Project Manager – Federal Construction (PE Required)
About The Position
SIRIS is seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide full-time engineering, project controls, and construction administration support to the Architect of the Capitol's Construction Execution Branch in Washington, DC. The position will support multiple concurrent construction and renovation projects across the Capitol campus, from procurement development and technical review through construction execution, closeout, and turnover. This role requires a licensed Professional Engineer who can combine strong technical field knowledge with disciplined cost, schedule, quality, risk, and documentation controls. You will collaborate with federal client representatives, contractors, architects, engineers, consultants, and other project stakeholders in active, occupied, historic, and high-visibility facilities. Success in this role will be evaluated not only through technical qualifications and project performance, but also through the ability to represent SIRIS with professionalism, sound judgment, responsiveness, clear communication, and credibility. This is an important opportunity to help SIRIS establish a trusted, long term partnership with the Architect of the Capitol.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline from an accredited college or university.
- Active Professional Engineer (PE) license in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in engineering, construction project management, project controls, or construction administration.
- Demonstrated experience supporting federal construction projects, facilities, or capital improvement programs.
- Hands-on experience developing, reviewing, or validating cost estimates and independent government cost estimates (IGCEs).
- Strong working knowledge of construction project controls, including scheduling, cost management, forecasting, risk management, change control, documentation, and reporting.
- Experience coordinating and reviewing submittmits, RFIs, change orders, contractor proposals, and claims.
- Experience conducting technical field engineering, surveys or survey coordination, site observations, inspections, and quality assurance activities.
- Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, contracts, scopes of work, and other technical documentation and prepare concise, defensible analyses and recommendations.
- Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and standard construction documentation, reporting, and collaboration tools.
- Ability to work full-time on-site in Washington, DC and travel between multiple project locations across the Capitol campus during the workday.
- Ability to satisfy applicable federal background screening, credential verification, badging, and site-access requirements.
- Ability to work independently, protect confidential information, and exercise sound judgment in a high-visibility client environment.
- Ability to maintain professional, responsive communication with federal clients, contractors, consultants, and internal stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience supporting the Architect of the Capitol or other legislative-branch facilities.
- Construction, engineering, or project-management experience in Washington, DC.
- Experience working in active, occupied federal, historic, cultural, institutional, or similarly high-visibility facilities.
- Experience using Kahua, e-Builder, or a comparable construction program-management platform.
- Experience supporting multiple small-to-medium construction projects simultaneously from procurement through closeout.
- Experience providing owner's representative, construction-management, or agency construction-support services.
Responsibilities
- Provide engineering, project controls, and construction administration support for multiple concurrent construction and renovation projects across the Capitol campus.
- Support procurement development by preparing and reviewing scopes of work, technical requirements, schedules, cost information, and acquisition documentation.
- Prepare, review, or validate independent government cost estimates (IGCEs), quantity takeoffs, cost breakdowns, pricing analyses, and contractor proposals.
- Monitor project schedules, budgets, forecasts, risks, changes, action items, commitments, and performance trends; prepare clear status reports and recommendations.
- Review drawings, specifications, submittmits, shop drawings, requests for information (RFIs), change-order proposals, and claims for technical completeness, accuracy, and contract compliance.
- Perform technical field engineering, existing-condition verification, survey coordination, site observations, field inspections, and documentation of construction progress and deficiencies.
- Maintain and coordinate project controls, including submittal, RFI, change, claims, decision, action-item, risk, and issue logs.
- Assist with or lead quality assurance activities to verify conformance with contract documents, approved submittals, applicable requirements, and client expectations.
- Support progress meetings, field coordination, reports, correspondence, punch lists, closeout documentation, and stakeholder communications.
- Identify emerging cost, schedule, quality, safety, contractual, or technical risks and escalate issues with clear analysis and practical recommendations.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision (99% of individual base plan paid by company; 50% for dependents)
- 401(k) with up to 4% company match
- Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
- Annual bonus eligibility
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
