Senior Project Manager - Healthcare

Job Description

Senior Project Manager - Healthcare

Dewberry’s Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Structural (MEPS) team includes many offices & staff organized into a MEPS service line focused on nationwide clients in specialized facility types and specialized MEPS design services. Our experience includes high-performance buildings, hospitals, net zero/renewable energy technologies, microgrid and energy resilience design, and a broad set of other MEPS services. Our service line contains subject matter experts (SME), many of whom are in leadership roles in international professional organizations. Our repeat clients include universities, healthcare systems, state, local, and federal government agencies, and large global industrial manufacturers, among others. Our service line is currently ranked #35 nationally among MEP Giants .

Our Raleigh, NC office is home to over 200 design professionals, including a highly specialized MEPS Healthcare Group that excels in master-planning and design services for major healthcare clients across North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina. Our extensive portfolio includes high-stakes projects such as major trauma centers, oncology facilities, ambulatory care centers, central plants, and medical school facilities. Our healthcare group is comprised of subject matter experts who actively contribute to and present at ASHE conferences, and we proudly serve many of the largest hospital systems in the region. Beyond healthcare, our Raleigh office also features dedicated MEPS design teams focused on higher education, K-12 schools, infrastructure, and more.

Dewberry's  North Carolina and Virginia offices are seeking a dynamic Senior Project Manager - Healthcare to serve as the primary liaison between our team and the client. In this pivotal role, you will manage projects from initial concept through design, bidding, negotiation, and construction administration , ensuring a seamless experience that fosters long-term client relationships and positions us to win future projects.

Leveraging your extensive healthcare credentials and deep understanding of these regional markets , you will utilize existing client relationships while actively establishing new connections to acquire new healthcare projects. Your proactive approach will enable you to anticipate and mitigate potential challenges, ensuring that issues are resolved swiftly and effectively. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to deliver exceptional engineering documents that not only meet client needs but also adhere to project specifications and governing standards.

Key Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience required.
• Accomplished Professional Engineer (PE) with 10+ years of experience preferred.
• Background and understanding of healthcare plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and life safety systems with general knowledge of applicable codes, national standards, client design standards, system operation, space requirements, and cost.

Your commitment to excellence will empower clients to achieve their professional goals and enhance their organizations, all while embodying our philosophy of maintaining a "Client for Life."

Join us at Dewberry and play a crucial role in shaping the future of healthcare infrastructure!

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Responsibilities

• Maintain primary one-to-one contact with the client.
• Understand the client's needs and goals and that of his/her organization.
• Draft proposals for new projects with existing clients for review and signature of the Principal In Charge of Business and track proposals through award of project. Work with client to develop additional work.
• Attend regular design meetings with the client and issue meeting minutes.
• As project manager; lead, organize, and schedule design team staff.
• Organize and direct frequent in-house design meetings.
• Primary responsibility for the approval and oversight of design and construction documents within the applicable area of progressive technical experience including signing and sealing of documents as Engineer or Record.
• Prepare detailed personnel loading by task interfaced with the detailed schedule.
• Coordinate with Design Discipline Managers to schedule, plan and assign appropriate personnel.
• Prepare storyboards and detailed project timeline.
• Organize and maintain project design folder.
• Document meetings and telephone conversations.
• Provide quality control to ensure that all of the clients' needs and requests have been accommodated. Ensure and coordinate among all of the disciplines involved, including outside consultants.
• Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions to Owner.
• Advise on project billing and assist in collections.
• Supervise and coordinate the submission of documents to the appropriate reviewing authorities (DOI, SCO, DHSR, DFS, IRI, etc.)
• Coordinate the responses to reviews. Ensure that responses are in fact reflected in the drawings and specifications.
• Arrange for in-house quality review in a timely fashion.
• Arrange and attend pre-bid conferences and issue meeting minutes and addenda.
• Conduct bid openings and prepare / issue certified bid tabulation. Coordinate as required to ensure CA phase of the project puts Dewberry in positive standing with Client at all times.
• Perform site visits, inspections activities as required to support the Construction Administration requirements.
• Assist with recruiting, evaluating, and making recommendations regarding new employees to support MEP healthcare practice.

Required Skills & Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience required.
• Accomplished Professional Engineer (PE) with 10+ years of experience preferred.
• Knowledgeable of construction process, familiar with AIA contracts.
• Self-motivated with highly developed verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Well organized, with good understanding of healthcare plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and life safety systems with general knowledge of applicable codes, national standards, client design standards, system operation, space requirements, and cost.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters: Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

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