Project Manager
Company: Clark Nexsen
Location: Raleigh
Posted on: April 30, 2024
Job Description:
DescriptionWe seek to hire a Project Manager who will be
responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing activities on
single or multi-discipline projects involving architecture,
engineering, planning, interior design or other areas of the firm's
practice.
General responsibilities include but are not limited to the
following:
- 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
Project responsibilities include but are not limited to the
following:
- Perform Managing Principal 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
Education, Technology, and Experience
- A minimum of a bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture,
interior design or planning is preferred
- Licensure as a Professional Engineer, Registered Architect, or
Interior Designer is preferred
- 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.
- A Project Manager should typically be a licensed professional
or have 12 years or more of significant design and practice
experience in a leadership role in the areas of the firm's
practice.
Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to prepare effective and concise documents
- Possess technical precision and creative design skills
- 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
- Demonstrated 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
Physical Requirements
Work is sedentary and often performed in an office setting. Work
area is lighted, heated, and ventilated. This position may require
extended periods of standing, sitting, as well as some repetitive
movements, bending and lifting of minimal weight. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities
to perform essential functions.
Workplace Flexibility
We have selected two as common days in the office to nurture
collaboration and innovation and to support learning and growth
through engagement with colleagues. We are asking everyone to be
present on Mondays and Thursdays, with a required third day that
will provide additional flexibility and be set between you and your
supervisor (with consideration given to your project team members
and clients). Our hope is that this schedule will offer the
work-life balance that is desired by all, while providing
consistent opportunities for face-to-face collaboration and
mentorship.
Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Together we discover, inspire, and shape ideas that transform our
world. We design for a greater purpose. Our culture results from a
collective effort to innovate and inspire, to support and
challenge, to impact and transform. Great ideas are the result of
collaboration between individuals with diverse backgrounds,
perspectives, and passions. Our process advances communities
through discovery and design. We believe ideas have the power to
change the world.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with
DisabilitiesThe contractor will not discharge or in any other
manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they
have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the
pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have
access to the compensation information of other employees or
applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot
disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals
who do not otherwise have access to compensation information,
unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or
charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding,
hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the
employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to
furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Keywords: Clark Nexsen, Chapel Hill , Project Manager, Executive , Raleigh, North Carolina
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