Senior Project Manager - Major Design Build Projects; Highways​/Bridges

Position: Senior Project Manager - Major Design Build Projects (Highways/Bridges)
Job Description

Why join us?

Atkins

Réalis is growing fast in the U.S.

-and there's never been a more exciting time to be part of our journey.

We're committed to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. That means creating solutions that matter, and building a workplace where every voice is heard, every perspective counts, and everyone belongs.

By connecting people, data, and technology across our global network, we're tackling some of the world's most complex challenges. And we're looking for passionate, driven professionals like you to help shape what's next.

Let's build the future-together.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager - Major Design Build Projects to join our team in Alexandria, VA;
Atlanta, GA;
Austin, TX;
Calverton, MD;
Dallas, TX;
Denver, CO;
Houston, TX;
Las Vegas, NV;
Henderson, NV, Nashville, TN;
Orlando, FL;
Raleigh, NC;
Tampa, FL.

About Us

Atkins

Réalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. For over 50 years, we've partnered with public and private clients across the U.S. to deliver infrastructure planning, engineering, construction, environmental consulting, urban planning, architecture, and program management. Our depth and breadth of expertise enables us to tackle the most technically complex and time-sensitive projects-driving innovation, resilience, and real-world impact where it matters most.

How will you contribute to the team?

* Under direction, provides professional and project management expertise in the direction of highly unconventional projects requiring multiple technical units and/or subcontractors, heavy regulatory agency involvement or extremely complex technical requirements.

Functions as mentor to technical professionals to assist in their training and development. Also performs the basic project functions of production coordination, planning, organizing, directing, controlling, financial management and marketing.

* Coordinates and participates in contract negotiations with clients and subcontractors, and drafts very complex professional service agreements, arranging for their review and execution by senior management. Conducts QCAP reviews of less complicated professional services agreements.

* Develops enhanced standards and procedures for project delivery excellence.

* Directs project team compliance with contract terms, monitors subcontractors' progress, performance and compliance with contractual commitments; participates in contract dispute resolution and litigation concerning project performance, administration and other liability issues; reviews and approves subconsultant and vendor invoices and resolves payment disputes.

* Develops, communicates and manages project quality assurance, administrative procedures, communication guidelines, project deliverable formats and specifications, and progress reporting requirements.

* Monitors schedules, billings and reports; ensures appropriate charging of manhours, costs and expenses to projects; assists in obtaining payment from clients; resolves client disputes and adjusts billing records as required; communicates project progress/status to senior management and alerts them of project production, quality control or financial performance problems.

* Identifies new business opportunities for the firm, coordinates and participates in project presentations to clients and other external groups, and promotes firm's capabilities, marketing its services among existing and prospective clients.

* Participates in project opportunity evaluation, consultant selection, and in the preparation of firm's qualification/experience statements.

* Coordinates communications between internal and external associates and client, and between firm and regulatory agencies. Maintains frequent contact with clients and regulatory agency personnel to determine their respective needs and requirements and serves as expert witness at project hearings and judicial proceedings if necessary.

* Supervises other project managers, technical professionals and other design staff including managing weekly project workload and manpower forecasting.

* Conducts project management training workshops and serves as mentor to associate project managers and project managers.

* Monitors and reports financial status of projects to technical managers.

* Performs such other duties as the supervisor may from time to time deem necessary.

* COMPLEXITY:
Work involves management and coordination of usually large or complex projects involving significant billings, heavy regulatory agency involvement and unique management requirements and/or client needs.

* DECISION-MAKING:
Supervision received is essentially administrative. Participates in project opportunity evaluation and consultant selection decisions. Reviews/selects project subconsultant and vendor invoices.

* WORK DIRECTION GIVEN TO OTHERS:
Guides, reviews, supervises and/or coordinates the work of a multidisciplinary project team made up of widely diverse internal teams and subcontractors.

* INTERNAL…