Senior Project Manager - Architecture

About the role

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. We believe architecture is more than designing buildings, it’s about providing solutions to societal challenges and creating stronger, more vibrant communities. As part of our Architecture practice, you’ll contribute to the design and delivery of spaces and experiences that advance community well-being around the world — from healing environments and learning spaces to research labs and civic landmarks and infrastructure. We bring together architects, planners, designers, and technical experts to solve complex design challenges with creativity, curiosity, and collaboration. This role may be aligned with our Healthcare, Education & Science, or Federal groups, and welcomes candidates with experience in any of those markets.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate single- and multidiscipline teams throughout the full project lifecycle, from pursuit, contracting, and project initiation through design, construction administration, commissioning, and closeout.
• Assume overall accountability for the successful delivery of large, complex, and multidisciplinary architectural projects, including client satisfaction, scope, quality, schedule, budget, risk, staffing, and contractual performance.
• Manage a portfolio of concurrent projects and assignments, establishing priorities, allocating resources, monitoring performance, and resolving conflicts across project teams.
• Develop and maintain trusted client relationships, lead or support client engagement, contract negotiations, project interviews, pursuit strategy, fee development, and scope definition.
• Identify follow-on work and new business opportunities in collaboration with market-sector, business-development, and operational leadership.
• Plan and facilitate client, user-group, stakeholder, and project-team work sessions that establish requirements, resolve decisions, manage expectations, and advance project deliverables.
• Lead engagement with complex client organizations, user groups, authorities having jurisdiction, agency representatives, and other stakeholders with competing operational, technical, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain project staffing plans, responsibility assignments, workload forecasts, and resource projections throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate with discipline and operational leadership to secure qualified resources, address staffing constraints, and implement recovery plans when project performance is at risk.
• Establish and manage project budgets, work plans, earned-value expectations, revenue forecasts, invoicing, accounts receivable, and financial performance.
• Monitor actual performance against scope, fee, schedule, and staffing assumptions, and implement corrective actions when variances occur.
• Lead periodic project reviews with Accounting, Operations, Business Group, and Market Sector leadership; accurately report project status, financial performance, risk, staffing, and corrective actions.
• Document review outcomes and ensure that assigned actions are completed and tracked to closure.
• Develop and implement project-specific quality management plans and ensure that required QA/QC, interdisciplinary coordination, constructability, technical, and document-control reviews are properly planned, staffed, documented, and completed.
• Confirm that comments are resolved before deliverables are issued and elevate unresolved technical, quality, or delivery risks to appropriate leadership.
• Lead and supervise large project teams, establish clear expectations and accountability, and provide timely coaching and feedback.
• Mentor less-experienced Project Managers and Project Architects in project planning, client management, financial management, risk management, quality, and team leadership.
• Support succession planning and development of the next generation of project-delivery leaders.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture
• 10 years related experience
• A minimum of 5 years project management experience
• Registered Architect
• Must be able to lead a team on projects
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project)
• Knowledge and experience within the local and regional market
• Good planning and mentoring skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Architecture
• Experience in the areas of healthcare, higher education, laboratories, or federal facilities
• Experience and/or interest in sustainable design/LEED
• PMP certification

What We Believe

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day. Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement. Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions; temporary and part-time roles eligible for limited benefits.

Pay

Seattle, WA: $144,144 – $170,000 (expected compensation range depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location)

Schedule

Full-time

Location

Primary location: Seattle, Washington, United States