Project Manager - Community & Culture

Overview

Project Manager - Community & Culture

Virginia Beach, VA
• Full-Time/Regular •

• Leading, motivating, and effectively communicating with a project team during scope and project execution
• Working with the Managing Principal and Design Manager to develop and present projects to clients, contractors, project team members, authorities having jurisdiction, and members of the public through all stages of the project
• Coordinating with clients to ensure successful completion of projects that may involve either new construction or renovation
• Facilitating a professional and successful relationship between client, contractors, and the project team
• Running project meetings and participating in management meetings
• Actively support Managing Principals and Marketing in the Company's marketing and business development activities
• Preparing contracts and fee proposals for Managing Principal's review and participating in contract negotiations
• Ensuring staff compliance with quality control policies and procedures
• Developing and managing project planning, budgeting, and critical project objectives
• Verify project consultants are properly licensed and insured
• Assemble staff for project teams with input and concurrence from Managing Principals, Department Directors, and Department Heads
• Working with, responding to, and taking direction from Managing Principals and Senior Project Managers
• Ability to travel is required

• Perform Project Manager duties as assigned
• Monitor scope/schedule creep for potential additional services
• Provide weekly progress reports to the Client
• Maintain project documentation in electronic files and Newforma
• Assemble and maintain design discipline sheet mock-ups and work plans
• Prepare and monitor project budgets and schedules with input from each discipline and consultants
• Facilitate project team meetings to review project scope, project progress, and schedule issues as well as team coordination, coordination with consultants, and problem solving
• Review RFI and shop drawing submittal responses for appropriateness and completeness
• Prepare draft monthly invoices, 12 month invoice projections and monitor accounts receivable
• Review and approve project related expenses and consultant invoices
• Assemble and review design "milestone" submittal deliverables and ensure completeness and quality of the submittal
• Perform project closeout and archiving tasks
• Schedule QC/QA reviews
• Schedule and/or conduct periodic site visits during construction

• A Project Manager should typically be a licensed professional or have 5 years or more of significant design and practice experience in a leadership role in the areas of the firm's practice.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) is desirable
• Understanding of sustainable design principles and design practices with LEED AP accreditation is preferred
• Additional certifications such as CDT, CCS, or CCCA are encouraged to reflect personal growth in the profession and an ever increasing knowledge base to enhance the design and documentation process
• A Project Manager should be able to effectively utilize current company software programs for word processing, e-mail, accounting, and information management.
• Working familiarity with design and production software to a point of being able to understand the capabilities and limitations of the programs and interact with the support staff in their use of the software is highly desirable.
• Ability to prepare effective and concise documents
• Ability to make presentations to a variety of groups
• Have a client-oriented attitude with a desire to provide outstanding professional services
• Be dedicated to his or her professional development as well as the success of colleagues and the firm as a whole
• Demonstrate recognized leadership within the firm and outside the firm
• Possess excellent team leadership capabilities and abilities
• Specialized experience in one or more areas of the firm's practice
• Demonstrated ability to consistently deliver projects on-time, on-budget and exceeding client and firm expectations

Education, Technology, and Experience

• A minimum of a bachelor
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