Senior Project Manager

Title: Senior Project Manager
Reporting to: Office Director

Salary Range: $145,000 - $165,000 USD
Overview of Role:
The Senior Project Manager will act as 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. The Senior Project Manager should have the ability to identify opportunities within a project that will add value and help successfully accomplish the client's desired project outcome.

Truth. Trust. Together. Tomorrow.

At RLB, we speak the truth, build for the long term, look out for each other and work to do good. We are driven by outcomes, creating tailored solutions that deliver successful projects. We believe that when we bring together the right people doing things the right way, we make progress for our clients and our communities.

RLB is an award-winning international firm, known for providing property and construction consultancy advice at all stages of the construction cycle. Utilizing its many years of experience and professionally trained employees, RLB continues to firmly establish itself as one of the major players in the construction industry throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. Our employees are involved in a variety of projects across a range of sectors, from sports arenas and healthcare to higher education and convention centers.

As a privately held company, we hire the best people, give them exceptional training, and provide extensive opportunities for professional growth while working on exciting projects while providing an excellent compensation and benefits package.
Essential Functions:

• Experience leading large, complex public-sector, civic, entertainment, convention center, sports, or mixed-use district development projects.
• Comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of project management, including planning, design management, procurement, construction administration, project controls, scheduling, cost management, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary owner's project management team, establishing clear roles, priorities, and accountability.
• Manage project governance, executive reporting, decision-making processes, and overall project execution.
• Facilitate and lead executive meetings, stakeholder workshops, design reviews, public presentations, and coordination meetings.
• Provide strategic guidance to the client on project risks, opportunities, budgets, schedules, procurement, phasing, and delivery strategies.
• Direct and coordinate the work of architects, engineers, specialty consultants, contractors, and third-party stakeholders to ensure alignment with project objectives.
• Oversee project controls including budget management, cost forecasting, scheduling, change management, risk management, and reporting.
• Coordinate with multiple public agencies, utility providers, adjacent developments, and community stakeholders to minimize disruption and maintain project momentum.
• Develop and oversee complex construction phasing and operational continuity plans, particularly for projects within active downtown or urban environments.
• Navigate politically sensitive issues with professionalism, diplomacy, and sound judgment while maintaining strong relationships with elected officials, agency representatives, business leaders, and community organizations.
• Ensure informed, timely decision-making while balancing competing stakeholder priorities and project objectives.
• Represent the client in public forums, executive briefings, and stakeholder presentations with confidence and credibility.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence.

• Minimum Education (or substitute experience) required: 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

RLB is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company does not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, handicap, religion, national origin, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above listed items.

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