What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Project Manager - Land Development position at LJA 2025?
Title: Sr. Project Manager
Division: Land Development
LJA recognizes that our success depends on the quality of the people we hire. We are currently seeking highly talented individuals that take pride in their work, function exceptionally well in team environments, and contribute to the overall success of the company. As a 100% employee-owned company, we promote an entrepreneurial spirit that helps drive the bottom line and the long-term professional and financial success of our employees. With more than 50 office locations, LJA is growing and ready for talented people to help us build our future.
Summary: Serves as Senior Project Manager with responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing and coordinating engineering projects which have unique or controversial problems and an important effect on major company programs.
General Responsibilities:
- Plans, coordinates and directs a large and important engineering project or a number of smaller projects with many complex features.
- Supervision of engineering and support personnel.
- Analyze project scope, client’s RFP and firm’s proposal. Organize work on project and set procedures in accomplishing project
- Develop and monitor project design schedule to meet client and firm time objectives.
- Develop and monitor client’s budget and schedule.
- Senior Project Manager is both a team leader and a client manager.
- Business development, proposal writing and project management
- Managing less experienced engineers and/or technical support personnel
- Conceptualizing the initial design approach for a major phases of a large project, or have overall responsibility for the engineering work on a project
- Planning, scheduling and conducting or coordinating engineering projects involving conventional engineering practices as well as projects that includes a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements
- Exercises judgment in the independent evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures and criteria.
Required Education/Licenses:
- Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering
- Licensed Professional Engineer
Required Experience:
- 10 years of post-graduate experience or master’s degree and 2-3 years of post-Master’s experience.
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to build strong relationships
