Senior Architectural Project Manager - Healthcare Practice

EwingCole; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

EwingCole is hiring a Senior Project Manager for its New York office to lead complex architectural projects with a focus on design excellence and client collaboration.

The role emphasizes independent leadership, coordinating internal and external teams, and delivering projects on time and within budget while maintaining design integrity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Interior Design or Engineering.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Professional licensure as a Registered Architect or Professional Engineer (P.E.), or NCIDQ certification, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery from schematic design through construction documents, ensuring design intent and technical quality.
• Promote project quality through adherence to and improvement of company standards.
• Analyze construction cost estimates for alignment of design intent and budgets; develop cost-saving alternatives.
• Manage fees, resources, and the project delivery schedule to ensure financial health.
• Guide modeling and drawings to accurately deliver projects.
• Manage construction administration with builder to maintain design intent and contractual requirements.

Skills

Project management

Client relations

Budgeting

Construction knowledge

Documentation

Administration

Sustainability

Code compliance

Planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Interior Design or Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Description

EwingCole is a nationally recognized architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm with offices across the country. Our multi-disciplinary practice is built on the core values of professional excellence, design quality and collaboration. We are seeking an ambitious Senior Project Manager to join our New York office.

The Senior Project Manager takes the lead role supervising the staff, establishing the workflow and acting as a consistent point of client contact for projects. This person has the ability to work independently on large and complex projects to establish project schedules and budgets and coordinate the efforts of both internal and external members of the team. The Senior Project Manager has a unique talent and ability to develop client relationships and interact with clients and employees to resolve complex issues and facilitate difficult conversations by balancing all aspects of office and project concerns. This position is responsible for understanding the capabilities of teammates and aligning those abilities with efforts to best meet project goals. The understanding of a wide variety of construction industry related issues and the ability to manage project resources to provide a high level of client satisfaction through quality design and cost consciousness with efficiency is essential.

Essential Functions:

This role provides expert leadership in:

• Project Delivery: Progressing project work from schematic design through construction documentation, ensuring design intent and technical quality are maintained
• Quality Standards: Promoting project quality through adherence to and the ongoing improvement of the company standards
• Cost Consciousness: Analyzing construction cost estimates for alignment of design intent and approved budgets and develops alternatives for controlling project costs
• Profitability: Effectively managing fees, resources, and the project delivery schedule to ensure the financial health of a project
• Documentation: Guiding the modeling and drawings used to accurately deliver projects
• Construction Administration: Managing the construction phase through responsive coordination with the builder to maintain design intent and contractual requirements

Demonstrates advanced skills in:

• Sustainability: Conceiving projects with rigor to resolve human and environmental health impacts and meet sustainability goals
• Building Technology: Applying an understanding of construction methods to building design
• Codes and Accessibility: Ensuring project designs and construction documents fully comply with applicable codes and accessibility standards
• Programming: Progressing exploratory discussions to capture and align quantitative and functional requirements with aspirational and experiential goals
• Planning: Developing effective spatial configuration options through analysis of adjacencies, phasing and expansion

Exhibits proficient ability in:

• Representational Skills: Guiding the visualization of design concepts
• Design Generation: Initiating the design approach to distinctive solutions which consider the totality of a project
• Material Research: Selecting quality materials and identifying appropriate applications that consider the lifecycle of the products
• Presenting Narratives: Conveying design vision through engaging and informative presentations to project stakeholders
• Specification Writing: Defining the design intent for material qualitative requirements and performance standards to ensure contractually enforceable and accurate representation of the design

Shows foundational capability in:

• Site Planning: Addressing project, sustainability, and regulatory requirements in the development of sites

EwingCole is a collaborative workplace that strives to recognize, and best align, the unique strengths of employees with project needs. At times, project responsibilities may require work outside the specific scope of a job description. Employees are expected to apply their skills where needed to support project success and client outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Interior Design or Engineering, Master’s preferred
• Professional licensure as a Registered Architect or Professional Engineer (P.E.), or NCIDQ certification, preferred

Benefits of Working at EwingCole

Generous paid time off, 401(k) plan with company match, tuition reimbursement, flexible/hybrid work options, paid parental leave, excellent insurance offerings including medical, dental, vision, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, identity protection and more.

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