Senior Project Manager - Change Management

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McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating lasting impact. Together, we’re building a thriving planet Buildings are a leading contributor to the climate crisis, generating nearly 40% of total global energy-related carbon emissions. We’re making a lasting impact on our industry and within our communities by addressing the climate, affordability and equity crises through:

• renewables and energy services
• engineering and design
• Construction and facility services

To get where we’re going, we need big thinkers, problem solvers and collaborative mindsets. Does that sound like you?

McKinstry is looking to add a Senior Project Manager – Change Management to our growing team in Seattle, WA
. The Senior Project Manager leads complex, cross-functional enterprise projects from initiation through implementation and adoption. This role is accountable for delivering defined business outcomes by integrating disciplined project management with practical change management, ensuring solutions are not only completed on time, within scope, and within budget, but are also understood, adopted, and sustained by impacted teams. The role partners with business leaders, subject matter experts, technology teams, and executive sponsors to navigate ambiguity, manage risk, and drive successful organizational change.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Lead multiple complex, enterprise-wide projects from initiation through closure, establishing clear scope, outcomes, governance, plans, milestones, budgets, dependencies, and decision rights.
• Translate strategic priorities into executable project plans and maintain accountability for delivery, issue resolution, and measurable business outcomes.

• Assess organizational impacts and stakeholder readiness, develop and execute change strategies that drive adoption through stakeholder engagement, communications, training, leadership alignment, and reinforcement.
• Partner with business owners to define adoption measures, monitor readiness and resistance, and adjust interventions to support sustained behavior and process change.

• Build trusted relationships with executive sponsors, business leaders, subject matter experts, and delivery teams; facilitate decisions, surface tradeoffs, and maintain alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Establish clear governance and provide concise, transparent reporting on progress, risks, decisions, financials, readiness, and benefits realization.

• Identify and actively manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, resource constraints, and competing priorities; upscale appropriately and drive timely mitigation.
• Coordinate internal and external resources and ensure work is sequenced effectively across teams and functions

• Apply and strengthen enterprise project and change management standards, tools, templates, and lessons learned.
• Coach project team members and business partners in effective planning, execution, stakeholder engagement, and adoption practices.

• Minimum of eight (8) years of progressive experience leading complex projects, programs, implementations, or organizational change initiatives.
• Demonstrated success delivering cross-functional work in a large, complex, and evolving organization.
• Experience integrating project management and change management activities across the full project lifecycle.
• Ability to translate strategy into executable plans, establish…