Full-Time
Project Director
Global Project Delivery
CRB
Life sciences design and construction
Compensation Overview
$170k - $280k/yr
Medford, MA, USA
Hybrid
Bachelor's
Category
 Business & Strategy (1) |
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Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or equivalent.
- A minimum of ten years of experience in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.
- Industry-specific certification, including certifications such as Project Management Professional, American Engineering and Construction Project Management Association, or Design-Build Institute of America.
- Demonstrated success in senior project management while managing a single large project or a portfolio of smaller projects.
- Advanced understanding of core engineering disciplines, project execution, and delivery in design and construction.
- Experience managing the design process and relationships between design and construction to ensure quality, budget-conscious, complete documents are delivered on schedule.
- Ability to lead and manage integrated teams, including strategic partners and subcontractors.
- Understanding of integrated project delivery, including design, procurement, commissioning and qualification, and construction processes.
- Proficiency with typical software tools, including the Microsoft Suite, as well as safety and scheduling tools.
- Leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement strategies and plans to deliver projects and services effectively and efficiently.
- Oversee a single large project or multiple projects as the principal project representative.
- Manage client relationships and create a positive client experience that supports future work.
- Lead the CRB team and the owner through business case alignment and chartering phases.
- Lead project execution planning development.
- Partner with the preconstruction group on constructability, procurement, logistics planning, scope reviews, budgeting, and costing.
- Incorporate pertinent logistics into phasing, design, and construction plans.
- Develop, manage, and maintain project schedules and timelines.
- Prepare monthly financial and schedule reports for assigned projects.
- Monitor and approve costs, provide cost-forecasting input, and authorize expenses and workflows within signing limits.
- Develop, monitor, track, and negotiate project costs to support successful and profitable projects.
- Ensure preconstruction work carries over seamlessly into the field.
- Complete pre-mobilization activities, including project execution plans, building execution plans, site requirements, and permitting.
- Lead the coordinated procurement plan for long-lead equipment, trade partners, subcontractors, and enabling work.
- Develop an early closeout plan to support timely project completion.
- Lead estimate development and facility reviews while controlling scope creep.
- Spot-check quality documents, field reports, and logs for completeness and accuracy.
- Participate in site safety walks, ensure appropriate tracking software is used, and engage client site safety representatives.
- Develop project-specific quality management plans, monitor work sites, address quality concerns, and complete quality documentation and forms for contract compliance.
- Participate in pull-planning sessions to create clarity and shared understanding.
- Create and validate financial forecasts for upcoming activities and projects.
- Protect the company's financial interests while maintaining positive client relationships.
- Develop execution strategies and establish projects for successful delivery.
- Establish CRB culture and core values.
- Communicate with sponsors, stakeholders, and business leaders throughout projects.
- Provide overall leadership and direction to project teams.
- Build healthy, high-performing teams across CRB, subconsultants, owners, and trade partners.
- Monitor team health and intervene as needed across internal teams, external partners, and clients.
- Manage end-to-end project delivery through chartering, safety, design, preconstruction, permitting, construction, document control, procurement, commissioning and qualification, automation, consulting, and warranty.
- Ensure teams understand and maintain the standard of care throughout projects.
- Ensure client and CRB policies, procedures, and applicable laws are followed.
- Set up and ensure use of required management tools, systems, and best practices.
- Ensure key performance indicators for safety, pre-planning, execution, customer satisfaction, quality, schedule, and profitability are met.
- Build strategies, logistics, and sequencing, and coordinate with architecture and engineering teams on required packages.
- Lead client contract negotiations and ensure favorable terms and payment for work performed.
- Work with CRB legal to develop contract summaries and ensure contract compliance.
- Approve subcontractor awards according to approved workflows.
- Ensure use of standard contracts, purchase orders, and exhibit templates; review statements of work.
- Lead guaranteed maximum price preparation and incorporate contract risk mitigation.
- Negotiate shared savings and incentive payment provisions.
- Identify project risks and formulate mitigation plans, escalating them to senior management.
- Lead internal risk reviews and approval activities.
- Identify potential claims and coach teams through resolution while notifying senior management of risks and exposure.
- Build and maintain positive client relationships and manage client interactions.
- Identify and resolve potential conflicts.
- Conduct regular principal-level meetings focused on key performance indicators and shared success.
- Solicit client feedback and follow through on performance improvements.
- Negotiate and manage prime contracts, subcontracts, and vendor agreements.
- Identify opportunities with new and existing clients.
- Apply market knowledge to determine business growth opportunities.
- Participate in major pursuits and act as pursuit lead while developing strategies and action plans.
- Lead requests for proposal responses and develop winning strategies.
- Prepare and coach presentation teams and respond to post-presentation client requests.
- Maintain connections with site teams and ensure planned resources are available.
- Identify team and project inefficiencies and address them.
- Monitor team performance, coach teams, and course-correct staffing as necessary.
- Hold people accountable and review and issue performance improvement plans with Human Resources and senior development officers when necessary.
- Clarify priority hiring needs based on project demands.
- Use professional networks to identify and recruit candidates.
- Participate in interviews and help determine candidate fit.
- Contribute to offer formulation when serving as hiring manager.
- Coordinate with Talent Acquisition throughout recruiting, acceptance, and onboarding.
- Mentor, coach, and train team members.
- Share building experience, execution approaches, and construction knowledge with project teams.
- Maintain a supportive but accountable environment.
- Handle employee issues effectively and pursue timely resolution.
- Support team members in achieving development goals.
- Support review cycles and provide constructive feedback on project staff performance.
Desired Qualifications
- Fifteen or more years of experience in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.
- Design-build experience.
CRB is an engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting firm serving life-sciences organizations. The company plans, designs, builds, and improves laboratories, manufacturing facilities, food plants, and other technically complex environments. It serves biotechnology, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, advanced technology, and research organizations. Its operating model centers on integrated project teams combining consulting, design, engineering, construction, commissioning, and operational expertise. Teams work across architecture, engineering, construction, consulting, project management, commissioning, and technical operations. Work depends on specialist expertise, clear client coordination, practical delivery, and ongoing support across projects and operating teams.
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