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.
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+ 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