Senior Project Manager - Mission Critical and Data Center

Description

The company is a global architecture, engineering and geospatial firm with over 75 offices, working on complex projects that shape communities and critical infrastructure.

You would join the mission critical project management team as a project manager, working across disciplines on complex, multidiscipline work.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the full cross-functional project team.
• Review the quality of deliverables from team members, such as fee plans, work plans, risk mitigation plans and contracts.
• Solve problems that put project objectives at risk.
• Guide the team on scope and budget or pricing for proposals and ongoing project planning.
• Help build client relationships and business development that fit the strategic plan.
• Serve as the main internal contact for communication, and flag gaps between planned and actual performance.
• Help position the company's mission critical practice and services as an industry leader with new and existing clients.
• Work with market leads to negotiate schedule, fee, scope and contract terms on complex projects.
• Find, address and resolve issues that affect client goals, objectives or satisfaction.
• Define and communicate what clients need and expect.
• Keep stakeholders, including the client and the client's managers, informed on an ongoing basis, and anticipate issues before they arise.

Requirements

• Have at least 10 years of experience in architecture, engineering or construction.
• Have a strong grasp of project management fundamentals and be able to lead technical discussions when needed.
• Show proven leadership, with skill at negotiating, influencing and managing risk.
• Communicate well with both internal colleagues and external clients for all essential duties.
• Make sound decisions and recommendations based on analyzing project information and data.
• Be able to travel for local, regional and national clients and projects.
• Desired: active professional registration as a licensed architect or licensed engineer.
• PMP certification preferred.
• Strongly preferred: experience in mission critical or data center environments, or on projects of similar complexity and scale (about 400,000 square feet).
• Ideal candidate: experience with multidisciplinary mission critical projects such as airports, healthcare facilities, large transportation terminals, semiconductor facilities, or projects of similar complexity and scale.

Conditions

Full-time position tied to the Chicago, IL, New York, NY and/or Pittsburgh, PA offices, offered in person, hybrid or remote.

Pay ranges from $139,200 to $174,000 USD.

Base pay may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills and experience.

No visa sponsorship is offered; you must already have work authorization in the country where the job is located.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and recruits and promotes without regard to protected status under applicable law.

Benefits

• Freedom to Work program: set your own schedule and location, where appropriate.
• Principal program: a chance to become an owner of the firm.
• Flexible paid time off, taken when it makes sense for you and your team.
• Career development, with learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
• Medical, life, vision and dental coverage.
• Sick pay, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, a technology stipend, an employee assistance program and more.