Senior Project Manager

Rider Levett Bucknall RLB; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Rider Levett Bucknall RLB is seeking a Senior Project Manager in Austin, Texas, to act as the client’s representative, managing projects from design through construction. The ideal candidate will supervise a diverse project team, manage budgets, and ensure project goals align with client needs.

Qualified candidates should possess a 4-year degree in architecture, construction management, or engineering, alongside 5-10 years of relevant experience. Excellent communication and project management skills are critical.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of relevant experience managing staff including project professionals and/or technicians.
• Experience in developing and monitoring contracts required.

Responsibilities

• Supervise project staff and provide direction to a large project team.
• Manage and account for project budgets and contracts.
• Train and advise staff, project advocates, and program participants.

Skills

Expert in project management

Good communication skills

Education

4-year college degree in architecture, construction management, or engineering science

Job description

Overview of Role

The Senior Project Manager will act as the 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 and Reporting

Title: Senior Project Manager

Reporting to: Office Director

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 product 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.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education (or substitute experience) required: 4‑year college degree in architecture, construction management, or engineering science.
• Minimum Experience required: 5–10 years of relevant experience managing 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 required.
• Skills required: Expert in project management, including planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of large, complex projects. Good communication skills required.

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 50 lbs.
• 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.