Locations possible: Kansas City, MO, Oklahoma, OK, Tulsa, OK or Wichita, KS
Position Summary:
The Project Manager (PM) is responsible for the management and delivery of projects in accordance with each project’s client contract and to the expectations of PEC. This position is expected to manage the project scope, schedule, and cost while also assessing and managing risks and for client satisfaction. The Project Manager will coordinate and communicate with all appropriate project stakeholders, ensuring deliverables and milestones are on time and within budget.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Competent to make all business decisions on projects from opportunity identification through project completion with minimal guidance or oversight.
Anticipate and productively resolve discrepancies between client expectations and contracted scope
Manage project scope, cost, and schedule for the planning, execution, and delivery of projects on-time and within budget
Lead project teams throughout pre-contract phase. Collaborating with internal and external team members to develop fee proposals and when needed, establish project budgets. Thereafter preparing proposed contracts and sub-consultant contracts as appropriate
Responsible for assembling the project team with the approval of each project team member’s supervisor
Manage the flow of project work for all disciplines
Manage the application of resources to the project
Provide direction to project team for all project activities to keep them on schedule
Update project timeline and adjust scheduling and provide regular project updates to the project team and others as appropriate
Ensure Quality Control processes are followed, performed, and documented
Identify risk (client service risks, contract risks, technical risks, staffing risks, etc.), appropriately communicates risk and risk management strategies internally, and diplomatically and effectively navigate risk management with clients and project teams
Lead project teams through forecasting estimates to complete and assessing work progress
Communicate effectively with the project team, Market VP, and other internal stakeholders as necessary to accomplish the project goals and the expectations of PEC
Effective and appropriate client communication and client management
Adhere to all adopted business practices and quality procedures
Represent themselves and PEC in a professional, strategic, and courteous manner
Project assignments and responsibilities may be added at the company’s discretion.
Knowledge, skills and abilities:
Considerable knowledge and understanding of consulting design and construction standards and practices
Strong skills using project management tools and systems, including but not limited to scheduling software, including Microsoft Project
Proficient Microsoft Office and Bluebeam skills
Familiar with division applicable design, drafting and modeling software applications and processes
Proven experience working in collaborative environments using Microsoft Teams
Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing with internal and external project teams, the client and other stakeholders
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and guide others, build effective and cohesive relationships
Proven experience in planning, organizing, prioritizing, coordinating, training, supporting, assigning and evaluating the work of a project team
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field from ABET Accredited University required
Minimum two (2) years’ experience as a discipline/task lead required
Minimum two (2) years’ experience in Project Management or related experience/field preferred
Minimum five (5) years’ experience in Engineering Design preferred
License and Certification:
Licensure by the applicable State Board of Technical Professions preferred
Work Environment:
PEC values working efficiently and collaboratively for quality and productive work. The work environment is business casual, friendly, respectful, and team oriented with daily peer interactions regarding work progress, client needs and project-specific technical issues. We strive to create an enjoyable work environment with support and opportunities for positive career growth. Much of the work will be conducted within an office setting with frequent sitting, reaching and manipulation of objects, tools and/or controls. The position requires mobility. Duties involved require moving materials that weigh up to 10 pounds on a regular basis and up to 25 pounds on an occasional basis. Manual dexterity and coordination are required over 50% of the work period while operating equipment such as computer keyboard, mouse, calculator and similar machines. At times, bending, reaching, standing, and walking may be required.
Supervisory Responsibilities (if there are no supervisor responsibilities, put N/A):
Professional Engineering Consultants (PEC) was founded more than a half century ago on the promise that we would apply scientific principles to make things work, and ultimately, create opportunities. That’s exactly what we continue to do today.
If you could imagine the perfect park, the most sustainable factory, or the most streamlined roadway, what would that look like? What community would be energized because of it? What innovations could bring that vision to life? Well designing for those answers is what we do best.
Established as a professional association in 1965 after the merger of three engineering design firms, Professional Engineering Consultants (PEC) has been delivering comprehensive engineering solutions for more than 60 years.
Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, with additional locations in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado, our staff of more than 400 collectively hold professional engineering licenses in all 50 states. From the roads and bridges connecting them, the energy powering them, the hospitals healing them, and the schools teaching them, PEC strives to better the communities you lead and live in. We know when you succeed, your community succeeds. To us, that is what matters most.