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BRPH

Project Manager

LocationCharleston, South Carolina, United States
Work modeon-site
Typefull-time
DepartmentProject Management
Company size51+ people
First seen1w ago
Last seen3d ago
About the company
BRPH is a technically focused, creative architecture, engineering, and construction company with over six decades of expertise in helping mission-driven clients in the aerospace, defense, manufacturing, commercial, education, entertainment, hospitality, and federal markets identify gaps in their program delivery and develop innovative solutions to their most challenging problems across the U.S. and around the world. Consistently ranked among the nation’s top firms, we take pride in solving complex challenges with forward-thinking solutions.
About Charleston:
Our Charleston office serves as BRPH’s Southeastern gateway to the growing markets of Charleston, the surrounding region, and beyond. Our multidisciplinary team delivers architecture, engineering, interior design, and construction services across a broad range of markets: aerospace and defense, manufacturing, commercial/industrial, education, aviation, and mission-critical facilities. Our team thrives on collaboration, creativity, and technical rigor.
SUMMARY:
BRPH is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support our Manufacturing & Industrial market sector in our Charleston, South Carolina office. This role is focused on the successful management and delivery of complex, multidisciplinary architecture and engineering projects. The ideal candidate may come from an architecture or engineering background and will lead project teams with primary responsibility for client service, scope, schedule, budget, forecasting, contracts, change management, quality, risk, and overall project performance.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Leads multidisciplinary architecture and engineering projects from pursuit and kickoff through design, permitting, construction administration, and closeout, with primary accountability for overall project performance.
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Serves as the primary client point of contact for assigned projects; manages expectations, communications, decisions, commitments, and overall client satisfaction.
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Develops and maintains project execution plans, scopes of work, responsibility matrices, work plans, staffing plans, deliverable schedules, and milestone strategies aligned with contractual requirements and client objectives.
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Owns project financial performance, including fee and labor budgets, burn-rate monitoring, percent-complete evaluation, cost-to-complete, revenue projections, profitability, and overall budget compliance.
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Prepares and maintains project forecasts and financial status reporting; identifies budget or performance variances early and develops corrective action plans with project and discipline leadership.
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Manages prime contract requirements and subconsultant agreements, including scope, deliverables, schedule obligations, invoicing, and team responsibilities.
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Leads project change management by identifying scope growth and out-of-scope requests, evaluating schedule and fee impacts, preparing amendments/change orders, and obtaining appropriate authorization before additional work proceeds.
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Develops and manages project schedules, tracks critical milestones and dependencies, evaluates impacts to the baseline plan, and leads recovery planning when project performance deviates from the approved schedule.
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Coordinates multidisciplinary project teams, including architecture, structural, civil, MEP, interiors, BIM/VDC, and specialty consultants, to establish clear responsibilities, interfaces, priorities, and deliverables.
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Plans and facilitates internal, client, and design coordination meetings; establishes agendas, documents decisions and action items, and drives timely closure of open issues.
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Proactively identifies and manages project risks and opportunities, including schedule, financial, contractual, staffing, technical coordination, and client-related risks; escalates significant issues when appropriate.
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Leads project quality management planning and implementation, including required QA/QC reviews, interdisciplinary coordination, deliverable readiness, and compliance with BRPH quality standards and contractual requirements.
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Coordinates closely with discipline leads and Engineers/Architects of Record to ensure technical decisions are made by the appropriate licensed professionals while maintaining overall project integration and delivery accountability.
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Manages subconsultant performance, including scope, fee, schedule, staffing, deliverable quality, invoicing, and resolution of performance issues.
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Leads and manages construction-phase services as applicable, including RFI and submittal response workflows, field observations, design clarifications, change coordination, closeout activities, and associated CA budget and schedule performance.
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Monitors and communicates overall project status to clients and BRPH leadership, including schedule, budget, forecast, staffing, risks, decisions, change management, and key action items.
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Supports proposal development and contract negotiations by preparing project scopes, schedules, staffing plans, fee estimates, subconsultant strategies, assumptions, and risk considerations.
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Understands and manages projects delivered through a variety of contractual and delivery methods, including Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, CMAR, and other collaborative delivery approaches.
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Plans project resources and forecasts workload in coordination with discipline and office leadership to support project commitments and efficient staff utilization across multiple concurrent projects.
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Provides leadership and mentorship to project teams, promotes accountability and collaboration, and establishes clear expectations for communication, schedule, quality, and performance.
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Visits project and construction sites as needed to understand field conditions, monitor progress, support constructability and coordination, and maintain alignment between design and construction activities.
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Is proficient with project-management tools such as Microsoft Excel, Project, Word, Bluebeam, and Newforma, Revit, Navisworks, and BIM 360/Autodesk Construction Cloud
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
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Bachelor’s degree in architecture or engineering from an accredited four-year college or university
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Minimum of eight years of progressive experience in architecture, engineering, or design/construction project delivery, including demonstrated responsibility managing multidisciplinary design projects.
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Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedules, fee budgets, forecasting, contracts, change orders, quality, risk, multidisciplinary teams, and client communications.
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Experience managing complex Manufacturing & Industrial, aerospace, defense, advanced manufacturing, or commercial/industrial projects is preferred
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PMP Certification a plus
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Must be a US Citizen or a Permanent Resident
CERTIFICATE, LICENCES, REGISTRATIONS:
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Professional licensure as a Registered Architect (RA) or Professional Engineer (PE) is preferred.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
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The work is semi-sedentary work and requires the ability to lift up to 20 pounds
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Manual dexterity, hearing, mental acuity, typing, reaching, repetitive motion, speaking, talking, and visual acuity.
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Ability to navigate and move around the construction site, which may involve walking, climbing ladders, and standing for extended periods on uneven surfaces.
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Ability to operate a motor vehicles
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Ability to stand and sit for periods longer than 30 minutes but not to exceed two hours consecutively
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Ability to control behavior when encountering stressful situations or short deadlines and to maintain a high level of concentration.
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Ability to print and draw letters, numbers, words, characters, and symbols that are legible and understood by others.
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Ability to learn complex tasks and remember how to complete tasks without assistance once trained.
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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This job description may be changed to include new responsibilities and tasks or change existing ones as management deems necessary.
This job description may be changed to include new responsibilities and tasks or change existing ones as management deems necessary.
EOE, including Disability/Vets
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