Architectural Project Manager, K-12
About this role
DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.
DLR Group's Phoenix, AZ office has an opening for an Architectural Project Manager. We operate within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.
Position Summary
As a Project Manager at DLR Group, you will oversee all aspects of one or more projects, including managing project teams, coordinating with external consultants, and ensuring adherence to project schedules, budgets, and fees. You will be responsible for maintaining high standards of quality and design excellence throughout the project lifecycle. Additionally, you will be accountable for the financial success of the project, ensuring it remains on track and within budget.
If you are a collaborative thought leader with a strategic mindset this might be the position for you. DLR Group is 100% employee owned and as such you’ll enjoy the opportunity to have ownership in the Firm. We rely on all our employee-owners to apply their financial acumen to grow the Firm profitably.
What you will do:
- Support business development by participating in RFQs, RFPs, and client interviews
- Assist in negotiating scopes of services, fees, and preparing agreements with clients and consultants
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, and staffing, adjusting as needed
- Lead and coordinate project teams, consultants, and vendors to meet project goals for scope, quality, budget, and schedule
- Monitor project milestones, deliverables, and ensure submittals meet quality standards
- Communicate project status updates, identify necessary plan adjustments, and propose solutions for client-directed changes
- Provide leadership and performance feedback to the project team while managing recruitment and selection of personnel
- Establish regular communication with clients, keeping them informed on project progress and securing timely approvals
- Ensure design disciplines are engaged and integrated into each project phase, maintaining alignment with client expectations and project goals
- Ensure project compliance with DLR Group’s quality standards and procedures throughout all phases
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Interior Design
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience
- Professional licensure preferred, but not required
- Proficiency in Vantagepoint, Planifi, InDePro, and Microsoft Suite (including Project)
- High proficiency in typical A/E/I/P software
- Strong working knowledge of design techniques, tools, and sustainable design principles for producing technical plans, drawings, and models
- Excellent written, verbal, and graphic communication skills, with the ability to multitask while maintaining quality standards
- Familiarity with local building and zoning codes
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DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.
We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.
DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.
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