Project Manager I - Community

Project Manager I - Community

Charlotte, NC Grand Rapids, MI

As the Project Manager I, you are responsible for leading project teams and fostering effective client relationships. You will manage project schedules, budgets, and quality while monitoring the team's financial performance. With guidance from a Senior Project Manager and Team Leader, you will gain valuable experience while optimizing processes, aligning plans, and demonstrating resourcefulness.

Deliver Results

• Lead internal and external project teams, including consultants, through effective communication and teamwork.
• Manage project plans, schedules, and budgets while monitoring scope and preparing project history upon completion.
• Mentor team members and collaborate in performance planning with Team Leaders.
• Ensure project quality through Quality Assurance/Quality Control milestones, coordination, and proactive issue resolution.
• Plan, monitor, and control technical costs to achieve project profit goals.
• Identify marketing opportunities with current and past clients and assist with proposals and interviews.
• Collaborate with Practice Leaders to establish project scope, schedules, and budgets during proposal development.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in architecture, interiors, landscape architecture, engineering, or a related field; Master's degree a plus.
• CSI-CDT certification required (training provided). Professional registration in your field preferred. Certification through PSMJ/PMI preferred.
• 5 years of experience with AE projects, preferably in an architecture, engineering, or construction professional service firm.
• Solid understanding of A&E work standards, processes, and policies with working knowledge of project delivery methods.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multiple project delivery methods.
• Master's degree and professional registration in a related field.

Employee Owned

We act like owners—because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO comes standard with every team member. Culture of Excellence

The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration. We are committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities.