Senior Project Manager
Description
How Your Role Will Shape Our Success
As a Senior Project Manager on our growing Atlanta design team, you’ll play a key role in delivering complex building and parking design projects while helping shape the future of the practice. You’ll lead projects from concept through completion, build strong client relationships, and guide multidisciplinary teams of engineers and architects.
This is an opportunity for an experienced project manager who enjoys both the technical and client-facing sides of the work and wants the opportunity to help grow a developing design practice.
What You’ll Do
- Lead multiple design projects from initial planning and concept development through design, documentation, and construction.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, leading meetings, presentations, and project communication.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams, including structural, architectural, civil, and MEP professionals.
- Develop project scopes, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, and quality plans.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance throughout the design process.
- Build trusted client relationships and identify opportunities for continued and future work.
- Support business development efforts, including proposals, interviews, and relationship building.
- Mentor and support engineers and other members of the growing Atlanta design team.
- Help expand Walker’s design presence and capabilities in the Atlanta market.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or a related field.
- Approximately 8–10+ years of relevant design and project management experience.
- Professional Engineer (PE), Structural Engineer (SE), or Architect licensure.
- Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary design projects.
- Strong knowledge of building design and project delivery.
- Experience developing and maintaining client relationships.
- Strong communication, leadership, and project management skills.
- Experience with parking or functional design is highly valued.
We offer a robust total compensation and rewards package designed to support our employees’ well-being, growth, and diverse needs, including:
- Annual discretionary bonus program
- Opportunity to purchase Walker stock – Walker is 100% employee-owned!
- Medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance
- Mental wellness benefits
- Health Savings Account with company contribution
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter Spending Accounts
- 529 college savings plan
- A minimum of 3 weeks of Paid Time Off per year
- 9 paid holidays per year, including 3 paid floating holidays
- 5 days of bereavement leave and PTO Donation Bank to help during difficult times
- 100% compensation replacement during short-term disability leaves
- Paid parental leave that allows an additional week of paid time alongside short-term disability leave and/or applicable state paid leave programs
- Paid community involvement hours
- Tuition and licensure reimbursement and sponsorship of professional memberships
- Internal conferences and professional development opportunities
- Employee Resource Groups and Affinity Groups
NOTICE TO 3RD PARTY RECRUITERS:
Any candidate information, including resumes, submitted to Walker Consultants or to any of our employees without a fully executed agreement will be considered unsolicited and non-confidential. Walker Consultants reserves the right to review and pursue such candidates independently, and no placement fees or other compensation will be owed to the submitting party. Candidates submitted in this manner will be treated as direct applicants. Submission of candidate information to Waller Consultants constitutes acceptance of this policy. External recruiters interested in working with Walker Consultants may contact Lindsey Eggerding at leggerding@walkerconsultants.com.
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