Land and Site Development Project Manager

Atlanta, GA

The Company

Our client is a civil engineering firm based in the Atlanta area that has been providing quality, reliability, and expertise in land development for over 55 years.

The Job

Our client is seeking a Land and Site Development Project Manager that has a good mix of both public and private sector projects. This is a senior level client services role and this person will be responsible for organizing, leading, and managing junior-level staff to produce quality plans that clients and their contractors can use for development

Functions:

• Plan, organize, and lead the assigned staff's daily engineering activities to accomplish client project tasks. Identify and manage priorities of assigned staff to meet client, team, and corporate goals.
• May function in a leadership position concerning actual accomplishment of tasks and/or may function as technical consultant to other team members.
• Function as a contact point for the client concerning the engineering aspects of his/her project, including conflict resolution. Facilitate good communications among the client, all departments and team groups and applicable governing bodies.
• With the Team Leader, attend and participate in initial client meetings regarding new project proposals as well as new project kickoffs to ensure a clear understanding of the complete project in order to be able to effectively contribute to the preparation of proposals and facilitate the proper completion of assigned tasks.
• Assist Team Leader in preparing proposals for clients, including a clear and complete scope of work, pricing, time schedule and resource requirements.
• Review and approve a) the technical approach to project tasks and b) intermediate & finished work product to ensure that they meet the objectives of client while adhering to local, state and federal laws. Also ensure compliance with company quality assurance/control standards.
• Review the research and data necessary for the design of the project, such as zoning conditions, latest design standards, existing utility information, environmental issues, topo, etc.
• Coordinate with applicable government agencies and attend meetings as appropriate to assure that client projects comply with agency regulations and are approved by them.
• Ensure that additional work requested by the client that is outside the scope of the original contract is identified and that change orders are issued and approved by the client before this additional work is done.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering with 8-plus years of experience with civil engineering design in land & site development.
• Professional Engineers’ (P.E.) License in the State of Georgia
• Required sufficient knowledge of CAD software