Principal Project Manager

Snc-Lavalin; Tallahassee (FL); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with match

Stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Leaves of absence

Flexible work options

Employee recognition

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis seeks a Principal Project Manager Highways for our North Florida office footprint (Tallahassee area). You will lead complex highway projects, manage scope, schedule and budget, mentor staff, and coordinate with clients and subconsultants to ensure contract compliance.

Required are a Florida PE license, 15+ years of professional experience including 5+ years in leadership of complex programs, and FDOT District 3 / municipal project history. Travel within the state is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Graduate degree highly desirable.
• 15+ years of professional experience, including at least 5 years managing complex projects or programs.
• Professional Engineer's License in Florida required.
• FDOT District 3 and Municipal experience required.
• Must have highway/roadway design and project management experience.
• Must have designed and/or managed projects for FDOT District 3 and municipal clients.
• Excellent technical and interpersonal skills; strong leadership and financial management.

Responsibilities

• Manage project teams on conventional and unconventional highway projects.
• Perform production coordination, planning, organizing, directing, controlling, budgeting and marketing assistance.
• Mentor technical professionals to support training and development.
• Coordinate contract negotiations with clients and subcontractors; draft complex agreements for review.
• Direct project team and client compliance with contract terms and monitor subconsultants' performance.
• Prepare work plans, scopes, schedules, budgets; monitor progress and ensure quality and timely delivery.
• Monitor billing, payments, and resolve disputes; track project costs and profitability.
• Schedule meetings with project teams, regulatory agencies and clients; report financial status to management.
• Identify new business opportunities; contribute to proposals and firm capabilities marketing.
• Supervise staff as needed; perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Project management

Financial management

Team leadership

Public speaking

FDOT experience

Municipal experience

Travel within Florida

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Graduate degree

Job description

Job Description

Why join us? We are hiring! AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Principal Project Manager Highways to join our North Florida (Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Pensacola, Lake City, Chipley) office.

About Us

AtkinsRéalis is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering, and project management consultancies. AtkinsRéalis has been providing infrastructure planning, engineering, construction, environmental consulting, urban planning, architecture, and program management services to public and private clients across the United States for more than 50 years. AtkinsRéalis has the depth and breadth of expertise to respond to the most technically challenging and time-critical infrastructure projects and the urgent transition to a low-carbon economy.

How will you contribute to the team?

• Under direction, applies technical expertise and project management experience to manage project teams on conventional and unconventional projects.
• Also performs the basic project functions of production coordination, planning, organizing, directing, controlling, financial management and marketing assistance.
• Functions as a mentor to technical professionals to assist in their training and development.
• Coordinates and participates in contract negotiations with clients and subcontractors and drafts complex professional service agreements and addenda for review by senior management.
• Directs project team and client compliance with contract terms and monitors subcontractors' compliance with contractual commitments.
• Prepares project work plan, scope, schedule and budget, and communicates these to project team members; monitors/manages project production for compliance with schedule, budget and quality objectives.
• Monitors reports and schedules to ensure appropriate charging of manhours, costs and expenses to projects, and to communicate project progress/status to senior management.
• Establishes and maintains project account files on the computerized project management information system, and periodically reviews project reports for accuracy and completeness.
• Monitors client billings, assists in obtaining payment from clients, and resolves client disputes, adjusting project billing records as required.
• Monitors subconsultants' progress and performance, reviews and approves subconsultant and vendor invoices, and resolves payment and project disputes.
• Schedules and coordinates project meetings with the project team, regulatory agencies, the client, and others involved with the projects.
• Reports financial status of projects to technical managers.
• Identifies new business opportunities for the firm, coordinates and participates in project presentations to clients and other external groups, and promotes firm's capabilities, marketing its services among existing and prospective clients.
• Participates in project opportunity evaluation, consultant selection, and the preparation of firm's qualification/experience statements.
• May supervise technical professionals, associate project managers and design staff including workload and staffing management.
• Performs such other duties as the supervisor may from time to time deem necessary.

What will you contribute?

• Bachelor’s degree required; Graduate degree highly desirable.
• 15+ years of professional experience, including at least 5 years managing complex projects or programs.
• This applicant will have minimum 5 years’ engineering experience after professional engineering registration.
• FDOT District 3 and Municipal experience required.
• Must have highway/roadway design and project management experience.
• Must have designed and/or managed projects for FDOT District 3.
• Must have designed and/or managed projects for municipal clients.
• Excellent technical and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to manage individuals and teams, provide leadership, and manage project production.
• Good public speaking ability.
• Strong project financial management skills.
• Knowledge of production support systems and personal computer proficiency.
• Professional Engineer's License in Florida required.
• Must be able to travel within the state.
• Strong understanding/history with FDOT clients and municipalities.
• Strong project/financial management background.

Rewards & benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• company-paid life and short- and long-term disability benefits
• employer-matched 401(k) with 100% vesting
• employee stock purchase plan
• Paid Time Off
• leaves of absences options
• flexible work options
• recognition and employee satisfaction programs
• employee assistance program
• voluntary benefits

About AtkinsRéalis

We’re AtkinsRéalis, a world‑class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Additional information

Expected compensation range is between $155,000 - $215,000 annually depending on skills, experience, and geographical location.

AtkinsRéalis is an equal opportunity, Drug-Free employer EOE/Veteran/Disability

Please review AtkinsRéalis' Equal Opportunity Statement here.

Note to staffing and direct hire agencies: In the event a recruiter or agency who is not on our preferred supplier list submits a resume/candidate to anyone in the company, AtkinsRéalis family of companies, we explicitly reserve the right to recruit and hire the candidate(s) at our discretion and without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.

Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world‑class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.