Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

MBS is hiring a Project Manager. This position is in Cincinnati, OH, full-time, direct hire opportunity.

FULL JOB DESCRIPTION

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• The Project Manager is a self-motivated professional with a passion for leading collaborative project design teams, while making sound judgments without direction from others to successfully complete projects. The Project Manager presents an image of a servant leader – humble and authoritative. May represent firm in interviews, client interface, internal and external charettes, marketing efforts and some speaking engagements.
• Ability and strong desire to work collaboratively with the design team, client, and user groups to successfully resolve design, sustainability, and business concerns with technical solutions.
• Fully understands the project scope of work and gets clarification from the client to ensure that the scope of the contract is clearly understood by all parties.
• Develops fee proposals and contracts that ensure that the client’s needs are met, and the services offered are clearly understood for the compensation requested. Involve project team members in developing fees and have proposal / contracts reviewed by another project manager or market leader.
• Ability to professionally represent the company and our clients in ways that are responsive to their sensitivities while adhering to our values.
• Develops project plans (schedules, staffing and other resources including consultants) that meet the client and company expectations and needs, are developed in collaboration with other project managers and market leaders to ensure staff availability and capability.
• Execute client and consultant contracts in a timely manner and maintain / manage executed contracts, contract mods and schedule of values on the server and in project management software.
• Develops and maintains the project design budgets to help ensure that projects are completed successfully and generate the targeted profit while meeting the project schedule and client needs and expectations.
• Manage invoicing to clients and from consultants ensuring appropriate percentages and amounts are being billed and accurately reflect the stage of completion.
• Maintain project schedules and plans in project management software. Ensure staff are billing their hours to the correct phases and have a strategy for documenting time that is deemed outside of current contractual scope.
• Communicates frequently and clearly to the design team regarding the project schedule, key design coordination issues that need to be resolved and design deliverables.
• Assists the project design team in collecting the information required to address the project design requirements.
• Communicates with the client immediately when issues arise that create a need to deviate from the project plan – scope, schedule and / or budget. Including additional design efforts required, scope elements added to the project (by the client or others), impacts to the design delivery schedule for any reason, construction cost estimates exceeding client budgets, and others. Provides direction to the design team regarding way forward considering these new developments.
• Maintains a record of communications between the design team and the client. Develops project documentation or collects from others for the project file history meeting minutes, phone memos, letters or emails and any other correspondence which record the history and development of the project.
• Develops the Project Data Sheet that includes complete information required to maintain the firm’s project record, develop data for future marketing efforts and collects data as required for input of the project into the accounting software system.
• Inputs and maintains data in the project accounting system to include as applicable and appropriate project phases, budget staff hours, anticipated expenses, consultant fees and the anticipated distribution of those staff hours over project design schedule.
• Documents and manages projects per the standards established by the company.
• Understands and assists the design team incorporating high levels of sustainability and wellness into the project designs.
• Ability to professionally represent our company and our clients in ways that are responsive to our client’s sensitivities.
• Provide guidance and instruction to staff members to increase their skills.
• Engage in social, team building activities to build company’s culture.
• Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously as required by their Market Leader.
• Follow through on personal and team goals; overcome challenges and obstacles, manage conflict resolutions and accept responsibility and accountability for project outcomes.
• Successfully manage meetings of diverse participants to include design team members, client leadership, facility users and operators, community representatives and members of the general public.
• Completes the Project Data Sheet as a part of the project closeout process to ensure that all data is accurate and complete, written for use by the marketing personnel without further explanation and clarification, all documentation and performance evaluation documentation is complete.
• Participate in interviews and engage in client meetings as required.
• Ability to represent the firm in discussions regarding project pursuits

REQUIREMENTS

ABOUT THE KABLE GROUP

For over 50 years, The Kable Group has been committed to connecting candidates looking for reliable work opportunities with companies in need of workforce solutions. We leverage our expertise in core industries to ensure that the needs of our clients and our candidates alike are satisfied. Whether it’s a professional position, skilled labor need, or an education opportunity, The Kable Group’s suite of solutions caters to finding the right fit, every time.

At the Kable Group, we do not just accept diversity — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it. Read our full diversity statement here.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive and the employee will also perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and other management as required.