Project Manager

INSPIRED.COMMITTED.CONNECTED.

These are the qualities of our work—and of the people who do it. If these qualities are part of your life, too, you’ll want to explore a career at EKFox.

As part of our creative, can-do team, you’ll have the chance to realize your full potential through a wide range of challenging engineering assignments. You can take pride in helping us to design for future generations, working to enrich America’s security—at home and abroad—and spearheading exciting new directions in sustainability and energy efficiency.

EKFox is an experienced team of talented, motivated individuals who share a passion for solving problems and improving the built environment. We continue to strengthen our commitment to provide a work environment and culture that stimulates creativity, values integrity and encourages professional growth.

Position Summary

The Project Manager’s primary role is to manage various types of engineering design projects and serve as the design team lead when interfacing with customers. The Project Manager will work side by side the design team with a constant eye toward managing scope and budget.

• Project Identification and Initiation
  • Establish project teams and complete project initiation documents: Scope of Work, PSBS, Budget, and Storyboard for project.
  • Coordinate with Finance & Accounting ahead of project kick-off to ensure contract is set-up correctly in Costpoint for billing and compliance purposes.
  • Conducts project Kick-Off meeting with team members to ensure distribution of project information including Scope of Work, Deliverables, Schedule, Budget Hours, etc.
  • Responsible for appropriately mapping out project scope and appropriate staff resources to complete project.
  • Executes contractual agreements with clients in accordance with EKFox guidelines.
  • Overall responsibility for resource planning, cost estimating, cost budgeting and cost control of projects.
  • Responsible for coordinating communication and managing expectations internally and externally.

• Project Execution
  • Primary responsibility for all technical, schedule, and cost/budget responsibility for projects assigned.
  • Manages and controls potential project scope changes.
  • Leads and manages project team through the entire project completion.
  • Ensures all members of project team are appropriately utilized throughout project.
  • Maintains value-added communication with client with respect to status and milestones.
  • Keeps project status reporting system current with actions and changes that take place on assigned projects.
  • Takes ownership of project quality and coordinating quality control (QC) efforts in accordance with EKFox guidelines.
  • Through appropriate project pricing, budgeting, resource utilization and cost controls, maximize the profit margin of each project.
  • Conduct post-mortem review on all projects to determine client satisfaction, financial performance, staffing utilization, skill gaps, lessons learned.

• Account Management
  • In interfacing with potential or existing clients, listen for and seek out new projects that may exist or are being formulated.
  • Meet regularly with clients to discuss current projects, evaluate firm performance, and identify other business opportunities either with current clients or through referrals.
  • Identify opportunities to grow client relationships based on EKFox portfolio of services.

• Business/Fiscal Management
  • Judicious monitoring of invoicing requirements and prompt follow-up with Finance & Accounting and clients.
  • Responsible for updating the project status report (PSR) to ensure smooth coordination between project completion, invoicing, and collection.
  • Overall responsibility for Accounts Receivable objectives in accordance with EKFox guidelines.
  • Ensures appropriate job cost reporting in conjunction with auditing project team timesheets.
  • Ensures that all Project files are accurate, complete, and archived properly.
  • Ensures that all the subcontractors utilized on a project sign subcontractor agreements in accordance with EKFox policy.