Senior Project Manager DoD Projects
AECOMAbout the role
Company Description
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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.
We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.
Job Description
AECOM has an excellent career opportunity for a creative, highly talented Senior Project Manager - DOD Projects for immediate employment in our Boston, MA location which serves as our home office to support programs throughout the US and internationally.
At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.
We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.
Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.
About AECOM
AECOM’s practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture.
With a range of expertise from strategy and design through project realization, we create better outcomes to grow economies, protect natural systems, conserve natural resources, make societies more equitable and connect and engage people through innovative, sustainable design solutions.
As a Senior Project Manager - DOD Projects, you will lead multidisciplinary teams in the delivery of complex DoD projects while ensuring successful outcomes within budget, schedule, and specification requirements. Your key responsibilities include:
- Lead task order proposal development and support Program Managers in project execution
- Manage project teams (design, technical, and administrative staff) and oversee all project facets through subordinate managers and supervisors
- Establish project-specific objectives, policies, and deliverables in partnership with Project Directors and Senior Managers
- Monitor project financials, schedules, and quality standards; report performance metrics to senior leadership
- Review and manage contracts, subcontracts, and subcontractor performance throughout project lifecycle
- Coordinate design activities, resolve field-initiated questions, and facilitate design review meetings
- Maintain client relationships and lead client discussions regarding project scope, terms, and progress
- Administer projects from budgeting and procurement through contract closeout with significant profit/loss responsibility
- Demonstrate proficiency in MS Office Suite, SharePoint, and remote collaboration tools (Teams, Zoom, etc.)
- Manage services during construction, including RFI responses and submittal reviews
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or engineering plus a minimum of ten years of related experience managing multidisciplinary projects, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
- Registered Architect or Professional Engineer
- Experience with DoD projects
- Experience in developing design reports, drawings, and specifications
Preferred Qualifications
- 15 plus years of relevant experience in design management and resolving issues or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
- Experience negotiating project scope, fees, managing project financial performance, and ensuring fiscal responsibility for projects through the design process
- Revit and BIM experience as well as experience in Photoshop, Microsoft Office
- Support projects within the last 10 years through all phases of design and construction
Additional Information
- Sponsorship for US employment authorization is not available now or in th
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