Project Manager

Brown and Caldwell•Wailuku, HI

13d

About The Position

Our Pacific Area is currently seeking a Project Manager to join our growing team. The selected individual will utilize their knowledge of project delivery (planning, design, and/or construction) and business expertise to effectively plan, execute, monitor, and deliver quality to our clients. The ideal candidate should possess strong interpersonal and personal effectiveness skills. The success of our project delivery teams begins with the leadership of the project manager. Consequently, our perfect candidate will exhibit leadership qualities, exceptional communication skills, a strong organizational aptitude, problem-solving abilities, and the capacity to motivate and manage diverse teams and develop new and existing clients. The Pacific Area provides planning, design, and construction services on various projects for municipal clients in the Hawaiian Islands. This role requires managing projects of varying complexity and size and providing quality project delivery throughout the project lifecycle. This role includes managing project teams to execute and deliver work successfully, aligning with BC service lines and tools, and developing and growing client service relationships.

Requirements

Solid knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management and risk management.
Strong budget, quality and change management skills,
Understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
Understanding of contract management and client service.
Strong business acumen and understanding of financial performance and revenue generation.and how individual projects fit into larger organizational goals.
Proficient in communication, client service and engagement skills.
Proficient team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.
Competency in development and monitoring of project schedules
Competency in development and monitoring of project budgets
Experience with risk management concepts
Experience collaborating with cross functional teams.
Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract management of small to mid-size projects.
Must be proficient in using standard computer programs (MS Word, MS Teams, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Outlook) required
Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to conduct effective presentations and written report preparation.

Nice To Haves

Having challenging work
Developing and learning new skills
Having a sense of meaning and purpose, each team member is contributing to key objective(s)
Creating a Healthy Team culture where team members can thrive and excel
Previous project management experience.
5+ years in the AEC industry, 10+ years preferred
Strong communication skills i.e. ability to communicate orally and in writing - across functions and teams, up and down the chain of command
Proven track record of managing scope, schedule and budget on projects
Technical competency MS Project, Excel, PowerBI, familiarity with databases and other technology platforms is a plus.
Ability to proactively deal with conflict and manage large complex teams to achieve project objectives
Highly motivated self-starter with a passion to accomplish project goals
Must be proficient in change management processes and systems.
Ability to identify and mitigate risks on projects.
Proficient in contract terms and execution.
Strong negotiation skills.
Ability to proactively deal with conflict.

Responsibilities

Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve.
Communicate: Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
Support Team Motivation: Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating success.
Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
Create a safe environment: Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
Develop project team members: Support project team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.
Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Develop clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide for timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures as needed.
Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set projects up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet planned project performance metrics.
Quality Management: Create, implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality review processes and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.
Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Identify and recommend change management, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the change order, and gain client endorsement and approval for the change to minimize financial and execution risk to BC.
Risk Management: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle. Identify and escalate risks, collaborate with teams to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk, and update the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a project.
Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety. Lead development and implementation of health and safety plans per the project specific requirements.
Manage external resources: including third parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality, budget, and schedule.
Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics: Lead achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget and quality. Monitor profitability through routine earned value analysis and compliance, business revenue forecasting and timely invoicing/collections.
Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support and Engagement: Ability to build successful relationships with Clients, while collaborating with client service managers and project teams to assess client satisfaction. Monitor and share clients’ critical success factors for project success and client satisfaction.
Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.
May provide mentorship, guidance, support and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow in their roles.