Senior Project Manager (CnP)

We are seeking a driven and client-focused Senior Design Project Manager to join our team in Pittsburgh, PA. As a Sr. Project Manager, you will support the growth of our Cities and Places team in Pittsburgh and deliver top-notch service to clients in both the private and public sector. You will leverage your architectural skills and previous buildings experience to lead a multi-discipline team to deliver innovative buildings for our clients. Your people management skills will help team members thrive, guiding, overseeing design documentation and ensuring that all design review activities meet high standards and are meticulously checked, covering mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), structural, and control systems. This role requires direct engagement with the Client and General Contractor, necessitating technical expertise related to the project scope.

This hybrid position requires regular in-office visits and occasional travel to meet with clients. This client-facing position will have you as the main point of contact for the design team, ensuring design, schedule, cost, scope, quality, and safety.

As a Sr. Project Manager, you will work in partnership with the Cities and Places Client Account Manager and Manager of Projects for overall growth strategies. For each project you will directly interface and collaborate with the discipline leads and full services architecture and engineering teams. You are accountable for setting and adhering to the project financial goals and team communication. You are responsible for the project overall health; financials, team effectiveness, client relationship, safety, and quality.

You will embody our mission: Challenging Today, Reinventing Tomorrow, our purpose: To create a more connected, sustainable world, and our values: We do things right. We challenge the accepted. We aim higher. We live inclusion.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Developing and maintaining internal and external client networks and serving as a primary contributor during client meetings and presentations. This role has a focus on Higher Education, Science and Research.

* Representing Jacobs in a positive manner at meetings, presentations and in public. Actively participating in professional organizations (ie SCUP, AIA)

* Participating in directing growth and strategic planning as part of the Companys management team

* Taking an active role in higher education sector business development activities such as networking, introductions to new clients, and engaging current clients for new work through opening and middle game activities

* Research and share information on the high education market

* Representing the company as a presenter at conferences and other similar public events

* Preparing and publishing articles with prior company approval

* Initiating, preparing, and reviewing proposals and participating in interviews in response to RFPs and RFQs. This includes working with discipline leads for potential team members, and develop the project workplan and financial/pricing tool

* Fosters and maintains a collaborative professional working relationship with the entire Project Team. Leads project team meetings to help resolve project issues, coordination with other disciplines, schedule adherence and sharing client feedback.

* Responsible for ensuring communication with disciplines is effective and constant.

* Fosters a commitment to external and internal client service.

* Develops a positive relationship of trust with clients and other project leadership.

* Sets the Client Expectation Surveys (CES), Client Satisfactory Surveys (CSS) at the beginning of the project and follow up throughout the major milestones.

* Facilitate the creation of communication plans, ensuring that appropriate information is exchanged among key stakeholders, and conduct status review meetings among project team members and clients through project execution.

* Determine, monitor, and manage financial project metrics, schedules, and staffing requirements for each project.

* Guide the overall development and quality of the project documents and adherence with Jacobs Quality Program.

* Securing, assigning, and maintaining a full-service project team containing all the resources required to successfully deliver projects while maintaining quality.

* Plan, organize and direct management and design staff.

* Identifying and assessing risks and implementing effective risk mitigation strategies

* Ensuring the obligations of the agreement between Client and the Company are fulfilled. This includes developing and monitoring financial and project delivery schedules, including change management.

* Provide effective team management to help reduce costs of delivering projects and adding value to the business by applying proven management techniques.

* Bachelors degree in Architecture from an accredited University

* Professional Registered Architect (RA)

* 15+ years of AEC buildings experience including;

* Experience as a client-facing Project Manager

* Managing multiple projects

* Prior experience in a project architect role

* Mentoring staff

* 10+ years of management involving direct client contact and full responsibility for projects, with examples of new construction project delivery from design through construction.

* 5+ years of experience working as a licensed project architect

* Strong verbal and written communication skills, including presentations

* Ability to work in multi-discipline, multi-office, and Global Integrated Delivery (GID) environments.

* Knowledge and implementation of project financial acumen, including estimating ETC/EAC and earned value.

* Active participation in professional organizations, with exceptional social, networking, organization, communication, people and presentation skills.

* Ability to effectively meet deadlines.

Ideally, you'll also have

* NCARB certificate holder

* Experience with Design Build project delivery

* Diverse portfolio of architectural buildings experience: corporate commercial, life science, higher education, healthcare, and industrial facilities programs

Sponsorship is not available for this position.

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