Senior Project Manager-Federal Architectural Projects
Listed on 2026-07-15
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Engineering
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Management
Project & Program Management
- Full-time
- State/Province:
California - Business Group: DCS
- Legal Entity: AECOM Technical Services Inc
- Business Line: B&P
- Buildings & Places - Work Location Model:
On-Site - Primary
Location:
US
- Orange, CA - 999 Town & Country - Compensation: USD 125,000 - USD 165,000 - yearly
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Job DescriptionAECOM is seeking a Senior Project Manager to be based in one of our Southern Southwest offices. Hybrid opportunities in our Los Angeles, CA;
Orange, CA;
San Diego, CA;
Phoenix, AZ or Las Vegas, NV offices.
As a people manager, the Senior Project Manager will be responsible for mentoring and guiding the Federal design team to success. In addition to helping lead design development and review, the Senior Project Manager will also be responsible for client communication, consultant coordination, and contract administration. Project responsibility will be focused on a diverse portfolio within the Federal market sector.
The successful candidate must be a licensed Architect or engineer with strong, hands‑on technical knowledge as well as proven experience leading a team through all phases of a project. The ideal candidate will have experience managing federal design projects and competence across federal design criteria, including UFC’s, ETL’s, AFMAN’s, and AFI’s.
The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:
- Performs various management, leadership, and people accountability responsibilities for a specific technical group or department.
- Has full responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating technical assignments.
- Plans and develops engineering tasks concerned with unique or controversial problems. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
- Acts as the primary liaison between internal/external project partners, ensuring effective communication, development, coordination and implementation of action plans.
- Ability to independently guide and resolve technical matters on project with ability to consult with Technical Leadership on complex building code issues, when necessary. Demonstrating a depth of expertise in Healthcare or large campus program/project management.
- Operates with minimal supervision, receiving primarily administrative guidance, with assignments framed in broad general objectives and limits, showcasing a leadership role with significant autonomy.
- Leads a team of Architects and/or designers, orchestrating and aligning the activities of the project.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
BA/BS Architecture or Engineering + 6 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalence of experience and/or education
Licensed Architect or Engineer
This position requires U.S. citizenship due to federal contract/security requirements.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
More than 12 years of experience, including experience with federal programs and managing projects and people
Direct experience managing projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Experience with (UFC’s, ETL’s, AFMAN’s, and AFI’s.)
Additional credentialing such as PMP, DBIA, and/or LEEP AP
Experience in developing scope, fee, and terms for proposals and change orders for interdisciplinary…
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