Architectural Project Manager | Multifamily

About the role

Corgan is a welcoming and supportive environment that provides significant career advantages. You’ll find room to grow, freedom to explore — and the safety to fail.

Responsibilities

• Tackle these responsibilities alongside a team of creative, highly motivated individuals who are passionate about their work and ready to collaborate to achieve outstanding results.
• Develop competitive fee structures reflecting defined scope of services for project pursuits.
• Establish and manage project schedules.
• Oversee the completion of projects on time and within fee budget.
• Anticipate, understand, and manage client expectations.
• Provide leadership to staff by identifying project studio team members’ roles and responsibilities, leveraging their strengths, providing stretch opportunities, and offering mentorship.
• Lead and encourage open dialogue with project team regarding design and technical ideation, and facilitate appropriate solutions.
• Motivate the project team to meet project goals through encouragement and/or course correction.
• Oversee administration of construction phase procedures and documentation (shop drawings/submittals, requests for information, and addenda/clarifications).
• Oversee development and presentation of appropriate technical solutions to project stakeholders.
• Drive the coordination of internal staff, external consultants, and other stakeholders to achieve a cohesive and collaborative project team.
• Attend and conduct presentations.
• Actively explore and recognize new business opportunities through professional networks.
• Drive each project team to seek innovation in design solutions in an ongoing spirit of curiosity, continuous improvement, and increased project performance.
• Develop effective project directives, outlines, projections, schedules, and strategies over the course of the project.
• Oversee development and communication of appropriate project phasing.
• Manage all facets of project production resulting in a thorough set of documents.
• Identify solutions and effectively resolve technical challenges.
• Understand and apply appropriate industry standards and construction practices.
• Oversee quality assurance processes and quality control of project documents.
• Demonstrate, share, and appropriately apply new methodologies, practices, codes, and products.
• Attend and conduct presentations.
• Manage client relations.
• Provide leadership to staff.

Requirements

• Professional, NAAB-accredited degree in Architecture or equivalent is required.
• 12+ years of experience in commercial design; Multifamily experience required.
• Experience managing Type III Construction projects is required; experience managing Type V Construction projects is preferred.
• Professional registration or anticipation of registration required.
• High commitment to QA/QC.
• Thorough understanding of how a drawing set goes together.
• Acumen for how things are built and constructability, and the ability to apply that knowledge to support the project design and budget.
• Experience managing a variety of consultants and contractors.
• Interest in sustainable design.
• Effective organizational and communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Flexible attitude.
• Proficiency or experience with managing overall project fees and schedules.
• Must have high attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
• The ability to juggle multiple priorities is essential.
• Candidates should be efficient with coordinating project deliverables and client expectations.
• Ability to collaborate in a diverse project team environment.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and leading project teams.
• Confident presentation ability.
• Strong aptitude for business development, strategic leadership skills, and high self-motivation.
• Convincing conceptual design skills, as well as an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Potential travel opportunities.