Architectural Project Manager | Higher Ed

CorganDallas, TX
Onsite

About The Position

At Corgan, we are passionate about great design and fostering a collaborative environment where curiosity, creativity, and camaraderie thrive. We are seeking a dynamic Architectural Project Manager to join our Education team, focusing on Higher Education projects. This role offers significant career advantages in a welcoming and supportive setting, providing room for growth, exploration, and the freedom to learn from challenges. Our ideal candidate is passionate, progressively seeks more responsibilities, and is motivated to collaborate for outstanding results.

Requirements

  • Bachelors Degree from an NAAB accredited program or equivalent
  • 8+ years of architectural experience, to include experience in Higher Education
  • Professional registration
  • High commitment to QA/QC
  • Ability to be hands-on and produce when needed
  • Knows how to research and document codes for specific projects
  • Experience managing a variety of consultants and contractors
  • Interest in sustainable design
  • Proficiency or experience with managing overall project fees and schedules
  • Candidates should be efficient with coordinating project deliverables and client expectations
  • Confident presentation ability

Nice To Haves

  • Potential travel opportunities

Responsibilities

  • Develop competitive fee structures reflecting defined scope of services for project pursuits
  • Establish and manage project schedules
  • Oversee the completion of projects on time and within fee budget
  • Anticipate, understand and manage client expectations
  • Provide leadership to staff by identifying project studio team members’ roles and responsibilities, leveraging their strengths, providing stretch opportunities, and offering mentorship
  • Lead and encourage open dialogue with project team regarding design and technical ideation and facilitate appropriate solutions
  • Motivate the project team to meet project goals through encouragement and/or course correction
  • Oversee administration of construction phase procedures and documentation (shop drawings/submittals, requests for information, and addenda/clarifications)
  • Oversee development and presentation of appropriate technical solutions to project stakeholders
  • Drive the coordination of internal staff, external consultants and other stakeholders to achieve a cohesive and collaborative project team
  • Attend and conduct presentations
  • Actively explore and recognize new business opportunities through professional networks
  • Drive each project team to seek innovation in design solutions in an ongoing spirit of curiosity, continuous improvement, and increased project performance
  • Develop effective project directives, outlines, projections, schedules, and strategies over the course of the project
  • Oversee development and communication of appropriate project phasing
  • Manage all facets of project production resulting in a thorough set of documents
  • Identify solutions and effectively resolve technical challenges
  • Understand and apply appropriate industry standards and construction practices
  • Oversees, and is responsible for, the identification, understanding and documentation of regulatory agencies’ requirements, as well as recognizing and resolving code-related design issues
  • Oversee quality assurance processes and quality control of project documents
  • Demonstrate, share, and appropriately apply, new methodologies, practices, codes, and products
  • Maintain awareness of, and appropriately apply, new methodologies, practices, codes, and products
  • Attend and conduct presentations
  • Manage client relations
  • Provide leadership to staff

Benefits

  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth
  • Sharpening skills
  • Leveraging technology
  • Encouraging communication
  • Commitment to the highest standards of professional ethics
  • Healthy work-life balance
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