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Project Director

Project Management Advisors
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 2/18/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/18/2025

Project Management Advisors, Inc. (PMA) is a national real estate advisory firm providing consulting services as the owner's representative, including development management, project management, program management and investor representation. Recognized among the commercial real estate industry's top professional services firms, including being named to Engineering News-Record top CM firms for the past four years in a row, we partner with our clients as their unbiased advocate to provide leadership and strategic guidance for increasingly sophisticated real estate needs and challenges, minimizing risk while maximizing outcomes.

CREATE YOUR FUTURE WITH PMA

Curious to stimulate your career growth through meaningful mentorship and thoughtful training? Are you interested in collaboration, working as an integral part of a team to deliver complex real estate projects across the country? Are you diligent, enthusiastic, and eager to work with clients having an impact?

Project Management Advisors, Inc. (PMA) is hiring a Senior Project Manager for our Austin office, to work on Technology, Mission Critical, and Life Sciences projects. Accelerate both your professional and personal growth by joining our team!

Our Work and Culture

PMA is a national real estate advisory firm providing consulting services as the owner's representative, meeting sophisticated real estate needs across a diversity of markets and project types. Recognized among the commercial real estate industry's top professional services firms, including being named to Engineering News-Record Top Lists for three years in a row, PMA is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, San Diego, and San Francisco.

We know that where you work matters. The people on your team. The culture of the environment. The client and project opportunities. The potential for learning, growth, and evolution. These all impact the quality of your work and the quality of your life. We get it.

Fit is critical for you and for us. That's why we're curious to learn about you and to help you discern if a career with PMA is a good fit for you, your values, and your goals.

Your Role

As a Project Director, you will often serve as the primary interface with PMA clients and lead the client and project team through a successful process of strategic real estate planning, design and construction of new buildings, tenant improvement buildouts, and facilities assignments. Some of the ways you will support our projects :

  • You have 15 years of development and project management experience,with at least five years of focus directly on technology, mission-critical and / or manufacturing projects.
  • You have experience as an Owner's Representative or Project Manager representing the fiduciary interests of the real estate developer or investor.
  • You are skilled at managing project teams successfully through all phases of the development and construction process.
  • You have been involved with and led master planning, budgeting, pre-construction, schematic design, design development, and construction documents phases, and construction / transition planning to build / project activation.
  • You are knowledgeable with regard to project pro form as, including development budgets, operations (revenues, expenses, cash flows) and resulting financial metrics (return on cost, IRR, etc.).
  • You demonstrate skills in managing successful projects and consistently meeting / exceeding client expectations and deadlines.
  • You thoroughly understand project controls, project management, construction documentation and sequencing.
  • You possess a working knowledge of alternate materials / methods, construction costs, value-engineering techniques and building / occupancy laws and lease requirements.
  • You possess strong organizational, analytical, negotiation and problem-solving skills
  • You show discretion in handing confidential information
  • You are adept at developing and maintaining long-term relationships with clients and other development, design, and construction-related and business professionals

Your Values and Skills

  • You are a motivated self-starter with a positive attitude.
  • You operate with a high level of personal integrity and business ethics, thriving in a collaborative team environment
  • You have a polished executive presence and excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Your interpersonal skills are exceptional (i.e., high emotional intelligence)
  • You exercise enthusiasm and curiosity, committed to seeking creative solutions.
  • You practice diligence and discipline to refine options into the optimal result.
  • You exude confidence and courage to cultivate yourself as a leader.
  • You value fairness, understanding it is fundamental to transparency and consensus building.
  • Your Success

    The day-to-day experience at PMA promises challenge, collaboration, and growth while our comprehensive benefits create opportunities for you and your family to prosper including :

  • Being part of a respected company with high-caliber clients and projects.
  • A workplace that is values-based and consciously practices its values every day
  • A culture that respects work / life balance.
  • Competitive salary and bonus program.
  • Formal and informal training, leadership development, mentoring programs, and other opportunities for growth and advancement.
  • Quality benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurances, education reimbursement, and much more.
  • 401(k) plan with employer match.

    PMA is comprised of over 150 project professionals experienced and licensed in nearly every aspect of the real estate industry with multi-disciplined backgrounds that are heavily rooted in the built environment, including architecture, development, asset management, brokerage, construction, engineering, finance, and urban planning. Our local market knowledge and ability to leverage broad and diverse experience across a national portfolio of projects is unmatched in the industry, including assignments in civic, cultural, education, healthcare, hospitality, industrial, life sciences, multi-family residential, office and retail.

    PMA is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, San Diego and San Francisco, delivering expertise to a broad range of clients from developers to institutional investors based on 30 years of practical experience, allowing our teams to consistently anticipate issues, understand potential impacts and provide proactive solutions.

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