Project Manager II - Automotive
Make an Impact
As the Project Manager II, you are responsible for leading interdisciplinary teams to achieve project goals while managing client relationships. You will ensure that projects are delivered within established quality, budget, and schedule constraints. You will collaborate with various departments to maintain organized teamwork and consistent project success following best practices and processes.
Deliver Results
- Lead project startup, including managing budgets, schedules, and team meetings.
- Prepare and execute detailed project plans to guide successful project outcomes.
- Monitor changes in project scope and alert the team to maintain project integrity.
- Mentor team members and support staff development through guidance and performance planning.
- Oversee QA/QC milestones to ensure project compliance with standards.
- Plan, monitor, and control technical costs, ensuring profitability.
- Serve the client's best interest, maintaining strong relationships and a focus on success.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's degree in architecture, interiors, landscape architecture, or engineering (Master’s degree preferred).
- Licensure: CSI-CDT certification (training provided for certification within a year), professional registration in your field, PSMJ/PMI certification preferred.
- Experience: Minimum of eight years of experience with AE projects, preferably in architecture, engineering, or related professional services.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), with preferred experience in Project, SharePoint, Teams, Deltek Vision, and Project Planning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Additional Experience: Strong working knowledge of AE work standards, policies, and at least one project delivery method (multiple preferred).
- Leadership: Demonstrated experience in effective team leadership, communication, and project execution.
People Matter
Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.
Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Transforming Spaces. Empowering People.
The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities.
Sustainable and Inclusive
We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.
Employee Owned
We act like owners—because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member.
Culture of Excellence
The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration.
Progressive Companies is committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities.
Other details
- Job Family Project Management
- Job Function Project Manager
- Pay Type Salary
- Required Education Bachelor’s Degree
- 330 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202, USA