The Project Manager will act as client's representative in managing a project through its design stages, from concept through construction within the client's time and value constraints. The role is defined as a planned undertaking with defined goals, work plans, timeliness, and implementation strategies to correspond to client needs. The PM should have the ability to identify opportunities within a project that will add value and help successfully accomplish the client's desired project outcome.
Essential Functions
- Supervise project staff and provide directions to a large and diverse project team.
- Direct the development of project goals, work plans, timeliness, and implementation strategies.
- Manage and account for project budgets and contracts.
- Identify and coordinate with program committees and advisory groups.
- Administer project budgets, authorize expenditures, develop, and monitor contracts.
- Train and advise staff, project advocates and program participants.
- Plan, facilitate and conduct meetings.
- Measure, evaluate and communicate project performance.
- Identify decision-making issues and key stakeholders, develop and implement strategies to encourage and obtain stakeholder and/or community awareness and support and identify project partners.
- Contribute to team performance by collaboration and effective communication.
- Contribute to and understand the client's desired project outcomes, identify opportunities to add value to accomplish the desired outcomes.
- Add to team effort by accomplishing other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- 4-year college degree in architecture, construction management or engineering science.
- 5-10 years relevant experience of management of staff including project professionals and/or technicians, managing major projects including development of project scope, goals, work plans, timeliness, and implantation strategies, developing measurement processes/methods for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes. Prior experience with developing and monitoring contracts required.
- Data Center experience is strongly preferred]