Project Manager, Operations Management, Project & Program Management

BRPH is a technically focused, creative architecture, engineering, and construction company with over six decades of expertise in helping mission-driven clients in the aerospace, defense, manufacturing, commercial, education, entertainment, hospitality, and federal markets identify gaps in their program delivery and develop innovative solutions to their most challenging problems across the U.S. and around the world. Consistently ranked among the nation’s top firms, we take pride in solving complex challenges with forward-thinking solutions.

Our Charleston office serves as BRPH’s southeastern gateway to the growing markets of Charleston, the surrounding region, and beyond. Our multidisciplinary team delivers architecture, engineering, interior design, and construction services across a broad range of markets: aerospace and defense, manufacturing, commercial/industrial, education, aviation, and mission‑critical facilities. Our team thrives on collaboration, creativity, and technical rigor.

BRPH is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support our Manufacturing & Industrial market sector in our Charleston, South Carolina office. This role is focused on the successful management and delivery of complex, multidisciplinary architecture and engineering projects. The ideal candidate may come from an architecture or engineering background and will lead project teams with primary responsibility for client service, scope, schedule, budget, forecasting, contracts, change management, quality, risk, and overall project performance.

• Leads multidisciplinary architecture and engineering projects from pursuit and kickoff through design, permitting, construction administration, and closeout, with primary accountability for overall project performance.
• Serves as the primary client point of contact for assigned projects; manages expectations, communications, decisions, commitments, and overall client satisfaction.
• Develops and maintains project execution plans, scopes of work, responsibility matrices, work plans, staffing plans, deliverable schedules, and milestone strategies aligned with contractual requirements and client objectives.
• Owns project financial performance, including fee and labor budgets, burn-rate monitoring, percent-complete evaluation, cost-to-complete, revenue projections, profitability, and overall budget compliance.
• Prepares and maintains project forecasts and financial status reporting; identifies budget or performance variances early and develops corrective action plans with project and discipline leadership.
• Manages prime contract requirements and subconsultant agreements, including scope, deliverables, schedule obligations, invoicing, and team responsibilities.
• Leads project change management by identifying scope growth and out-of-scope requests, evaluating schedule and fee impacts, preparing amendments/change orders, and obtaining appropriate authorization before additional work proceeds.
• Develops and manages project schedules, tracks critical milestones and dependencies, evaluates impacts to the baseline plan, and leads recovery planning when project performance deviates from the approved schedule.
• Coordinates multidisciplinary project teams, including architecture, structural, civil, MEP, interiors, BIM/VDC, and specialty consultants, to establish clear responsibilities, interfaces, priorities, and deliverables.
• Plans and facilitates internal, client, and design coordination meetings; establishes agendas, documents decisions and action items, and drives timely closure of open issues.
• Proactively identifies and manages project risks and opportunities, including schedule, financial, contractual, staffing, technical coordination, and client-related risks; escalates significant issues when appropriate.
• Leads project quality management planning and implementation, including required QA/QC reviews, interdisciplinary coordination, deliverable readiness, and compliance with BRPH quality standards and contractual requirements.
• Coordinates closely with discipline leads and Engineers/Architects of Record to ensure technical decisions are made…