Federal A​/E Project Manager

About Bodwé Group Companies

Bodwé is the Professional Services Group of Mno-Bmadsen, the investment enterprise and a wholly owned instrumentality of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. We are architects, planners, consultants, designers, engineers, scientists, and federal contractors, committed to growing the economy and legacy of the Pokagon Band and supporting its more than 6,000 citizens. We provide value by integrating expertise across the natural and built environment lifecycle—from pre-development and planning to design, procurement, construction, and operations.

By integrating expertise across architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management, we deliver holistic, end-to-end solutions that drive efficiency and deliver distinctive outcomes.

We are seeking an experienced Federal A/E Project Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of architectural, engineering, and facility projects for federal clients in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. This client-facing position serves as a primary day-to-day interface with federal clients and manages a portfolio of concurrent projects from initial assignment and scope definition through design, construction administration, and closeout.

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Serve as a primary day-to-day point of contact for assigned federal clients, including Contracting Officer's Representatives (CORs), facility representatives, project stakeholders, and other Government personnel. Build trusted client relationships by understanding client needs, managing expectations, maintaining clear communication, and proactively identifying issues that could affect successful project delivery. Lead project kickoff meetings, design reviews, progress meetings, and other client coordination activities, clearly documenting decisions, actions, risks, and required Government input.

Support scope development, fee proposals, amendments, and additional-service requests when required.

Manage multiple concurrent federal A/E projects from initial assignment through design, construction, and closeout. Establish and maintain project scope, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, work plans, deliverables, and project documentation. Monitor consultant performance against established scope, schedule, budget, deliverables, and quality expectations and proactively address performance issues. Coordinate project assignments across architectural, structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, fire protection, code/life safety, cost estimating, historic preservation, and other specialty disciplines.

Maintain visibility across the assigned project portfolio, including project priorities, current phase, upcoming milestones, Government reviews, open decisions, risks, and staffing requirements. Coordinate project initiation and confirm client requirements, available information, required disciplines, deliverables, design milestones, construction budgets, and schedule before significant design effort begins. Identify and manage project risks affecting schedule, scope, budget, staffing, quality, and client operations. Forecast near-term resource requirements and coordinate with discipline leaders to resolve potential staffing conflicts.

Maintain organized and accessible project records, correspondence, drawings, meeting minutes, schedules, action items, and decision logs. Escalate material scope, schedule, staffing, contractual, or client issues to company leadership as appropriate.

Manage project financial performance, including budgets, labor utilization, earned revenue, forecasting, profitability, and remaining effort. Monitor actual project effort against established budgets and staffing plans and identify potential overruns before they affect project performance. Understand and manage projects performed under Firm-Fixed-Price and other federal contract structures. Support development of project scopes, staffing plans, fee proposals, amendments, and additional-service requests. Coordinate with company operations and finance personnel to maintain accurate project forecasts and financial reporting.

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