Project Delivery Group Manager

Salary Range: 145600 to 190320 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Lead some of our largest facilities projects while growing the next generation of project leaders. 

What You Will Do

Lead and Develop Project Managers
• Provide direct supervision, coaching, performance feedback, and professional development support to senior project managers within Facilities Engineering.
• Establish clear expectations for project manager performance, accountability, communication, documentation, and adherence to division and company procedures.
• Advance project management skills through practical guidance, mentoring, shared tools, lessons learned, and consistent delivery practices.
• Support workload planning, staffing coordination, recruiting, onboarding, retention, and development of project management talent.
• Create opportunities for project managers to broaden their capabilities, strengthen judgment, and prepare for increasingly complex assignments and leadership responsibilities.
• Grow the Project Delivery team by recruiting and retaining project management talent. 
 
Provide Project Delivery Leadership and Oversight
• Oversee project management performance across Facilities Engineering managed projects, with attention to scope, fee, schedule, staffing, quality, risk, communication, and financial results.
• Lead regular project reviews, identify emerging concerns, escalate material issues when needed, and support timely recovery or mitigation plans.
• Serve as Project Manager on TKDA’s largest and most complex Facilities Engineering projects.
• Help project teams organize effective project management plans, controls, schedules, meeting cadences, decision logs, and issue-escalation practices.
• Partner with division, market, group, operations, and technical leaders to align project delivery priorities with client commitments and business objectives.
• Support teams in addressing delivery challenges, claims, losses, write-offs, and other significant project risks.
 
Strengthen Proposals, Contract Commitments, and Risk Management
• Review and approve select Facilities Engineering proposals.
• Confirm proposals clearly define scope, deliverables, fee, assumptions, exclusions, schedule, staffing, quality requirements, and risk considerations.
• Evaluate whether proposed commitments are achievable and aligned with available resources, client expectations, contracting requirements, and division standards.
• Guide project managers on proposal strategy, scope development, fee development, contracting considerations, and risk mitigation.
• Contribute project delivery insight to larger pursuits, negotiations, and go/no-go or project-start discussions as needed.
 
Advance Quality, Consistency, and Continuous Improvement
• Reinforce applicable QA/QC requirements and confirm that project teams identify qualified reviewers, appropriate review milestones, and documentation expectations.
• Monitor compliance with project management procedures, project controls, quality checkpoints, and deliverable review practices.
• Develop, implement, and improve standard project delivery tools, templates, procedures, and best practices.
• Use project reviews, lessons learned, recurring issues, and performance trends to identify and implement practical improvements.
• Promote consistent use of project management, scheduling, estimating, financial, and collaboration tools across the division.
 
Support Financial and Operational Performance
• Monitor project financial performance, including revenue, profit, budget, utilization of project resources, and write-offs.
• Help project managers align work effort with agreed-upon scope, budget, schedule, and client expectations.
• Support workload balancing and resource coordination among project managers and multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Identify operational or delivery trends that require leadership attention and recommend actions that improve quality, predictability, responsiveness, and profitability.
 
Build Strong Client and Team Communication
• Establish expectations for timely, clear, and professional communication with clients, project teams, leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Support project managers in setting and managing client expectations and communicating changes in scope, fee, schedule, quality, or risk.
• Promote effective meeting practices, action and decision tracking, project documentation, and issue escalation.
• Build trust across multidisciplinary teams by creating clarity, encouraging accountability, and helping resolve competing priorities.
 
Effective Client Engagement and Relationship Management
Support Market Managers with efforts to establish, cultivate, and strengthen current and prospective client relationships. 
Serve as a liaison between client and delivery team when warranted, ensuring that client expectations and met and provide a communication channel to raise project delivery concerns.
Assign and manage project delivery staff to serve as client service managers for the division's largest clients. 

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means Facilities Engineering projects are delivered with consistent project management discipline, appropriate leadership oversight, and predictable results. Project managers meet clear expectations for planning, execution, communication, quality, and financial performance, while growing in confidence and judgment. Proposals are reviewed efficiently and reflect well-defined scope, fee, schedule, and risk; QA/QC requirements are consistently applied and documented; and schedules are realistic, actively managed, and clearly communicated. Clients and project teams experience timely, professional communication throughout the project lifecycle, and division projects meet defined revenue, profit, and write-off goals.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in engineering field, including civil, electrical, mechanical, or structural.
• Fifteen or more years of experience delivering engineering consulting projects, including ten or more years of progressive project management experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, multidisciplinary projects and managing scope, fee, schedule, staffing, quality, risk, and client communication.
• Experience supervising, coaching, mentoring, or providing formal oversight to project managers or senior technical professionals.
• Ability to review proposals, evaluate scope and fee assumptions, assess delivery and contract risk, and determine whether commitments are achievable.
• Working knowledge of QA/QC processes, project controls, technical deliverable reviews, documentation requirements, and project financial performance.
• Experience using Microsoft Office and project management, scheduling, estimating, financial, or collaboration tools.
• Ability to work across disciplines and organizational boundaries while balancing project, client, employee, and business needs.
• Strong leadership skills demonstrated by an ability to inspire and guide team by building confidence, fostering collaboration, and providing clear direction to achieve project, team, and division goals.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to align project delivery with organizational goals, anticipate future challenges, identify opportunities, and plan for long-term success.
• Clear, concise communication skills to manage client relationships, address team concerns, and keep everyone involved informed and aligned; serve as a bridge between clients, project team members, and division leadership.
• Effective negotiation skills to manage client expectations, resolve conflicts, and secure required resources, with the ability to find mutually beneficial solutions in a variety of situations.   

Nice to Have Experience

• Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), or comparable professional credential.
• Experience leading project delivery within facilities engineering, building engineering, process engineer, power / central plant facilities, or a multidisciplinary AEC consulting environment.
• Experience establishing project management standards, facilitating project reviews, implementing delivery tools, or leading continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Experience supporting recruiting, onboarding, training, career development, or succession planning for project management professionals.
• Experience supporting complex project recovery, claims avoidance, contract risk management, or corrective action planning.

• Health Benefits: Enjoy medical, dental, vision, and life insurance from day one
• Annual Incentive Plan: Eligible for discretionary bonuses
• HSA Contributions: Receive monthly employer contributions if you choose an HSA-eligible plan
• 401(k) Match: Get employer matching on your 401(k) deferrals
• ESOP: Benefit from our Employee Stock Ownership Plan, funded entirely by company profits
• Paid Time Off: Accrue PTO based on your professional experience and enjoy eight paid holidays per year