Project Manager - Architecture & Engineering Design
AlphaHire · Dubuque
We’re seeking an experienced A/E Project Manager to lead architecture and engineering projects from initial planning through design development, permitting, and construction administration. The ideal candidate has a background in an architecture, engineering, or multidisciplinary design firm and can manage project budgets, schedules, technical teams, and client relationships while ensuring high-quality project delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead projects through design development, engineering, permitting, construction support, and final delivery.
- Establish project scopes, fee budgets, schedules, resource plans, and deliverables.
- Direct architects, engineers, consultants, and external partners, ensuring responsibilities and deadlines are clearly defined.
- Monitor project milestones, design submissions, approvals, outstanding decisions, and progress against established plans.
- Identify design inconsistencies, scope changes, coordination gaps, schedule risks, and budget variances.
- Collaborate with technical teams to resolve design challenges, permitting issues, and construction-related problems.
- Coordinate activities across design, engineering, regulatory approvals, bidding, and construction phases.
- Lead design reviews, client presentations, formal submissions, and construction-phase coordination.
- Manage client relationships, provide project updates, and address expectations throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensure deliverables meet contractual requirements, applicable codes, quality standards, and client objectives.
- Support construction administration by coordinating with contractors and resolving field questions and design issues.
- Maintain project documentation, including meeting minutes, budgets, schedules, status reports, and change records.
- Report project performance, financial results, risks, and schedule developments to company leadership.
- Improve project delivery through effective coordination, documentation, and internal workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of project management experience in architecture, engineering, or multidisciplinary design.
- Required: Previous experience working within an architecture, engineering, or multidisciplinary design firm.
- Proven responsibility for project scope, budgets, schedules, deliverables, risks, and client relationships.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams of architects, engineers, consultants, and contractors.
- Strong understanding of design development, permitting, construction documentation, and construction administration.
- Ability to manage projects from initial design through final delivery.
- Experience resolving scope changes, design conflicts, coordination issues, schedule risks, and cost concerns.
- Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent leadership, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities while meeting deadlines.
- Understanding of professional services agreements, design deliverables, and architecture and engineering firm operations.
Important: Candidates must have direct project management and project delivery responsibility. Experience limited primarily to project coordination, administrative support, or schedule tracking will not meet the requirements.
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience.
- Health insurance options.
- Retirement plan options.
- Paid time off and company holidays.
- Professional development and continuing education opportunities.
- Opportunity to lead diverse architecture and engineering projects.
- Collaborative, multidisciplinary professional environment.
- Long-term career growth and advancement opportunities.