Senior Project Manager - Architecture
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We believe architecture is more than designing buildings, it’s about providing solutions to societal challenges and creating stronger, more vibrant communities. As part of our Architecture practice at HDR, you’ll contribute to the design and delivery of spaces and experiences that advance community well-being around the world. From healing environments and learning spaces to research labs and civic landmarks and infrastructure, your work will directly influence how individuals experience the world around them. We bring together architects, planners, designers, and technical experts to solve complex design challenges with creativity, curiosity, and collaboration. From championing design excellence with an emphasis on resilience and sustainability to pioneering innovative building technologies, your contributions will leave a lasting impact on the built environment. This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to drive meaningful change and help define the future of our communities.
In the role of Senior Project Manager- Architecture, we'll count on you to\:
Lead and coordinate single- and multidiscipline teams throughout the full project lifecycle, from pursuit, contracting, and project initiation through design, construction administration, commissioning, and closeout.
Assume overall accountability for the successful delivery of large, complex, and multidisciplinary architectural projects, including client satisfaction, scope, quality, schedule, budget, risk, staffing, and contractual performance.
Manage a portfolio of concurrent projects and assignments, establishing priorities, allocating resources, monitoring performance, and resolving conflicts across project teams.
Develop and maintain trusted client relationships, lead or support client engagement, contract negotiations, project interviews, pursuit strategy, fee development, and scope definition.
Identify follow-on work and new business opportunities in collaboration with market-sector, business-development, and operational leadership.
Plan and facilitate client, user-group, stakeholder, and project-team work sessions that establish requirements, resolve decisions, manage expectations, and advance project deliverables.
Lead engagement with complex client organizations, user groups, authorities having jurisdiction, agency representatives, and other stakeholders with competing operational, technical, and regulatory requirements.
Develop and maintain project staffing plans, responsibility assignments, workload forecasts, and resource projections throughout the project lifecycle.
Coordinate with discipline and operational leadership to secure qualified resources, address staffing constraints, and implement recovery plans when project performance is at risk.
Establish and manage project budgets, work plans, earned-value expectations, revenue forecasts, invoicing, accounts receivable, and financial performance.
Monitor actual performance against scope, fee, schedule, and staffing assumptions, and implement corrective actions when variances occur.
Lead periodic project reviews with Accounting, Operations, Business Group, and Market Sector leadership; accurately report project status, financial performance, risk, staffing, and corrective actions.
Document review outcomes and ensure that assigned actions are completed and tracked to closure.
Develop and implement project-specific quality management plans and ensure that required QA/QC, interdisciplinary coordination, constructability, technical, and document-control reviews are properly planned, staffed, documented, and completed.
Confirm that comments are resolved before deliverables are issued and elevate unresolved technical, quality, or delivery risks to appropriate leadership.
Lead and supervise large project teams, establish clear expectations and accountability, and provide timely coaching and feedback.
Mentor less-experienced Project Managers and Project Architects in project planning, client management, financial management, risk management, quality, and team leadership.
Support succession planning and development of the next generation of project-delivery leaders.
Perform other duties as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree in Architecture
Experience in the areas of healthcare, higher education, laboratories, or federal facilities
Experience and/or interest in sustainable design/LEED
PMP certification
Note\: This Senior Project Manager- Architecture role may be aligned with either our Healthcare, Education & Science, or Federal groups. We welcome candidates with experience in either market, and the position is structured to support strong architectural talent across a range of backgrounds.
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