Senior Project Manager

at  Progressive Companies

Make an Impact
As a Senior Project Manager, you are responsible for overall team management, effective client management, and for completing the work within established quality, budget, and schedule constraints. You are accountable for the successful completion of the project and consistently delivering success through organized teamwork following best practices and Progressive AE processes.

Deliver Results

• Contribute with project goal setting and follows through with the team.
• Mentor team members within area of expertise and may collaborate in performance planning with Technical and Team Leaders, when requested.
• Orchestrate QA/QC milestones and events, lead team member coordination and ensure project compliance through checklists and project charter.
• Plan, monitor, and control technical costs and scheduled performance to lead the team to achieve profit goals.
• Serve the client’s best interest and maintain positive relationships. Understand what it takes to make projects successful.
• Participate in proposals and contract negotiations to establish scope of work, schedule, and budget.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an area of expertise (architecture, interiors, landscape architecture or engineering preferred).
• Professional registration in your field required.
• Minimum of 10 years of project management experience with AE projects.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in area of expertise, business administration, or project management.
• CSI-CDT certification.
• Certification through PSMJ/PMI.
• Experience in Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and Teams.
• Experience with Deltek Vision and Project Planning.

People Matter
Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.
Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Transforming Spaces. Empowering People.
The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities.
Sustainable and Inclusive
We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.
Employee Owned
We act like owners—because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member.
Culture of Excellence
The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration.
Progressive Companies is committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities

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