Reference: JOB451
Location: Houston, TX
Employer: WHR Architects
Contact: Kimi Duplichan

Position Summary
The Healthcare Project Manager will represent WHR to a client. He/she will be responsible for managing the client’s expectation and experience and the overall performance of the A/E team on large scale projects. He/she could be involved in business development for the studio.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in architecture
  • Must be licensed as an architect and qualified to be licensed in multiple states
  • Must have a minimum of 8 years experience in project delivery

Competencies and Skills

  • Possesses good analytical thinking skills with a strategic orientation
  • Is a conceptual thinker
  • Is adaptable and objective with good negotiation skills
  • Can confront peers, subordinates, consultants, contractors and clients constructively
  • Has excellent team management and client management skills
  • Has good technical knowledge
  • Has initiative
  • Understands and works well within WHR’s organizational structure
  • Holds people accountable
  • Demonstrates leadership that align with the firm’s values
  • Has excellent oral communication and writing skills
  • Has an excellent grasp of fundamentals and knowledge of theoretical and practical developments in the field
  • Has a working knowledge of Deltek Vision, Outlook, Microsoft Project, Excel and Word software
  • Possesses skill to generate and maintain a work plan
  • Excellent time management skills

Responsibilities

  • Provides overall management of A/E team(s), delegating project tasks as required
  • Develops and maintains project work plans
  • Develops and maintains contractual agreements
  • Insures budget and schedule compliance
  • Overall responsibility for consultant activities
  • Reviews time sheet edits and project invoicing
  • Assembles and maintains the project delivery handbook
  • Serve as single point of contact with the client, managing the clients expectations and experience
  • Chairs client meetings
  • Prepares reports indicating project(s) progress
  • Responsible for staff performance appraisals
  • Mentors junior staff
  • Continue education through seminars and participation in professional organization activities
  • May participate in business development opportunities for the firm including assisting in responses to RFPs, making project presentations, calling on prospects, networking, writing articles and participating in professional seminars

Supervised by: Studio Leader

Responsible for: All staff assigned to their project

WHR, based in Houston, Texas, with additional offices in Dallas and Copenhagen, Denmark, is a full-service architecture and interior design firm, currently ranked No. 1 in healthcare renovation and the 13th largest healthcare practice in the United States. The firm’s commitment to critical thinking is balanced by an ingrained empathy that results in both improved project outcomes and positive working experiences for their clients. With over 170 people firm-wide, the 35-year-old firm is working on projects worldwide for top-­tier public and private education and medical institutions. WHR is one of EYP’s practice groups. For more information about WHR Architects, visit http://www.whrarchitects.com.

WHR Architects, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company does not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices including hiring, transferring, promotion and termination on the basis of race, sex, age, handicap, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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