Job Description

Senior Project Manager – Federal Market Focus

Dewberry is seeking a Senior Project Manager in Huntsville, AL, to serve as the primary contact between our office and the Owner. This role is essential for effectively managing projects from concept through design, bidding, negotiation, and construction administration, with the goal of securing future projects with the same client. As a candidate with a strong background in the federal market, your existing client relationships and ability to establish new connections will be invaluable in acquiring new projects.

Key Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or equivalent experience
• Accomplished Engineer or similar professional with 10+ years of project management experience, including at least 5 years in the federal market
• Knowledgeable of the construction process, with familiarity in FARS and DFARS contracts
• Well-organized with a solid understanding of plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and life safety systems; general knowledge of applicable codes, national standards, client design standards, system operation, space requirements, and cost

You will work closely with clients to anticipate and solve problems swiftly, collaborating with a multi-disciplined team to provide first-rate engineering documents that meet project specifications and governing standards. Your commitment to client satisfaction will help us achieve our goal of maintaining quality relationships and ensuring our clients’ professional growth.

If you’re excited about this opportunity and ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply and explore how you can contribute to our innovative team at Dewberry.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. The Fairfax, Virginia based firm is locally and family-owned. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. By joining our firm, you'll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call "Dewberry at Work," that have inspired our employees to be successful for over 60 years.

Responsibilities

• Maintain primary one-to-one contact with the client.
• Understand the client's needs and goals and that of his/her organization.
• Draft proposals for new projects with existing clients for review and signature of the Principal In Charge of Business and track proposals through award of project. Work with client to develop additional work.
• Attend regular design meetings with the client and issue meeting minutes.
• As project manager; lead, organize, and schedule design team staff.
• Organize and direct frequent in-house design meetings.
• Prepare detailed personnel loading by task interfaced with the detailed schedule.
• Coordinate with Design Discipline Managers to schedule, plan and assign appropriate personnel.
• Prepare detailed project timeline and maintain design schedule.
• Organize and maintain project design folder.
• Document meetings and telephone conversations.
• Provide quality control to ensure that all of the clients' needs and requests have been accommodated. Ensure and coordinate among all of the disciplines involved, including outside consultants.
• Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions to Owner.
• Advise on project billing and assist in collections.
• Supervise and coordinate the submission of documents to the appropriate reviewing authorities.
• Coordinate the responses to reviews. Ensure that responses are in fact reflected in the drawings and specifications.
• Arrange for in-house quality review in a timely fashion.
• Coordinate as required to ensure construction administration phase of the project puts Dewberry in positive standing with Client at all times.
• Perform site visits, inspections activities as required to support the Construction Administration requirements.
• Assist with recruiting, evaluating, and making recommendations regarding new employees to support MEP Federal practice.

Required Skills & Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent experience.
• Accomplished Engineer or similar with 10+ years of project management experience, with a minimum of 5 years working in the federal market.
• Knowledgeable of construction process, familiar with FARS and DFARS contracts.
• Self-motivated with highly developed verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Well organized, with good understanding of plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and life safety systems with general knowledge of applicable codes, national standards, client design standards, system operation, space requirements, and cost.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters: Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

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