Federal Project Manager

Obrien Engineering Inc; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Vision

Dental

IRA match

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Adoption Assistance

Educational Assistance

Holidays & PTO

Job summary

OEI is seeking a Project Manager with experience in military and federal projects to lead design and construction efforts for diverse federal contracts. You will manage scopes, schedules, budgets, and fee proposals while coordinating with stakeholders across multiple states and clients.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and strong communication to ensure on-time, within-budget delivery and client satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Interest in mentoring and leading team members.
• Experience managing military or federal projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage multidisciplinary project requirements, design schedules and budgets.
• Assist in defining and developing project scope.
• Develop and negotiate fee proposals.
• Conduct client meetings and site visits.
• Estimate labor hours, calculate direct costs, and establish project fees.
• Monitor budgets, track schedules, and measure quality benchmarks.
• Develop and maintain relationships to expand OEI's client base.
• Identify deviations and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure deliverables meet contractual requirements and client expectations.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Time management

Design management

Federal/military project experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture/Architectural Engineering/Structural Engineering or related

Master's degree preferred

Job description

About this position

OEI (O’Brien Engineering & Architecture) is seeking a full-time Project Manager with experience managing military and/or federal projects. We are looking for someone who has served as an architectural or engineering designer and has recent architecture and engineering design project management experience on a wide variety of federal projects. Our company enjoys a healthy variety of federal projects/task orders so the successful candidate will show ability to manage multiple task orders in multiple states for multiple clients simultaneously, while delivering results according to the contract terms - on time, within budget, to the quality needed and expected by the scope, documented accurately, and to the clients' overall satisfaction.

Project Manager Responsibilities

• Manage multidisciplinary project requirements, design schedules, and budgets.
• Assist in defining and developing project scope.
• Develop and negotiate fee proposals.
• Conduct client meetings and site visits.
• Estimate labor hours, calculate direct costs, and establish competitive but healthy project fees.
• Monitor budgets, track schedules, and measure quality benchmarks.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to expand OEI's client base and secure repeat business.
• Identify deviations from established project scope, schedule, or budget and implement timely corrective actions.
• Ensure project deliverables meet contractual requirements and client expectations.

Project Manager Qualifications

• Demonstrated desire to learn, grow, and contribute to challenging and rewarding projects.
• Strong interest in mentoring and leading less experienced team members.
• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related discipline.
• A Master's degree is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years experience leading projects for the military or other federal agencies (e.g., the Department of Veterans Affairs) is required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with excellent time management abilities.
• Design management experience.
• Registered Architect (RA/AIA) or Professional Engineer (PE, Mechanical or Electrical), a plus.
• Past experience working for the DOD/DOW in a project management role a plus.

Project Manager Benefits:

If you believe you have the qualifications and experience and are interested in joining our team, we'd love to hear from you.

OEI offers competitive salary and benefits including:

• Medical
• vision
• dentalSimple IRA with 3% matching
• Basic Term Life and Personal Accident InsuranceBasic Disability InsuranceAdoption Assistance ProgramEducational Assistance Program8 Paid Holidays in addition to PTO

Company Description:

OEI is a full design services firm with a big company future, and we are looking for motivated and qualified team players to join us on the journey. We were founded nearly 40 years ago in 1987; today, we serve clients throughout the US and its territories serving on federal, healthcare, military, local government, and institutional projects. We’ve had significant success in winning many large federal contracts, providing a work pipeline that extends well into 2035. We also have a well-established, growing municipal, land development and private practice. OEI is honored as the recipient of the National Society of American Military Engineers' Robert Flowers Small Business Award of the 2020. OEI is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), a Texas HUB, and NCTRCA SBE firm.

OEI's foundations

teamwork, entrepreneurial mindset (taking ownership of the problem and the solution), continuous improvement, competence, ethical behavior.

What makes us unique?
We offer high expertise in a small package
We are structured to hear, understand, and solve customer problems
We have a culture of training and employee developmentAre you ready to work in a dynamic, challenging, rewarding environment? Let's talk. See how we can partner together in a way that our best efforts will help build your career and our best efforts will strengthen our company in a way that is measurable, recognized, and appreciated.