Project Manager I - Education
As a Project Manager I, you will lead interdisciplinary teams while building strong client relationships. You will manage project schedules, budgets, and quality, ensuring financial performance while fostering collaboration and trust. With mentorship from a Senior Project Manager, you will gain experience and grow into your role as a leader at Progressive AE.
Deliver Results
- Provide effective leadership by communicating project goals, conducting team meetings, and modeling positive collaboration.
- Prepare, monitor, and control project plans, schedules, and budgets to ensure timely delivery.
- Monitor project scope and implement appropriate measures for changes.
- Oversee quality assurance/quality control processes and ensure project compliance.
- Mentor team members within your area of expertise to foster development and retention.
- Maintain accountability for project profit goals and financial performance.
- Collaborate with the business development team to identify marketing opportunities, create proposals, and establish project scope and budgets.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interiors, landscape architecture, engineering, or a related field.
- CSI-CDT certification (training provided by Progressive Companies for certification within a year). Professional registration in your field preferred.
- 3 or more years of experience in A&E projects with solid working knowledge of A&E standards, processes, and policies.
- Higher Education A&E project market experience preferred.
- Strong understanding of project design and working knowledge of at least one project delivery method.
People Matter
Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.
Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Transforming Spaces. Empowering People.
The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities.
Sustainable and Inclusive
We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.
Employee Owned
We act like owners—because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member.
Culture of Excellence
The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration.
Progressive Companies is committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities.
Other details
- Job Family Project Management
- Job Function Project Manager
- Pay Type Salary
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA