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# Senior Project Manager - Architecture

- **Company:** HDR, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $144,144.0 - $170,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=548d428d96d42d01

## About the Role

* Master's degree in Architecture
 * Experience in the areas of healthcare, higher education, laboratories, or federal facilities
 * Experience and/or interest in sustainable design/LEED
 * PMP certification

Note: This Senior Project Manager- Architecture role may be aligned with either our Healthcare, Education & Science, or Federal groups. We welcome candidates with experience in either market, and the position is structured to support strong architectural talent across a range of backgrounds., * Bachelor's degree in Architecture

 * 10 years related experience
 * A minimum 5 years project management experience
 * Registered Architect
 * Must be able to lead a team on projects
 * Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project)
 * Knowledge and experience within the local and regional market
 * Good planning and mentoring skills
 * An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

## Description

Lead and coordinate single- and multidiscipline teams throughout the full project lifecycle, from pursuit, contracting, and project initiation through design, construction administration, commissioning, and closeout.

 * Assume overall accountability for the successful delivery of large, complex, and multidisciplinary architectural projects, including client satisfaction, scope, quality, schedule, budget, risk, staffing, and contractual performance.
 * Manage a portfolio of concurrent projects and assignments, establishing priorities, allocating resources, monitoring performance, and resolving conflicts across project teams.
 * Develop and maintain trusted client relationships, lead or support client engagement, contract negotiations, project interviews, pursuit strategy, fee development, and scope definition.
 * Identify follow-on work and new business opportunities in collaboration with market-sector, business-development, and operational leadership.
 * Plan and facilitate client, user-group, stakeholder, and project-team work sessions that establish requirements, resolve decisions, manage expectations, and advance project deliverables.
 * Lead engagement with complex client organizations, user groups, authorities having jurisdiction, agency representatives, and other stakeholders with competing operational, technical, and regulatory requirements.
 * Develop and maintain project staffing plans, responsibility assignments, workload forecasts, and resource projections throughout the project lifecycle.
 * Coordinate with discipline and operational leadership to secure qualified resources, address staffing constraints, and implement recovery plans when project performance is at risk.
 * Establish and manage project budgets, work plans, earned-value expectations, revenue forecasts, invoicing, accounts receivable, and financial performance.
 * Monitor actual performance against scope, fee, schedule, and staffing assumptions, and implement corrective actions when variances occur.
 * Lead periodic project reviews with Accounting, Operations, Business Group, and Market Sector leadership; accurately report project status, financial performance, risk, staffing, and corrective actions.
 * Document review outcomes and ensure that assigned actions are completed and tracked to closure.
 * Develop and implement project-specific quality management plans and ensure that required QA/QC, interdisciplinary coordination, constructability, technical, and document-control reviews are properly planned, staffed, documented, and completed.
 * Confirm that comments are resolved before deliverables are issued and elevate unresolved technical, quality, or delivery risks to appropriate leadership.
 * Lead and supervise large project teams, establish clear expectations and accountability, and provide timely coaching and feedback.
 * Mentor less-experienced Project Managers and Project Architects in project planning, client management, financial management, risk management, quality, and team leadership.
 * Support succession planning and development of the next generation of project-delivery leaders.
 * Perform other duties as needed.