Architectural Project Manager | Data Centers

Overview

At Corgan we are passionate about great design but the best thing we build is each other. Here, you’ll find camaraderie and collaboration as abundantly as curiosity and creativity. Corgan is a welcoming and supportive environment that provides significant career advantages. You’ll find room to grow, freedom to explore — and the safety to fail. Thank you for your interest in joining our curious, passionate, hardworking team.

Corgan is actively recruiting a dynamic Architectural Project Manager to join the firm as part of our Data Centers team. Tackle these responsibilities alongside a team of creative, highly motivated individuals who are passionate about their work and ready to collaborate to achieve outstanding results. Our ideal team member is passionate and progressively seeking more responsibilities to expand their expertise.

Responsibilities

Develop competitive fee structures reflecting defined scope of services for project pursuits

Establish and manage project schedules

Oversee the completion of projects on time and within fee budget

Anticipate, understand and manage client expectations

Provide leadership to staff by identifying project studio team members’ roles and responsibilities, leveraging their strengths, providing stretch opportunities, and offering mentorship

Lead and encourage open dialogue with project team regarding design and technical ideation and facilitate appropriate solutions

Motivate the project team to meet project goals through encouragement and/or course correction

Oversee administration of construction phase procedures and documentation (shop drawings/submittals, requests for information, and addenda/clarifications)
Oversee development and presentation of appropriate technical solutions to project stakeholders

Drive the coordination of internal staff, external consultants and other stakeholders to achieve a cohesive and collaborative project team.

Attend and conduct presentations

Actively explore and recognize new business opportunities through professional networks

Drive each project team to seek innovation in design solutions in an ongoing spirit of curiosity, continuous improvement, and increased project performance

Develop effective project directives, outlines, projections, schedules, and strategies over the course of the project

Oversee development and communication of appropriate project phasing

Manage all facets of project production resulting in a thorough set of documents

Identify solutions and effectively resolve technical challenges

Understand and apply appropriate industry standards and construction practices

Oversees, and is responsible for, the identification, understanding and documentation of regulatory agencies’ requirements, as well as recognizing and resolving code-related design issues

Oversee quality assurance processes and quality control of project documents

Demonstrate, share, and appropriately apply, new methodologies, practices, codes, and products

Maintain awareness of, and appropriately apply, new methodologies, practices, codes, and products

Attend and conduct presentations

Manage client relations

Provide leadership to staff

Qualifications

Professional, NAAB-accredited degree in Architecture or equivalent is required8+ years of experience in commercial architecture

Data Center experience or experience managing large teams on large-scale projects required

Professional registration

High commitment to QA/QCThorough understanding of how a drawing set goes together

Acumen for how things are built and constructibility, and the ability to apply that knowledge to support the project design and budget

Experience managing a variety of consultants and contractors

Interest in sustainable design

Proficiency or experience with managing overall project fees and…