Project Manager – Wilmington

Hiring Rate

$63,000 - $84,000 per year, dependent on experience and education

Generous benefits package

Hybrid—three days remote and two days in-office.
* This role requires regular on-site client or field visits, including on days scheduled for remote work. Employees may work from home before or after site visits, depending on scheduling and operational needs.

New Ecology, Inc. (NEI) seeks candidates for the position of Project Manager to join a growing team of professionals. The Project Manager will be a pivotal cross-functional role in our regional team serving the greater Wilmington, DE and Philadelphia, PA area. The Project Manager will work directly with internal program, engineering, project, and field services teams, as well as with external partners, property owners, and real estate development teams to improve the performance, occupant health and resiliency of existing and new multifamily buildings.

The Project Manager position is a technical position requiring continual learning of building science practices/technologies.

The Project Manager works on energy efficiency projects for existing buildings from audit through implementation, and for new buildings from pre-design through construction and into operations optimization. A significant portion of this work includes provision of technical assistance to design/development teams around high-performance building envelope and systems approaches and facilitating and documenting compliance with green building certifications, facilitating LIHTC applications, decarbonization audits, implementation assistance and/or compliance with regulatory requirements.

The Project Manager is responsible for client/project team relations, internal and external team member coordination, schedules and budgets, technical assistance, quality and delivery of final work products. The Project Manager will be the primary client contact on individual projects and will be responsible for developing and delivering New Ecology’s work product. The Project Manager will work under the supervision and mentorship of a regional Director and will collaborate extensively with other technical and programmatic staff across program, project, and engineering roles focused on serving new and existing multifamily buildings.

Specific tasks may include:

• leading design meetings to identify and target feasible, cost-effective sustainable design performance strategies;
• supporting partners with applications for Low Income Housing Tax Credits and incentive programs that fund sustainable building improvements;
• reviewing technical documents like building plans, specifications, and submittals to ensure that design intent and certification requirements are incorporated and that green and energy efficiency features are buildable;
• educating team members on and facilitating, documenting, and tracking compliance with high performance/green building rating systems, such as LEED, Passive House, Enterprise Green Communities, and ENERGY STARÒ;
• performing construction inspections to ensure that projects are built as designed, that program requirements are met, and that problems are identified and resolved to the owner’s satisfaction;
• working with the engineering team to conduct post-occupancy evaluations of projects to ensure they are performing as intended, and generating case studies;

• fostering and nurturing client relationships
• representing clients before government agencies in permitting and compliance discussions;
• technical mentoring and managing of other staff on project work;
• providing QA/QC oversight and review, with necessary support, of project deliverables produced by others;
• managing project budgets, internal project team members contributions, milestones, invoicing, and deliverables.
• attending project meetings and leading discussions on relevant sustainability issues;
• writing necessary certification and regulatory reports, site reports, and case studies; and
• representing New Ecology at conferences.

New Ecology seeks to provide all staff continuous learning and…