Senior Project Manager

at Cannon Design in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

CannonDesign has an exciting opportunity for Senior Project Managers based in Chicago, St. Louis or Minneapolis, MN. Look at the description below. If you think your skills and experience, make you a good match for this position, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for creative, curious, empathetic people to join our Living-Centered Design movement.

ABOUT OUR FIRM
CannonDesign is an integrated design solutions firm focused on helping people continuously flourish. Whether designing for innovations in health, new scientific discoveries, equity in education or the next big idea in business, we use our Living-Centered Design approach to help organizations realize widespread change. Our ability to design transformational places, plans and strategies is why Fast Company named us a World Changing Company and one of the most innovative design firms in the world.

ABOUT THE ROLE
This role is focused on providing project management within an office or market and team leadership, mentoring our people, advancing the quality of our work, integrating our range of design services, managing our processes, and delivering solid financial performance.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Lead, develop and nurture a successful partnering relationship with our clients which will lead to future opportunities for CannonDesign.
Develop and maintain positive client relations throughout the life of the project. Communicate design, construction, and other issues to clients in a clear and compelling way.
Develop a Partnering relationship with the client early in an engagement to establish shared expectations and provide clarity on how we will work together, the involvement of key stakeholders, and the timing of key decisions.
Ensure appropriate client and internal communication including written project documentation.
Play a lead role in key meetings and presentations.
Participate in Business Development activity and partner with Marketing and Office Leadership as needed to help grow top line.
Understand our contractual obligations to the client and the project to ensure that the team delivers on expectations for our scope of work and required services. Work proactively with the client to identify and obtain approvals for additions to scope of work or services prior to undertaking the work. Proactively communicate with and influence clients to approve and process payables for our services.
Lead multi-disciplinary project teams, in conjunction with the client leadership, to develop project goals and work plans, and achieve quality, budget, schedule, innovation and profitability objectives.
Facilitate the development, evolution and management of the work plan, budget, and schedule. Preferred tools include MS Project and Deltek Project Planning.
Manage design and documentation process and implementation of the design during the construction process.
Accountable to maintain the project record, includes but not limited to capture and documenting key decisions and records within the CannonDesign standard file structure.
Accountable for Risk mitigation and Compliance.
Accountable for developing a risk management plan and managing project Risks.
Collaborate effectively with all team members. Generate and support a positive team environment: participation, empowerment, and accomplishment.
Implement CannonDesign Method using process expectations, best practices, reference standards, tools, templates, and technology to achieve competitive advantage, superior service delivery and quality, and enhanced team productivity and profitability.
Manage and coordinate workload of team and provide leadership of team activities. Communicate client objectives to team members in a clear and compelling way. Provide constructive feedback and mentoring to team members. Identify and share lessons learned with teams.
Be a proactive resource to project teams in their decision-making processes and in the development of technically sound and innovative planning and design solutions.
Meet with project team members on a regular basis to monitor work in progress and to assure that the firm's best practice standards and procedures are being implemented.
Responsible for ensuring that all statutory requirements for the project are achieved.
Accountable for the QA/QC process. Monitor the technical quality of the projects. Enforce the application of QA/QC process standards... For full info follow application link.

CannonDesign recognizes the value of diversity in our workforce. We are committed to equal opportunity. We consider all qualified employment applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, partnership status, protected veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Individuals who hold legal work authorization applicable to employment at CannonDesign in the United States will be considered without regard to citizenship/alienage.