The Building People, LLC, has a position open for a full-time Senior Professional Project Manager specializing in Workplace Strategy, and active Top Secret Clearance for a facilities engineering program to support a federal Agency. Purpose of this position is to manage and lead a staff responsible for individual, multi-disciplined real estate project solutions for clients, with direct accountability for project delivery. The general responsibilities of the Professional Project Manager – Senior Level are as follows, to include but not limited to:

• Manages all facets of facilities project management (budget, schedule, procurement, quality & risk) for individual real estate projects including planning, design, construction, occupancy, and closeout.

• Demonstrates capability to read, understand and apply standard to complex documents affecting real estate projects, including but not limited to: agreements/contracts, leases, work letters, project charters, surveys, and drawings.

• Interfaces directly with clients to define project requirements. Prepares scope of work, project delivery resource requirements, cost estimate & budget, cash flow, work plan schedule & milestones, quality control, and risk identification.

• Identifies project delivery resources from pre-qualified lists or through individual project qualification process; conducts standard to complex request for proposals; completes bid analysis; leads evaluation interviews, recommends resources to clients.

• Leads project delivery resources/team (typically larger more experienced team) providing project guidance and direction to achieve project goals.

• Implements communication plan for meetings and written reports/meeting minutes to keep client and project resources informed. Facilitates project meetings.

• Implement project documentation governance aligned with company and client requirements. Ensure project data integrity and documentation is accurate, timely and coordinated.

• Tracks progress of each project against goals, objectives, approved budgets, approved timelines. Reports status and variances. Creates action plans to meet objectives, budget, and schedule.

• Implements change management routines to assess change requests, make recommendations, secure client approvals, and issue change orders. Assesses change requests to determine impacts to scope, budget, schedule, quality, and risk.

• Demonstrates ability to identify complex project risks, lead constructability reviews, develop risk mitigation and contingency plans, and implement action plans to reduce or eliminate project risks.

• Demonstrates knowledge of projects & project management within the context of business results (business case, larger economic implications, business risk, etc.).

• Other duties as assigned.

• Plans and monitors appropriate staffing levels and utilization of labor, including overtime.

• Manages project delivery resources/team (typically larger more experienced team).

• Responsible for identifying training needs, tracking performance, coaching, and motivating team members.

Qualifications and Education Required:

• Active Top Secret Clearance.

• Manages, leads, and execute the delivery of portfolio plans, occupancy strategies, and work environment solutions.

• Serves as primary interface with Business Division(s) and client disciplines to understand business direction and changing workplace needs.

• Applies knowledge to forecast space requirements and develops space needs based against business and market conditions.

• Develops executable plans to support the business needs, corporate objectives, and initiatives.

• Identifies, analyzes, and applies related data in regard to the creation and execution of physical or virtual space solutions.

• Produces visual display of quantitative and qualitative information.

• Illustrates organizational, operational, and functional relationships that pose physical and spatial impacts.

• Generates conceptual solutions that respond to client’s spatial requirements, physical planning constraints, and corresponding IT, HR, and compliance requirements.

• Develops, maintains, and provides reports, including agreed upon critical success factors on measures of work environment efficiency, effectiveness, and expression

• Attends Client meetings, draft meeting minutes and obtain approvals to proceed when required.

• Conduct interviews and discussions with the client to gather, coordinate, and synthesize project requirements, functional, and operational issues.

• Develops project-level and portfolio-level solutions based on interpretation of the program data and preparation of recommendations. Validates all program data.

• Prepares migration/origination plans, schematic schedules, stack, and block fit plans.