Senior Project Manager

CREATE YOUR FUTURE WITH PMA

Curious to stimulate your career growth through meaningful mentorship and thoughtful training? Are you interested in collaboration, working as an integral part of a team to deliver complex real estate projects across the country? Are you diligent, enthusiastic, and eager to work with clients having an impact?  Project Management Advisors, Inc. (PMA) is hiring a Senior Project Manager for our Austin office, to work on on residential development and land development projects of varying size and type. Accelerate both your professional and personal growth by joining our team! 

Our Work and Culture

PMA is a national real estate advisory firm providing consulting services as the owner’s representative, meeting sophisticated real estate needs across a diversity of markets and project types. Recognized among the commercial real estate industry’s top professional services firms, including being named to Engineering News-Record Top Lists for three years in a row, PMA is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, San Diego, and San Francisco.

We know that where you work matters. The people on your team. The culture of the environment. The client and project opportunities. The potential for learning, growth, and evolution. These all impact the quality of your work and the quality of your life. We get it. 

Fit is critical for you and for us. That’s why we’re curious to learn about you and to help you discern if a career with PMA is a good fit for you, your values, and your goals. 

Your Role

As a Senior Project Manager in our Austin, Texas office, you will often serve as the primary interface with PMA clients throughout the region (Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico primarily) and lead the client and project team through a successful process of strategic real estate planning, design and construction of ground-up development, tenant improvement buildouts, and facilities assignments, with a primary focus on residential development. Some of the ways you will support our projects:

•    You have 8+ years of development and project management experience, with at least five years of focus directly on residential development and land development projects of varying size and type, preferably in Texas.
•    You have experience as an Owner’s Representative or Project Manager representing the fiduciary interests of the real estate developer or investor.
•    You are skilled at managing multiple project teams simultaneously and successfully through all phases of the development and construction process.
•    You have been involved with and led master planning, budgeting, pre-construction, schematic design, design development, and construction documents phases, and construction/transition planning to build/project activation.
•    You are knowledgeable with regard to project pro formas, including development budgets, operations (revenues, expenses, cash flows) and resulting financial metrics (return on cost, IRR, etc.).
•    You demonstrate skills in managing successful projects and consistently meeting/exceeding client expectations and deadlines.
•    You thoroughly understand project controls, project management, construction documentation and sequencing.
•    You possess a working knowledge of alternate materials/methods, construction costs, value-engineering techniques and building/occupancy laws and lease requirements.
•    You possess strong organizational, analytical, negotiation and problem-solving skills
•    You show discretion in handing confidential information•
•    You are adept at developing and maintaining long-term relationships with clients and other development, design, and construction-related and business professionals
•    You are able to travel for periodic construction and client meetings, as needed.
•    You will be comfortable engaging in business development within the region approximately 10% of the time.

Your Values and Skills

•    You are a motivated self-starter with a positive attitude.
•    You operate with a high level of personal integrity and business ethics, thriving in a collaborative team environment
•    You have a polished executive presence and excellent verbal and written communication skills
•    Your interpersonal skills are exceptional (i.e., high emotional intelligence)
•    You exercise enthusiasm and curiosity, committed to seeking creative solutions.
•    You practice diligence and discipline to refine options into the optimal result.
•    You exude confidence and courage to cultivate yourself as a leader.
•    You value fairness, understanding it is fundamental to transparency and consensus building.
•    You are an engaging professional and comfortable leading teams and engaging with existing and new clients.

Your Success

The day-to-day experience at PMA promises challenge, collaboration, and growth while our comprehensive benefits create opportunities for you and your family to prosper including:  

•    Being part of a respected company with high-caliber clients and projects.
•    A workplace that is values-based and consciously practices its values every day
•    A culture that respects work/life balance.
•    Competitive salary and bonus program.
•    Formal and informal training, leadership development, mentoring programs, and other opportunities for growth and advancement.
•    Quality benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurances, education reimbursement, and much more.
•    401(k) plan with significant employer match.