow Buildings Sector Project Standards and Project Management Office procedures: internal proposal and contract review before issue, notice to proceed before work starts, minimum fee multipliers and contingency, execution and work plans reviewed at kickoff, monthly budget variance and resource forecasting, QC and QA checklists, risk reviews, and Level 2 leadership reviews of projects with financial or delivery issues that capture lessons learned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or a foreign equivalent, in architecture or a related field.
• 60 months (5 years) of experience in this job or in architect, architectural designer or related roles.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary, large-scale projects over 300,000 sq ft.
• Ability to analyze technical architectural requirements and manage every phase of architectural projects across the full lifecycle.
• Ability to apply direct labor costs, market goal multipliers and consultant expenses to meet client demands on architecture projects.
• Ability to evaluate and synthesize experience, industry standards and project information.

Conditions

Telecommuting and working from home are allowed.

Travel to client or project sites as needed is required. Trips are typically domestic and rarely international, averaging about once a month, though this varies with project phase and client needs.

The company is an equal-opportunity employer committed to full inclusion, recruiting, training, compensating and promoting without regard to protected status as required by law.