Project Manager

Overview

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Base pay range

$76,500.00/yr - $187,000.00/yr

About Hed

We are a team that is full of ideas, experience, creativity, passionate opinions, insatiable curiosity, uncompromising integrity, commitment, and skill. Our culture is about aspiration, embracing change and challenges, listening and learning from each other, encouraging continual learning, and inspiring collective growth. As an inclusive, integrated architecture and engineering practice, we value the diversity of perspectives, experiences, abilities, and expertise that advance both the work we do, and the world we share.

Primary Function

Our Higher Education sector is looking to add an experienced team member to our group of talented Project Managers. The candidate should have broad expertise, with a focus on Higher Education, and be enthused about joining HEDs shared commitment to Advancing Your World through Critical Thinking, Integrated Practice, and Design Excellence. Competitive salary and excellent benefits, including a flexible hybrid work schedule, are available. This position is open to individuals located near our office in Los Angeles, California.

Typical Duties

• Project Managers at HED are responsible for leading teams in all aspects of our professional services while maintaining liaison between the project team, client, consultants, contractors, and authorities having jurisdiction over the project. The Project Manager works in collaboration with the Principal-in-Charge and the Project Architect/Engineer to create and deliver Positive Impact for our clients, colleagues, and community.
• Fundamental to the PM role is spearheading the teams efforts in achieving Design Excellence through establishing project Goals, defining and executing Strategies to achieve these, and tracking and capturing the Results.
• Project Managers lead and facilitate all project activities and processes from the initial marketing effort (including participation in interviews and preparation of proposals) to scope refinement and planning, through the design, permit, bid and construction administration phases, and the post-construction evaluation.
• PMs manage day-to-day client relations and project activities, potentially on multiple projects at one time. Responsibilities include fee and contract negotiations and ongoing management, planning and schedule development and monitoring, project scope and financial management, coordination of quality reviews, and facilitation of workplans to determine staffing needs.
  

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years' professional experience in the A/E industry required.
• Experience with Higher Education projects in the US required.
• Bachelor's degree in architecture or engineering required.
• Professional Licensure required.
• Experience in project financial and risk management is a must.
• LEED Accreditation preferred.
• Extensive knowledge of all aspects of professional A/E services from business development through project close-out, including design and technical expertise.
• Excellent writing, communication, and organizational skills.
• Strong leadership and teamwork skills including the ability to lead, motivate, and work well with others in a design-focused environment.
• Proactive, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible.
• Strong business acumen.
• Strategic outlook, with an eye for detail.
  

Physical Requirements

• Capable of traveling to and from project sites, both locally and across the US; attending client, project, and construction meetings.
• Ability to access existing and new project sites for observation, investigation, and evaluation purposes.
• Ability to use office equipment for communication and documentation purposes.
• Visual acuity to perform responsibilities.
  

In compliance with all applicable or other employment requirements, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or status as an individual with disability and arrest and conviction records.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level
  

Employment type

• Full-time
  

Job function

• Project Management and Information Technology
  

Industries

• Architecture and Planning, Accessible Architecture and Design, and Professional Services
  

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