Job Description
The Project Manager I is responsible for overall project team leadership and effective client relationships with Science, Industry, and Technology clients. They manage project schedules, budgets, and scopes for Architectural & Engineering built environment projects, while monitoring the quality of the team’s financial performance.
• Build a foundational understanding of project communication, collaborating effectively to meet client expectations and needs.
• Familiarize with project management best practices, integrating design and team workflows, scheduling QA/QC milestones, and ensuring compliance through structured checklists and project charters.
• Plan, monitors, and controls costs and schedules for small projects under guidance, meeting project profit goals and ensuring effective resource coordination.
• Assist in proposal creation and interview participation, gaining familiarity with various proposal types and components through team collaboration
• Initiate project start-up by setting project numbers, budgets, and schedules and coordinating team meetings to establish clear goals and responsibilities
• Monitor project scope and collaborates with Architects, Engineers, Designers, and other project team members to proactively address risks when changes occur
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area (architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, or engineering preferred). Master’s degree a plus.
• 5+ years of experience managing complex projects in an AE environment required.
• CSI-CDT certification required (Progressive Companies provides training for certification within a year).
• Professional registration in your field highly preferred.
• Certification through PSMJ/PMI preferred.
• Experience with Deltek Vision and Project Planning preferred.
People Matter
Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.
Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Transforming Spaces. Empowering People.
The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities.
Sustainable and Inclusive
We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.
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.
Progressive Companies is 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.
