Project Manager I - Education

Grand Rapids, MI,

As a Project Manager I, you will lead interdisciplinary teams while building strong client relationships. You will manage project schedules, budgets, and quality, ensuring financial performance while fostering collaboration and trust. With mentorship from a Senior Project Manager, you will gain experience and grow into your role as a leader at our company.

Deliver Results

• Provide effective leadership by communicating project goals, conducting team meetings, and modeling positive collaboration.
• Prepare, monitor, and control project plans, schedules, and budgets to ensure timely delivery.
• Monitor project scope and implement appropriate measures for changes.
• Oversee quality assurance/quality control processes and ensure project compliance.
• Mentor team members within your area of expertise to foster development and retention.
• Maintain accountability for project profit goals and financial performance.
• Collaborate with the business development team to identify marketing opportunities, create proposals, and establish project scope and budgets.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interiors, landscape architecture, engineering, or a related field.
• CSI-CDT certification (training provided for certification within a year). Professional registration in your field is preferred.
• 3 or more years of experience in A&E projects with solid working knowledge of A&E standards, processes, and policies.
• Higher Education A&E project market experience preferred. 
• Strong understanding of project design and working knowledge of at least one project delivery method.

 Employee Owned 

We act like owners—because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member. 
 
Culture of Excellence 

The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration. 
We are committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities.