| Location | Washington |
Project Manager – Federal Construction (PE Required) - Federal Construction & Project Controls
About the Role
SIRIS is seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide full-time
engineering, project controls, and construction administration support to the
Architect of the Capitol's Construction Execution Branch in Washington, DC. The
position will support multiple concurrent construction and renovation projects
across the Capitol campus, from procurement development and technical review
through construction execution, closeout, and turnover.
This role requires a licensed Professional Engineer who can combine strong
technical field knowledge with disciplined cost, schedule, quality, risk, and
documentation controls. You will collaborate with federal client representatives,
contractors, architects, engineers, consultants, and other project stakeholders in
active, occupied, historic, and high-visibility facilities.
Success in this role will be evaluated not only through technical qualifications and
project performance, but also through the ability to represent SIRIS with
professionalism, sound judgment, responsiveness, clear communication, and
credibility. This is an important opportunity to help SIRIS establish a trusted, long term partnership with the Architect of the Capitol.
What You’ll Do
• Provide engineering, project controls, and construction administration
support for multiple concurrent construction and renovation projects across
the Capitol campus.
• Support procurement development by preparing and reviewing scopes of
work, technical requirements, schedules, cost information, and acquisition
documentation.
• Prepare, review, or validate independent government cost estimates (IGCEs),
quantity takeoffs, cost breakdowns, pricing analyses, and contractor
proposals.
• Monitor project schedules, budgets, forecasts, risks, changes, action items,
commitments, and performance trends; prepare clear status reports and
recommendations.
• Review drawings, specifications, submittals, shop drawings, requests for
information (RFIs), change-order proposals, and claims for technical
completeness, accuracy, and contract compliance.
• Perform technical field engineering, existing-condition verification, survey
coordination, site observations, field inspections, and documentation of
construction progress and deficiencies.
• Maintain and coordinate project controls, including submittal, RFI, change,
claims, decision, action-item, risk, and issue logs.
• Assist with or lead quality assurance activities to verify conformance with
contract documents, approved submittals, applicable requirements, and
client expectations.
• Support progress meetings, field coordination, reports, correspondence,
punch lists, closeout documentation, and stakeholder communications.
• Identify emerging cost, schedule, quality, safety, contractual, or technical
risks and escalate issues with clear analysis and practical recommendations.
Who Will Succeed in This Role
• A technically credible engineer with meaningful federal construction, project
controls, and construction administration experience.
• Comfortable moving between detailed field conditions and broader cost,
schedule, risk, contractual, and stakeholder priorities.
• Able to manage multiple projects and competing deadlines without
sacrificing accuracy, responsiveness, or follow-through.
• A confident communicator who can explain complex technical matters
clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Organized and analytical, with the discipline to maintain complete, accurate,
and defensible project documentation.
• Skilled at building productive relationships while exercising independent
judgment and protecting client and company interests.
• Professional, accountable, discreet, and aligned with SIRIS's values: Walk
Humbly, Do Justly, Lead Courageously, and Love Mercy.
Qualifications
Required
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline
from an accredited college or university.
• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in
engineering, construction project management, project controls, or
construction administration.
• Demonstrated experience supporting federal construction projects,
facilities, or capital improvement programs.
• Hands-on experience developing, reviewing, or validating cost estimates
and independent government cost estimates (IGCEs).
• Strong working knowledge of construction project controls, including
scheduling, cost management, forecasting, risk management, change
control, documentation, and reporting.
• Experience coordinating and reviewing submittals, RFIs, change orders,
contractor proposals, and claims.
• Experience conducting technical field engineering, surveys or survey
coordination, site observations, inspections, and quality assurance
activities.
• Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, contracts, scopes of work,
and other technical documentation and prepare concise, defensible
analyses and recommendations.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and standard construction
documentation, reporting, and collaboration tools.
Preferred
• Previous experience supporting the Architect of the Capitol or other
legislative-branch facilities.
• Construction, engineering, or project-management experience in
Washington, DC.
• Experience working in active, occupied federal, historic, cultural,
institutional, or similarly high-visibility facilities.
• Experience using Kahua, e-Builder, or a comparable construction
program-management platform.
• Experience supporting multiple small-to-medium construction projects
simultaneously from procurement through closeout.
• Experience providing owner's representative, construction-management,
or agency construction-support services.
Proposal Application Requirements
Because this position supports an active federal proposal, candidates considered
for proposal inclusion must provide a current resume and detailed information
for at least five projects with scope and responsibilities comparable to this
assignment.
• Project identification: Project name and location; client or government
agency; project type and scope; and approximate construction value, when
available.
• Candidate involvement: Dates of involvement, position or role, level of
authority, and a concise description of the candidate's responsibilities and
accomplishments.
• Relevant responsibilities: Project controls, schedule management, cost
estimating or oversight, quality assurance, field inspections, submittal and
RFI management, stakeholder coordination, change orders, claims,
construction administration, and closeout.
• Preferred examples: Federal construction projects, particularly work
completed in Washington, DC or in active, occupied, historic, cultural, or
institutional facilities.
Candidates selected for proposal inclusion must authorize SIRIS to use their
resume, qualifications, credentials, and relevant project information in the
proposal and must verify licensure, availability, and the accuracy of submitted
information.
Additional Requirements
• Ability to work full-time on-site in Washington, DC and travel between
multiple project locations across the Capitol campus during the workday.
• Ability to satisfy applicable federal background screening, credential
verification, badging, and site-access requirements.
• Ability to work independently, protect confidential information, and exercise
sound judgment in a high-visibility client environment.
• Ability to maintain professional, responsive communication with federal
clients, contractors, consultants, and internal stakeholders.
• Availability, qualifications, and continued interest must be confirmed during
the proposal-development and client-approval processes.
Work Environment
• This is a full-time, on-site position performed in office, client-site, and active
construction environments.
• The role requires regular computer and document-review work, meetings,
field observations, inspections, and travel between project locations.
• Field activities may require extended standing or walking, navigating stairs
and uneven surfaces, and entering active construction areas while wearing
required personal protective equipment.
• Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with
disabilities in accordance with applicable law.
Federal & AOC Program Requirements
• Employment is contingent upon SIRIS receiving the applicable contract
award, the position remaining within the awarded scope, funding
availability, and client approval when required.
• The selected candidate must successfully complete all applicable
background, credential, employment, education, licensing, and site-access
verification requirements.
• The employee must comply with all client, campus, safety, security,
confidentiality, ethics, and documentation requirements.
• This posting represents a proposal-based employment opportunity and
does not constitute a contract or guarantee of employment.
Benefits
• Medical, Dental, Vision (99% of individual base plan paid by company; 50%
for dependents)
• 401(k) with up to 4% company match
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Annual bonus eligibility
Equal Opportunity Employer
SIRIS, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and federal contractor. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age,
disability, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable
federal, state, or local law.
Salary range is contingent upon the candidate meeting all required qualifications and experience requirements.