Federal Project Executive

brph; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

BRPH seeks a Federal Project Executive to manage multiple BRPH projects and programs for Army, Navy, Air Force and other federal clients. You will lead architectural/engineering design from concept to construction with client-facing leadership, ensuring design integrity, technical excellence, and financial success.

As part of BRPH's Federal Business Unit, you will develop new business, maintain client relationships, and expand repeat work through strategic partnerships and effective public

Qualifications

• Experience leading large federal A/E projects.
• Strong program management, scheduling, budgeting, and risk control.
• Excellent communication with executives and clients.
• Ability to mentor staff and drive cross-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Interface with clients during design phases and guide stakeholder alignment.
• Lead technical reviews and ensure design integrity across disciplines.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, and change control; mitigate risks.
• Drive project close-out and capture lessons learned.
• Mentor design staff and junior PMs.

Skills

Project Management Mastery

Strategic Thinking

Communication & Influence

Problem Solving

Financial Acumen

Team Leadership

Federal Procurement Knowledge

Job description

BRPH is a technically focused, creative architecture, engineering, and construction company with over six decades of expertise in helping mission-driven clients in the aerospace, defense, manufacturing, commercial, education, entertainment, hospitality, and federal markets identify gaps in their program delivery and develop innovative solutions to their most challenging problems across the U.S. and around the world. Consistently ranked among the nation's top firms, we take pride in solving complex challenges with forward-thinking solutions.

SUMMARY:

The Federal Project Executive performs Management of multiple BRPH projects and defined customer programs with the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, as well as other select federal organizations. Leads strategic architectural/engineering design projects from concept through construction documentation, while ensuring compliance with client requirements. Oversees project managers delivering architectural/engineering design projects while serving as the client-facing executive, ensuring design integrity, technical excellence, financial success, and prudent risk management, while adhering to BRPH's Mission and Vision.

As part of the federal business unit, supports the development of new business and generates sales in keeping with annual company and individual goals for BRPH Architects and Engineers. Proactively initiates and maintains client contact, cultivates potential client and local strategic partnerships and relationships with key decision-makers and implements public relations and business development activities that are continually effective and competitive. Interfaces with clients and project teams to ensure successful outcomes and repeat business. Leverages client trust to drive repeat business and expanded project roles for BRPH.

CULTURAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Strategic mindset, decisive and calm under pressure


• Effective communication skills, with executive presence


• Mentorship, integrity, professionalism


• Adaptable, resilient, results-driven, and aligned with firm core values


• Promotes continuous improvement and supports best practices and standards by the BRPH Project Management Office (PMO).

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES:

• Project Management Mastery: Strong in scope management, scheduling, budgeting, earned value, resource planning, and risk control.


• Strategic Thinking: Ability to link design decisions to client goals and business outcomes.


• Communication & Influence: Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to present convincingly to executives, lead alignment, and manage stakeholder consensus.


• Problem Solving: Sound judgment, ability to break down complex issues, weigh trade-offs, and make timely decisions.


• Financial Acumen: Understanding forecasting, profitability, cost control, and managing change orders/additional services.


• Work in a team environment with close coordination with the Federal Business Unit Leader, National Practice leaders, and associated team members to help drive business and execute projects.


• Understanding of procurement and delivery requirements for federal architecture and engineering projects.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serves as the primary client interface during design phases: understands client goals, manages expectations, presents at steering committees, and guides stakeholder alignment


• Shapes and defends design vision: leads technical reviews, resolves interdisciplinary coordination issues, enforces design intent consistency across disciplines and phases.


• Oversees project scope, schedule, budgets, financial health, and change control. Anticipates and mitigates scope creep; develops, maintains, and monitors detailed project schedules; tracks critical path tasks, intervenes on slippages, and manages recovery strategies.


• Ensures that each discipline meets deliverable timelines and maintain cross-discipline coordination to avoid rework.


• Identifies project risks and issues proactively; maintains a risk register; leads risk mitigation planning.


• Leads all project coordination meetings, maintains decision and issues logs, produces regular status updates (schedule, cost, risk, design progress).


• Conducts QA/QC reviews, enforces compliance with codes, standards, firm processes, and reduces rework.


• Drives project close-out: ensures final deliverables, meets quality and completeness, facilitates lessons‑learned sessions, documents best practices for continuous improvement.


• Provides vision, direction, and alignment to design leads and discipline teams, clearly linking project goals to design execution.


• Mentors and coaches design staff and early career project managers, helping their professional growth, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and technical development.


• Supports Federal Business Unit Leader with the development and execution of sales and marketing activities necessary to penetrate targeted business segments and maintain a robust sales funnel of potential