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Project Manager - Capital Improvement Projects

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

McAdams is a full-service land planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, transportation, and geomatics firm located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Florida. We seek to partner with our clients to create meaningful experiences through inspired design. Our employees are what make McAdams different. We bring experiences to the forefront of everything we do, and to do that takes special people.

Position Overview

To grow key relationships for stormwater projects within the RDU Triangle area for new and existing clients. To develop and execute stormwater projects including technical, financial, approvals, and permitting issues while  exceeding client expectations. To manage and mentor assigned staff across McAdams’s office locations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead a production team, provide resource management, resolve complex technical problems, coach, train, and mentor design and CAD professionals, and work collaboratively with all team members on all aspects of project execution. Coordinate and oversee resource scheduling to ensure workload and deadlines are managed effectively
  • Establish, promote, and ensure quality on all projects and work performed by group staff
  • Develop proposals or contracts that ensure the contract scope is adequate for the project, provide the desired level of profitability, and ensure that the project schedule is viable
  • Understand business initiatives and concerns of current and prospective clients to recognize and promote new opportunities and cross-sell other services provided by the firm
  • Assist in the development of short-term and long-term strategic market sector plans, with focus in the Raleigh/Durham market
  • Responsible for the profitable operation of the Raleigh/Durham Water Resources group

Skills + Experience

  • Four-year college degree (B.S.)
  • PE required
  • 7+ years of related experience and/or training
  • Highly motivated to develop the Water Resources sector within the relevant markets
  • Possess technical expertise in site civil engineering as it applies to stormwater and natural resources
  • Demonstrated leadership abilities with the ability to carry a project through the design process independently and within a team framework
  • Demonstrated ability to independently manage and grow key relationships
  • Proven knowledge of budget impacts and profit and revenue expectations


Work Environment + Physical Demands

  • The characteristics described below are representative of those encountered while performing the essential functions of this position. When properly requested and when feasible (without undue hardship to the company), reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
  • Work will primarily be in an office setting with limited opportunities to be exposed to adverse environmental conditions.
  • Work will be primarily working with fingers by picking, pinching, typing, and grasping often with repetitive motion. 
  • Must have visual acuity for viewing a computer screen, the ability to talk, hear and sit for extended periods of time.
  • Must be able to carry, lift and push/pull up to 5 pounds frequently and up to 30 pounds occasionally. 
  • Additional physical duties may be required as necessary.

McAdams is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran's status, or any other legally protected status.

If you need assistance with our online application system process, please contact the Human Resources Team at 919.361.5000 or hrteam@mcadamsco.com. 

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