Senior Project Manager

About the role

The Senior Project Manager will act as the 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• Minimum Education (or substitute experience): 4-year college degree in architecture, construction management or engineering science.
• Minimum Experience required: 5-10 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.