Senior Project Manager - Lifestyle
Make an Impact
As a Senior Project Manager - Lifestyle, you will lead multidisciplinary teams, collaborate across departments, and guide projects to completion within established quality, budget, and schedule constraints. You will also play a key role in mentoring other professionals, ensuring that best practices and Progressive Company processes are consistently followed. Your expertise will be instrumental in managing complex projects while maintaining exceptional client relationships and high performance.
Deliver Results
- Lead teams to effectively plan and execute project deliverables.
- Own the project scope, schedule, and budget, ensuring successful completion.
- Establish and maintain project delivery teams, coordinating in-house and consultant services.
- Mentor team members in project management, communication techniques, and setting goals.
- Monitor project scope changes and ensure timely communication within the team.
- Manage and control project finances, including profit goals and budgetary oversight.
- Actively participate in business development, marketing, and contract negotiations.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interiors, landscape architecture, or engineering
- Professional registration required. CSI-CDT certification required (or obtained within a year).
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in architecture, engineering, or construction project management.
- Advanced knowledge of A&E project standards, processes, and delivery methods.
- Strong leadership and communication skills with proven ability to manage complex projects.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite; experience with Deltek Vision and Project Planning preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a relevant field or business administration/project management.
- Additional certifications (PSMJ, PMI) preferred.
- Experience in a related professional services firm is a plus.
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
- 1811 4 Mile Rd NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525, USA
- 330 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202, USA