Senior Project Manager- Federal Market

Dewberry•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

Senior Project Manager – Federal Market Focus Dewberry is seeking a Senior Project Manager in Huntsville, AL, to serve as the primary contact between our office and the Owner. This role is essential for effectively managing projects from concept through design, bidding, negotiation, and construction administration, with the goal of securing future projects with the same client. As a candidate with a strong background in the federal market, your existing client relationships and ability to establish new connections will be invaluable in acquiring new projects. You will work closely with clients to anticipate and solve problems swiftly, collaborating with a multi-disciplined team to provide first-rate engineering documents that meet project specifications and governing standards. Your commitment to client satisfaction will help us achieve our goal of maintaining quality relationships and ensuring our clients’ professional growth. If you’re excited about this opportunity and ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply and explore how you can contribute to our innovative team at Dewberry. Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. The Fairfax, Virginia based firm is locally and family-owned. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. By joining our firm, you'll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call "Dewberry at Work," that have inspired our employees to be successful for over 60 years.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent experience.
Accomplished Engineer or similar with 10+ years of project management experience, with a minimum of 5 years working in the federal market.
Knowledgeable of construction process, familiar with FARS and DFARS contracts.
Self-motivated with highly developed verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
Well organized, with good understanding of plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and life safety systems with general knowledge of applicable codes, national standards, client design standards, system operation, space requirements, and cost.

Responsibilities

Maintain primary one-to-one contact with the client.
Understand the client's needs and goals and that of his/her organization.
Draft proposals for new projects with existing clients for review and signature of the Principal In Charge of Business and track proposals through award of project. Work with client to develop additional work.
Attend regular design meetings with the client and issue meeting minutes.
As project manager; lead, organize, and schedule design team staff.
Organize and direct frequent in-house design meetings.
Prepare detailed personnel loading by task interfaced with the detailed schedule.
Coordinate with Design Discipline Managers to schedule, plan and assign appropriate personnel.
Prepare detailed project timeline and maintain design schedule.
Organize and maintain project design folder.
Document meetings and telephone conversations.
Provide quality control to ensure that all of the clients' needs and requests have been accommodated. Ensure and coordinate among all of the disciplines involved, including outside consultants.
Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions to Owner.
Advise on project billing and assist in collections.
Supervise and coordinate the submission of documents to the appropriate reviewing authorities.
Coordinate the responses to reviews. Ensure that responses are in fact reflected in the drawings and specifications.
Arrange for in-house quality review in a timely fashion.
Coordinate as required to ensure construction administration phase of the project puts Dewberry in positive standing with Client at all times.
Perform site visits, inspections activities as required to support the Construction Administration requirements.
Assist with recruiting, evaluating, and making recommendations regarding new employees to support MEP Federal practice.