Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

NBBJ is an award-winning design firm, fueled by ideas and a culture of collaboration. Our purpose-driven approach creates healthy places, strong communities and a resilient environment. With leading clients, diverse colleagues and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary and help create lasting change.

The role at a glance:
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager with demonstrated experience managing construction phase services for large-scale (500,000+ SF), highly complex Healthcare projects (preferred) or Academic Medical Center research projects. The Senior PM is expected to be an integrated member of a project team, with responsibilities to manage project financials, contractual requirements, team workflow and deliverables (in partnership with other team leaders) and interpret client needs.

In your new role, you will:

• Build and maintain day-to-day working relationships with the Client, CM, OPM and consultants
• Manage team complexity - collaboratively plan, organize, and supervise the work of project staff as necessary to achieve required deliverables and scheulde.
• Support administration of the work of the project during construction, including management of the prime agreement and subconsultant agreements
• Negotiate and draft/write fee proposals and add services requests
• Develop and execute a management work plan for the overall project(s)
• Solve problems creatively with consultants
• Responsible for correspondence, reports, documentation, and general administration for the overall project(s) as appropriate
• Apply sound and diversified knowledge of architectural principals for all aspects of the project(s)
• Lead decision-making process with fiscal accountability and responsibility
• Assist with proposal preparation and participates in client presentations/interviews
• Develop and leverage existing client relationship for the purposes of winning work.
• Assist Practice Leaders in developing market or client campaigns and interview to win new work.

What you will need to succeed:

• 20+ years of professional experience in Architecture
• At least 10 years of experience as a Project Manager
• Experience with large, complex, multi-phase healthcare (preferred) or Academic Medical Center research projects
• Bachelor's degree; B Arch or M Arch desired
• Architectural licensure is required; LEED or other sustainability accreditation preferred.
• Knowledge about LEAN practice and adept in change management
• Must have a proven track record as a Project Manager with complex projects involving work that ranges from Pre-design through Construction Administration, including contract negotiation, work plan development and the ability to work with a variety of project delivery methodologies
• Excellent leadership, verbal and communication skills, and effective client relationship skills and talent for leading and working with diverse teams of designers
• Knowledge of Revit and BIM delivery implications
• Working expertise in Bluebeam Revu and PowerPoint
• Ability to work in a collaborative, design-focused open environment

NBBJ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F Disabled and Vet EEO/AA Employer.