Project Manager

Our Pacific Area is currently seeking a Project Manager to join our growing team. The selected individual will utilize their knowledge of project delivery (planning, design, and/or construction) and business expertise to effectively plan, execute, monitor, and deliver quality to our clients. The ideal candidate should possess strong interpersonal and personal effectiveness skills. The success of our project delivery teams begins with the leadership of the project manager. Consequently, our perfect candidate will exhibit leadership qualities, exceptional communication skills, a strong organizational aptitude, problem-solving abilities, and the capacity to motivate and manage diverse teams and develop new and existing clients.

The Pacific Area provides planning, design, and construction services on various projects for municipal clients in the Hawaiian Islands.  This role requires managing projects of varying complexity and size and providing quality project delivery throughout the project lifecycle.  This role includes managing project teams to execute and deliver work successfully, aligning with BC service lines and tools, and developing and growing client service relationships.

 

Responsibilities 

Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for small to mid-sized projects:  

• Project team leadership expectations: 

• Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors.  Assist team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve. 

• Communicate: Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.     

• Support Team Motivation: Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating success. 

• Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.  

• Create a safe environment: Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive. 

• Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered. 

• Develop project team members: Support project team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.  

• Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements: 

• Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns.  Develop clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully. 

• Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide for timely resource allocation and delivery.  Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures as needed.    

• Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set projects up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet  planned project performance metrics. 

• Quality Management: Create, implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality review processes and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.  

• Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks.   Identify and recommend change management, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the cha