🕒 3 days ago
Leads mixed-use architecture projects from inception through completion, overseeing design quality, schedules, budgets, contracts, construction administration, client relationships, and project teams as Architect of Record.
Project Lead/Senior Project Manager - Architect
📅 Apr 15
Architectural Project ManagementConstruction AdministrationClient Relationship ManagementProject Scope And Schedule Management
📜 Description
- Lead architectural projects from contract through construction and serve as the primary client contact.
- Manage project scope, schedules, fees, staffing plans, and profitability.
- Guide and mentor teams of architects and designers.
- Coordinate engineering and specialty consultants and oversee construction administration, including RFIs, submittals, site visits, and field reports.
- Draft and manage professional services agreements and standard AIA contracts; facilitate meetings and track follow-through.
- Help refine project delivery workflows and tools.
🛠️ Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Architecture; licensure preferred.
- Approximately 8–10+ years of architectural project experience, including at least 5 years in project management or project leadership.
- Experience leading projects through construction administration; K–12 education or community-focused project experience preferred, with bond work a plus.
- Understanding of project delivery, A/E fee structures, staffing, and project financials.
- Familiarity with Bluebeam, Google Workspace, and project planning or tracking software such as Monograph.
- Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
✨ Benefits
- Lead architectural projects from contract through construction, acting as the main point of contact for clients and representing the firm’s process and values.
- Own project scope, schedule, and fees, including staffing plans and overall project profitability.
- Guide and mentor project teams of architects and designers, providing direction while staying close to the work.
- Coordinate with engineering and specialty consultants, ensuring alignment between internal teams and external partners.
- Oversee construction administration activities, including RFIs, submittals, site visits, and field reports.
- Draft and manage professional services agreements and standard AIA contracts.
- Facilitate internal and external meetings—setting agendas, documenting decisions, and driving follow-through.
- Support and help refine project delivery workflows and tools as the firm continues to grow.
Full job description
Project Lead / Senior Project Manager - Grand Rapids, MI (hybrid)
DISHER is partnering with a growing, design-forward architecture firm in Grand Rapids that specializes in education and community-focused projects in their search for a Project Lead / Senior Project Manager. This firm is about five years old and combines a startup feel with solid systems and processes. This role leads projects from contract through construction, serving as the primary client contact and internal project leader, while working closely with a tight-knit team of architects and designers.
What it's like to work here:
This is a smaller studio with most of the team in Grand Rapids and a highly collaborative, open-studio environment. The work is heavily rooted in K–12 and private education, with additional projects in healthcare, nonprofit, municipal, and mixed-use spaces. The culture is casual, social, and very people-centered. Leadership is intentional about planning workloads to avoid chronic overtime, and project leaders have a real voice in how work gets done and how processes evolve.
What you'll get to do:
What will make you successful:
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