Senior Structural Engineering Project Manager - Foxborough, MA

Overview

Position Summary: The Senior Project Manager (SPM) oversees the entire structural design process from inception to completion. The SPM applies engineering standards and leverages industry-specific software to manage design and documentation tasks. With expertise in structural engineering concepts and building codes, the Senior PM supervises project work, coordinates with clients, architects, municipal agencies, and other team members, and provides creative solutions within the project framework.

Additionally, they handle cost and personnel estimation, proposal preparation, while contributing to project staffing discussions.

• Provides expertise in problem-solving, decision-making, and the implementation of standard engineering procedures to direct the flow of engineering.
• Oversees the production work of junior engineers and BIM technicians.
• Recognizes relationships between isolated project issues and is able to identify critical issues
• Technical responsibilities include the design and analysis of mid to high-rise buildings, utilizing software packages such as ETABS, SAP, and RAM.
• Leads junior teammates in various approaches of problem solving and shows sound judgement as to the most effective approach.
• Understands course change in project, manages the redirection of resources to meet deliverables.
• Responsible for completing structural analysis, preparing plans and specifications, shop drawings.
• Reviews and responds to RFIs to clarify issues that could arise during construction.
• Review contractor submittals to ensure compliance with the design plans and specifications.
• Coordinates structural engineering design with the client, project architects, municipal agencies, and other design team members.
• Thoroughly reviews completeness and updating of Design Criteria.
• Maintains analysis and design approach on course for project completion.
• Up to date on latest codes and engineering developments.
• Responsible for implementation of design standards through project.
• Develops new approaches and provides recommendations where necessary.
• Reviews a document's progress on a continuous basis.
• Forecast workload and schedules for the project team and manage communication and documentation for the project.
• Manages and maintains project timelines and schedules including allocation of hours.
• Oversees sub-contractors and construction contracts.
• Ensures accuracy and precision across all aspects of work with a high level of attention to detail.
• Demonstrates strong critical thinking and analytical skills, including assessing complex situations, identifying all issues and developing data-driven, logical, strategic solutions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ensuring clear and effective communication with all parties including clients, teammates and management.
• Effectively utilizes both verbal and non verbal communication skills to cultivate respectful, professional client and teammate relationships.
• Writes accurate, clear and concise correspondence and reports for project inclusion and publication.
• Obtains accurate input from teammates and utilizes it where applicable.
• Leads and contributes to meetings in a professional, effective manner, ensuring relevant topics are discussed and outputs and actions identified and recorded.
• Demonstrates confidence with public speaking and presents well-structured presentations, discussions and meetings in a logical, organized, professional manner.
• Consistently and effectively provides information and feedback, both positive and negative, to teammates and clients in a person-centric, fact-based, professional manner.
• Consistently utilizes professional, effective negotiation skills and the ability to close a sale while maintaining a positive client relationship.

• Understands and imparts on teammates, the importance of resource utilization, project budget and collected revenue/labor ratios and ensures they are given correct consideration and monitored accurately.
• Works with scope items and accurately charges own labor to proper project numbers and ensures this accuracy for other teammates on the project.
• Provides input and assistance concerning project budgeting and collections.
• Prepares fee proposals for issuing to clients and provides training to teammates.
• Has detailed understanding of specific project scope, contracts and related subjects and provides guidance to teammates.
• Has detailed understanding of the business’s project financial reports and impact on own practice.
• Contributes to business development efforts through positive and professional client relationships, nurturing network of contacts and beginning to self-generate business.
• Actively identifies and supports the business with business development initiatives and encourages teammates to do the same.
• Promotes self and DeSimone within industry through a variety of formats including attending events, undertaking networking, presenting at events and on…