Project Delivery Group Manager

TKDA•Bloomington, MN

2d•$145,600 - $190,320

About The Position

The Project Delivery Group Manager provides leadership, oversight, and accountability for project management across TKDA’s Facilities Engineering portfolio. The role directly supervises and develops senior project managers, sets consistent expectations for project planning and execution, and helps teams deliver projects with discipline across scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, communication, and financial performance. The manager reviews project performance, supports teams addressing complex delivery issues, and serves as Project Manager on some of TKDA’s largest and most complex Facilities Engineering assignments. The role reviews and approves select Facilities Engineering proposals, assessing whether scope, fee, schedule, staffing, assumptions, quality requirements, and risks are clear and achievable. It also strengthens project delivery capability across the division by coaching project managers, advancing consistent practices and tools, reinforcing QA/QC expectations, and applying project reviews and lessons learned to improve performance. The manager develops and implements delivery strategies, systems, and processes aligned with organizational goals and long-term priorities. The position supports client and business relationships, including working with Market Managers, serving as a liaison between clients and delivery teams when warranted, and assigning delivery staff to serve as client service managers for the division’s largest clients. Success includes disciplined and predictable project delivery, clear project manager expectations, well-defined proposals, consistent quality practices, effective communication, and achievement of division revenue, profit, and write-off goals. TKDA is a 100% employee-owned company with 450 professionals. The stated annual base compensation range is $145,600–$190,320; final compensation varies based on experience, qualifications, and demonstrated ability. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship. A conditional offer is subject to standard pre-employment background screening.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field, such as civil, electrical, mechanical, or structural engineering.
At least 15 years of experience delivering engineering consulting projects.
At least 10 years of progressive project management experience.
Demonstrated experience leading complex, multidisciplinary projects and managing scope, fee, schedule, staffing, quality, risk, and client communication.
Experience supervising, coaching, mentoring, or formally overseeing project managers or senior technical professionals.
Ability to review proposals, evaluate scope and fee assumptions, assess delivery and contract risk, and determine whether commitments are achievable.
Working knowledge of QA/QC processes, project controls, technical deliverable reviews, documentation requirements, and project financial performance.
Experience using Microsoft Office and project management, scheduling, estimating, financial, or collaboration tools.
Ability to work across disciplines and organizational boundaries while balancing project, client, employee, and business needs.
Strong leadership skills, including guiding and inspiring teams, building confidence, fostering collaboration, and providing clear direction.
Strategic mindset and ability to align project delivery with organizational goals, anticipate challenges, identify opportunities, and plan for long-term success.
Clear, concise communication skills to manage client relationships, address team concerns, keep stakeholders aligned, and bridge clients, project teams, and division leadership.
Effective negotiation skills to manage client expectations, resolve conflicts, secure required resources, and find mutually beneficial solutions.

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), or comparable professional credential.
Experience leading project delivery in facilities engineering, building engineering, process engineering, power or central plant facilities, or a multidisciplinary AEC consulting environment.
Experience establishing project management standards, facilitating project reviews, implementing delivery tools, or leading continuous-improvement initiatives.
Experience supporting recruiting, onboarding, training, career development, or succession planning for project management professionals.
Experience supporting complex project recovery, claims avoidance, contract risk management, or corrective action planning.

Responsibilities

Directly supervise, coach, provide performance feedback to, and support the professional development of senior project managers in Facilities Engineering.
Establish expectations for project manager performance, accountability, communication, documentation, and compliance with division and company procedures.
Develop project management skills and talent through mentoring, practical guidance, shared tools, lessons learned, recruiting, onboarding, retention, workload planning, and career development.
Oversee project management performance across Facilities Engineering projects, including scope, fee, schedule, staffing, quality, risk, communication, and financial results.
Lead regular project reviews, identify emerging concerns, escalate material issues, and support recovery or mitigation plans.
Serve as Project Manager on TKDA’s largest and most complex Facilities Engineering projects.
Help teams establish project management plans, controls, schedules, meeting cadences, decision logs, and issue-escalation practices.
Partner with division, market, group, operations, and technical leaders to align delivery priorities with client commitments and business objectives.
Support teams in addressing delivery challenges, claims, losses, write-offs, and other significant project risks.
Review and approve select Facilities Engineering proposals; confirm scope, deliverables, fee, assumptions, exclusions, schedule, staffing, quality requirements, and risks are clear.
Assess whether proposed commitments are achievable and consistent with available resources, client expectations, contracting requirements, and division standards.
Guide project managers on proposal strategy, scope and fee development, contracting considerations, and risk mitigation; contribute delivery insight to pursuits, negotiations, and go/no-go or project-start discussions as needed.
Reinforce QA/QC requirements and ensure appropriate reviewers, review milestones, and documentation expectations are identified.
Monitor compliance with project management procedures, project controls, quality checkpoints, and deliverable review practices.
Develop and improve standard project delivery tools, templates, procedures, and best practices; use reviews, lessons learned, recurring issues, and performance trends to implement improvements.
Promote consistent use of project management, scheduling, estimating, financial, and collaboration tools across the division.
Monitor project financial performance, including revenue, profit, budget, resource utilization, and write-offs; help align effort with agreed scope, budget, schedule, and client expectations.
Support workload balancing and resource coordination among project managers and multidisciplinary technical teams; identify trends and recommend actions to improve quality, predictability, responsiveness, and profitability.
Set expectations for timely, clear, professional communication and support project managers in managing client expectations and communicating changes to scope, fee, schedule, quality, or risk.
Promote effective meetings, action and decision tracking, project documentation, and issue escalation; help resolve competing priorities across multidisciplinary teams.
Support Market Managers in establishing, cultivating, and strengthening current and prospective client relationships.
Serve as a client–delivery team liaison when warranted and assign and manage delivery staff serving as client service managers for the division’s largest clients.