Lead Project Manager - Builder Services

Dewberry; Lanham (MD); On-site; USD 99,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Dewberry, based in Lanham, MD, is seeking a Lead Project Manager to drive delivery for residential builder accounts within the Builder Services Group. You will lead client relationships, plan projects, and oversee budgets, schedules, permitting, and construction support from start to finish.

Collaborating with planners, engineers, landscape architects, and consultants, you will ensure projects meet client goals and regulatory requirements while maintaining high quality and service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree as stated in the job requirements.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and client relationships.
• Strong understanding of land development processes including entitlement and permitting.
• Experience with project scopes, budgets, schedules, and staffing plans.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and manages project scopes, budgets, schedules, staffing plans, and overall project financial performance.
• Serves as the primary client contact for assigned residential home builder and developer accounts.
• Coordinates and directs multidisciplinary project teams, including planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, surveying, and other technical disciplines.
• Ensures project deliverables meet client expectations, regulatory requirements, company standards, and established schedules.
• Serves as the primary quality assurance and quality control reviewer for assigned projects, ensuring technical accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Oversees entitlement, permitting, agency review, and construction support activities.
• Leads project meetings and coordinates communication among clients, agencies, consultants, contractors, field personnel, and internal staff.
• Coordinates with construction and field personnel to address project issues, facilitate implementation, and resolve design, permitting, and site-related challenges.
• Identifies project risks and develops solutions to maintain project schedules, budgets, and client satisfaction.
• Tracks project progress, milestones, and commitments through completion.
• Supports business development efforts, including proposal preparation, client relationship management, and identification of additional service opportunities.
• Provides mentorship and guidance to project team members.
• Conducts site visits and attends client, agency, and construction coordination meetings as required.
• Other duties as required.

Skills

Project management

Client relationship management

Leadership

Communication skills

Budgeting & scheduling

Multidisciplinary coordination

Regulatory understanding

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field

Tools

MS Office Suite

PM software

Job description

Job Description

The Lead Project Manager serves as the primary project and client lead for residential home builder accounts within the Builder Services Group. This position is responsible for directing and coordinating all aspects of project delivery, including client management, project planning, budget and schedule oversight, technical review, quality assurance, permitting, and construction support.

Working with multidisciplinary teams of planners, engineers, landscape architects, and consultants, the Lead Project Manager ensures projects are delivered efficiently, accurately, and in accordance with client objectives, regulatory requirements, and company standards. The successful candidate will possess strong leadership, communication, and technical skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects while maintaining a high standard of quality and client service.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and manages project scopes, budgets, schedules, staffing plans, and overall project financial performance.
• Serves as the primary client contact for assigned residential home builder and developer accounts.
• Coordinates and directs multidisciplinary project teams, including planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, surveying, and other technical disciplines.
• Ensures project deliverables meet client expectations, regulatory requirements, company standards, and established schedules.
• Serves as the primary quality assurance and quality control reviewer for assigned projects, ensuring technical accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Oversees entitlement, permitting, agency review, and construction support activities.
• Leads project meetings and coordinates communication among clients, agencies, consultants, contractors, field personnel, and internal staff.
• Coordinates with construction and field personnel to address project issues, facilitate implementation, and resolve design, permitting, and site-related challenges.
• Identifies project risks and develops solutions to maintain project schedules, budgets, and client satisfaction.
• Tracks project progress, milestones, and commitments through completion.
• Supports business development efforts, including proposal preparation, client relationship management, and identification of additional service opportunities.
• Provides mentorship and guidance to project team members.
• Conducts site visits and attends client, agency, and construction coordination meetings as required.
• Other duties as required.

Required Skills & Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture, Planning, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in land development, residential development, builder services, or related consulting fields.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent projects and client relationships.
• Strong understanding of residential land development, including entitlement, permitting, agency review, site design, grading, infrastructure, and construction practices.
• Experience preparing and managing project scopes, budgets, schedules, and staffing plans.
• Ability to coordinate and lead multidisciplinary project teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational, time management, and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience working with residential builders, developers, contractors, and public agencies preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and project management software.
• Self-motivated with strong leadership, initiative, and decision‑making abilities.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Salary Range

The projected range for this position is $99,000-$127,000 annually. Depending upon other factors, i.e., skills, experience, location, market conditions, the range may vary slightly.