Senior Project Manager; Hybrid - Arlington, VA)

The Work:

As a Senior Project Manager
, you will support Chinook’s government-focused clients by coordinating and delivering engineering, code compliance, and commissioning-related services throughout the facility planning, design, construction, warranty, and operations lifecycle. You will apply a strong engineering background and broad technical experience to evaluate complex facility systems, coordinate multidisciplinary project activities, and provide technically sound solutions to project challenges. In this senior-level role, you will exercise considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments, provide technical guidance to project teams, and review the work of others as appropriate.

Company has built a reputation for excellence in our industry, and as a Project Manager, you will uphold that tradition by being diligent, proactive, solution-oriented, and a facilitator of success for team members, both internal and external.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and be able to obtain and maintain up to a Top Secret clearance due to our customer requirements and the nature of the work that we do.

• Manage and coordinate multiple concurrent engineering, code compliance, and commissioning-related projects for new and existing federal facilities in a deadline-driven environment.
• Understand, analyze, and interpret RFPs, scopes of work, design and construction documents, applicable codes and standards, project schedules, and contract deliverables.
• Provide senior-level engineering and technical oversight throughout planning, design, construction, testing, turnover, warranty, and operations activities.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary technical reviews, including design reviews, submittal reviews, requests for information, field observations, inspections, testing documentation, O&M manuals, and closeout deliverables.
• Evaluate engineering designs and installations for technical adequacy, constructability, reliability, maintainability, resiliency, and conformance with project requirements and applicable codes and standards.
• Apply working knowledge of commissioning principles and processes to support commissioning planning, design reviews, pre-functional activities, functional performance testing, issue resolution, and systems turnover.
• Coordinate reviews commissioning plans, specifications, checklists, functional performance test procedures, startup reports, test reports, and other commissioning documentation for technical completeness and alignment with project requirements.
• Conduct site observations and participate in, or witness system startup, testing, functional performance testing, and other verification activities as required.
• Identify and resolve technical and coordination issues affecting system installation, startup, testing, performance, and project completion.
• Coordinate with government clients, architects, engineers, contractors, commissioning providers, facility personnel, and other stakeholders to support effective project execution.
• Provide technical and analytical guidance to project teams and serve as a senior technical resource for complex engineering issues.
• Prepare and maintain project estimates, schedules, work plans, action items, risk items, and status reports/presentations for the company and/or client.
• Monitor project scope, schedule, budget, quality, and deliverables and proactively identify risks or issues requiring resolution or escalation.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews of project deliverables and technical activities to verify completeness, accuracy, consistency, and compliance with contractual requirements.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal staff, external team members, contractors, design professionals, and government clients.
• Demonstrate your strong leadership skills across all areas of responsibility, sowing an environment that supports high level…