Senior Project Manager

Rider Levett Bucknall RLB; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) in Ashburn, VA seeks a Senior Project Manager to serve as the client's representative, steering a project from concept through construction within time and value constraints. You will define goals, develop work plans, and monitor progress to meet client needs.

Reporting to the Office Director, you will supervise staff, manage budgets and contracts, and identify value-adding opportunities while collaborating across committees and project partners.

Qualifications

• 4-year college degree in architecture, construction management, engineering science or a related field.
• 5-10 years experience managing staff and major projects.
• Experience developing and monitoring contracts.

Responsibilities

• Supervise project staff and provide direction to a large project team.
• Develop project goals, work plans, timeliness, and implementation strategies.
• Manage budgets and contracts.
• Coordinate with program committees and advisory groups.
• Administer project budgets, approve expenditures, develop, and monitor contracts.
• Train staff and project participants.
• Plan, facilitate and conduct meetings.
• Measure and report project performance.
• Engage stakeholders and identify opportunities to add value.
• Contribute to team performance through collaboration.
• Align project outcomes with client goals.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Skills

Staff Mgmt

Budget Mgmt

Contracts

Communication

Education

Bachelor degree in architecture/construction/engineering

Job description

Overview Of Role

The Senior Project Manager will act as client’s representative in managing a project through its design stages from concept through construction within the client’s time and value constraints. The role is defined as a planned undertaking with defined goals, work plans, timeliness, and implementation strategies to correspond to client needs. The Senior Project Manager should have the ability to identify opportunities within a project that will add value and help successfully accomplish the client’s desired project outcome.

Title: Senior Project Manager

Reporting to: Office Director

Truth. Trust. Together. Tomorrow.

At RLB, we speak the truth, build for the long term, look out for each other and work to do good. We are driven by outcomes, creating tailored solutions that deliver successful projects. We believe that when we bring together the right people doing things the right way, we make progress for our clients and our communities.

RLB is an award-winning international firm, known for providing property and construction consultancy advice at all stages of the construction cycle. Utilizing its many years of experience and professionally trained employees, RLB continues to firmly establish itself as one of the major players in the construction industry throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. Our employees are involved in a variety of projects across a range of sectors, from sports arenas and healthcare to higher education and convention centers.

As a privately held company, we hire the best people, give them exceptional training, and provide extensive opportunities for professional growth while working on exciting projects while providing an excellent compensation and benefits package.

Essential Functions

• Supervise project staff and provide direction to a large and diverse project team.
• Direct the development of project goals, work plans, timeliness, and implementation strategies.
• Manage and account for project budgets and contracts.
• Identify and coordinate with program committees and advisory groups.
• Administer project budgets, authorize expenditures, develop, and monitor contracts.
• Train and advise staff, project advocates and program participants.
• Plan, facilitate and conduct meetings.
• Measure, evaluate and communicate project performance.
• Identify decision-making issues and key stakeholders, develop and implement strategies to encourage and obtain stakeholder and/or community awareness and support and identify project partners.
• Contribute to team performance by collaboration and effective communication.
• Contribute to and understand the client’s desired project outcomes, identify opportunities to add value to accomplish the desired outcomes.
• Add to team effort by accomplishing other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

• 4-year college degree in architecture, construction management, engineering science or a related field.
• 5-10 years relevant experience of management of staff including project professionals and/or technicians, managing major projects including development of project scope, goals, work plans, timeliness, and implantation strategies, developing measurement processes/methods for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes.
• Prior experience with developing and monitoring contracts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert in project management, including planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of large, complex projects.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Physical Requirements And Working Conditions

• Often work in an indoor office environment. Equipment used includes computers and standard office machines. Essential physical tasks include: the ability to work on a computer and the ability to answer and speak on a telephone.
• May work on site location to include ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary motion and ability to lift 50lbs.
• May also require:
• Sitting
• Standing for long periods of time
• Walking, carrying, pushing, stooping, crouching, and pulling

RLB is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company does not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, handicap, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above listed items.